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Besides the fact that 99% of the time someone shows a picture of the “Mayan calendar” and is really passing the Aztec Sun Stone off as Mayan, the 2012 calendar is a complex issue. All the focus is being aimed at the Maya’s Long Count calendar. Yet it is only a part of the most complex time keeping system the world has ever known. There are really a total of 20 different calendars that make up the dating system needed to calculate the Long Count.

The Long Count’s ending date for Baktun 13.0.0.0.0 being December 21, 2012 is being hammered into our consciousness from every direction. It’s as if no other day between now and Winter Solstice 2012 has any bearing on the future of humanity. The way all the prophecies and predications are being presented in regards to this ending date on the Long Count would lead you to comprehend that all of these catastrophes are set to go off in one massive calamity. It wouldn’t be wise to get the idea that nothing will take place between now and 12-21-12.

There are other dates that have been pointed out from the 2012 calendar that might be worth noting. Two versions of Mayan calendric symbol patterns have appeared in crop circles in the few years.  The first crop circle shows the cycles of the Long Count calendar framing the focal point of the fifth and current cycle showing that it is still in motion but ending in 2012. This pattern appeared August 2nd, 2004 at the ancient sacred site of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, UK.

Then on August 9, 2005 a more concise Maya calendar crop circle went down next to Wayland’s Smithy long barrow, also in Wiltshire, UK. The pattern gives actual dates in 2012, showing a central solar eclipse taking place on May 20, 2012 which is also the Summer Solstice. It just so happens that there will be an annular eclipse on that day; annular meaning the only part of the sun that will remain in view will be a ring of light around the moon. There is in the symbols the announcement of a Venus transit across the face of the sun to occur 16 days later on June 6, 2012. NASA shows both of these events taking place on those dates in their Sky Calendars at NASA.gov.

The Mayas are not the only ancient culture who has a calendar created long ago with this ending date. The Cherokee people also have a 2012 calendar end date that has a final date for this cycle in time of December 18, 2012. This date is not given to us by Western academics but by the Cherokee themselves. The Cherokee have constellations that are unlike any other ancient people. Their calendar ends in the Constellation of the Rattlesnake.

Like the Mayas, the Cherokee also believe that this date marks the end of the age, not the end of the world. What happens at the dawning of the new age greatly depends on humanity’s path over the current age. The Constellation of the Rattlesnake shows the end of the age alignments in the Cherokee calendar for 2004 and 2012. The Cherokee people ask if we are ready to experience the arrival of Time Untime, for that is arriving on December 18, 2012 and is shown to last a 3 day period entered as a flower in their 2012 calendar.

Like the Mayas, the Cherokee’s Rattlesnake Constellation will become feathered when the Time Untime arrives, a bowl of blood in it’s hands and the Pleiades will form the 7 glowing rattles on the tail. Since the dawn of their time, great things have been foretold on their calendar of what will take place within all things on Earth, within the heavens and through the Universe. They know that the events in the Rattlesnake Constellation within the Milky Way at the time of the crossing will tell of the Time Untime of things to be.

Three days of Time Untime in the 2012 calendar kept by the Cherokee. When could time no longer be time? The ancients tracked time by the stars and planets in the sky. If the signs in the heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars and the planets of the entire solar system as viewed from Earth through the eons disappeared, there would definitely be no way to tell time. Could Time Untime arriving in the Cherokee 2012 calendar be the same as what is foretold in the Book of Revelations?

“12  ¶ And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;  13  and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 14  And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.   15  And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains…”  Revelation, Chapter 6. -- http://www.2012officialcountdown.com/



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very, very interesting.  if it's the end of an age (not necessarily the end of humanity), then it must spell the end of hip-hop.


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their calendars:

Aztec


The Aztec Sun Stone, also known as the Aztec Calendar Stone,
at National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.
(as posted by hubag at the beginning of this thread)

The Aztec calendar is the calendar system that was used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico. It is one of the Mesoamerican calendars, sharing the basic structure of calendars from throughout ancient Mesoamerica.


Maya


The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and in many modern communities in highland Guatemala and in Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico.

The essentials of the Maya calendar are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout the region, dating back to at least the 5th century BCE. It shares many aspects with calendars employed by other earlier Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Zapotec and Olmec, and contemporary or later ones such as the Mixtec and Aztec calendars. Although the Mesoamerican calendar did not originate with the Maya, their subsequent extensions and refinements of it were the most sophisticated. Along with those of the Aztecs, the Maya calendars are the best-documented and most completely understood.

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Theories

A number of theories have been advanced by various esoteric writers and mystics with regard to how the world will end in 2012.  None have garnered mainstream acceptance by academic scholars of the Maya, who have rejected most on scientific and historical grounds.

New Age

Many believe that the ending of this cycle will correspond with a global “consciousness shift” and the beginning of a new age.  The date became the subject of speculation by Frank Waters, who devotes two chapters to its interpretation, including discussion of an astrological chart for this date and its association with Hopi prophecies in Mexico Mystique: the Coming Sixth Age of Consciousness (1975). 

The significance of the year 2012 (but not a specific day) was mentioned briefly by José Argüelles in the Transformative Vision (1975), The Mayan Factor (1987), promoted at the 1987 Harmonic Convergence, and later in Author Daniel Pinchbeck popularized New Age concepts about this date, linking it to beliefs about crop circles, alien abduction, and personal revelations based on the use of entheogens and mediumship in his 2006 book 2012: the Return of Quetzalcoatl.  Pinchbeck argues for a shift in consciousness rather than an apocalpyse, suggesting that materialistic attitudes, rather than the material world, are in jeopardy.

Semir Osmanagić, the archaeologist responsible for promoting the Bosnian pyramids, referred to 2012 in the conclusion of his book The World of the Maya.  He suggests that “Advancement of DNA may raise us to a higher level” and concludes, “When the ‘heavens open’ and cosmic energy is allowed to flow throughout our tiny Planet, we will be raised to a higher level by the vibrations”. 

Experts on the ancient Maya such as Schele and Freidel tend to see the focus on 2012 as a manifestation of Mayanism, a collection of New Age beliefs that reinterpret and potentially distort ancient Mayan culture. 

University of Florida astronomer Susan Milbrath, author of Star Gods of the Maya, is among those who have accused 2012 doomsday proponents of exploiting Mayan culture to advance political or personal agendas.  Promotion of Mayanism through interest in 2012 doomsday scenarios is contributing to the evolution of religious syncretism in contemporary Maya communities.

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Every year for the last 2000 years or so, on the winter solstice, the Earth, Sun and the galactic equator come into alignment, and every year, precession pushes the Sun’s position a little way further through the Milky Way’s band.

Jenkins suggests that the Maya based their calendar on observations of the “dark rift”, a band of black dust clouds in the Milky Way, which the Maya called the Xibalba or Black Road.  Jenkins claims that the Maya were aware of where the ecliptic intersected the Black Road and gave this position in the sky a special significance in their cosmology.  According to the theory, the Sun precisely aligns with this intersection point at the winter solstice of 2012.

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Timewave Zero

Timewave Zero, which is part of Novelty theory, is a mathematical formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of “novelty”, defined as the increase in the universe’s interconnectedness, or organized complexity, over time.  According to Terence McKenna, who conceived the idea in the early 1970s, the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness, eventually reaching a singularity of infinite complexity on December 21, 2012, at which point anything and everything imaginable will occur instantaneously. 

As the theory was never published in a peer-reviewed journal and McKenna’s sources and reasoning were primarily what would be considered numerological rather than mathematical by professional mathematicians and scientists, the theory has failed to gain any scientific credibility or much recognition. 

McKenna expressed novelty in a computer program, which purportedly produces a fractal waveform known as timewave zero or the timewave.  Based on McKenna’s interpretation of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching, the graph appears to show great periods of novelty corresponding with major shifts in humanity’s biological and cultural evolution.  He believed the events of any given time are recursively related to the events of other times, and chose his end date by looking for a very novel event in recent history: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.  This gave an end-date in mid-November of 2012, but when he discovered its proximity to the end of the 13th baktun, he adjusted the end date to match this point in the calendar.

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