2012 Mayan Predictions
In recent years the mayan predictions for 2012 have become somewhat of a
talking point, we
hear whisperings of "the end of the world", however the truth is an
interpretation
gathered from the fact that the mayan calendar ends on 21st December 2012 at
11.11am.
The Mayan's believed that the 2012 deadline ushered in a global change or
new life cycle rather than an end to mankind.
I have gathered a little bit of information about the Mayan 2012 predictions and
the Mayan
2012 calendar below.
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The Maya
One of the most amazing cultures of the New World inhabited a region
encompassing today's
Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador, and parts of southern
Mexico (the states of
Yucatan, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Chiapas). Today this area
is occupied by the
descendants of the ancient Maya, the vast majority of whom have to some
extent preserved
their cultural heritage and still speak the Mayan language.
By 5000 BC, the Maya had settled along the Caribbean and Pacific coasts,
in fishing communities. By 2000 BC the Maya had also moved inland and adopted
agriculture for their subsistence. Maize and beans formed the Maya diet then as today,
although many other foodstuffs--manioc, squash, tomatoes, peppers, fruit, and game-were
supplements.
To study the Maya their development has been divided into periods, the
earlier Maya culture is called Formative or Pre Classic (2000 BC-AD 300), the Classic period
goes from AD 300 to AD 900, and subsequent civilization is known as Post Classic (AD
900-conquest).
Now we know that the Maya began to develop intensive agriculture and
sophisticated water management during the Middle Pre Classic (900-300 BC), surely to help
support the population explosion of the Late Pre Classic (300 BC-AD 300). During this same
period, writing was invented in Mesoamerica, and the Maya began to use it during the Late
Pre Classic.
The Maya were the first people of the New World to keep historical
records, and even if writing in the New World did not originate among the Maya, they
developed and used it extensively. The Maya wrote a mixed script, with ideographic and
phonetic elements.
Most of their writing survived on stelae, stone monuments very common in
the Maya cities,they recount mostly civil events and record their calendric and
astronomical knowledge.
Maya pottery gives testimony of their religion and elaborate mythology.
Four Post Classic Maya screenfold manuscripts, called codices have survived, They reveal
Maya calendric and astronomical calculations, as well as rituals, offerings, and auguries
for the year.
What Is The Maya The Calendar?
The Mayan Calendar was the centre of Mayan life and one of their greatest cultural achievements. The Mayan Calendar's ancestral knowledge guided the Maya's existence from the moment of their birth and there was little that escaped its influence.
The Maya calendar is a system of distinct calendars used by the Maya civilization
of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and by some modern Maya communities in highland Guatemala.
The Maya calendar shows all the days of a year, in weeks and months, it includes astronomical
data, such as time of sunrise and sunset, the moon phases and also other information such as
festival dates and religious events.
The Maya used several calendars simultaneously. One of them called the "long count", is a
continuous record of days from a zero date that correlates to Aug. 13, 3114 BC, and is more
precise than the Julian calendar revised in Europe in 1582. The Maya were great astronomers
and kept track of the solar and lunar years, eclipses and the cycles of visible planets. To
carry out their calendric and astronomical calculations they developed a sophisticated
mathematical system where units are written with dots and bars are used to represent five
units. They discovered and used the zero as well as a vigesimal positioning system, similar
to the decimal positioning system we use today.
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The Long Count Calendar
Probably the most famous Mayan calendar is the long count calendar. The long count calendar was designed to map a time period of approx 5,125.36 years, this was known as the "Great Cycle" to ancient Mayan's.
This is the calendar that ends it's cycle on December 21st 2012. Both the Mayan's and the Hopi (a native American people who live in Arizona) believe that this date signals the end of a universal cycle, however both also do not believe that this will spell total disaster for mankind and the world but more of a consciousness shift for the better.
The message they actually appear to give concerns our making a choice of how we enter the future cycle.
Our moving through with either resistance or acceptance will determine whether the transition will
happen with cataclysmic changes or gradual peace and tranquillity. This same theme can be found reflected
in the prophecies of many other Native American tribes.
Rather than being a linear end-point, this closing cycle is naturally followed by the start of a new cycle.
What this new cycle has in store for humanity is a mystery that has yet to unfold...
2012 is also considered the completion of the 26,000 year Precession of the Equinoxes cycle, and some say it
also signifies the end of a 104,000 year cycle.
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Should We Fear & Prepare For The End Of The World?
Who knows! I have pondered this question many times, personally I believe that we are in for a massive
global shift , I still have not decided wether this shift will be a physical or
spiritual one.
From my perspective there are just too many pointers towards "something" happening in 2012 to just ignore it.
Maybe December 2012 will come and go without incident, maybe the changes will not be seen, maybe the world will end. One thing is for sure though....
We are all going to have to wait and see!