Mayan Calendar Prophecies: The Complete Collection of 2012 Predictions and Prophecies by Gary Daniels (best color ereader txt) 📗

latest was in June 2010 when Comet McNaught became naked eye visible. The next previous was in February 2009 and was named Comet Lulin. Both of these were only barely visible to the naked eye for a few days thus they are not likely candidates to be included in such a momentous book of prophecy.

Yet four years prior in January 2005 another green comet, Comet Machholz, became naked eye visible just a week after the Indonesian megaquake and tsunami. This event killed over 230,000 people in 14 countries making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. This was the third largest earthquake ever recorded and produced a tsunami wave over 100 feet tall.

Comet Machholz was discovered on August 27, 2004. The comet's orbit was calculated to be about 12,500 years thus its last appearance was around 10,500 BC. At that time the Earth was in the midst of a global warming which brought about the end of the last Ice Age. Yet something catastrophic occurred that plunged the Earth back into Ice Age conditions for another thousand years. The great megafauna of that age, including mastadons, mammoths, saber toothed tigers and more, all became extinct. Richard Firestone in his book Cycles of Cosmic Catastrophes theorized that a comet slammed into the Earth bringing about much of these changes.

Equally interesting as its green color is the fact that Comet Machholz passed near the Pleiades. The Pleiades were known as "tzab," the rattlesnake rattles, to the ancient Maya. The rattlesnake uses its rattles as a warning before it strikes. Thus could the use of the green, long-tailed Quetzal bird combined with a rattlesnake in the Quetzalcoatl symbol have been created purposefully to encode the passing of a green comet near the Pleiades as a type of "early warning" system to warn future generations that this sequence of events signaled the beginning of a new age of catastrophes that happen once every 10,500 years?

“Comet Machholz meets the Pleiades.” © Stefan Seip, Astromeeting.de

In fact, since the discovery of Comet Machholz in August 2004, Earth has experienced some of its worst natural disasters in recorded history from the Indonesian and Japanese megaquakes and tsunamis to Hurricane Katrina. We are also in the midst of another global warming comparable in scale to that which ended the last Ice Age. We are also in the midst of one of the greatest extinction events since the last Ice Age.  Are all of these things happening by chance or is there a natural cycle of cataclysms every 10,500 years that the orbit of Comet Machholz just happens to coincide with thus making a perfect early warning system? (This will be discussed more in-depth in Part 2, chapter 7, “Comet Machholz and the Return of Kukulkan.”)

This concludes my interpretation for a few of the prophecies for Katun 4 Ahau, the time period that ends on December 21, 2012. Yet this does not end the katun prophecies. What did the Maya predict for the cycle named Katun 2 Ahau that begins on December 21, 2012 and continues for another twenty years until 2032? That will be the subject of the next chapter: "Predictions for Katun 2 Ahau (2012-2032)."

5. Predictions for Katun 2 Ahau (2012-2032)

As discussed in the previous chapter, "Predictions for Katun 4 Ahau (1993-2012)," the Maya made predictions in their prophetic books known as the Chilam Balam that seem to correspond with real events over the past 800 years. Yet these predictions do not end on December 21, 2012 thus clearly the Maya did not believe the world would end on this date. So what did the Maya believe would happen beyond 2012?

The Maya believed a new cycle known as Katun 2 Ahau began on December 21, 2012 and ended in 2032. According to Bruce Scofield in his book Signs of Time: An Introduction to Mesoamerican Astrology, the predictions for this twenty year period are as follows:

For half of the katun there will be food, for half some misfortunes. This katun brings the end of "the word of God." It is a time of uniting for a cause.

The Mayan Katun cycles repeat every 256 years thus, as in our previous article, it is instructive to do as a Mayan calendar priest would have done and look back at previous Katun 2 Ahau time periods and see what happened then to get a better idea of what to expect in the future.  The previous Katun 2 Ahau began in 1756 and ended in 1776. For Americans, this period represents the birth of ideas that led to their Revolution and the founding of their country. Thus it was certainly "a time of uniting for a cause."

Interestingly, this new country was founded on the principles of reason and not religious ideology. It was perhaps one of the first empires in history based on the idea that men could rule themselves without the need for god-kings. In fact, this new nation was the first in history to purposefully keep separate the religious sphere from the political sphere. Thus the founding of America did, indeed, see "the end of 'the word of God,'" in the political sphere. Laws were not based on the interpretation of ancient religious texts but instead on debate between reasonable men. A man-made Constitution interpreted by secular judges was the ultimate authority on the validity of a law and not the opinions of religious leaders (as is the case in Iran and other theocracies.) This truly represented a new model for humanity and these ideas would spread around the globe bringing profound changes over the next 250 years.

The next previous Katun 2 Ahau cycle corresponded to the years 1500-1520. This time period was the Age of Exploration and the first explorations of the New World. Again, this was certainly a "time of uniting for a cause." It was also a time that saw "the end of 'the word of God'" but this time it was the religions of the New World that came to an end. Religions throughout North and South America,