This is a guest article by author Jeffrey Avalon Friedberg, his newly published debut novel Black Road 2012 takes a look at one possible explanation of the 2012 Mayan mystery – SimonÂ
This February 12th to 13th, there will be a conference at Zayed UniÂverÂsity in Dubai (OriÂgins of Civilizations [sic]). The meeting is structured of authors covering the 2012 venue.
Speakers are to include John Major Jenkins, Andrew Collins, Michael Cremo, Robert Schoch, Robert BauÂval, ChristoÂpher Knight and GraÂham Hancock. These are among brightest luminaries of the genre. The brochure advertises “Twelve of the world’s promiÂnent minds on the topÂics of our disÂtant past …â€
Oddly, I was not invited.
The brochure goes on, “What are the oriÂgins of civilization and knowlÂedge? How far back in time can we push the boundÂary of advanced knowlÂedge? How could very ancient popÂuÂlaÂtions posses sciÂenÂtific knowlÂedge that our modÂern civilization has only redisÂcovÂered in the past 300 years?â€
Before we take a dip in that pond, let’s first clear up some things about the prophesied/predicted “2012 Event.†Let’s not get weighed down by the usual mind-numbing lectures on baktuns, cosmic long-counts, or non-repeating vigesimal base-18 and base-20 calendars—and all the rest of that scientific stuff.
We don’t need no science.
I mean, science is a made-up, artificial, and un-natural way to attempt and identify/influence natural phenomena. Science is not the phenomena itself. Science is about the phenomena. But it sometimes mistakes itself for the phenomena. So let’s not put too much faith in science here.
I mean, how’s that H1N1 Super Death Pandemic Pig Plague working out for you? How was that Bird Flu epidemic-to-end-all-life thing—did that one get ya yet? Global warming—yes or no, got scientists on all sides of that one—and the Pope too, so see what I mean?
All right. The ancient Mayan calendar does indeed factually predict an alignment of the sun with the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, on the winter solstice, December 21, the year 2012 AD, at 11:11 AM (GMT). This happens every 27,800 years.
The mathematics of the year 2012 conjunction are 100% accurate, and not in question.
But, in the Mayan prophecy part, the sun will align with the galactic core—the great dark rift cloud in the Milky Way. This is the longest night of the year, and when the sun finally rises—is reborn out of that long death—the current world Age will end, and a New World Age will begin.
However, the Mayan Popul Vuh goes on (roughly) to say that this all portends the end of an Age that has lasted 27,800 years, and the beginning of a New Age of another 27,800 years—a new Age of famine, terror, and the death of God.
Now—returning to the previously stated idea of “How could very ancient popÂuÂlaÂtions posses sciÂenÂtific knowlÂedge that our modÂern civilÂiÂzaÂtion has only redisÂcovÂered in the past 300 years?†This is the Voice of Science speaking—in tongues—the deified, solidified, home fried, and tongue-tied voice of ordinary humans no smarter than the sum of other humans, but who have come to mistake the process of science for the phenomena itself that science proposes to “study.â€
How could the ancients have known all this, indeed. What a smug attitude. What arrogance, what braggadocio and blindness—the failure to recognize a totally natural process not lit by LEDs or gutted by wires.
If it ain’t electric, it don’t mean shit. If it ain’t modern it can’t possibly be important because that would make science and scien-tistes less important. And that would cut back grants, book sales, income in general, and internet dating as we know it.
Ancient humans didn’t need science. They were born naturally into a natural world, in natural time, and natural space. They were born close to their most immediate problems. And the proximity of those problems brought them closer to truth. Ultimate truth—death from life and life from out of death. Very important, something to keep track of.
Like this calendar thing apparently was. It seems to have been something the ancients treated as a necessary undertaking—like pyramid-building, like the Manhattan Project, the moon program—that kind of thing.
Why?
Because they had to know for sure if the sun travels through the ecliptic of the galaxy every 27, 800 years. But how the hell do you do that without electricity and its machines?
Easy.
Like I said, its all in the naturalness of Humanity. Somebody had only to watch the skies and keep track for 55,000 years. And crunch a lot of big numbers that only a modern computer can handle.
Impossible?
No.
We recently saw the passing away of Mr. Kim Peek—the “real Rainman,†a brain-damaged person. But Kim had near-perfect eidetic memory and was a mega-savant, a genius in fifteen different areas. He could read two book-pages at a time, one with each eye, in about 8 seconds—and remember everything he read. He could crunch huge numbers and vast mathematical problems in mere moments.
Was Kim damaged goods or a superman? Science says only that he was damaged at birth. Kim Peek died on the 19th of December 2009, from a heart attack.
There have been other Kim Peeks throughout all human Ages—people with unimagined connections between neurons who were walking natural-born computers. They helped calculate the stars and planets, the seasons, planting, harvesting, the pyramids, and places like Stone Henge as an observatory.
In an age without computers, they would have been valued as human calculators. They would have crunched those big numbers for the ancients as fast and accurately as any modern supercomputer.
There are more things and forces in natural Space and Earth than we know—forces that inform and run the universe. But we are a natural part of that order—or disorder. We eat it, breathe it, drink it, and tap into it—without science. We are born a part of it. We can never stop being a part of it.
But why was the sun tracked across the ecliptic of the zodiac for at least 55,000 years to make those observations? Was it ritual, religion, or curiosity about a Mythic parable?
Or did something memorable happen every 27,800 years that needed watching?
I think something happened.
I mean 55,000 years is a long fucking time to keep track of anything. So I think the myth was engrained into tribal consciousness as a means of encoding forever the events themselves. This is one of the most natural and ancient ways of encoding what data a society or world or culture wishes to maintain at all cost: mythology. This method applies to religion, your fashion-of-the-moment civilizations, government lies and enslavement of the populace, in whatever form, for whatever reason.
In the case of the Mayan calendar, yeah: I think something happens. I don’t think the god or the aliens fly down from the skies trailing clouds of glory—but something happens.
Something will happen.
So, be ready.
Climb up to the Kit Peak National Observatory. It’s 6875 feet above sea-level, 56 miles southwest of Tucson, Arizona in the Schuk Toak District of the Native American Tohono O’odham Nation. Pack a lunch and watch the skies. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies. Because it will begin right there. At least—what’s coming will first be noticed there. And in other places like it.
So stay tuned to this website, kids, because I’ll be back—I’ll be back with more fear and desire for you to slake…with answers…
By Jeffrey Avalon Friedberg
Jeffrey Friedberg is a retired Investigator turned author, his first novel Black Road 2012 is a paranormal thriller, please read the review. He also has a website www.whats-thebigidea.com.
4 users commented in " 2012 AD: The End Of Earth, Humanity, And Internet Dating; The Death Of Mr. Kim Peek, And Lunch With The Tohono O’odham Indian Nation On Kit Peak "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackHow very interesting to look at the issue in such a way in that it was possibly a passing down of a myth. (I’ve read also about things such as the “Strings theory” although I must admit in all my embarrassment that I still just don’t “get it”.)
I think it is natural to always look for reasonable, explainable, concrete solutions.
It makes sense.
What does not make sense in my opinion is that spirituality is often overlooked as a potential and likely source and explanation.
Why is that?
People pray to our Creator but some and maybe even many automatically think of it as supernatural occurance if they actually were to receive some form of answer in return?
In a day and age when scientists can easily track a person’s DNA back generations and through the centuries yet still are ignoring the fact that a man’s (or Woman’s) tie can pass and never be gone?
For those of us who are spiritual this hypothetical “alleged” discovery might seem as insulting in nature but in reality it is simply a normal human behavior.
Fear is also a normal human behavior.
I am no one to question the Mayan calender or beliefs. I am not Mayan and I honestly do not know that much about it or them.
What comes to mind when I hear or read about this belief is the interpretation(s) of the prophesied/predicted “2012 Event”.
What does it really mean?
Great article to peruse. Wado.
2012 is not a hoax and should be taken seriously. Roland Emmerich’s 2012 movie pretty much depicts what is to happen only the cause of the cataclysm in the movie is wrong. The Maya were not the only ones who knew about 2012 as most of the ancient world did from 3,000 BC up till the late 1800’s when the knowledge was lost. Washington DC was laid out to reflect 2012 as a reminder to visitors. Monuments carved in stone were left worldwide to warn our generation of 2012. Christ taught it in the Bible but few today have understood it. The ancient world, on both sides of the continents understood 2012 very well; the modern world however is stumbling in the dark for answers.
The ancient world, including the Maya, believed our planet(water) is a co-dimensional planet that has a spiritual counterpart(fire). These 2 planets (fire and water)united during the flood of Noah which occurred on the Spirit Earth. The spiritual creation fell through time and dimensions during the flood of Noah and united with this planet; that is why it is called the Fall. The true Earth or original creation is the Spirit Earth. At the end of the age or Great Year on Dec. 21, 2012, the ancient world and the ancient Maya believed that the 2 planets will separate. The Spirit Earth, true Earth or original creation will ascend into the 4th heaven, universe, or dimension along with the living righteous people. The Maya ended their long count calendar on that date because where the true Earth has gone, time is measured differently and there will no longer be a need for it. So it is the end of the Earth, the true Earth or original creation in this universe. Many terms were used by the ancients to describe the event such as: the
change, the transdimensional change, the renewal of Earth, translation of Earth, the ascension of Earth, the Harvest, etc. The modern world coined it the “rapture” of not only righteous people but of the planet itself. It is the separation of the wheat and the tares spoken of in the Bible by a process called a pre-tribulation translation or “rapture.” Do not be misled, it is not the second coming of Christ as that occurs after tribulation. It was meant for us to know as Christ taught it. He called it the Day of the Lord’s Wrath. The Hopi call it the Day of Purification, to the Aztecs, Maya, and Toltecs, it was the Day of Retribuation. The ancient world and Maya also believed that it was the time of the first resurrection of the righteous dead.
Those left behind on the physical planet Earth will face a cataclysm, then tribulation. For the last 5, 125 years the sun’s path has been advancing steadily toward the vaginal opening of the “dark rift” of the Milky Way each time it crosses the galactic equator until on Dec. 21, 2012, when the sun crosses the exact middle of the Galactic Equator, the sun will be in the vaginal opening of the “dark rift.” This is the Sign of the Suntelia when it happens. The Maya referred to it as when the sun rises out of the mouth of the Oruroboros. When this sign is given, it marks the end of the Precession of 26,000 years rounded off or Great year which calculates in the Gregorian calendar to Dec. 21, 2012, and the end of the age of Pises. Many cycles of time end on that date. When the sign is given, the 2 worlds will separate. The physical Earth will then be positioned to start a 3 day cataclysmic transit through the “dark rift” of the Milky Way in total darkness because the dark rift is filled with dark non-luminous clouds through which Earth will pass. It is what lurks in the “dark rift” that causes the cataclysm. The “dark rift” contains the electromagnetic axis of the supermassive black hole that sits in the center of our galaxy. Although the black hole is 24,000 light years away from Earth, because of its tremendous
size, the energy flows down the axis like it was only a couple of blocks away. Earth also has an electromagnetic force field surrounding it. When the 2 force fields collide, it will cause a cataclysm. Earth will make a transit through this magnetic axis which will cause it to shake (the great shaking of the Earth mentioned in the Bible) which will cause tectonic plate movement and tsunamis…all in total darkness. Revelation says that only one-third of the Earth’s population will survive. According to the ancients, this is the 5th and last time the Earth will make this transit.
For the complete and full story, read the non-fiction 2012 trilogy, The Ark of Millions of Years, by E. J. Clark, the most comprehensive 2012 books in the world. E. J. Clark is an Mayan expert. Thanks….
Just want to add that I have recently been reading up on this subject and have found that Maya scholars Linda Schele and David Freidel’s interpretation apparently disagrees with E.J. Clark’s interpretation.
(You can find their studied opinions on the interwub via google.)
As I said before, I am not well schooled on this subject, yet, when I think about it I am forced to consider the actual value of the various interpretations.
Would be interesting to watch the various “experts” during a debate on this subject though…Just saying.
nobody knows what will happen in the near future…its only God..
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