Estimates say they have happened at least hundreds of times over the past three billion years. The early ‘symptoms’ of such a switch are changes in weather patterns and a steady weakening of the planet’s magnetic field- both of which seem to be happening now.īut historically, polar reversals are the rule, not the exception. There are also signs that the Earth’s magnetic poles are about to swap places. The end of this baktun coincides with rare alignments in our solar system, which will not recur for another 26,000 years. Some argue that the telltale signs of a world about to go under are already here. It is this Long Count that will end on 21 December 2012.īoth academics and self-proclaimed experts of numerous subjects have professed a wide range of theories of what could happen on 21 December from a sudden shift in the Earth’s magnetic poles, uplifting galactic beams and alien invasions, to the notion that all of human kind suddenly awakes to a greater level of consciousness and inner peace. Fourthly, there is the Long Count calendar, in which each period, or baktun, lasts for 5125 years. These two were combined in a third system, the calendar wheel. The tzolkín was a 260-day calendar for religious rituals, while the haab used a 365-day solar cycle, mainly for the planning of agricultural activities. They used four different systems for timekeeping that must have taken hundreds of years of astronomical observations to perfect. It boasted a complex system of hieroglyphic writing, and a deep understanding of astrology and mathematics, including the concept of zero. That the era of the soulless man is coming to an end.Ĭlassic Mayan civilization was a highly literate one. Not the total destruction predicated by fear-mongers, but the perceived possibility that rather than end, the world will immerse itself in a profound process of change and come out the other end as a better version of itself. It may not be uplifting for us Homo sapiens, but this is part of the lure of the ‘prophecy’. It will be the end for us, but a new beginning for the planet,” says Guadalupe. The source of her worry is her father’s interpretation of the legend: “My father says that the world is not about to go under, but that all human beings will disappear. Her parents were from an even smaller village inland, and even though her mother now dresses catrina-style, Yucatan-lingo for Mayan women who wear Western clothes rather than the traditional huipil, a light, white dress with colourfully embroidered flowers.īoth her parents speak Maya fluently and have been Guadalupe’s greatest, if not only, source of wisdom about como era antes (how things were before). A 32-year old woman of Mayan decent is from Chuburná, a small fishing village nuzzling the north coast of the Yucatán peninsula, facing the Gulf of Mexico. I’m scared, says Guadalupe Jiménez Aragón. I could swear I heard whispers in the wind.Ĭould the ancient Mayans really have known when our world would end? Much has been said about the 21 December 2012 date, but are we truly living in apocalyptic times? And what do the modern Mayans make of the rest of the world’s fascination with their calendar? Most Mayans appear largely unbothered by the international hysteria, but there are also those who are genuinely worried. From the top of the impressive stone structure, which was built in astonishingly precise synchrony with the sun, I marveled at the surrounding pancake-flat landscape covered by a never-ending rainforest canopy. I was in Uxmal, today a ruined city but once the spiritual centre for Mayans on the Yucatán peninsula in modern day Mexico. The first time I climbed the spine-chillingly steep and narrow steps of a Mayan pyramid, I was struck by the quiet dignity of the monuments left behind by a civilization whose collapse remains a mystery. Some claim that this will happen on 21 December this year. It poignantly describes the era of the soulless man as the beginning of the end. In the legends of the ancient Mayans, these were the signs that the last days of man were approaching, according to the book Jaajal T’aan (sacred revelations), in which professor Lázaro Hilario Tuz Chi presents an intriguing insight into the Mayan legends. “… and man forgot who had given him his power, he became arrogant, loved his money, loved material things, … and forgot his world, he forgot his forefathers and the memories of his grandparents, he forgot to give tribute to Mother Earth but poisoned her instead with his actions and his whims, he consumed her soul and made her sick, destroyed her spirit, turned on himself, man became his own enemy…” THE ERA OF THE SOULLESS MAN: WILL THE WORLD END ON 21/12/12?
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