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Mayan Mysteries: Galactic Alignments in Ancient Traditions & the Future of Humanity

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Mayan Mysteries: Galactic Alignments in Ancient Traditions & the Future of Humanity

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Mayan Mysteries: Galactic Alignments in Ancient Traditions & the Future of Humanity

BY JOHN MAJOR JENKINS

In March of 1987, I witnessed a dramatic all-day fire ceremony in the highland Maya village of Chamula, Mexico. It was a ritual of purification, burning the dross of the old year and making way for the new.

I had been traveling through Mexico and Central America for almost three months, and on that warm March day I vowed to live and work with the Maya and study their culture. During the next seven years I returned to Mesoamerica four times. I helped build a school in San Pedro, Guatemala. I delivered relief supplies to Quiché Maya villages in the Guatemalan highlands. I traveled the remote out-backs, made friends among the Maya, learned some of their language, and developed a great appreciation for their innate wisdom and strength of character. Throughout this period, I studied the cultural history of the Maya, which brought me to an understanding of their millennia-old calendars, cosmologies, mythologies, and religious life.

I have always been interested in pushing back the fringes of knowledge. Mesoamerican studies is a relatively young field. The Mayan hieroglyphic writing has only recently been decoded enough that we can reconstruct detailed histories of specific Mayan kingdoms. In researching and writing seven books, I have focused on decoding the ancient Mayan calendar and its associated cosmology, and I have been drawn to address one unanswered question: Why does a large cycle of time in the Mayan Long Count calendar end in the year that we call AD 2012?

First, on what basis do we know that 2012 is the correct year? Mayan scholars have spent almost a century deciphering the Mayan calendar’s relationship to our own. It is well known that the basic 260-day calendar was augmented by the use of another calendar, called the Long Count.

Utilising nested cycles of 20, 360, 7200, and 144,000 days, the Long Count culminates in a World Age cycle of 13 baktuns, which equals 5,125 years. On hundreds of carved monuments spanning over 1,000 years, the dot-and-bar dating system of the Long Count was found to correlate consistently with moon phases and other astronomical phenomenon. After decades of interdisciplinary analysis, Mayan scholars Joseph T. Goodman, Juan Martínez, and J. Eric S. Thompson determined that the 13-baktun cycle of the Long Count calendar could be confidently located in real time, and its end-date would occur on 13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count, which corresponds to December 21, 2012. This correlation of the Mayan and Western calendars has been in place since the 1930s, and is not the product of recent New Age speculation. It has been challenged, tested, and discussed exhaustively and remains the best candidate.1

Because the end-date of the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan Long Count calendar occurs on a winter solstice, I felt that the ancient Maya may have intended to indicate something with that end-date. Fixing a time period by its end-date may seem counter-intuitive, but the Maya actually preferred this perspective. For example, periods of time within the Long Count are named by their end-date; we are currently in the 4 Ahau katun of the Long Count calendar because the last day of this katun falls on 4 Ahau.

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