Don’t Forget: The End of the World is in Four Years

Mayan sculpture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maya-Maske.jpg

There is something to be said for legend and predictions. In ancient Rome there was the “Prophecy of the Twelve Eagles”, which said that Rome would last for twelve centuries. How long did Rome last – roughly 1200 years, give or take a decade or two.

The winter solstice is on 21, December 2012, on that date, at 11:12am GMT, the earth, sun and central black hole of the Milky Way are said to align. It is also when the world is supposed to end according to the Mayan calendar and concept of time and New Age believers. The earth’s 25, 625 yr orbit in the Milky Way is divided by 5 ages of 5,125, which according to some started in 3114 B.C. and the time of the Great Flood after which civilisation was reborn, so to speak. During that time some people believe we have been through four seasons and are currently in the last – winter, the time of environmental and human abuse and destruction. If one looks at Mesoamerican, Hopi and Ojibwa legend – we could be in for it.

Back to the Mayans and the Aztecs and their cyclical calendars and the prophecy of “The Dark Nines”. In Mayan creation stories there were between one to five civilisations previous to ours that were created by the gods and destroyed by flood, fire and wind. Mesoamerican calendars (both Mayan and Aztec) were based on a 260-day year and were independent of the solar year; they utilise a complex system of mathematics that would take far too long to explain. The Mayan year was 260 days, in this cycle of fives. Not only did they have a cycle of 5 x 5,125, they also had a cycle of 51.25 years. The Aztec calendar worked on our 365-day schedule, the xuipohualli, plus a 260-day ritual routine, the tonalpohualli, which somehow combined to make the 52-year cycle. The prophecy revolves around the return of the light-haired Aztec god Quetzacoatl through a hole in the sky and the reclamation of his North American Kingdom. In November 1519, right on cue for that period of the cycle, Cortéz landed and promptly took control of part of México, as they believed he was the god (I’ve always suspected he was aware of the prophecies, having been informed of by spies, and took advantage.). This happened at the end of one of their 461-year cycles and brought about a period of darkness lasting, according to some, 461 years – roughly 1981 when many of the Residential Schools in North America were closed. The final date of the 5, 125 year cycle has been calculated as 4 years from now. The calendar stops then and there. There is no future. Or is there? Some writers feel that the end of this 5,125-year cycle involves the meeting of the First Father, the solstice sun, with the First Mother, a rift in the Milky Way and that this will result in a rebirth of sorts.