Excellent read...
The Maya Calendar 13th Baktun ending on 21-12-2012 as well as global conspiracies, a possible consciousness shift and prophesy of a doomsday around 2012 are now all popular discussions. If you have not yet encountered much the 2012 information related to strange aspects of this particular year this should serve as an introduction.
With films like Roland Emmerich’s '2012' having already assailed the public consciousness pretty soon everybody will have heard of this subject. Though I expect little of such movie adaptations from the body of available 2012 research material, they will reach far more people than the books and sites of actual 2012 researchers. Hopefully some will find the subject via such a route but stay to learn something more about the world in which they reside. Indeed there is much to learn about the forming new world civilisation, current state of the planet, ancient human wisdom and ways to progress the species forward.
This introduction to the subject will have to be necessarily brief in scope, as there is simply far too much for any one person to convey or for that matter absorb, in any single sitting. The basis of the interest in the year 2012 is in the closing of a great cycle within the Mayan calendar system. The ancient Mayan people of Central America kept the most complex calendar system in the known world. In all they had some 20 different calendars running in unison. The best way to visualise this is as a number of interlocking cogs of various sizes grinding against each other; thus days each had a number of component parts. Of course we have an element of these process ourselves within our simpler Gregorian calendar, seven named days and up to 31 numbers each meshing with 12 named months as the years pass.
Each Maya calendar related information on schedules for tasks or events such as seed planting, religious rites, eclipse’s, mystical predictions and other happenings seen as cyclical in nature. The calendar that most concerns us here is the 13-Baktun or ‘Long Count' system, which runs for just over 5125 years. The counting system was started and set to end by the originators long, long ago. Who exactly set this calendar turning is not known, possibly the Olmec but it was refined by the Maya who stated it began on 11-08-3114 BCE and that it is set to complete a great turning on the winter solstice of 2012 which occurs on that day at 11:11 UT.
further reading
http://2012rising.com/2012
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