A CLUE TO THE END TIME?
In ancient Mexico, the "End Time Codex" - prophesying the world's end in 2012 -
is entombed. A young Aztec-Maya slave tells us how observations of the sky reveal a world-shattering
event . . . while modern scientists struggle to avoid the inevitable. |
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"If you thought Revelation was a serious
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What did the astronomers of the Maya/Aztec see?
A young Aztec-Mayan slave tells us the story: Gifted in math and astronomy, Coyotl rises to king's counselor in Tula, a golden city of milk and honey ruled by the brilliant god-king, Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent of lore. Gathering artists, scientists and craftsmen, this legendary ruler builds a city and commissions an astrological study of the night sky that will awe and confound scientists a thousand years later.
The Maya astronomers were the best in the ancient world - the studies of the Egyptians, Babylonians, Persians and Chinese paled in comparison. And the Maya saw something. And knew it would come back. They put the secret in a Codex.
A team of modern scientists struggling to decipher the Codex realize their own age mirrors Tula's. Can they crack the 2012 code and save their world from Tula's deadly fate?
Are the Mayan 2012 Apocalypse and the Christian Apocalypse of Revelation
one and the same?
Do they share common elements?
The two cataclysms share many common elements, and their End-Time predictions arguably fall on the same
year, 2012.
Revelation prophesies that the central battle of the Christian Apocalypse will be fought in
the Holy Land on the Plains of Armageddon-where many past wars have been waged-and will then engulf
the world. Revelation's thousand-year countdown to Armageddon, however, does not begin
until "the Angel" casts "Satan" into the bottomless pit, where he is then contained for 1,000 years.
If the Christian Apocalypse were to commence on 2012-the date when the Mayan Apocalypse is to due to
destroy us - what would have happened in 1012 to commence the 1,000-year countdown of Revelation?
Many Christians have viewed 1000 C.E. as marking the beginning of the Millenarian countdown.
It was a time of famines so terrible they were called apocalyptic portents, when a new star was
spotted in the heavens (the Supernova of 1006), followed in 1009 by a "rain of blood" when the sun
turned red and failed to shine for three days. Unprecedented plagues broke out, and by the 1012 the A
bbey of St-Vaast was having his apocalyptic visions of the End Time.
The most telling apocalyptic cataclysm came in 1012 when the satanically militant Muslim ruler,
Egypt's Caliph Al Hakim destroyed the holiest ediface in Christendom, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
Erected by Constantine, it reputedly occupied Golgotha, the Hill of Skulls, the site of Christ's
crucifixion. The church's worshippers believed it even encompassed the ground and sepulcher where Christ
was originally buried.
This mad, millenarian, Islamist ruler-who mysteriously vanished into the desert after desecrating
Christian holy places-has long been identified with the 1000 year countdown. Al Hakim's atrocities,
which culminated in 1012, eventually sparked the Crusades . . . which would go on for a thousand years
and which, some would argue, are still fought today. Many people believe that this war with militant
Islam will be waged on the Plains of Armageddon and consume the nations of earth in a global Armageddon.
Proponents of this interpretation sometimes point out another potentially history shaping event: the next US presidential election takes place on 2012.
Did the Maya have a serious scientific reason for their belief in a
2012 apocalypse?
The date they picked for their apocalypse is December 21, 2012. At that time our planet, moon and
solar system will align with the heart of the galactic plane, in which scientists now know a
supermassive black hole resides. The Maya viewed that black abyss-which they called
"the Dark Rift"-as a kind of hell world, out of which the Black Tezcatlipoca would unleash the
dark demons of everlasting night, which would then descend on the earth and annihilate humankind.
This alignment only occurs once every 26,000 years, which closely approximates the combined
duration of the five Mayan "Sun Ages." I say "approximates" because the precise length of each of
those "Sun Ages" is not known. They come to around 5200 years each, which would equal 26,000 years.
In other words, the first "Sun Age" would have roughly coincided with the earth's last alignment with
the galaxy's core. On 12/21/2012 at 11:11 PM Universal Time earth will experience its first galactic
alignment in that 26,000 period. The Maya believed that date marks the end of the Fifth Sun Age.
The Maya also seemed to know-for reasons that are still unclear-that the Milky Way galaxy was a
spiraling disk and that we orbited along its edge.
I'm not suggesting the Maya viewed the universe exactly as we do or that they had our mathematical
and the scientific sophistication-only that their vision of the 2012 apocalypse was based on closely
studied astronomical observations and mathematical calculations as well as mystical divination.
...for more questions and answers, go to my BLOG
I'd appreciate if you let me know what you think about the connection between the Maya 2012 apocalyptic vision and the Biblical ones. Also, the what comes around, comes back phenomena of the sky that has scientists concerned.
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Is the World coming
to an End in 2012?
Take a look at my Blog where I have posted Q & A's on the coming
Apocalypse. You may be surprised by how much the Maya and Aztec
knew about the End Time - and how they speak of the same horrific "fires from the sky" that the
Revelation of St. John tells us will usher in the End.
"Whatever you're reading this month, stop, because you simply have to read Apocalypse 2012, a fantastic and fantastical tale of curses and clues, of ancient prophesies and modern mayhem, of fabulous characters in a fast-moving plot that sweeps us back and forth across a millennium as easily as some books take us from Monday to Tuesday. It's the kind of book I love to read and aspire to write: a brilliant blending of history, mystery, and pulse-pounding suspense."
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