Kan, in common Mayan usage, means seed. Its energy brings qualities of self-germination, exploding potential, encouragement, flowering, and fertile ground.

Uac, tone 6, holds the purpose and intent for rhythm, organic balance, and organization.

Yellow is the color of the South. Its element is Earth. Its vehicle of expression is the body.

So, the message for today is:

Visualize the most beautiful life you can imagine, for yourself, your family and friends, your village, neighborhood and town. See yourself in this picture being and doing all the things that you love to do. See it happening now, in full flower, in joyful abundance, in the rhythm and flow of the Creator’s Song. Feel this in your heart taking root. Now target one thing you can do today to give flower to this vision and enjoy the blossoming.

Akbal, in common Mayan usage, means night, house. Its energy brings the qualities of serenity, sanctuary, darkness, softness, yin looking within, and dream exploration. Its symbol is a womb.

Ho, tone 5, holds the purpose and intent for centering in the foundation of your core self. Other qualities include organization, intelligence, and natural networking to produce what is needed.

Blue is the color of the West. Its element is water. Its medicine is for completing things.

So, the message for today is:

Carry your dream with you wherever you go. Be a listening for how you can express it and create it in your life. Stand with your feet spread apart and your arms spread out wide, your face upturned and your heart open. Feel your core self, that looks-within sanctuary vibrating through every muscle and tendon. You are YOU and that’s good.

Ik, in common Mayan usage, means wind. Its glyph is a short T inside of a square. Its energy brings spirit, breath, presence, and unseen forces to the matter. It offers the opportunity for co-creation and the integration of polarities.

Kan, tone 4, holds the purpose and intent for measure, for bringing ideas into form, and the use of measure as a tool to mold time, space, and form.

White is the color of the North. Its element is air. Its vehicle of expression is the mind.

So, the message for today is:

Spirit is behind you. You have the ability to make what you see in your mind’s eye. Take the steps you need to today to get crackin’!

Imix (ee’ meesh), in common Mayan usage, means root, waters. Its symbol is a dragon. The dragon is actually a deep symbol for the primordial Mother–and that is what Imix is all about. Imix is the first sacred day lord or solar seal in the Tzolkin. It is the beginning of the All. Its energy brings qualities of receptivity, nurturing, support, and the deepest trust imaginable.

Ox, tone 3, holds the purpose and intent for action, rhythm, and self-expression.

Red is the color of the East. Its element is fire. Its medicine is for birthing things.

So, the message for today is:

Breathe deep into the support of the Divine Mother. Allow her to breathe through your heart. Lay yourself down on your stomach in a soft, nurturing spot with your arms outspread. Imagine that you are laying on the belly of the giant Universal Mother and just breathe. Recall what it’s like to be an infant, completely dependent on your Mother for everything. Now just let go of everything. Release it all into her care and keeping. Breathe and allow her divine breath to flow through you, supporting you completely. Today is the beginning of a new Mayan uinal, or month. Everything is born afresh.

Ahau, in common Mayan usage, means lord, flower. Its symbol is the sun. Its energy brings qualities of ascension, language of light, limitless bliss, solar mastery, wholeness, and unconditional love.

Ka, tone 2, holds the purpose and intent for polarity, challenge, the reflecting mirror of  the other, and partnership.

Yellow is the color of the South. Its element is earth. Its vehicle of expression is the body.

So, the message for today is:

Talk a walk today and spend a moment standing quietly on the earth with the sun on your face. If the sun isn’t shining where you are, see it in your mind’s eye behind the clouds and imagine its rays shining through to your pineal gland and lighting you up within every cell of your body. Limitless light pours through your brain, your throat, your heart, your hands, your feet, and every particle of you. Today is an opportunity to digest any challenge with the perfect light that is your higher self, your soul, your solar heart, your divine light and love. As you look around today and see evidence of polarity and separation from Source, allow yourself to see those as simply signals on the dashboard–places to feed with love and grace. We are all One. Loving ourselves in the matter brings love to the whole planet.

Cauac, in common Mayan usage, means storm. Its energy brings the qualities of purification, transformation, reunion, initiation, and preparation for ascension. Its symbol is lightning.

Tone 1 holds the purpose and intent for unity, unconditional love, self, and Source.

Blue is the color of the West. Its element is water. Its medicine is for completing things.

So, the message for today is:

Today is a great day for marshalling your energy around your purpose and transforming your space to produce. Today is the first day of a new Mayan week, a new 13-tone creation cycle. As such, each day for thirteen days will be guided by Cauac. As you head into the coming days, allow yourself to feel reunion with self and Source and attune to what aspect of your self or your life needs purification or transformation to take you to your next level of being, creating, and loving.

Mayakalenderen: Der vitenskap og spiritualitet møtes.

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Etznab, in common Mayan usage, means knife, flint. Its symbol is a mirror. Its energy brings qualities of timelessness, facing shadows, integrating struggles, truth, and clarity.

Tone 13 holds the purpose and intent for cosmic presence. It is the foundation of the basic self coupled with the essence self and the divine triangle. Thirteen is the expansive state of knowing and being that comes with great achievement. It brings universal movement and can portend radical change.

White is the color of the North. Its element is air. Its vehicle of expression is the mind.

So, the message for today is:

Today is a good day to do some internal housekeeping; check in with your thoughts and feelings about your situation. Etznab will source you with energy to face your demons and tone thirteen will help you move off of old patterns to a deeper level of knowing and being. Look in the mirror. What do you see in your eyes? Look and love. Love all of yourself. Be the change you seek in the world.

Caban, in common Mayan usage, means earth force. Its symbol is a rainbow. Its energy brings the qualities of galactic alignment, earth stewardship, synergy, and centeredness in the present.

Tone 12 holds the purpose and intent for complex stability. It is the foundation of the self weaving reality on the loom of polarity and the expansion of self within the dance of yin and yang.

Red is the color of the East. Its element is fire. Its medicine is for birthing things.

So, the message for today is:

Look around your community today and be aware of the role you have to play in constellating harmony in growth. Today is ripe for starting a new group or reinvigorating a community project. We are the rainbow tribe, a melting pot of races, cultures, and creeds. Let’s choose to listen to and learn from each other today and make our rainbow shine bright out into the heavens.

Cib, in common Mayan usage, means owl. Its symbol is a staff. Its energy brings the qualities of grace, trust, mystic transmission, divine reception, and the capability of being a conduit for Spirit.

Tone 11 holds the purpose and intent for liberation. Eleven invites and supports us to examine areas of dissonance in our lives and strip away unsupportive beliefs or habits to become an open system for clearing and change.

Yellow is the color of the South. Its element is earth. Its vehicle of expression is the body.

So, the message for today is:

Today is a perfect day for a purifying cleanse of mind or body. Cib offers grace and trust, and tone 11 offers the will to let go of old stuff. Spend some time to meditate and breathe, being with your essence self. Allow whatever it is you need to see or let go of rise to the surface. Just breathe with yourself there and embrace whatever it is with compassion. Support it with a juice cleanse or fasting. Take a walk. Allow some time for silence.

Men, in common Mayan usage, means eagle. Its energy brings the qualities of planetary mind, global consciousness, hope, commitment, and compassionate service. Men represents the evolution of individual consciousness into union with the planetary noosphere, or collective knowing. Men invites us to be aware that as we heal our own minds, the planetary mind is healed.

Tone 10 holds the purpose and intent for manifesting our core purpose.

Blue is the color of the West. Its element is water. Its medicine is for completing things.

So, the message for today is:

In the increasing complexity of life, it is both powerful and beautiful to realize that our own spirit/soul mind can see and touch and heal others instantaneously from right where we sit. Just open your mind, see the picture of the person, place, or situation that you’d like to send loving compassion, healing, growth, help, or divine guidance to, and send it on your heart’s rays. Visualize it, send it, smile, and return to the dance and joy of living and loving in your own life. I found a profound yet simple statement that helps me stay on track and not get overwhelmed in Spilsbury & Bryner’s The Mayan Oracle on page 239 of the Shadow Wisdom of Men: “Gaia, as you awaken, I heal myself. As I awaken, you are healed.”

Ben, in common Mayan usage, means cane. Its energy brings qualities of angelic presence, bodhisattva, new directions, fluid reference points, time/space traveller, and compassion.

Tone 8 holds the purpose and intent for harmonic resonance. It is the five of the foundation self coupled with the sacred trinity. It is love made visible and flowing harmonically.

Red is the color of the East. Its element is fire. Its medicine is for birthing things.

So, the message for today is:

Allow your soul’s light to emanate from your heart today. Flow with your intuition and notice what you are drawn to do and who you are drawn to be with. This may take you in a new direction that will open up something powerful for you. Connect with the bodhisattva in others today. Just smile from your heart and you will be making love present everywhere you journey.

Eb, in common Mayan usage, means broom, grass. Its symbol is a chalice. Its energy brings qualities of openness, abundance, clearing, purification, self-nurturing, joy, and fulfillment.

Tone 7 holds the purpose and intent for mystical power and resonant attunement.

Yellow is the color of the South. Its element is Earth. Its vehicle of expression is the body.

So, the message for today is:

Attune to what gives you joy today and spread the wealth of it in your life.

Chuen, in common Mayan usage, means monkey. Its energy brings the qualities of play, mischief, transparency, humor and artistry to life.

Tone 6 holds the purpose and intent for organic balance. One symbol for tone 6 is two intertwined pyramids, one facing earth and one facing heaven, as above, so below. Six also brings the dynamic of having roots in multiple dimensions, of having dynamic equilibrium and flow.

Blue is the color of the West. Its element is water. Its medicine is for completing things.

So, the message for today is:

Play with bringing your interior self out into the world today. What are you waiting for? It’s time to play the full-out YOU now. You are flow. You are dynamism. You are clear and wise and artistic magic in motion.

Oc, in common Mayan usage, means dog. Its energy brings the qualities of courage, loyalty, warm-heartedness, spiritual strength, justice, and protection.

Tone 5 holds the purpose and intent for being centered in your core truth and the foundation of your core purpose.

White is the color of the North. Its element is air. Its vehicle of expression is the mind.

So, the message for today is:

Stay true to yourself today and be courageous! Imagine that we are all waking up having dreamed the same dream. In the dream we journeyed through the sun to a warm golden place where there is only love expressing. Breathe deep, bathed in this memory, for this is our spiritual home where we are all one in the same family. As you awaken, realize that you hold this gift within you. It radiates out through your smile.

“confess with me

your inner most thoughts,

your deepest desires,

your darkest secrets,

your most desperate longings,

for I shall not judge thee,

but embrace thee!”

-author unknown

chakra woman art by mary hettinger

In the Mayan evolutionary theory, we are in the Ethical Era, and in order to evolve as a species, one must be living truthfully.  Any white lies, large lies or areas of your life where you have misrepresented yourself or been dishonest will become so very painful in this, the 6th night of the Mayan Calendar, November 8, 2009 to November 2, 2010. The final purge has arrived and for some individuals their way of life is about to dismantle.  Confession time is imminent!

André Agassi, former World Champion tennis professional, considered to be one of the world’s best players ever, recently revealed in his new autobiography that he engaged in taking drugs to win a tennis open one year when his form was off.   Failing his drug test,  he proceeded to lie to the sports council regarding the matter.  I am not surprised to witness his revelations to the public in his new book as the incoming Mayan evolutionary energies of the last 10 years has been revolving around the theme of truth & integrity.

I went to school with the Agassi’s.  André’s sister, Tammy, was one of my good childhood friends.  They were a lovely family filled with integrity, strong opinions, and a good conscious.  I am convinced André confessed his actions as his consciousness got the better of him.  He revealed his truth and in doing so said to the public at large, “I made a mistake.  I am sorry.”  We, as humans recognize his infallibility, commend his brave admissions and release his actions.  He may lose his title and cash prizes- every lie has a consequence-but he will be forgiven and the heavy load of his lies will be all the lighter.  Sooner or later, it will become a distant past memory, embodied, learned from, not to be repeated.   Life will usher in renewed, powerful experiences for Andre Agassi and his rebalanced spirit will triumph once again.

Although I am new to the Mayan calendar theories, I am schooled and versed in the Tarot.   This era can be compared to the “20″ card named Judgement Day/Reckoning Day.  In the traditional tarot imagery, the brilliance of  the angels shines upon the people in the card, rendering them naked in truth before a higher power.  The meaning of the card is that each and every individual will have to search their heart and mind to see what illusions persist, what games are being played and what lies will be revealed.  Celestially purged of the unnecessary, one can finally wake up to a new and exciting reality.  In the next year, no stone will remain unturned as the 6th night seeks to complete its final creation mission which is to lead everyone on earth into integrity.  Every soul will have to hold a mirror to themselves and face their reflection.  Do you like what you see?  Are you a sparkly, multifaceted diamond filled with light?  Are you a magical kaleidoscope of shapes?  Are you a crystal clear ball of luminosity?  Are you a midnight shining star?  If not, you have some work to do!

No worries though, jaguar is here to help you.  Jaguar is the Mayan animal that teaches us about truth, integrity & impeccability.  Jaguar’s mission is to devour any unclean aspects of our behavior.  Jaguar dishes out penalties for inappropriate behaviour, meanwhile offering rewards for those who have operated in honesty (Medicine Cards by Jamie Sams & David Carson).  Jaguar says that he must roam our dreams now.  Jaguar rules the 6th galactic night. Some people, and you may know a few of these, would rather die than be honest or live honestly.  I am from the Belizean Creole culture.  For the most part, we are a chancey, sneaky and liared (creole for deceitful) tribe.  We are descendants of slaves & pirates and have inherited a few undesirable behavioural characteristics along the way.  My Belizean tribe is in trouble in this 6th night.  I send a prayer out to all those with ears to hear that they may learn to embody the new spiritually awakened energies.  We live in the heart of Mayaland and jaguars literally roam around us:  here the energies will be brutally intense.

What most people worldwide require at this time is the “inipo” ceremony- most commonly called the sweat lodge.  Inipo is a Lakota word which means “you should purify yourself”. (The Lakota Sweat Lodge Cards by Chief Archie Fire Lame Deer and Helene Sarkis).  The intense heat and steam of the Inipo Lodge forces all disease, fear, and maladies to leave the body.  Often sacred herbs like copal, sweetgrass or sage are used to assist the spirit.  The Inipo prepares one for a sacred journey.  Our sacred journey is the Mayan Galactic 6th night. We must tread this time in wonder and with reverence.

Copal Sacred tree resin used in Mayan smudge ceremonies

Remember in a previous article I likened the Galactic 6th night to the 6th night of Biblical creation- God’s last night of creation before the 7th day when he shall rest. This is it- our Creator’s final glory! If you have done some inner work, life will be offering you beautifully, powerful growth & creation experiences in the next year; if not…woe be to your nervous system.  Dhyani Ywahoo, Shaman, Cherokee Tribe says, “The denial of the fire of truth in yourself is going to be the denial of your heart’s beat- maybe you make your arteries get hard or something like that.”  This has always been my understanding- an inability to evolve leads to death.

Swedish biologist and Mayan scholar Carl Calleman says, “What is about to transpire now is in other words not something that has ever happened before in the history of the universe. Maybe this impending change, partially unknown, causes the widespread denial that I feel dominate many people at the current moment.  If my understanding of the Mayan calendar is correct we will in this coming night be witnessing the most significant transformation of consciousness ever in the history of mankind. What seems clear however is that people will be divided as to whether they want to flow with the incoming energies leading towards a new world or if they will resist them and seek to hold on to or go back to the system of the past” .  One recommendation he makes to successfully come through the next year is ethical living and telling the truth.

The urgency here stems from the fact that our telepathic powers are returning in full force.  As this happens, the current hologram ( “reality” ) we live in is quickly shifting.  Cataclysmic pole shift, I don’t think so, intense magnectic realignments leading to hologram renewal is more like it.  In order to access our own powers, in order to survive, you must be standing upright and honest-you must be transparent. A quote from Ariel Spilsbury & Michael Bryner of The Mayan Oracle deck states, “In transparency, (new) worlds are created”. Reread that line- it is simple and profound.

Enlightened Souls, once again these times can be manuevered with grace, our new world is here- let us then simply live transparently, telepathically sharing our thoughts without shame or manipulation.  Back in our delightful earth garden (the Garden of Eden), innocent, joyful, passionate, with absolutely nothing to hide.  Baby butt naked if you like!

Navajo,

May It Be So

panamanian molas

(calling all her loved ones to clarity and reminding all that the truth shall set you free)

Muluc, in common Mayan usage, means raindrop. Its energy brings the qualities of awakened attention, adaptability, understanding, and cosmic communication. Its symbol is a lotus.

Tone 4 holds the purpose and intent for measure, form, and discrimination.

Red is the color of the East. Its element is fire. Its medicine is for birthing things.

So, the message for today is:

Unplug from technology today and be present in the now moment with yourself in silence. Go outside for a walk and just be with the natural sounds you can hear. Look at the trees, plants, sky or elements of nature as you walk. Just be. Meditate as you walk. Breathe, and listen to your own inner voice, your own inner guidance. Imagine the Earth inside a giant white lotus flower. See humanity being flooded with serenity and understanding. Let the lotus of spiritual beauty blossom in you today.

Manik, in common Mayan usage, means grasp, deer. Its symbol is a hand. Its energy brings the qualities of beauty, completion, healing, knowing accomplishment, and being whole.

Tone 2 holds the purpose and intent for the loom of reality, the sacred DNA spiral that is both representative of duality, the challenges polarity brings, and the structure upon which we create our lives and dance the dance. Tone 2 reveals conflicts and struggles and also invites union in the sacred mirror of another.

Blue is the color of the West. Its element is water. Its medicine is for completing things.

So, the message for today is:

Know that you are whole, complete, and perfect. Know that your hands are capable of achieving anything your heart desires. Know that even as you face challenges each one brings you an opportunity to see your capacity and your measure to handle it. At the outset it may seem like it’s impossible or just too huge. Your brain may even suggest to you all the reasons why you shouldn’t be able to succeed now, in this situation, because that’s what your brain is designed to do. That’s where your imagination comes in. Tell yourself this: I’m about to learn something new. I’m setting a new course. It’s natural that my brain doesn’t know all the pathways to achieving it. I’ll develop what I need to succeed as I move forward in my goals. Go for it! It’s yours.

Cimi, in common Mayan usage, means death, transmutation. Its symbol is moss, the soft fuzzy green stuff that grows on moist decaying wood. Cimi’s energy brings the qualities of transformation, forgiveness, release, surrender, and the death of old patterns.

Tone 1 holds the purpose and intent for new beginnings, magnetizing your purpose in a goal, and unconditional love.

White is the color of the North. Its element is air. Its vehicle of expression is the mind.

So, the message for today is:

The next thirteen days will be guided by the energy of Cimi. This will be a really beautiful, effortless time to do some Autumn Cleaning, a clearing of your space both mental, emotional, and physical before the Winter. For today, breathe into your heart and journey into your self until you find a knot or an upset that is ready to be released in unconditional love. When you find it, just breathe love through it, acknowledge the choices you made that created it, see a new pattern of possibility, and let it go. Just keep breathing through it with love. Today is a new beginning.

Se ny side øverst på siden under tittelen Ikke undergang 2012. Her kommer etterhvert stoff som forhåpentligvis vil oppklare grunnløse rykter om jordens undergang og dommedag i 2012. Det er et håp at dette kan berolige veldig mange som blir redde av skremselspropaganda som formidles fra mange hold i disse dager. Mayakalendersystemet inneholder ingen ting som skulle peke mot noen jordens undergang hverken i 2011 eller 2012 eller noen gang ellers!

Chicchan, in common Mayan usage, means serpent. Its energy brings the qualities of instinct, passion, creativity, sensuality, kundalini, and physical purification.

Tone 13 holds the purpose and intent for presence and expansion. Thirteen completes the creation cycle of the Mayan week, so today is also a day to breathe into where you are, acknowledge what you have achieved, and be still. Prepare the ground for your next creative cycle.

Red is the color of the East. Its element is fire. Its medicine is for birthing things.

So, the message for today is:

Today is pregnant with creative possibility. Allow your energy to rise up through your belly and into your heart, into your hands. Be in the pregnant pause before the action. Allow yourself to feel your own energy building. Allow it to feed and nourish your being.

Tomorrow Emmerich’s ultimate disaster movie has worldwide premiere. Most reviews have already given it thumbs down and based on what I have seen of the movie so far I am not likely to give it a positive remark. For those not acquainted with what the 2012circus is about here follows a short summary of the main issues that I have covered on this blog so far.

For a small but still growing group of people December 21, 2012 will be a fateful day. Several made up prophecies will not fulfill. Some of these people will probably say “never mind” and search for a new doomsday in some ancient text. Hopefully most people will feel betrayed and fooled. The market for books, websites, blogs and forums concerning 2012 authored by self proclaimed prophets and experts, along with good old Nostradamus, have increased tremendously, especially in the US. Most of these prophets make a living out of people’s search for the meaning of life or the wish for a better world. Ancient societies are ascribed several noble qualities and knowledge we are supposed to learn from. However, most of the prophets focus on people’s fear and emphasize the end of the world and appear in classy magazines like Playboy. But it is a Christian apocalypse these people visualize.

The 2012 circus is a mish mash of pseudoscience, new age, creationism and conspiracy theory. No homogenous frame exist and the field is full of false dichotomies, like when it is argued that we have to choose between a perverted creationism or a cold and dead science. With this logic it is sometimes argued that aliens and/or Atlantis are relevant alternatives.

What is 2012?

This modern phenomenon has only a superficial connection to the ancient Maya ”culture” (I use exclamation marks since I dislike the culture concept as such but that is beyond the topic of this post). It is mainly the date that the Maya has contributed with. The prophets link this date with other myths and cosmologies from other parts of the world and argue that there is an ancient global reason why all these calendars and cosmological systems end on the same date (which simply is not true). A problem that these prophets avoid is that not even professional Mayanists agree upon the correlation between the Gregorian/Julian calendars and the Maya calendar(s). A competing correlation sets the date two days later (December 23, 2012).

Whatever correlation we use, why is this date so special? First one need to understand how the so-called Maya Long Count (LC) calendar works. It usually has five levels or periods: k’in (1 day), winal (20 days), tun (18 winals or 360 days), k’atun (20 tuns), and baktun/pik (20 k’atuns). Wherever we find the LC mentioned it is always followed by two other calendars: tzolk’in (260 days) and haab (365 days) that both together form a cycle that takes 52 years to repeat, the so called Calendar Round (CR). The LC, CR plus some additional calendars form the Initial Series which begin many dated monuments. We leave these other calendars for now since the LC works in another way but it should be pointed out that the CR also is known in other parts of Mesoamerica, such as among the Aztecs.

If we take tomorrow’s date in the LC it is transcribed like this: 12.19.16.15.4. This means that it has gone 12 baktuns/piks, 19 k’atuns, 16 tuns, 15 winals and 4 days since the beginning of the calendar (0.0.0.0.0). This occurred in 3114 BC, but this date coincides with the end of a preceding “cycle” of 13 baktuns. 0.0.0.0.0 is therefore the same as 13.0.0.0.0. Since a preceding “cycle” ended on 13 baktun it is believed that the current “cycle” also should end on 13 baktun.

Only Monument 6 at Tortuguero in Mexico mentions the future 13.0.0.0.0 (4 Ajaw 3 K’ank’in in tzolk’in and haab). The monument says that “The Thirteenth “Bak’tun” will be finished, (on) Four Ajaw, the Third of Uniiw (K’ank’in), ? will occur, (It will be) the descent(??) of the Nine Support? God(s) [Bolon Yookte’ K’uh] to the ?.” The question marks show where the epigraphers are unsure of the meaning of the glyphs or where the inscription is unreadable. We simply do not know what this inscription means. It is particularly the deity/deities Bolon Yookte’ K’uh that is the target for various interpretations. This deity is related to warfare, conflicts and the Underworld. Such associations fit like the hand in the glove (Swedish expression) for catastrophe theorists. This descending divinity is interpreted as either aliens or Jesus. However, the inscriptions may not even relate to 2012 but rather to the dedication of the monument in AD 669.

It is important to emphasize that no inscription support the idea that the LC would end in 2012 and begin anew. It is the projection of the “creation date” to its end that is the basis for this belief. The five leveled LC began at 13 baktun/pik (3114 BC) and hence it should end on the same date according to not only the prophets but also to for example Anthony Aveni, a well known archaeoastronomer. However, this is just a guess. What often is left out of the picture is the fact that in the Temple of Inscriptions at Palenque in Mexico there is a date mentioning the 80^th CR anniversary of king Janaab Pakal’s death in AD 683. This is AD 4772 and transformed into the LC system this is in fact in the next piktun which is the level above baktun. One piktun equals 20 baktuns. This is a good indication that the Maya never saw something extraordinarily ending or beginning in 2012. Not only did the calendar begin in 3114 BC since inscriptions at Coba sets the date of creation to roughly 2.7 x 10³⁰ years ago.

It is also misleading to say that the Maya had a cyclical view of time. The tzolk’in and haab calendars repeat and together they also form the recurring CR of 52 years. But the LC works differently and its periods are not cyclical but are cumulative. In inscriptions the periods are stacked on top of each other with the longest and “heaviest” periods at the top, literally creating a burden of time.

The 2012prophets

The above data is either distorted or ignored by most 2012 prophets. All agree that the timeframe of 5126 years (3114 BC – AD 2012), is significant on a global level. The beginning of the calendar roughly coincides with the first dynasty in Egypt, early dynasties in Mesopotamia, etc. These are not coincidences according to them. It is usually seen as the result of a cataclysmic event when Plato’s imagined island of Atlantis sank and its survivors spread knowledge to other places. All civilizations have the same origin, what we in archaeological terms call hyperdiffusion, a school of thought abandoned by serious archaeologists more than a century ago. This imagined island is used to explain why there are “pyramids” here and there, such as the imagined pyramids in Bosnia (the proponents neglect that the “pyramids” all have different form, emerged at different times and that they in all cases are preceded by a local development from smaller buildings).

Another version is that alien astronauts from another planet in our solar system (Nibiru), called Annunaki (which the ancient Sumerians called gods according to Zecharia Sitchin), used humans as slaves and instructed them to build monumental buildings. This idea, along with the Atlantis theories, is ethnocentric, reminiscent of the “white man’s burden” ideas during the European colonialism. The Maya, Egyptians, Sumerians, Incas, etc. are simply not believed to have been able to think, plan and construct something pyramids, ziqqurats or any other monumental structure. This is one of the worst tendencies among the 2012ers and symptomatically these proponents tend to have poor knowledge of the specifics of each “culture.” These old age ideas are far from the 2012ers aspirations of thinking outside the box.

In fact, few 2012 prophets have bothered reading up on the Maya. An exception to this is John Major Jenkins, but his version of Maya cosmology, originally influenced by “real Mayanists” such as Linda Schele and David Freidel, is still a distortion of the available data. He argues that the LC is a kind of countdown to the “end date”. His main argument is that at the winter solstice on December 21, 2012, the Earth and sun are aligned with the centre of the Milky Way. The problem is only that this phenomenon has occurred for several years and will continue to do so for the years to come. The Maya had great astronomical/astrological knowledge but what Jenkins says is that the Maya knew about the precession of the equinoxes, a cycle that takes 25,800 years to complete. Today the Earth’s axis points towards the Polar Star but it has not always done this since the Earth’s axis wobbles and the night sky change through time. It is probably not impossible that ancient astronomer’s could have calculated the length of this so-called Platonic year. The main problem is that his “evidence” actually boils down to a multiplication of the LC’s five lowest levels (5126 years) with five. This gives us a period of 25,630 years which roughly correlates with a Platonic year.

Why five? Here we find yet another common fallacy of the 2012ers and that is because this idea actually is based on Aztec mythology. According to the Aztecs they lived in the fifth Sun/creation and that four earlier creations predate the current one. There is no evidence that the Classic and Formative period Maya believed in these four creations (when the LC was in use). It is true that the much later Colonial book of Popol Vuh mentions earlier failed attempts to create human beings but there were never four cataclysmic events associated with this. However, one often sees the so-called Aztec calendar stone representing the Maya LC, the 2012 “end date” and the five creations. However, the Aztecs never used the LC, there is no “end date” of the current Aztec creation (2027 is the next time it may end). This calendar stone is not even a real calendar and its circular shape “supports” the illusion of the cyclical nature of Maya LC prevalent among 2012ers. Robert Bast, the founder of the largest 2012 forum on internet, says that the Aztec calendar stone has a higher aesthetic appeal than the Initial Series of Maya monuments and that this justifies its use in 2012 literature! It would be like having a statue of an Assyrian king to represent an Egyptian pharaoh. Another problem with the Aztec creations is that they all had different durations, being multiples of CRs. However, for Jenkins’ model to work all of his five Maya creations must have the same length (13 baktuns). This is a common pattern among 2012ers: they pick bits from here and there that superficially support their predetermined ideas and they ignore associated pieces that don’t support it. Hence they always come up with neat and perfect models that never are supported by actual evidence.

Terrence McKenna, Sergey Smelyakov and Carl Johan Calleman represent those “2012ers” who argue that the LC has something to say about the evolution of the universe, life and consciousness. McKenna’s novelty theory is used as a tool to predict when something novel will occur. It is a graph based on the Chinese oracle instrument called i-ching (it says ka-ching in McKenna’s cash register) . He used this to show that an event occurring at one time is related to an event occurring at another date. Time is fractal, an idea also championed by Gregg Braden, and these events repeat at a higher intensity and speed the closer we get to the “end time”. At one point only change will occur and this will occur on December 21, 2012. McKenna originally used the Hiroshima atomic bomb as the beginning of the last fractal period of 67.29 years (a periodicity that does not exist in the Maya area). But 67.29 years from the Hiroshima bomb ends up in November 2012. This was not good enough so he corrected his own theory to make it end on December 21, 2012 instead! That is a clear sign of fraud.

Calleman is a similar designer of a personal comsology and argues that the LC reflects evolutionary periods/durations in the development of the universe, life and consciousness. Basically, he says that the ancient Maya knew that the universe is billions of years old since a higher level of the LC roughly fits the length of the current universe. He apparently rationalizes away the extremely long LC at Coba. Another major problem is that the other LC levels not always fit other important “phases” of the emergence of the universe, such as the formation of the Earth, the emergence of life forms, the earliest vertebrae animals, the first terrestrial tetrapods, the first mammals, etc. He is also arguing that the Maya got the “end date” wrong! It should be in October 2011. Recently he has predicted that money will loose its value sometime after November 7 this year (five days ago). Bad news for Emmerich, no one will be able to pay for his spectacle.

Neither Jenkins, McKenna or Calleman belongs to the catastrophic/end of days faction which Emmerich’s movie represents. This faction is the most problematic and harmful if one is to believe the anxiety some people expresses on the 2012 forums. Patrick Geryl is most popular and he argues that the magnetic field of the sun will generate enormous solar eruptions that will affect the magnetic field of the Earth. The magnetic poles will shift at an instant moment and this will cause giant earth quakes, tsunamis and intensive volcanic eruptions. The whole surface of the Earth will change its face and continents will move several hundred km. This has of course already been predicted by Atlantis and the knowledge was handed down to the Maya. Lawrence Joseph argues that a Supervolcano at Yellowstone will erupt and it is possible that terrorists will ignite the whole volcano by detonating a nuclear device. I hope Al Qaida does not read Joseph’s instructions.

Zecharia Sitchin’s fictional planet Nibiru/Marduk is by some believed to return in 2012. Burak Eldem suggests that this planet (or sun?) will cause disasters of unheard of consequences. But this has of course already been predicted by the ancients since the planet already have caused made up disasters earlier in history. This is all related to Atlantis. Atlantis and/or Nibiru are also component parts of the frequent conspiracy theories. These theories argue that the knowledge of the return of Nibiru is known by the leaders of the world and that NASA tries to hide information about the upcoming disaster. Politicians want to let us live in ignorance, not knowing anything about our inevitable death. The mighty have already built bunkers to survive the catastrophes and a new world order will arise after the apocalypse. Bast argues that the pyramids throughout the world actually are bunkers from earlier disasters. There is even a Swedish man who wishes to use the small Swedish mountain Kinnekulle to build bunkers for 144,000 people (this is as many days as there are in a baktun…). This place is to be called swEden. Sect like tendencies like this can be found at many places, particularly in the US.

The sect-like tendencies of the 2012circus doomsday fanatics should not come as a surprise. The whole 2012circus is full of Christians and Creationists. Sweden’s own Saint Bridget (Birgitta) is related to the 2012 apocalypse. This is usually combined with Jewish/Christian numerology and gematria nonsense as well. December 21, 2012 can, according to some, be transformed into 666, the number of the beast (but if you use December 23 or the Orthodox calendar you will get another number…). This is yet another example of the ethnocentrism that permeates the circus. Worst of the bunch is the hardcore creationist David Jay Jordan who calls the Maya a bloodthirsty savage race (I guess he has seen Apocalypto, directed by yet another Christian). He argues that since the winter solstice 2012 occurs on 11:11 PM GMT, this is significant since number 11 is important according to God’s plan. Not only does he not consider the fact that people outside the US and UK writes this time as 23:11 which create another combination of numbers. He, along with other numerologists, ignores the fact that the Maya used a vigesimal number system based on 20 and that they only used three signs to represent numbers (shell for “zero”, a dot for one and a bar for five). One cannot simply transform one numerological system into another. Perhaps I do not even need to comment his emphasis of GMT time in the UK and that the lowest time period the Maya had was one day, they could not possibly calculate a solstice to the minute.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. I have not even discussed ideas developed by Pinchbeck, Arguelles, Tsarion and Wilcock. These people and others will be covered on this blog (as will a more in-depth critique of Jenkins). There are plenty of other topics related to the 2012circus (but not to the Maya) that will be discussed in the future three years.

In conclusion, the 2012 circus has only to do with our present. It has nothing to do with an ancient Maya prophecy since none exist. Extremely few contemporary Maya are involved in this and most of them understand that this has a US-Christian apocalyptic new age origin. However, some Maya elders have been seduced by non-Maya new agers who have found their worldview of interest. But these elders never mention December 21, 2012. Even if the talk about the end of days one should always keep in mind that the Maya area have been under Christian influence for over 450 years. As with many other phenomena, even their view of time has changed to a substantial degree.

The LC ceased to be used in the early 10^th century AD. Although one find LC dates in later codices these codices are Postclassic copies of older manuscripts. On monumental inscriptions we have no date after AD 909. During the Postclassic period the Maya used the Short Count, a 13 k’atun cycle called the may (which some Mayanists argue is the origin for the name Maya). However, 2012 has become important to the contemporary Maya as well. It has become important in the light of the 2012circus. The date is to be “reclaimed” from the 2012hoaxers who exercises a new colonialism of both the ancient and contemporary Maya. The calendar(s) have become important ethnic markers and it is in relation to this politicization that the Maya interest of the LC should be seen. Even Mel Gibson’s movie Apocalypto was more accurate than these prophecies of nonsense.

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Cib, in common Mayan usage, means owl. Its energy brings qualities of fearlessness, trust, grace, hearing one’s inner voice, and the capability to be a galactic conduit. Its symbol, like its glyph, is a golden ferryman’s staff.

Tone 4 holds the purpose and intent for measuring, defining, and bringing into form.

Yellow is the color of the South. Its element is earth. Its vehicle of expression is the body.

So, the message for today is:

Today’s cosmic energy is very supportive for making a big decision in your life and making heaven on earth. Cib supports you to hear your own inner voice as well as attune to cosmic conscious knowing. Tone 4 supports you to take action on the guidance you receive and bring it into form. So, trust yourself, listen, and take action.