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A PLAIN AND ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE
DECEMBER 21, 2012 PHENOMENA
By Thomas D. Gazis
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A PLAIN AND ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE
DECEMBER 21, 2012 PHENOMENA
By Thomas D. Gazis
(Copyright: Thomas D. Gazis)
You will be surprised to know that you and I (and everybody
actually) have somehow co-created the 2012 hype! We are somehowresponsible for it (albeit on an unconscious level). Thats something that I
will explain you later on. The burning issue now is the daunting date
that lies ahead of us (December 21st
, 2012), a date that each new day is
bringing us excruciatingly closer to it!
For the last two - three years we have been bombarded by a whole
literature of signs and wonders that supposedly are going to manifest on
the December 21st (or 23rd according to some other scholars)
apocalyptic date. We are told we will witness amazing planetary and
galactic alignments, colossal earthquakes will tear apart the Earth, an
entire planet will fall upon our heads, the Poles will be reversed, we
humans will evaporate, become beams of light, pass over to other
dimensions, you name it! Can we stand aside for a while and make some
sense out of all this frenzy?
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I will never forget the summer of 2003 when people from my
neighborhood - who knew that I was into astronomy - were coming over
to tell me how much concerned they were, because somebody had told
them that planet Mars was about to come so close to Earth that it wouldultimately appear on the sky as big as the Full Moon! I patiently explained
to them that this wasn't the case and they relieved, turned back home. I
was puzzled though. How could the people of the 21st
century believe in
such things? I realized then that some kind of primal, collective "sky -
phobia" resides in the people's souls. People become very susceptible
when they face larger than life issues they don't know much about, like
i.e. any mysterious (and thus potentially threatening) event taking place inthe sky, literally above their heads. Furthermore, in that summer I realized
that the popular beliefs, the rumors and the hearsay can dramatically
alter the shape of reality in peoples minds!
But what do we actually know about the December 21st
, 2012
"apocalypse"? Supposedly our world is going to end then. The crucialquestion though is how? Not to mention, why? Is there a good reason for
this to happen? Is there something wrong i.e. with the Earth? Is it about
to crack and break up in peaces? The answer is negative, as far as we
know. Still very many people believe that our world is going to end on
December 21st, 2012 because the Maya foretold it. But in reality these
amazing people never explicitly mentioned the definite and irrevocable
end of the word in 2012! In any case, our cultural background is sodifferent that we cannot truly comprehend what the Maya were referring
to when they were writing about the end of this world. There might be
some cultural misconception interfering and ultimately distorting this
end concept!
You see cultural misconceptions make it hard sometimes for people
of different ethnic, societal or other backgrounds to communicate. To give
you an example, there is a misconception produced to the English
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speaking people by the Greek surname Blessas. If a Greek would come
over to you shouting Blessas - Blessas (meaning he is urgently looking
for a man called Blessas) all you would be hearing is Bless us!, Bless
us!. It would make no sense to you
To the Maya the concept of time was "cyclic" - and not "linear" like
ours. To understand the "circularity" of the Mayan time I will give you an
example drawn from the European builders of the Middle Ages. In the
Middle Ages people were building tall buildings too (cathedrals, for
example) and thus they needed some kind of crane to raise up the bricks
etc. But as there were no engines back then their solution was to put into
a large wooden wheel one or two men who were constantly walking to
the same direction. In this way the men were turning the wheel
(somehow like the hamsters), the wheel was turning the pulley of the
crane and thus the bricks were raised (see the image below).
Think now of such a wheel free standing on a road. Put a man in it,mark with some paint the point where the man stands and then tell him
to start walking towards a direction. The wheel will start moving, it will
cover a certain distance and as it will be about to complete a full cycle the
walking man will see the mark of the starting point coming again under
his feet. As soon as the mark reaches its feet the man should "brake" the
wheel and immobilize it. At that specific point the time of this specific
wheel would be over. But time in general would not be over of course!
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To continue the metaphor, at this point the man should exit the
previous wheel, get into a new one (that should be standing exactly
where the previous wheel was immobilized) and start walking again
towards the same direction. Something analogous will happen onDecember 21st. The biggest "wheel" of the Maya (the so-called "Long
Count" calendar) will complete a full cycle and it will be over. But this
does not mean that time will be over too. It rather means that on
December 21st
we must exit the old wheel and get into a new one! And
this whole procedure might turn to be utterly unique!
So, to the Mayan perception the nature of time is "cyclic". It
advances in a cyclic manner producing distinct "cyclic seasons - wheels".
These cyclic seasons cover the distance corresponding to one full cycle
of theirs and at that stage they are considered over. Not before though
passing the torch onto a new cyclic season. Every major "cyclic
season" contains within it a series of smaller "cyclic seasons" (like the
Russian "Matryoshka" dolls who contain each other - and the larger one is
containing all the rest).
In comparison to the Maya, our "linear" conception of time implies
that things are never repeated the same and that time is "running"
constantly forward, while the events proceed in a rather casual and
unpredictable manner. To a linear civilization like ours any kind of end
of a certain times means THE END OF ALL TIMES (like in a stretched chain,
when any single link breaks the entire chain collapses).
This chain breaking concept though does not apply to a cyclic
civilization (there is no end to a cycle. And even if we assigned to a cycle
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an end point automatically that would be the starting point for a new
cycle). What we are rather dealing here is the completion of a major cycle
and the completion of any cycle was to the Maya an event of extreme
importance. We know for example that they were performing specialrituals at the completion of their 52 years cycle - like putting out any lit
fire and noisily breaking up their pottery in order to propitiously transit
through the critical stage and step into the new 52 years cyclic period (a
period which is called the Calendar Round)! But if they were performing
such rituals at the completion of a relatively minor calendric cycle of
theirs think of the rituals they would perform at the completion of their
major cyclic period (the 5125 years period of the Long Count). Actually,it would be quite interesting to follow the December 21st rituals of the
approx. 5.000.000 Maya descendants living today in the Yucatan
peninsula.
Personally, the more I get to know the Mayan spirit the more I
understand that to them, the end of their current Long Count calendar
does not automatically imply the ending of the world and the
extermination of the human race. It rather talks of a major transition, of
a HUGE one though - no doubt! And beyond this end to the Mayan
perception there is the opening of a new revigorating cycle, where
everything somehow will start anew! Under this point of view, the year
2012 should be considered a joyful one and not ominous and grim.
The astonishing Mayan Calendar!
The Maya were unique in measuring with almost absolute precision
very long time periods (entire millennia i.e.). This is an impossible task to
do, unless you possess the knowledge that a year equals to - exactly -
365.24219879 days. This "sacred" knowledge actually eluded all the
ancient civilizations and we humans acquired it only recently. The ancient
Greeks and Romans failed miserably in measuring with precision long time
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Speaking of years, this fascinating people were not very fond of
them! They preferred to express the long time periods in daysand not in
years (this is one of the secrets that made them so capable in counting
long time periods with such an astonishing precision)! Thus, the Mayawould say a Baktun is 144.000 days long (instead of 394.26 years). To
them 13 Baktuns equal 1.872.000 days (instead of 5125.37 years)!
The Mayan calendar is composed of five different time blocks,
five predetermined amounts of days.
1) the Baktun (144.000 days or 400 years approx.)2) the Katun (7200 days or 20 years approx.)3) the Tun (360 days or 1 year approx.)4) the Winal (20 days)5) the Kin (1 day)
With these five time blocks the Maya could define any date in
their Long Count calendar with a staggering precision! They had a
unique way of writing the dates which reminds us of the so called IP
Internet addresses. See for example this Maya style date: 11.13.12.4.13
It might seem all Greek to you but this is actually the date when
Columbus discovered America (October 12th
, 1492). This Mayan date is
actually telling us how many time blocks have passed from the Base
Date of the Mayan Long Count calendar until the discovery of America:
11 Baktuns, 13 Katuns, 12 Tuns, 4 Winals and 13 Kins. If we add the
corresponding days of these time blocks they amount to exactly
1.682.013days.3
Once we begin to understand the cosmology of the Maya and the
structure of their calendar, the 2012 doomsday acquires a whole new
meaning to us. Actually the date 21 December 2012 is written in Mayan
style as 13.0.0.0.0 (meaning 13 Baktuns, zero Katuns, zero Tuns, zero
Winals, zero Kins - or to simplify it 13 Baktuns after the date 11 August
3114 BCE, which amounts to 1.872.000 days). The 21st
day of December
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2012 can also be written as 0.0.0.0.0 (the last day of the current calendar
is identical to the zero day of the next one). The first day of the
imminent new Long Count calendar will be the 0.0.0.0.1 - corresponding
to our December 22
nd
, 2012! So when we look at the infamousdoomsday through the perspective of the Mayan calendar we realize
that this date does not truly represent an irrevocable end. It rather
reminds us of an odometer, which at some point reaches its limit, it is
zeroed and then it starts counting again from the very beginning.
We dont truly know why the Maya chose the date August 11th,
3114 BCE as the "beginning" of their current "Era". According to their
mythology, on that specific date their First Father erected the World
Tree (the so called Tree of Life that we encounter in the cosmologies of
many ancient civilizations. The Mayan World Tree constitutes the spine
cord of our three worlds: underworld - earthy world - celestial world).
Additionally, the first day of their calendar they identify with the Birth of
Venus (this event might have to do with the celestial phenomena I
explain in page 8). We know that the days around the mid of August are
signaling the culmination of the seasonal rains in that region (pretty much
as mid July - or some other period, according to the era - was signaling
in Egypt the imminent flooding of the Nile). It seems that there is some
reasoning behind the election of this date. But they might have chosen it
arbitrarily too.
Some other ancient civilizations like the Byzantines indeed chose
rather arbitrarily the date of the creation of the World (September 1st,5.509 BCE.), on which they based their (linear) calendar. A Byzantine
scholar i.e. would write our year 2012 CE as: 7521 ACW - meaning "7521
years After the Creation of the World". The Egyptians on the other hand -
a people presenting striking similarities to the Maya - were considering as
the landmark of their calendar the date July 28th
, 2767 BCE.
That specific date is so important that the famous Egyptian Eternity
Horoscope has been erected upon it. And rightfully so, because on that
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date some very spectacular astronomical - astrological phenomena
occurred:
1) The heliacal rising of the star Sirius - a very bright and
important to most civilizations star.
2) Planet Venus arose contemporaneously with the - heliacally rising
- Sirius (a once in 243 years event).
3) A clustering of the seven known in the ancient times planets
occurred in a small band of the sky - with the planets Mars, Jupiter and
Saturn forming among them a tight conjunction! You can see this unique
planetary configuration in the image below (taken from the astronomical
program Stellarium).
The rare and quite extraordinary astronomical - astrologicalphenomena that occurred on the dawn of July 28
th2767 BCE definitely
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make this particular date eligible as a point of reference for a calendar, an
Era etc. Just by giving a glimpse to the sky of that date you can
immediately tell that there is something very special going on. This is not
the case though with the Mayan Base Date (you can see the relativeimage in the next page). If we apply to it the same criteria we do not get
similar extraordinary configurations. To the casual viewer the image
below - depicting the dawn of August 11th
, 3114 BCE - looks somehow
interesting because of the presence of the planets Venus and Mercury.
But to an expert thats a rather empty sky (Venus and Mercury rising
before the Sun do not constitute - on their own - a very extraordinary
event):
Probably the Maya arbitrarily chose this date (especially the year).
Otherwise it makes no sense the fact that back in 3114 BCE the ancestors
of the Maya had developed such an advanced civilization by which they
could define and deliver to the future generations the "Base Date" of their
almost flawless Long Count calendar! It couldn't have been so, unless
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their ancestors took the Long Count calendar directly from some extra-
terrestrials or some Atlantis survivors!
If no extra-terrestrial intervened then this "Base Date" is probably
an arbitrary one (especially the year 3114 BCE). It is not signaling any
major astronomical, geophysical or societal event and it simply carries
some religious or mythological significance. Of course you might object
that the year 3114 BCE seems conspicuously close to a pivotal historic
period, where systematic agriculture and the first permanent villages
appeared in Mesoamerica. But actually these advancements took place
gradually and not particularly in the year 3114 BCE. Nor we have evidence
of some major event (a falling meteorite, a mega earthquake or a super
volcano explosion) occurring in the year 3114 BCE in Mesoamerica!
What we ultimately keep in mind is the fact that to the Mayan
cosmological perception the date August 11th
, 3114 BCE is very important,
so important that they based their entire "Long Count" calendar on it,
they set off a whole New Age from that date on!
An amazing, whole new discovery!
We are a little bit disappointed by the fact that the Base Date of the
Mayan calendar seems casual and apparently is not connected to any
major geophysical, political or astronomical event. On the other hand, this
fact turns to be somehow comforting to us. A basic axiom of the Maya
cosmology professes that similar things occur during the first and last day
of any cyclic calendar. Thus, if nothing serious happened on the Base
Date of the Maya calendar then nothing serious will happen on its End
Date (December 21st
, 2012).
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The date August 11th, 3.114 BCE looks rather insignificant if we
examine it under our modern astrological perspective. Things might
change radically though if we apply to it the proper astrology, the Mayan
one. No need to panic here! The Mayan astrology is far less complicatedthan the modern western one and it relies a lot onto the plain visible
observation. What you see is what you interpret!
The most important factor in Mayan astrology is planet Venus, the
brighter star on the sky, which we can see either early in the morning or in
the evening - depending on Venus' orbit. The morning Venus was
considered unpropitious to the Maya - it was related to death, destruction
and war. On the other hand, the evening Venus was considered
propitious and it was believed to exert a very positive influence on love
affairs, on fecundation issues etc. The morning Venus - although
harmful in general - was considered desirable on the so called transition
periods, on those occasions that is where a new process should be
dynamically started (as a New Era, a new dynasty ascending to the throne
etc.).
With this in mind, it definitely comes as a surprise to us the fact that
on August 11th, 3.114 BCE Venus was the first (out of the triad Sun,
Mercury, Venus) to arise on the sky! On the very base date of the
miraculous Long Count calendar the holly to the Mayan people Venus
arose as a morning star - just before Mercury and the Sun. There is
indeed a sort of Venus Birth here, which is somehow attuning this
specific date to the Mayan mythology and cosmology. In the chart belowyou can Venus (in blue) rising in the east as the morning star. Venus is
followed by Mercury (in yellow) and the Sun (in red).
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But things get far more exciting if we take a look as well at the
morning sky of the End Date, December 21st
, 2012. To our
astonishment, the very same sequence of planets is repeated! Venus (in
blue) is again a morning star, rising before Mercury (in yellow) and the
Sun (in red)! Exactly as the Maya cosmology postulates the "End Date" of
the current Long Count Mayan calendar is IDENTICAL to its "Base Date"!
That's an EXTRAORDINARY fact! You might say this is just a coincidence. It
would be then A RARE COINCIDENCE! It is rare for the "personal" planetsto appear in the very same sequence (Venus - Mercury - Sun) on the
morning sky of two casually selected dates. And what if these two dates
happen to be the very "milestones", the "Base" and the "End" date of the
Mayan Calendar? According to the Mayan Cosmology, the so called
inner planets were supposed to form such a kind of configuration on
these two calendric milestones of theirs. And here they are, indeed they
are forming it!
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The Mayan "coincidences" do not end here though! If we display the
whole array of the seven known to the ancients planets for the "Base
Date" of the Long Count calendar then we get the chart you see below:
If we ignore for the moment the inner "planets" (Venus, Mercury,
Sun) and we focus on the remaining ones we see that they are displayed
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in this sequence: Saturn (brown color), Mars (red color), Moon (green
color) and Jupiter (blue color). Please keep in mind this sequence and
remember as well that in this chart Saturn and Mars are on the left side
("oriental"), while Moon and Jupiter are on its right side ("occidental").
Let us see now the full array of the "ancient" planets for the "End
Date" of the Mayan calendar, as they are depicted in the chart below:
Again, if we momentarily ignore the inner "planets" we notice the
remaining ones are distributed in the very same sequence (Saturn, Mars,
Moon and Jupiter) as in the "Base Date" chart! In addition, Saturn andMars are "oriental" and the Moon and Jupiter "occidental" - exactly as
they were in the previous chart! And there is still more! Apart from the
sequence, the distances too of the specific four planets are almost
proportional! It is as if we took the Saturn-Mars-Moon-Jupiter sequence
in the "Base Date" chart and we "slipped" it upwards and on the left until
we formed the "Doomsday" chart! Not to mention the fact that planet
Jupiter is in both charts retrograde (and retrogradation was important to
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the Maya astrologers). All these "coincidences" are extremely rare and
correspond to one probability out of thousands!
There is no doubt that the "doomsday" chart is almost IDENTICAL to
the "Base Date" chart of the Mayan calendar! Oddly enough, our entire
Solar System seems to obey the Mayan rule that goes: "the first and the
last day of the "Long Count" calendar are somehow identical"! How can it
be? The planetary distribution is not exactly identical, but this might have
its own intrinsic meaning too. There might be a particular significance i.e.
to the "slipping" procedure we described above. Who knows if there is a
deeper "Mayan" meaning in the configuration of those 3 inner planets
"intercepted" between Saturn and Mars in the "Doomsday's" chart? In
any case, it is as if the Maya deliberately chose these two particular dates
as milestones for their unique and AMAZING Long Count calendar! They
managed to determine two enormously distant dates which are almost
identical astronomically and which are exactly 13 Baktuns apart! That's a
deed of a VERY ADVANCED civilization!
Is there a deeper meaning in the December 21st
, 2012
doomsday?
In reality, the Maya never prophesized the end of our Earth but just
the end of the current Era! How could a people of Central America haveknown thousands of years ago when our world is going to end? Who
provided them this ultra-hermetic high knowledge?
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Thomas Gazis is an international speaker, Astrologer and writer. He has
collaborated with major magazines like American Astrology and Horoscope Guide. Herecently lectured at theBreaking Down the Borders online mega-conference on TheAmazing similarities and discrepancies between the Babylonian and the Mayan Venus. Youmay contact him at: [email protected] His blog: science-astrology.blogspot.com
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(The original Deluge illustration in the Dresden codex)