The Island is Ready for The End of The World

Shaken, the last time, natural disasters and furious lethal accidents, the Chilean Juan Fernández archipelago, situated in the South Pacific, he quietly placed at the focus of global concern.

This time it’s for reasons associated with mystical unusual astronomical phenomena, including the movement of Venus, a total solar eclipse and an obscure Mayan prophecy that announces the end of time by December next year.

One of the few known points from which this event will be visible is precisely the Chilean archipelago.

In the Robinson Crusoe Island, the largest of the three that compose it, and the only inhabited on a regular basis, the wounds of the recent past have not healed: the tsunami that swept through her after the February 2010 earthquake and plane crash In early September this year, which killed 21 passengers, are still fresh in the local imagination.

But new energy shakes its shores and is already expected flood of tourists most of its history to 2012, following the interest that arose after the transmission of a program of The History Channel special on the island, entitled “The Island of Revelation “.

“A remote Pacific island, wrapped in mist, may hold the key left by the Maya and was lost for a thousand years, but was hidden in plain sight,” said the documentary, based on research by the American archaeologist 15 years Jim Turner, who tries to find the keys to the end of the Mayan calendar, set for December 21, 2012.

“The Maya did not view life the same way, but as a repeating cycle. It is a circle: everything has a beginning and an end. The Mayan obsession to time stopped at this date. We do not know why” explains the American mystic writer Mitch Horowitz.

A mysterious monolith

Turner’s theories are based on the fortuitous discovery of a Mayan monolith, 45 feet high in the El Yunque, in Robinson Crusoe, in 1995.

The monument remains shrouded by clouds and fog during most of the year and is visible only in summer.

Carved in volcanic rock, a snake show, supported by a crouching jaguar. Both are oriented toward the horizon that will show the total eclipse and its vicinity would be called the Holy Grail of modern archeology, the crypt of Kam Balam Mayan king, Pacal the Great son and reincarnation of all the gods, whose whereabouts has been searched tirelessly for centuries.

The archaeologist confirmed his thesis with the Dresden codex, preserved in the Landesbibliothek German-Saxon, which was seized by Hernán Cortés to the Maya, and is recognized today as one of the keys to unlocking the mysteries of American civilization.

What does a Mayan monolith on an island in the South Pacific? As in any mystery worthy of the name, the questions exceed the answers.

“I think the monument was erected to the gods and kings could come back to witness the end of time. The tomb of Kam Balam-which translates as snake-jaguar, facing the sun, should be discovered next year for him is the principal witness for the death of the classical era, “Turner adventure.

Insidious, then began to multiply on the island called to book accommodation for next year and secure tickets for the expected displacement of Venus, beginning 40 days before the date of the eclipse, and the precise time when the solar disk is completely covered.

Fascination and souvenirs

 The main stakeholders are American and European tourists, fascinated by the question which is the island.

In the village of San Juan Bautista and souvenirs are sold, such as vases and T-shirts with references to the Mayan prophecy. They have also begun to run out the few places available for accommodation during next year.

“It will be a period of disasters and major events,” he told La Nacion the mayor of the archipelago, Leopoldo González. “We will be an exception. Since we are working to expand the hotel capacity, reduced to less than one hundred beds after the tsunami. We hope to reach the 500 seats for next year, including hotels and houses of the fishermen themselves,” the hopeful mayor.

It’s not all. Gonzalez will also meet on Wednesday at the La Moneda presidential palace with President Sebastián Piñera to remind the government’s promises made in September after the accident: basically, a memorial to the deceased and the improvement of poor airport.

In the coming months should be ready within a path connecting the runway with the people-now that section must be made by sea, and lighting it.

The scenario

Tsunami. On February 27, 2010, the tsunami left 5 dead and destruction across the archipelago.

Tragedy. In September, a plane crashed with 21 passengers who tried to land in Robinson Crusoe: they all died.