Another “Long Count” Ends.

December 21st, 2012. The newest focus date for the “End of the World”. Can you say “malarkey”?

The End of the “Long Count” Mayan Calendar… after 25,800 years… another Long Count Calendar Ends.

And you are going to hear more and more about it as the “end of time” draws near! Here’s a few excerpts from online articles… with links and credits to the sites. There have been countless calendars over the history of mankind. Many are based on religious beliefs, some on cycles of the Earth and Stars, most on a combination of the two. Only a few things are certain.   One: A physical time calendar (Mayan) is coming to an end. Two: Climate changes on Earth going back hundreds of thousands of years are documented facts and are directly related to the planetary alignments. Three: Political & Religious phonetics, doom-Sayers, and nuts will interoperate almost anything, including the ending of the Mayan Calendar to forward their own beliefs and agendas. Four: The only thing that has any scientific proof is that planetary weathers changes are eliminate… just how severe or quickly the changes will take place is yet to be written. Maybe that is what we are seeing now… but there has always been many different cycles of the Earth and planets that have effected climate changes… all in varying degrees… this is just the gradual changing of one cycle into another. Plain and simple.

Here’s a few interesting thoughts: Facts, interpretations, and predictions… draw your own conclusions.     

Will it be the end of everything? Or will it be the dawning of the age of Aquarius? No one really knows. One thing's for sure, though. December 21st of the year 2012 is the day time as we know it will end. So at least claim the Maya's, that ancient civilization that lived in the Mesoamerica's since 2,600 BC. The Maya's had an extremely complicated method of keeping track of time, based on three separate calendars. The most important, most encompassing of these calendars holds the `Long Count': the period from the beginning until the end of time. And on December 21st 2012, the Long Count expires. It will be point zero. Time will be up for the Universe. It will be, literally, the end of days. Big deal, you might say. Still, there's a couple of very interesting (and disturbing) facts about the Maya calendar's end. Most intriguing, 21-12-2012 is not a day like any other. Up in the sky, an extraordinary and incredibly rare event will take place. The Sun will move to a unique spot in the sky -- and hold still for a while, since it is solstice day. The Sun will sit precisely on the heavenly crossroads between the Milky Way and the galactic equinox, forming a perfect alignment with the center of the galaxy. Well: the night time sky is crossed by several mathematical lines. One is the axis of the Milky Way -- the Milky Way, as you may know, being that bright band of stars you can see running across the heavens on a clear night. Another important line is the cosmological ecliptic: the axis along which the constellations travel, the line that defines coordinates in space.

You can say a lot about the Maya, but you've got to hand it to them: they knew a hell of a lot about stars. For instance, they calculated the exact duration of a year to a thousandth of a decimal point, much more precise than any Greek or enlightened philosopher ever did. Also, they were able to predict every solar and lunar eclipse until this day. And obviously, they knew where the galactic equinox and the exact middle of the Milky Way lay: they called this crossing `the Sacred Tree'.

But actually, the Maya's never predicted anything concrete about 2012. That may have something to do with our ill knowledge about Maya culture: when the Spanish ransacked the land, they burnt literally every Maya book they could find. Only a handful of scriptures survived. And in them, there's not a clue about what happens when the Maya calendar ends.

So what awaits us in 2012 basically is an open question. And as with so many open questions, countless doom preachers, semi-prophets and other crackpots pop up to provide an answer. The interpretation you hear most: 2012 will mark the coming of a new, glorious age of wisdom and peace. It will be Age Of Aquarius at last, with a world full of peace, love and understanding.The reasoning behind this is actually not that stupid. The Maya's didn't really believed in endings: their conception of time was circular, with every end being the beginning of something new. So, 2012 shouldn't be an exception. 

The Maya divided their Long Count into five lumps of time, called Great Cycles. And every cycle had a well defined end. For example, after period number one, a Jaguar came by and ate everyone on Earth. Well, it's the Maya saying this, not me! The second cycle ended in air, the third in fire, the fourth in flood. Don't forget: there are many, many religions predicting some kind of end to the world. And the Maya prediction attracts a lot of attention now, merely because their end date is so well-defined, and because the Maya Deadline is only a couple of time-ticks away. And what about that awesome phenomenon of the Sun sitting in the heart of the Tree of Life? Well, that happened before. The Sun passes the Tree every 25,800 years. That's a lot of years, but since the Earth exists for an astonishing 4,5 billion years, the Earth survived the `divine event' more than 150,000 times already! What's more, the last six times the phenomenon occurred, modern humans already walked the planet. Obviously, it didn't have much effect on our spiritual lives.

Credits & site link:   http://www.exitmundi.nl/Maya.htm

"Both the Hopis and Mayans recognize that we are approaching the end of a World Age... In both cases, however, the Hopi and Mayan elders do not prophesy that everything will come to an end. Rather, this is a time of transition from one World Age into another. The message they give concerns our making a choice of how we enter the future ahead. Our moving through with either resistance or acceptance will determine whether the transition will happen with cataclysmic changes or gradual peace and tranquility.

Credits & site link:      http://www.adishakti.org/mayan_end_times_prophecy_12-21-2012.htm

So while the Doom-Sayers & Religious Phonetics are preaching the end of the world… be assured that it’s just another cycle of the planet and the universe at work. But this doesn’t give much comfort when each winter is progressively getting colder, summers hotter, weather more severe, and knowing that small climate changes and have a major impact on how we live and the life we enjoy. There’s gonna be changes… everything changes… and in the nature of the cosmos… perhaps a extension or near extension event may occur. It’s happened before in documented history, and certainly possible, if not probable again… but I don’t think I would worry to much about the Doom-Sayers… after all… they do have their own agenda… like always! Besides, you can’t do anything about it anyway… and that’s a certainty, no matter what is going to happen. But maybe… just maybe… I should have kept that winter parka… It’s cold in Florida! … and getting colder every winter. 

There has always been one thing that I ponder on every once in a while. Not so much if we are alone on the universe (we’re not)… or have beings from another planet visited Earth in the past (they have). Not what knowledge mankind learned from those visits and lost to time (great leaps in knowledge and far advanced far beyond their time)… but when or if they will return. From a science fiction standpoint it’s all what good stories are made of. From a religious standpoint…well they all have beings not from this Earth visiting in the past providing great influence and knowledge… and they all predict their return… someday.  Maybe in my lifetime… but not expected. But when or if they return… it will no doubt be a time of both good & bad, rejoicing & fear, peace & turmoil… and hopefully an eventual new age of Peace on Earth. Based on humanities troubles… their return is certainly overdue.