According to the forecast of the Maya the
end of the world is determined. The 21th
December 2012 is the day, on which all life
on earth will end. Will this annual mid
winter day be seriously the crack of doom?
From astronomical view de facto something
unusual can be observed. A very rare planet
constellation ensures for the fact, that
the sun reaches the center of the Milky
Way on this day. This happens only every
26.000 years and is released by the diagonal
earth axis, which turns in one circle within
this time cycle.
Even Hollywood took note of the prophecies
of the Maya. The well-known German producer
and specialist for world fall scenarios
Roland Emmerich takes care of the topic.
He produces the top-notch casted end time
movie „2012“,
which will start in the summer of 2009 in
the cinemas. But what does that future vision
of the Maya exactly mean to us? Can this
date be arranged into to the row of all
other apocalypse prophecies, after this
day and will the 21th December 2012 fall
into oblivion then? Or did the Maya know
more than we suppose?
The Maya - A Pre-Colombian advanced culture
The Maya had a highly developed culture,
which is absolutely comparable with the
cultures of the Egyptians or the Greeks.
The Mayan had outstanding astronomers and
mathematicians. The scientists are still
not able to decode their sophisticated writing
and number system completely. Most of the
Maya knowledge was destroyed in course of
the history, because the incredible meaning
of these cultural inheritances was not opened
to humans at that time.
The Maya were located in southern Mexico
at that time. Particularly the peninsula
Yucatán seems to have been the trick
and pivot of this people. In the zenith
up to 20 million humans lived in the Mayan
empire, in different enormous cities, which
was very unusual in that time. The complete
empire of the Maya, which was divided in
several small States, stressed a size, which
is comparable e. g. to the total area of
Germany. Suddenly, app. 900 AD something
must have happened, for the Maya arranged
to give up their cities gradually.
The exact reason why they left their cities
is still unknown and presents a puzzle for
the researchers. They know, that the most
of the Maya cities are still undetected
and covered by trees and bushes. Over and
over again the tropical rain forest releases
new ruins, which perhaps can help the researchers
to explain the sudden disappearance of the
Maya culture. Apart from incomparable cultural
places, which fascinate researchers and
tourists equally, the Maya left their calendar
to us. Basically it is about not only a
single-, but three different calendar systems,
which are used together.
The Maya Calendar - A view into the future
On the one hand the Maya used the „Haab
“- calendar, which divided the solar
year into 365 days. These 365 days of the
yearly calendar system were further divided
into 18 months, each whith 20 days. In order
to fill the gap, resulted from this counting
and to reach a 365 days year, further days
without detailed specifications were added.
This calendar can be compared with our current
calendar. Further the Maya used a ritual
calendar, which was called „Tzolkin
“. This calendar system subdivided
the year into 20 months with each 13 days.
The first cycle „Tzolkin yearly “has
only 260 days, without an addition which
also completes this calendar to a 365 days
cycle. The Tzolkin calendar was used probably,
in order to record all ritual and religious
occurrences and to get a view into the future.
By the way this ritual Maya calendar is
still used in fortune-telling rituals in
Guatemala. „The Haab “- and
„the Tzolkin “- calendar by
the Maya were used at the same time.
Particularly interesting, regarding the
prophecy of the 21. December 2012, is the
third calendar system of the Maya, which
is based on a final counting. Contrary to
the two other calendars the time is not
arranged here into days, weeks, months or
years. On the basis of a point of origin,
that the Maya researchers could retrace
to the 1st of August in the year 3114 B.
C., each following day is counting up continuously.
The reason to start just on this August
the first with their calendar recordings
is still unknown and presently not reconstructable
by the researchers. However, remarkable
is that this calendar ends on 21 December
2012 without continuation. Could it be a
clear reference to the forthcoming Apocalypse?
An unscientific view of the 21.Dezember
2012
The luminaries in the sky were equated
to divinities by the Maya. The scholars
of the Maya invested a lot of time, in order
to observe these „Gods “in the
sky. With different methods it succeeded
to them in computing the sun turns accurately
and to represent the planet careers. Particularly
they observed the Venus and their accuracy
was so amazing, that the present scientists
are pretty fascinated of it. The midwinter
means for the Maya the day of the rebirth
of the divinity „One Hunahpu, The
first father” and thus the beginning
of a new world age. According to time calculation
of the Maya, we are living in a cycle of
the end time. Not only in the Mayan calendar,
but also with the time calculations of other
old cultures, an approx. 26.000 years continuous
cycle plays a crucial role.
The precession cycle
Our solar system takes about 25.800 years
to orbit the groups of stars of the pleiads.
By then the tumbling earth axis has turned
a complete circle in the circle and past
this large cycle. This procedure is also
designated as "The Platonic Year".
The pleiads settled in the Milky Way - also
known as „The Seven Sisters“
- , can be recognized with the naked eye.
The Maya dated the end of this cycle on
the 22th of December in 2012. Is this end
of the cycle possibly interpreted wrong?
Or could it stand for a new start or the
leap into another time? The Maya very probably
assumed that the end of each time cycle
offers a new beginning. Why should it be
different? Does this belief of the Maya
affect possibly also our present life? Actually
the mid winter is celebrated world-wide
by different religious groups and symbolizes
a new start there. Further there are some
visionaries, who have constituted a time
barrier between the years 2011-2013, which
would block their view. Fact is, that this
day offers possibilities for all kinds of
speculations.
Is it only the end of a cycle?
Is the Maya prognosis the truth? Does not
only a cycle end on 21 December 2012, but
so much more? Or is this prophecy comparable
to the prophecies of Nostradamus or Jehovah's
Witness and all others, who had already
quite often predicted the end of the world?
Whether life goes on beyond the 22th of
December 2012 will show if the prophecy
will com true or into oblivion.
Is the fall approaching for us actually?
