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Background to this page:
December 21, 2012
Timewave Zero? 4 Ollin? The
Mayan calendar ends.
End
of the great cycle of the Maya calendar's Long
Count, and thus the alleged end of our world (the end of the cycle is dated December
23 by some calculations). Also interpreted as a change in human consciousness
ie. the 'end' of the world as we know it but the start of a new one.
Terence McKenna (1946 -
2000),
theoretician of consciousness, was the originator of the Timewave
Zero theory, which claims time to be a fractal wave
of increasing novelty, which ends in 2012.
[McKenna’s Timewave Zero calculations differ from the
Mayan calendar’s ‘last day’ only by hours. See December 22, 2012]
Below
the article are
Internet resources on this topic.
The Saxon Eostre  Easter is named after the Saxon goddess, Eostre (or Ostara), a northern form of
Astarte. Her sacred month was Eastremonath (Moon of Eostre). Saxon poets equated Eostre with India's, Great Mother, Kali ("Beowulf" mentions 'Ganges waters, whose flood waves ride down into an unknown sea near Eostre's far
home'). Kali is the fierce female aspect and consort of Lord Shiva, the destroyer (or completer, perhaps?) of the Hindu trinity (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva).
to ... India's Yugas According to Vedic tradition, we are in the fourth World Age, or Kali Yuga, furthest from the celestial seat of Brahma, an age when humans are capable of understanding only gross material reality. The traditional date in India for the beginning of Kali Yuga is February 18, 3102
BCE. The Vedic ages are named Satya, Treta, Dvapara, and Kali; each one declines in moral excellence due to an increasing deficiency of Dharma. The Hindu Maha Yuga (or Great Yuga, i.e., world age) lasts for 4,320,000 years (10 Kali Yugas) and is divided into unequal time periods. At the top of the cycle, is the Golden Age or Satya (truth) Yuga, a period of 1,728,000 years (four Kali yugas) where the human life span is 100,000 years; Then comes the Treta, 1,296,000 years (three Kali yugas) where the human life span is 10,000 years; Next is the Dvapara Yuga, 864,000 years (two Kali yugas) where the human life span is 1000 years; Last comes the Kali Yuga, 432,000 years where the human life span is 100 years. One thousand Maha yugas
–
4,320,000,000 years by human count –
constitute one day, or Kalpa, for Brahma which begins with Sristi, the emanation of a universe out of the Divine; and terminates with
Pralaya, re-absorption back into the Divine. Brahma lives for 100 Brahma years of 360 Brahma days and nights and concludes with universal dissolution of all three worlds of being (earth, heaven and the space between), even the the highest worlds. Re-absorption prevails for another 100 Brahma years, after which the entire cycle (311,040,000,000,000 human years) begins again. to ... The Mayan calendar The Vedic, Maya, and Hopi calendars all describe our current age as the fourth world. The Maya and Hopi calendars also describe the ending of a great age around the year 2000 (several Mayan calendar cycles end at winter solstice, 2012). Mayan cycles describe the Earth's Great Year (a
24,000-year cycle caused by the Earth's wobble) as well as an additional rotation of our sun and galaxy around Alcyon, central star of the Pleiades. The Maya are one of many cultures (as far-flung as the Australian Aborigines, the ancient Greeks, and several Native American nations) with stories about the Pleiades. Hun-Apu and Xbalanque and the Giant
Once upon a time, the heavenly twins Hun-Apu and Xbalanque enlisted the help of their friends to dig a deep pit. They told Zipacna, a mischievous giant, that the pit was to be the foundation for a very strong, secure house and talked Zipacna into helping them dig the pit deeper. But just as he reached bottom, the brothers and their helpers surprised him by hurling rocks, dirt, and even tree trunks into the pit. The giant was stunned and lay quiet as the pit filled over him. Thinking Zipacna dead, they finished the house. But Zipacna was only waiting, biding his time until the house was finished. Then, as the brothers gathered with their friends in celebration, the furious giant rose from the pit with such force that the house, the twins, and all their guests were flung into the night sky, where they got stuck against the vault of Heaven. And there they remain to this day, not so happily ever after. The Long Count
The Mayan calendar is complex. Years of 260-, 360-, and 365-days duration run concurrently. The Long Count (360-day) calendar records time intervals in excess of billions (yes, billions) of years. On December 23, 2012, the 13th Baktun will be completed, a day that occurs once every 8000 Mayan Tuns (about 7890 modern years). Zero day for the Maya calendar was 13.0.0.0.0 of the Long Count, 4 Ahau 8 Cumku of the Calendar Round, and on a day when the 9th Lord of the Night was ruling; or, by our calendar, August 11, 3114
BCE. 13.0.0.0.0 also occurs on December 23, 2012, but this date falls on 4 Ahau 3 Kankin rather than on creation day, 4 Ahau 8 Cumku. Thus the Maya did not consider December 23, 2012, the beginning of a new creation but of a major new cycle within the current creation. The Maya creation date is Date 1 below. Date
1
13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0
4 Ahau 8 Cumku Date
2
13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.9.15.13.6.9
3 Muluc 17 Mac
Since dates rarely requred numbers higher than the baktun, the Maya normally excluded them. The exception to this was found at Yaxchilan where a date on the stairs of a temple records eight of the larger cosmic cycles of the baktun (Date 2 above). Thus we learn that the higher cycles of the Maya calendar were at 13 during Maya history. On the day of creation, all the cycles above the katun were set on 13. If each cycle is composed of 20 of the next lowest units (moving in order 20, 400, 8000, 160,000, 3,200,000, 64,000,000,
etc), it will take 41,341,050,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tropical years to convert the highest 13 in Date 1 back to 1. Kin (days)
Uinal (20 days)
Tun (18 Uinal, 360 days)
Katun (20 tuns)
Baktun (400 tuns, 20 katuns)
Piktun (8000 tuns, 400 katuns, 20 bactuns)
Kalabtun (160,000 tuns, 8000 katuns, 400 bactuns, 20 pictuns)
Kinchiltun 3,200,000 Tuns, 20 Kalabtuns
Alautun 64,000,000 Tuns, 20 Kinchiltuns
Hablatun 1,280,000,000 Tuns, 20 Alautuns
20 Hablatuns equals one unit of the next order but no name has been found for this period of about 25 billion years. Shadow of the Seven Triangles
On the equinoxes, the Sun crosses a center point and makes an exact 90-degree angle directly over the Pyramid of Ku'Kulkan (El Castillo) at the sacred site of Chichen Itza on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula (a place that represents the turtle's head on the continent known as Turtle Island or North America).
The Castillo is part of the Mayan calendar's Path of the Sun (solar calendar) with 4 stone stairways of 91 steps each plus an upper platform for a total of 365. The Maya had an 18-base for their mathematics and 18 months in a year. The pyramid has nine levels divided by the staircases or 18. The relationship of the Sun to the Earth at this sensitive point creates the phenomenon of the dramatic Shadow of the Seven Triangles, shadow triangles projected on the north staircase with serpent heads at the base. The triangles undulate in an ascending fashion in March and descend during the fall equinox. Following 360-day Maya solar calendar are five "nameless days." The New Year started after this five-day period, a time unfit for work; a time for ceremony when the old world is symbolically destroyed and a new one created. These 5 days are considered unlucky days comparable to the time of chaos before creation and before world order was established. Ancient Egypt also commemorated these 5 days. Coincidentally(?), on the first of these five days both the Egyptian grain god, Osiris, and the Mayan grain god, Hun Hunahpu, were born. The Sacred Tzolkin Calendar
In 1475, the Supreme Maya Council revealed the long-held vision of an ancient Solar Grandmother named X'Nuuk'K'in
–
that a sacred calendar cycle of twice the Kal'Tun (260 years) must go by before the Solar Culture would flourish again. On March 21, 1995, this 520-year period was completed and the Age of Knowledge (Itza Age) began; a time when ancient and hidden knowledge is to be reawakened; a time when the condor of the south is to meet the eagle of the north and there will be a return of the Light of health, purity, wisdom, and healing on Earth. Via the magnetic grid of energy that envelops planet Earth and the many sensitive spots on the Earth often referred to as Sacred Sites, the elders said that the solar ceremonies in Chichen Itza in March, 1995, anchored the intent to activate humanity in the Light. In the Tzolkin calendar (260-day sacred year divided into 13 months of 20 days each), the Mayans intermeshed astronomical calculations of the solar year with that of the "synodical (synodical: the interval between two successive conjunctions of a planet with the sun) revolution" of Venus with a correction of four days every 61 Venus years; and, in addition, during every fifth cycle, a correction of eight days was made at the end of the 57th revolution. Tzolkin (260-day sacred year equals 13 months of 20 days each)
Kal'tun (260 years) x 100 equals
26,000 Year Cycle (100 Kal'tun)
104,000 Year Cycle (400
Kal'tun)
The Fifth Sun
The current Mayan great-year cycle of 26,000-years, as well as the 104,000-year cycle (the fourth sun) closes on 4 Ahau 3 Kankin (Winter Solstice, December 23, 2012
CE.)* when we begin "El Quinto Sol" or the Fifth Sun. In this cycle, those who stay will become a cosmic humanity and contact with other worlds will be possible. to ... The Fourth World of the Hopi
In the beginning of the Fourth World, the Hopi tradition tells of endless journeys by boat to find a place to land. Finally exhausted from searching, the people allowed themselves to be guided and the water carried them to a sandy shore, where they were greeted by Sotuknang and given instructions to separate into different groups, each heading in different directions, to claim all the land for the Creator. Before the newcomers to the Fourth World set out on their migrations, they were given a tablet [some say tablets] containing symbolic representations of their journey and final resting place, and events that would confirm their adherence to the Creator's plan. The tablet today is reportedly held by members of the Fire Clan. This tablet has always had one corner missing that, according to legend, is in possession of a 'lost white brother' called Pahana. Pahana's return with the missing corner will signal the beginning of the new brotherhood of humankind. At the beginning of the Fourth World, Sotuknang said, "See, I have washed away the footprints of your emergence; the stepping-stones which I left for you. Down on the bottom of the seas lie the proud cities, the flying patuwvotas [shields], and the worldly treasures corrupted with evil, and those people who found no time to sing the praises to the Creator. But the day will come when the stepping-stones will emerge again to prove the truth you speak." to ... The Phoenix Cycle and the Gregorian calendar
The Julian calendar, standardized in 46
BCE, was revised by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 CE. The length of the year in the Julian calendar was figured at 365.25 days, which is greater than the correct length of 365.2422 days by 0.0078 days. The error accumulated over time and Pope Gregory XIII revised the calendar by omitting the accumulated portion which totaled 10 days at the time, from the month of October, 1582. He ordained that Thursday, October 4, be followed by Friday, October 15. The leap-year rule was also revised, making the century years 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, etc., non-leap years. The years 1600, 2000, 2400, etc. which are divisible by 400 were made into leap years. In this way, the average year-length of the calendar was brought down to 365.2425 days, the residual error now being 1 day every 3300 years. The ancient Greeks recognized the Phoenix Cycle, derived from the ancient Egyptian legends of the Bennu bird that rose from its own ashes every 500 years.
The Egyptian year comprised twelve 30-day months
–
each month of which was divided into three, 10-day decans heralded by the heliacal rising of a certain star
–
plus five "epagomenal days." Calendrical corrections were based on such once-secret details as the Egyptian Sothic cycles and were connected with the Rebirth of the Phoenix. The Phoenix, or Bennu bird, dwells on the ben-ben stone or obelisk, and makes its appearance once every 500 years. According to ancient Egyptian tradition, it came from Arabia, carrying in its beak an egg of myrrh which contained its father's body. This egg is similar to Geb's egg. However, the Egyptian pharaohs were sworn
not to change the calendar and so it became more and more
disassociated from the original astronomy upon which it was based. Early Egyptian Christian mystics under Saint Mark combined forces with the Alexandrine Greeks to develop a calendar system that was coordinated with the Egyptian Phoenix Cycle's rhythm, past and future. It was accepted in
525 CE and introduced by the Roman theologian and mathematician, Dionysius Exioguus. With each Phoenix cycle's
culmination, and for a hundred years on either side, an influx of special souls was predicted to incarnate, whose chosen work was to raise the overall planetary consciousness. The 20th century marks the beginning of a new Phoenix Cycle (1900-2100). © Copyright 1999 Judith
Paulson. Permission is hereby granted to electronically transmit or reproduce this article for personal, non-profit use, on condition that all paragraphs, including this notice, remain intact. For source material relating to issues raised in The Sphinx Group, in general, and this article, in particular, please see
Traditional Media
Resources. JC is Creator and Editor-in-Chief for "The MILLENNIUM Matters
..." website. Her homepage is Temenos.nu
* I'm not certain Judith Paulson's dating here agrees
with the US Navy's date for the Winter Solstice of 2012:
December 21 at 11.11 a.m. UT. –
PW Source
Terence McKenna
and 2012
 Terence McKenna
(1946 - 2000), theoretician of consciousness, was the originator of the
Timewave Zero
theory, which claims time to be a fractal wave
of increasing novelty, which ends in 2012.
"New
Age millennialism has a rather different flavor from the biblical Last
Judgment variety. For one thing, the big event is not necessarily Armageddon,
though there may be some rough sledding ahead for planet Earth. The apocalypse
is more often interpreted according to its secondary meaning ('a disclosure
regarded as prophetic; revelation') -- that is, as a collective coming of age,
a gigantic planetary Bar Mitzvah. Take, for example, the following prophecies:
The world will end in A.D. 2012, according to the Mayan calendar stone, as
interpreted by Jose Arguelles, New Age eschatologist, art historian, and
author of The Mayan Factor. But don't worry: There's a new world
coming. The Mayan calendar, or Tzolkin, describes a 5,200-year Great Cycle
beginning in 3113 B.C. and ending in A.D. 2012, Arguelles claims. This cycle,
in turn, is embedded in a longer, 26,000-year cycle, composed of five Great
Cycles, which also ends in 2012. (Meaningful-coincidence buffs may note that
this long cycle, which Arguelles equates with the life span of Homo Sapiens,
corresponds to the 26,000 years of Plato's 'Great Year' and of the
astrological precession of the zodiac.) 'What we are experiencing,' he
concludes, 'is the climax of our particular species and evolutionary stage --
the very last twenty-six years of a cycle some twenty-six thousand years in
length!' Hoping for a heavenly kingdom sans Armageddon, Arguelles masterminded
the harmonic convergence, on August 16-17, 1987 -- the very date that Aztec
prophecies identified as the end of the nine cycles of hell that began in 1519
-- when thousands of people took to the mountaintops and the deserts to, well,
be apocalyptic. In 2012, according to Arguelles's interpretation, will begin a
paradisiacal Solar Age, a postindustrial Utopia. 'Everyone will be a channel
-- a medium -- and what we understand today to be psychic impressions or
channeling will be but child's play compared to our actual potential.' We'll
live harmoniously in posttechnological New Age villages -- equipped with
'solar temples,' lush gardens, synesthetic pleasure domes, and 'houses of
energy and information' -- and hobnob with UFOs ('E.T.'s, UFOs, the
"space brothers" -- these are not alien entities but emanations of
being itself') and the returned Mayan masters. If we're around, that is.
Uh-oh. There's that date again. A.D. 2012. That's when Terence McKenna's
prophetic software goes hyperdimensional. McKenna is a scholarly
Berkeley-educated visionary who may be unique among New Age prophets in
avoiding such New Age cliches as 'cleansing the planet' and 'increasing the
vibrational frequency.' His compellingly literate 'raves,' as he calls his
monologues, have make him a star of underground radio and the human-potential
circuit. He also operates Botanical Dimensions, a sanctuary for rare plant
life in Captain Cook, Hawaii. He peers at the future through a computer
program called Timewave Zero, based on the ancient I Ching oracle system,
which McKenna believes is the 'smashed-up remains' of an ancient lunar
calendar. 'I noticed there was something in history that science had missed,'
he explains. 'I named it Novelty waves. It has been increasing since the
universe began.' McKenna's software uses fractal mathematics to map this
'Novelty' as it becomes denser and denser, until -- in 2012 -- 'all cycles
come to zero, a dimension emerges that goes off the graph. We are caught in a
temporal maelstrom, spinning around the presence of some transdimensional
object.' The I Ching's system of 64 hexagrams describes a nested set of
timekeeping cycles, he maintains. For example: Life began on Earth about 1.3
billion years ago. Divide 1.3 billion by 64 and you have a cycle within a
cycle that started 18 million years ago, at the height of the Age of Mammals.
Divide by 64 again and we come to 4,300 years ago -- around 2300 B.C.,
historical time. Then things get really postmodern. 'The last cycle began with
Hiroshima, August 5, 1945,' according to McKenna. 'This sixty-seven-year,
one-hundred-four-day cycle at or near the end of the larger,
forty-three-hundred-year cycle will terminate on December 21, 2012. This comes
precisely at the end of the Mayan calendar.'"
Source
Index of articles on
folklore, calendar and other topics
2012: The Mayan Y2K
Bug
How the West got its calendar
2012:
Wilson's Blogmanac will be covering it Apocalypse
when? (Failed prophecies) Calendar
links in Wilson's Almanac Wilson's
Almanac Book of Days The
calendar and primitive almanacs
As the Maya were very good
astronomers
and observers they had a complex series of calendars,
including a Sacred 260-day calendar, called the Tzol'kin,
a 365-day calendar called the Haab, and a 52-Haab cycle called the Calendar
Round, which synchronised the Tzol'kin and Haab cycles.
There was also a Long Count calendar which started at
[0.0.0.0.0] (with Maya record) on August 11,
3114 BCE
according to the ‘Goodman, Martinez-Hernandez, and Thompson’ correlation (nicknamed
"GMT"), the most widely accepted correlation between the Maya
and Gregorian calendar. This cycle is 1,872,000
days in length,
terminates on the Winter Solstice of (December
21) 2012
and is designated [13.0.0.0.0] or [0.0.0.0.0], since the Maya believed
that time is
somehow periodical. Another widely-used correlation, that of Lounsbury,
correlates the start-day to August
13, 3114
BCE and the terminal date to December
23, 2012.
Source: Wikipedia
The Aztec
calendar and the 2012 end of the world
"The
Mexicans, as all other Meso-Americans, believed in the periodic destruction
and re-creation of the world. The 'Calendar Stone' in the Museo Nacional de
Antropologia (National Museum of Anthropology) in Mexico City depicts in its
central panel the date 4 Ollin (movement), on which they anticipated that
their current world would be destroyed by earthquake, and within it the dates
of previous holocausts: 4 Tiger, 4 Wind, 4 Rain, and 4 Water."
Source
Solar
alignment in Mexico
When the Aztecs found the ruins of the city of Teotihuacan, it was already
ancient, having been settled in the second century BC. A ritual cave was
there, the entrance of which was aligned with a horizon point where the sun
set on August 12 and
April 29. These are days 260 and 105 of the year: added
together they make 365, suggesting the astronomical skill of these ancient
peoples. This horizon position is also that at which the Pleiades star cluster
sets. The Pleiades annually appear on the first of two days that the sun
passes directly over the latitude of Teotihuacan.
Lunar phase info (pop-up)
Julian day calculator (pop-up)
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