Mayan Calendar Prophecies: The Complete Collection of 2012 Predictions and Prophecies Read online

  Mayan Calendar Prophecies:

  The Complete Collection of 2012 Prophecies & Predictions

  (Parts 1-4)

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  What the Mayan Civilization’s History & Mythology Can Tell Us About Our Future

  Gary C. Daniels

  Mayan Calendar Prophecies: The Complete Collection

  Part 1: Predictions for 2012 and Beyond

  Part 2: 2012- New Age of Disasters

  Part 3: Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes

  Part 4: The 2012 Prophecy

  © 2012 Gary C. Daniels

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  Table of Contents

  I. Background

  1. Prophecy…or Predictions?

  2. The Mayan Calendar Cycles

  3. The Science of Cycles

  II. The Katun Prophecies

  4. Predictions for Katun 4 Ahau (1993-2012)

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

  6. Predictions for Katun 13 Ahau (2032-2052)

  III. Beyond 2012

  7. Quest for the Truth about 2012 and Beyond

  8. Comet Machholz and the Return of Kukulkan

  9. Prelude to Disaster?

  10. Quetzalcoatl & Hermes: Cosmic Messengers?

  11. Younger Dryas Climate Event & the Clovis Comet

  12. Super Solar Flares

  13. Thoth, the Egyptian Messenger of the Sun God

  14. The Galactic Center and the Blue Star Kachina

  IV. What Happened the Last Time the Calendar Ended?

  15. Decoding the Mayan Flood Myth

  What was the cosmic crocodile?

  What was the flood of blood?

  Mayan flood caused by impact mega-tsunami?

  A Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes?

  Supernova or Galactic Core Explosion?

  Yax Naah Itzamnaaj & the Constellation Draco

  Conclusions

  16. Decoding the Mayan Blowgunner Vase

  V. Comet Catastrophe

  17. Rahu and Ketu: A Hindu Account

  18. Medusa: A Greek Account

  19. Samson: A Biblical Account

  VI. The 2012 Prophecy

  20. Decoding the Aztec Calendar Stone

  21. Decoding Tortuguero’s Monument 6

  22. End of the Cycle

  VII. The End

  23. Conclusion

  Afterword

  Author’s Note

  Appendices

  A. Creation Story from the Chilam Balam of Chumayel

  Chapter X. The Creation of the World

  B. The Katun Prophecies from the Chilam Balam of Chumayel

  Chapter XVIII A Series of Katun Prophecies

  Chapter XXII A Book of Katun Prophecies

  Chapter XXIV Prophecies of a New Religion

  C. The Mayan Chronicles from the Chilam Balam of Chumayel

  Chapter XIX The First Chronicle

  Chapter XX The Second Chronicle

  Chapter XXI The Third Chronicle

  About the Author

  References

  I. Background

  1. Prophecy…or Predictions?What is the difference between a prophecy and a prediction? A prophecy is usually the result of some type of vision or divine intervention received by a spiritual specialist like a shaman or priest. A prediction, on the other hand, can be made by anyone through careful observations that lead to the detection of a pattern. Meteorologists make predictions every night on your local news based not on divine intervention but by careful observation of data and then applying their knowledge of weather patterns to this data to predict what may happen next.

  As Mayan scholar David Stuart noted in his book The Order of Days: The Mayan World and the Truth About 2012, the Mayan prophetic books known as Chilam Balam utilized past events to predict future events. He noted that Mayan “prophets” did not simply receive visions and make random predictions. Instead they created a careful analytical system that looked for patterns in past historical events that took place in previous periods called katuns and then from these tried to make projections into the future. In fact, this analytical system sounds very similar to modern scientific forecasting.

  The book you are reading now is based on the idea that the Maya made predictions, not prophecies, based on careful observations of patterns including astronomical cycles as well as historical cycles of civilization. Just as human beings follow a predictable pattern of development from fetal development through childhood, adolescence and adulthood so, perhaps, do civilizations follow predictable patterns of development and collapse.

  Pick up any book on childhood development and you will find precise, to the month, predictions of when certain milestones will be achieved. As a new father I have been continually amazed at how accurate such books have been in alerting me to each new phase of my daughter’s development! Yet I do not think the authors were endowed with divine insights and the gift of prophecy. They are simply relating normal cycles of human development arrived at through careful observation. Thus the Maya likely discovered a similar predictable pattern of development for civilizations that they recorded in their “prophetic” books.

  Years before I researched the ancient Maya and became aware of their 256-year katun cycle, I accidentally discovered a similar 250-year cycle relating to the rise and fall of Native American civilizations. I noted on my website LostWorlds.org that it appeared many Native American settlements lasted for around 250 years before being abandoned or destroyed. I theorized that this was likely the length of time required for a settlement to grow to a size that would either exhaust its local resources or encroach on surrounding settlements and cause conflict. Thus when I discovered that the Maya believed in a 256-year cycle related to the rise and fall of civilizations, I immediately became intrigued.

  The study of cycles is nothing new. In fact, in 1931 the U.S. government through the Department of Commerce commissioned a task force headed by Harvard economist Edward Dewey to discover the underlying dynamics of the Great Depression. Dewey combined enormous research in business cycles with research from leading biologists on cycles in nature and in wildlife. He was astonished to discover that cycles of identical length were found in both disciplines and similar cycles from different areas reached their peaks and troughs at the same time.[1] This led Dewey to devote his life to cycle research and founded the Foundation for the Study of Cycles which still conducts research today across all scientific disciplines.

  Dewey stated in 1967:

  “Cycles are meaningful, and all science that has been developed in the absence of cycle knowledge is inadequate and partial. …any theory of economics, sociology, history, medicine, or climatology that ignores non-chance rhythms is as manifestly incomplete as medicine was before the discovery of germs.”[2]

  Thus the idea that cycles do, in fact, exist and they can predict the rise and fall of everything from wheat prices to human civilization is founded in science. Thus it would be wise not to completely dismiss the Mayan “prophecies” or predictions out-of-ha
nd as mere superstitious nonsense. (I will discuss more of the science behind cycles in the next chapter.)

  Is there anything to the Mayan predictions and forecasts as written in the books of Chilam Balam? This book was created to explore that very idea. There are primarily two types of 2012 books and websites: “true believers” and “debunkers.” And both types are hyper-focused on a single date: December 21, 2012. Yet the Maya conception of time was both linear and cyclical thus 2012 was simultaneously the ending of one cycle and the beginning of another and just one stop on a timeline that stretched into the future without end. Likewise, the predictions in the Chilam Balam are not focused on this single date and can be used to make forecasts and predictions for dates far beyond 2012.

  This book offers a third approach, neither “true believer” nor “debunker,” instead I will approach this subject the way an ancient Mayan priest would by looking at past events and comparing them to present-day realities in order to create the most probable scenarios and forecasts for the future. I present the latest news and scientific research to see how well these correspond to the Mayan conception of the qualities of each katun period. Just like the ancient Maya, I will study past events and try to determine patterns from which I can extrapolate possible future scenarios that are consistent with the Mayan katun prophecies. I will also explore Mayan history and mythology to see how they might influence these predictions and future scenarios. Armed with this information, you can draw your own conclusions about the Mayan calendar and its predictions for 2012 and beyond.

  2. The Mayan Calendar CyclesDid the Maya really predict the end of the world on December 21, 2012? If not, then what did the Maya actually predict for 2012?

  The ancient Maya believed that civilizations went through predictable cycles. These cycles repeated every 256 years. This 256-year cycle could be broken down into thirteen 19.7-year periods (19.7 x 13 = 256) called katuns. Each katun had a name and was associated with a particular prophecy or prediction. These predictions were recorded in their prophetic books known as the Chilam Balam. (The image below is a page from one such book illustrating the thirteen katun cycles.)

  Above: Copy of the Book of Chilam Balam of Ixil displayed at the Museo Nacional de Anthropologia in Mexico-City. Photo by Carlos Reusser Monsalvez.

  For instance, according to the Maya we currently live in the cycle named Katun 4 Ahau that began in 1993 and ends in 2012. The cycle that begins in 2012 is named Katun 2 Ahau and ends in 2032. The next cycle is named Katun 13 Ahau and runs until 2052 and is the final katun in the present 256-year cycle that began in 1796. The katun cycle then begins again in 2052 with Katun 11 Ahau. (The predictions associated with these katuns will be discussed in Section II: The Katun Prophecies.)

  The first question you might have is, “I thought the Mayan calendar ended on December 21, 2012 not in 2052?” The Maya had multiple calendars. The calendar that “ends” on December 21, 2012 is called the Long Count calendar. It consists of 13 baktuns. One baktun equals 20 katuns or 394 years. Thirteen baktuns equal 5125 years. The Long Count calendar has a “start date” of August 11, 3114 BC, which the Maya recorded as 13.0.0.0.0, and an “end date” of December 21, 2012.

  Curiously, December 21, 2012 is also recorded as 13.0.0.0.0. How can this be? This is because the calendar “rolls over” like an odometer back to 1 after 13.0.0.0.0. For instance, the second day of the Long Count calendar, August 12, 3114 BC, was recorded as 0.0.0.0.1. The calendar will finally reach 13.0.0.0.0 again on December 21, 2012. Thus December 21, 2012 is the “completion” of 13 baktuns but it is not the “end” of the calendar. The calendar will once again roll over.

  The Mayan katun prophecies recorded in the books of Chilam Balam are based on the Short Count calendar. The Short Count calendar consists of 13 katuns that total 256 years. The Short Count ends on Katun 13 Ahau then starts over. As you can see, the number 13 was important to the ancient Maya. This is because the number 13 represented “completion.” This is why the Long Count calendar reaching the 13th baktun on December 21, 2012 is seen as the “completion” or “end” of the current Long Count calendar cycle.

  The current Short Count calendar is out-of-sync with the Long Count and does not end on December 21, 2012 but instead in 2052, forty years later. This suggests that the world will not self-destruct on 12-21-12 as has been popularized in our sensationalist news media. So what exactly did the Maya predict for the future?

  3. The Science of CyclesAs noted in the previous chapters, the Maya believed a 256-year cycle governed civilizations. Interestingly, scientists have discovered a seismic cycle lasting 250 years,[3] a solar cycle that lasts approximately 250 years,[4] and an approximately 300-year cycle of impact events on Earth.[5] Could there be any connection between these 250-year cycles and the 256-year Katun cycle?

  It does not take much imagination to see the connection between seismic activity and the downfall of civilizations. Not only do earthquakes destroy the physical infrastructure of civilizations but they can also produce other effects. Earthquakes can cause volcanic eruptions by destabilization. This results in a collapse of the volcano that releases built up pressure resulting in an eruption. This is exactly what occurred at Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington in 1980.

  Earthquakes can also trigger massive tsunamis like the Indonesian and Japanese earthquakes in 2004 and 2011. Thus there is a clear cause-and-effect between earthquakes and the downfall of small-scale civilizations that is easy to see.

  Probably the most shocking cycle is the recent discovery that the Earth experiences impact events large enough to wipe out a large metropolitan area much more frequently than originally believed perhaps as often as every 300 years. This research concluded, “based on various strands of evidence (for example, the number of meteorites discovered on earth that originated on the moon) that the average time between impacts on earth is no more than 300 years, probably less.”[6]

  Three such impact events happened within the twentieth century alone. The most famous of these was the Tunguska event wherein a small comet or comet fragment exploded in the atmosphere over Russian Siberia with an explosive power equal to a nuclear bomb 1,000 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.[7] This explosion flattened trees over an area of 830 square miles. (Eyewitness accounts of this event will be discussed in Part 3, Chapter 15 “Decoding the Mayan Flood Myth.”) The same event happening over any major metropolitan area today would kill millions and be devastating to the region.

  Both the seismic cycle and impact cycle offer clear cause-and-effect relationships between cyclical events and the downfall of small-scale civilizations. But how could the solar cycle be associated with the rise and fall of civilizations?

  One possible connection between solar cycles and the rise and fall of civilizations is the effect the sun has on climate and precipitation. For instance, one researcher found that Iron Age settlements expanded during periods of high solar activity.[8] This was believed to have been the result of changing levels of rainfall caused by variations in solar output. As rainfall increased these Iron Age settlements could grow and expand. When rainfall decreased and droughts occurred these settlements would naturally contract again. Interestingly, the highest levels of activity in these settlements were recorded between 700-450 BC and 300-50 BC. Each of these time periods lasted exactly 250 years.

  A link between disease outbreaks and solar cycles has also recently been discovered that could offer another possible connection between solar cycles and the downfall of civilizations. It was found that pandemic outbreaks of Influenza A only occurred during periods of increased solar activity.[9] This was initially hypothesized to have resulted from solar-induced climate change which altered the arrival times of disease-carrying birds.[10] Later research showed it was more likely related to biological vitamin D production that fluctuated with solar activity.[11]

  Vitamin D is primarily produced in humans from exposure to sunlight. Research has noted that vitamin D has been shown to ge
nerate positive responses in “the immune, cardio-vascular, muscle, pancreas, and brain systems, as well as positive involvement in ageing and control of the cell cycle and thus of cancer disease process.”[12] Production of vitamin D was shown to be highest during periods of decreased solar activity and lowest during periods of increased solar activity. Thus during increased solar activity the body, due to this lack of vitamin D production, was especially susceptible to infections such as Influenza A. It is likely other diseases would increase similarly due to the same effects.

  (Solar activity should not be confused with sunlight. Solar activity refers to the magnetic cycles of the Sun which result in sunspots and solar flares. Increased solar activity decreases vitamin D production whereas increased exposure to sunlight increases vitamin D production. This is also why more people catch colds during Winter than other times since sunlight exposure is decreased due to the shorter days.)

  Other recent research has shown a connection between solar cycles and the human brain including both mental diseases and creativity. The researchers noted that people born during “radiation peaks in solar cycles…[were] associated with a higher incidence of mental disorders, suggesting the sensitivity of ectodermal embryonic tissues to UVR [ultraviolet radiation.]”[13] Other research noted that an increase in first admissions to a psychiatric hospital were associated with increased solar activity.[14] (Perhaps this was due to hallucinations, which appear to increase due to solar activity as well.[15]) Still other research showed bursts of human creativity were strongly correlated with solar cycles.[16] As history has shown it only takes one madman or one genius to cause a civilization to reach new lows or new highs. Thus the Sun could be playing a decisive role in this process.

  Russian researcher A. L. Chizhevsky found many more links between human civilization and solar cycles. He found that solar cycles were associated with insect infestations as well as disease epidemics. Insect infestations can, of course, lead to famines and disease outbreaks can likewise bring a civilization to its knees. But these were not the only solar connections Chizhevsky found to the rise and fall of civilizations. According to Wikipedia: