Ancient Calendars, Prophetic Starsigns
To our plugged-in, fast-paced cultures, the dichotomy of the Maya appears more fascinating with each passing year. Living so closely with nature, crafting some of the world's first urban centers out of simple timber and stone, they nevertheless gained a level of technological and cultural sophistication that other civilizations would struggle to replicate after their passing. Demonstrating an uncanny facility for astronomy, language, storytelling, and architecture, their legacy of megalithic structures and the particular accuracy of their timekeeping lends a certain credibility to their prophecies regarding the end of our current cycle in the Mayan long-count calendar - one of the most accurate ever conceived.
Though Hollywood and popular culture have their own spin on '2012' and the 'Doomsday' forecasts of the Mayan legends, it's important to remember that Mayan religion stressed the concept of rebirth and the cyclical nature of the universe. If anything, the 13th cycle's closing represents a transition, not an period at the end of humanity's sentence.
2012 - The End, or Beginning
Mayan spiritual texts forecast many events surrounding the end of a series on the long-count calendar , occurring on approximately the 22n day of December, 2012. At that time, the earth was predicted to begin undergoing a day-long spiritual and cosmological transformation. The following list of seven prophecies are foretold to take place on this day:
1. Time Running Out. The first prophecy details the beginning of a countdown, originating in the year 1992, of a 20-year stopwatch measuring the time during which humanity would face a critical choice: to improve, evaluate, and drastically change its spiritual character for the better, or else face dire consequences during the end times.
2. Look Within for Salvation. Members of the human race are instructed to search inward for salvation, following the sign of the eclipse on August 11th, 1999, which is predicated to mark the point at which humanity will collectively decide to move toward a future of peace and harmony, or drift further from it. The Maya also believed the eclipse would affect the pull of energy across our entire galaxy, including having a mental influence on all the people of the earth.
3. Climate Climax. Being expert astronomers, the Maya kept close watch on the planet Venus, and at one point decided they had identified a connection between its revolutions and the activity of the sun. Therefore, the prophets declared that after 117 spins, right around the time of 2012, the sun would being to heat up, and solar activity would jump many times, coinciding with a sudden and dramatic warming of the Earth.
4. Global Warming. Having their keenest astronomers closely watching the planet Venus, the Maya thought they uncovered a regularity that existed between the spin of our sister planet and the energy output of the sun. They predicted that after Venus's 117th spin, a great shower of energy would erupt from the sun, raising the temperature of earth which would by then also have been growing hotter as a result of internal forces.
5. Fall of Order. All of humanity's corrupt, wicked systems - governments, financial networks, armies - will disintegrate, paving the way for establishment of a new order of peace, justice, and everlasting harmony.
6. Comets Aplenty. The Mayans saw the arrival of comets as sure sign of major changes on the horizon, and predicted that one would surely pass overhead to signify the cosmic shift about to be ushered in.
7. Wake-Up to the World. As befits their view of the 13th cycle's closing as an period of change and renewal, not a final end or apocalypse, the seventh prophecy of the Maya foretold that all of humankind would emerge from the transition having gained greater spiritual enlightenment and the ability to commune peacefully and fully not just with the rest of the universe, but within our own societies as well. The time won't be long before we can all judge with our own eyes and ears just how close the Mayan prophets were to predicting the future, but as "end times" scenarios go, the seven prophecies of the Maya don't sound all bad!
To our plugged-in, fast-paced cultures, the dichotomy of the Maya appears more fascinating with each passing year. Living so closely with nature, crafting some of the world's first urban centers out of simple timber and stone, they nevertheless gained a level of technological and cultural sophistication that other civilizations would struggle to replicate after their passing. Demonstrating an uncanny facility for astronomy, language, storytelling, and architecture, their legacy of megalithic structures and the particular accuracy of their timekeeping lends a certain credibility to their prophecies regarding the end of our current cycle in the Mayan long-count calendar - one of the most accurate ever conceived.
Though Hollywood and popular culture have their own spin on '2012' and the 'Doomsday' forecasts of the Mayan legends, it's important to remember that Mayan religion stressed the concept of rebirth and the cyclical nature of the universe. If anything, the 13th cycle's closing represents a transition, not an period at the end of humanity's sentence.
2012 - The End, or Beginning
Mayan spiritual texts forecast many events surrounding the end of a series on the long-count calendar , occurring on approximately the 22n day of December, 2012. At that time, the earth was predicted to begin undergoing a day-long spiritual and cosmological transformation. The following list of seven prophecies are foretold to take place on this day:
1. Time Running Out. The first prophecy details the beginning of a countdown, originating in the year 1992, of a 20-year stopwatch measuring the time during which humanity would face a critical choice: to improve, evaluate, and drastically change its spiritual character for the better, or else face dire consequences during the end times.
2. Look Within for Salvation. Members of the human race are instructed to search inward for salvation, following the sign of the eclipse on August 11th, 1999, which is predicated to mark the point at which humanity will collectively decide to move toward a future of peace and harmony, or drift further from it. The Maya also believed the eclipse would affect the pull of energy across our entire galaxy, including having a mental influence on all the people of the earth.
3. Climate Climax. Being expert astronomers, the Maya kept close watch on the planet Venus, and at one point decided they had identified a connection between its revolutions and the activity of the sun. Therefore, the prophets declared that after 117 spins, right around the time of 2012, the sun would being to heat up, and solar activity would jump many times, coinciding with a sudden and dramatic warming of the Earth.
4. Global Warming. Having their keenest astronomers closely watching the planet Venus, the Maya thought they uncovered a regularity that existed between the spin of our sister planet and the energy output of the sun. They predicted that after Venus's 117th spin, a great shower of energy would erupt from the sun, raising the temperature of earth which would by then also have been growing hotter as a result of internal forces.
5. Fall of Order. All of humanity's corrupt, wicked systems - governments, financial networks, armies - will disintegrate, paving the way for establishment of a new order of peace, justice, and everlasting harmony.
6. Comets Aplenty. The Mayans saw the arrival of comets as sure sign of major changes on the horizon, and predicted that one would surely pass overhead to signify the cosmic shift about to be ushered in.
7. Wake-Up to the World. As befits their view of the 13th cycle's closing as an period of change and renewal, not a final end or apocalypse, the seventh prophecy of the Maya foretold that all of humankind would emerge from the transition having gained greater spiritual enlightenment and the ability to commune peacefully and fully not just with the rest of the universe, but within our own societies as well. The time won't be long before we can all judge with our own eyes and ears just how close the Mayan prophets were to predicting the future, but as "end times" scenarios go, the seven prophecies of the Maya don't sound all bad!
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