2012 Mayan calendar

The interest in the 2012 Mayan calendar and the 2012 phenomena is in the closing of a great cycle within the Mayan calendar system. The 2012 Maya calendar is a system of distinct calendars and almanacs used by the Maya civilization of Central America.

The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Preclassic period (c. 2000 BC to 250 AD), many Maya cities reached their highest state development during the Classic period (c. 250 AD to 900 AD), and continued throughout the Postclassic period until the arrival of the Spanish. At its peak, it was one of the most densely populated and culturally dynamic societies in the world. source: Wikipedia

The Mayans were obsessed with time and they were avid stargazers. They had a very precise understanding of our solar system's cycles.

The Mayans discovered that the entire solar system moved. That even our mysterious universe has its own cycles -repetitive periods which begin and end like our day and night. These discoveries lead to the understanding that our solar system rotates on an ellipse that brings our solar system closer and further from the center of the galaxy.

Just like the moon is spinning around the earth and the earth is spinning around the sun - so too is our solar system (sun,moon, earth and the other planets) spinning around the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

It takes app 225-250 million years for our solar system to make one complete cycle on this ellipse.( The Milkyway is about 100 000 light years across).

Also, the earth is slowly wobbling much like a spinning top that is not standing straight up. This is referred to as Precession of the Equinoxes.. It takes about 26,000 years (25,625 years) ) for the axis to make one circle and this long cycle has several names. One of them is "the great year".

The Mayans, Sumerians, Tibetans, Egyptians, Cherokees, and the Hopi all refer to this 26,000 year cycle in their mystical belief systems and each have developed calendars based on this great cycle.

The ancient Maya understood this 26,000 year cycle to be specifically composed of 5 lesser cycles, each 5,125 years each.

In his book, Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, John Major Jenkins shows that the Mayan Great Cycle is the fifth and final cycle in the 26,000 year Precession of the Equinoxes.

Each of these 5 cycles was considered its own World Age or Creation Cycle. As depicted on the familiar, circular MesoAmerican Sun Stone, (often called the Aztec Calendar) each Creation Cycle is said to have been ruled and destroyed by one of 5 elements. Specifically, 4 Jaguar, 4 Wind, 4 Rain, 4 Water.

Our present great cycle is called the Age of the Fifth Sun. This time period is ruled by 4 Earth.

4 Earth has several meanings, including: movement, shift, evolution, earthquake, navigation, synchronicity, clue tracking, turtle.

Within the 5,125 year cycle lies 13 smaller cycles, known as the "13 Baktun Count," or the "Long count." Each baktun cycle is 394 years long, or 144,000 days. Each baktun was its own historical epoch or Age within the Great Creation Cycle, carrying a specific destiny for the evolution of those who incarnated in each baktun.

We (earth and everyone on earth) are currently travelling through the 13th baktun cycle - the final period of 1618-2012 AD. This cycle is known both as "the triumph of materialism" and "the transformation of matter."

The Mayans predicted this final baktun would be a time of great forgetting in which we drift very far from our sense of Oneness with Nature and experience a kind of collective amnesia. Like a memory virus in which we begin to believe the limited reality of appearances and grow dense to the spiritual essence which fuels this world, so humanity's sense of ego and domination has grown.

From this understanding of the solar system the Mayans made the 2012 Mayan calendar.

This is a complex system of multiple calendars used in conjunction as explained in this video:

The Long Count

In the 2012 Mayan calendar there is a system called The Long Count system which runs for just over 5125 years. It is based upon the number of elapsed days since a mythological starting-point.

No-one knows who exactly set this 2012 Mayan calendar turning, but its starting-point is equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar and is set to complete on December 21st 2012.

So, the 2012 Mayan calendar began with the Fifth Great Cycle in 3114 B.C and will end on 21 December 2012 AD.

The Mayans believed that the universal processes move in cycles that never change. However what is changing is the consciousness of man who passes through the cycles - always striving to be more complete. This is the same as the Hindu scriptures are saying: Earth and mankind goes through these cycles as a whole.

The Mayans said that when the sun synchronized with the central galaxy it would cause the Sun to shine more intensely producing 'solar flares' as well as changes in the magnetic field of the Sun.

Mayans say that this happens every 5,125 years and as a result the Sun«s polarity will change and it would produce a great cosmic event. This event would again play a significant part in getting mankind ready for the cross-over to a new era, The Golden Age. Similarly The Hindu scriptures also talk about different eras and the era of The Golden Age.

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