21 December, 2012

For the great civilizations of the past, it will be the end of the world.
Why is this date referred to as the end of the world?
Let’s try to analyze the indications which the great civilization have left us, and let’s start with the Maya prophecies.

According to the Mayas there have been five cosmic Ages, and each of them corresponded to one civilization.

Water, Air, Fire, Earth and the last, current one, the Golden Age, which is expected to end, according to the Maya Calendar, in 2012.
Two Maya books handed down to us the origins, the myths and the history of this civilization.

The first was the Popol Vuh, ( book of community or council), a holy book collecting the genesis, the mythology and the ancient history of Guatemala Quichè Mayas, and also their contacts with the culture of Olmecs, Toltecs and Yucatan Mayas.
The other one is Chilam Balam, a collection of Yucatan Maya chronicles containing religious, chronological and prophetic texts.

Chilam Balam (he, who is the mouth) was also the title given to the priests of Manì, who used to interpreted divine will.

In Popol Vuh, according to some researchers, Atlantis was the Age of Water, and its end is described this way:
”A Flood was unleashed by the Heart of Heaven… a heavy resin fell down from the sky… the Earth’s face darkened and the rain fell upon it night and day.”
The knowledge of Maya calendar is essential: it is probably the apex of a certain kind of culture developed in the 1st century B.C., between 50 and 100. According to the experts it has not been created by the Mayas, but by the Toltecs, a population coming from the north, even if their place of origin is undetermined. Maya calendar consisted of nine basic elements:
Kin, the day: every day had its own name, thus there were different  Kins
Uinal, the months:  all the months were 20 days long, except one, to which 5 days used to be added to reach a total number of 365 days.

The addition of a day to a month every four years, as we do, did not exist, as well as leap did not: every year had a month with five more days, and the total number was always 365 days.
Tun: it is equivalent to a 365 days year.
Katun: it is equivalent to 20 years, that is, 20 Tuns; Baktun, Karaktun and Kinciltun: they constantly multiplied by 20, until reaching the Autun.
In such a precise calendar, made by priests who were also astronomers, philosophers and scientists, a solar eclipse was expected on 11 August 1999: this happened just 33 seconds later than the time that the Mayas had forecast around 3,000 B.C.
According to researchers Maurice Cotterell and Adrian Gilbert, the cataclysms which sealed the end of Maya Ages were provoked by a turn of the earth’s magnetic field due to a shifting of the planet’s axis.
In fact, earth is periodically subject to a variation in the axis inclination compared to the solar system orb. This would provoke the apocalyptic scenarios described by the historian Immanuel Velikvosky in his book “Earth in Upheaval”.

 "...An earthquake would shake the whole globe.
Air and water would continuously move from inertia, Earth would be swept by hurricanes and seas would cover the continents… The temperature would become torrid and rocks would get liquefied, volcanoes would erupt and lava would flow through the fractures of the rifted earth, covering vast zones.  Mountains would sprout like mushrooms from plains, and would keep on rising overlapping the slopes of other mountains, provoking huge rifts and faults.
Lakes would incline and dry up, rivers would change their way, great land stretches and all their inhabitants would be submerged by water. Forests would be devoured by flames and impetuous hurricanes and winds would pull them up from soil… The waterless sea would turn into a desert. And if, together with the inclination of the axis, the rotation speed also varied, the waters of equatorial oceans would recede towards the Poles and high tides and hurricanes would sweep the earth from pole to pole”.
Velikovsky, beyond following Maya legends, scientifically displays the prophecies of monk Basilio Cotterell: on the basis of his research about the activity of sunspots and Maya calendar, he inferred that the prophecy concerning the fifth Age is the result of a calculation of the next turn of the earth’s magnetic field, expected in 2012. Some American researchers claim that the Maya civilization was destroyed by natural calamities such as a sudden increase of the earth’s temperature. And according to them, such phenomena are cyclic.

Also according to the Mayas, great astronomers, such events are expected to happen in 2012.