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Originally published in the Dec-Jan '95 issue
of Mountain Astrologer.
Why did the ancient Mayan or pre-Maya choose
December 21st, 2012 A.D., as the end of their Long Count calendar? This
article will cover some recent research. Scholars have known for decades that
the 13-baktun cycle of t..."
Originally published in the Dec-Jan '95 issue
of Mountain Astrologer.
Why did the ancient Mayan or pre-Maya choose
December 21st, 2012 A.D., as the end of their Long Count calendar? This
article will cover some recent research. Scholars have known for decades that
the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan "Long Count" system of timekeeping was set to
end precisely on a winter solstice, and that this system was put in place some
2300 years ago. This amazing fact - that ancient Mesoameri- can skywatchers were
able to pinpoint a winter solstice far off into the future - has not been dealt
with by Mayanists. And why did they choose the year 2012? One immediately gets
the impression that there is a very strange mystery to be confronted here. I
will be building upon a clue to this mystery reported by epigrapher Linda Schele
in Maya Cosmos (1994). This article is the natural culmination of the research
relating to the Mayan Long Count and the precession of the equinoxes that I
explored in my recent book Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies
(Borderlands Science and Research Foundation, 1994).
The Mayan Long Count: Just some basics to get us started. The Maya
were adept skywatchers. Their Classic Period is thought to have lasted from 200
A.D. to 900 A.D., but recent archeological findings are pushing back the dawn of
Mayan civilization in Mesoamerica. Large ruin sites indicating high culture with
distinctly Mayan antecedents are being found in the jungles of Guatemala dating
back to before the common era. And even before this, the Olmec civilization
flourished and developed the sacred count of 260 days known as the tzolkin. The
early Maya adopted two different time keeping systems, the "Short Count" and the
Long Count. The Short Count derives from combining the tzolkin cycle with the
solar year and the Venus cycle of 584 days. In this way, "short" periods of 13,
52 and 104 years are generated. Unfortunately, we won't have occasion to dwell
on the properties of the so-called Short Count system here. The Long Count
system is somewhat more abstract, yet is also related to certain astronomical
cycles. It is based upon nested cycles of days multiplied at each level by that
key Mayan number, twenty...
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Originally published in the Dec-Jan '95 issue
of Mountain Astrologer.
Russian Expert Predicts Global Cooling from 2012
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Nasa debunks 2012 doomsday
World Not Ending in 2012, Says NASA
Why 2012?
2012 Philosophy
The Mayan Lord of Creation and 2012
