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SEAM
6th June 2012, 14:27
From Source: http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/the-mayan-calendar-and-2012-why-should-we-care

Many people will be introduced to the existence of the Maya and their calendar through the attention generated by the 2012 date. You may be one of them. In fact, I hope you are, because this article is written for you. How can we even begin to understand the Mayan calendar and its 2012 date? What is it? What was it intended to represent? What did the ancient Maya believe would happen as 2012 draws close?

The loudest barkers in Carnival 2012, are likely to be the first ones heard. There’s the Pleiadian faction, there’s the crop circle theorists, there’s the alien invasion crowd, there’s the doomsday tribe, there’s the ascension light workers. People like many choices on the menu, right? Sure, but what about the real ding an sich, the thing-in-itself?

A person chooses from two ways, because free will is honoured. One can go the way of Seven Macaw, the vain ego-driven ruler who appears at the end of the cycle, or one can go the way of One Hunahpu, who sacrifices his false self and is reborn whole.

The galactic alignment is the key to understanding why the ancient Maya believed 2012 (or, to be more accurate, ‘the years around 2012’) would be so transformational.
Recognising that the sun itself is one-half of a degree wide, we arrive at a reasonable ‘alignment zone’ that stretches from 1980 to 2016. This is the ‘alignment zone’ of the galactic alignment.

The galactic alignment is often described as an alignment to the galactic centre, which it is, generally speaking. The Milky Way was the Great Mother, the galactic centre was her womb, and the dark rift was her birth canal. The December solstice sun was also very important, energetically, because that day signals the turnabout in the year, when increasing night shifts to increasing light. After the December solstice, the light begins to return as days grow longer. When THAT sun, the December solstice sun, shifts into alignment with the dark rift ‘birth canal’ of the Milky Way, the Maya believed the world would be reborn. It constituted a good location to place the end of a World Age, 13.0.0.0.0 in their calendar, and the beginning of the next Age. The cycle ending is ultimately about renewal.

The galactic alignment, so defined, happens only once every 26,000 years. This is the big news, why we should be astounded at what the ancient Maya achieved.

Progress in understanding the brilliance of the ancient Maya’s achievement is hindered by stereotypes and clichés propagated by an exploitative media, as recent Hollywood movies illustrate. They play into fear and deep-set biases, and newcomers should be on alert for attitudes and books that disrespect the authentic Mayan calendar tradition, the one that makes December 21, 2012 equal to 4 Ahau, 13.0.0.0.0.

Perhaps we should pay more attention to what the ancient Maya teachings actually say, rather than injecting modern assumptions and distortions into the 2012 discussion. There is no better place for accessing this Mayan wisdom than the Creation Mythology, otherwise known as the Popol Vuh or Hero Twin myth.
And here it is in a nutshell:

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/the-mayan-calendar-and-2012-why-should-we-care

WhiteFeather
6th June 2012, 14:50
I agree Seam. And most importantly we should also pay attention to ourselves. Nobody knows whats to come of 2012 and beyond. But as for myself i believe we are heading into some prospering and utmost evolving times just ahead. Becoming grounded and spiritually balanced with everything is a major role we must play. Great Post. Wanishi


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvHMe3F411E

sdv
6th June 2012, 20:11
The December solstice sun was also very important, energetically, because that day signals the turnabout in the year, when increasing night shifts to increasing light. After the December solstice, the light begins to return as days grow longer. When THAT sun, the December solstice sun, shifts into alignment with the dark rift ‘birth canal’ of the Milky Way, the Maya believed the world would be reborn. It constituted a good location to place the end of a World Age, 13.0.0.0.0 in their calendar, and the beginning of the next Age. The cycle ending is ultimately about renewal.

This is so in the Northern Hemisphere, but in the Southern Hemisphere it is the reverse (days grow shorter and nights longer from December solstice).

1. This is a Northern Hemisphere interpretation of a December date.
2. And a Northern Hemisphere assumption that there is no other perspective?
3. Did the Mayans not live in the Southern Hemisphere?

A Southern Hemisphere interpretation would then perhaps be that rebirth starts with death, and the 21 December dates mark the entry into death, so maybe, in human terms, what we are experiencing now is the critical illness/fatal disease and we are heading towards death, after which there will be a 6-month period of growing darkness ... and then we have birth (in short, the rebirth process includes death).

freespirit
6th June 2012, 21:50
aye up

Not posted here for a while, and still catching up with current affairs.What most jumped out at me in relation to the whole 12 21 2012 was the fact it coincided with the solar max
http://planetfacts.org/what-is-solar-maximum/
Our ancient for fathers watched the skys with as much vigour then as they do now.My dog is more interested in the ground, but we stare up in curious wonder !
Back in my youth me and my cousin pete watched a meteor streak across the sky and break up into 3/4 pieces, and truly it was awesome, but why were we even looking up ?..we where on our way to the pub ! It's instinctive, part of our behavior.
Something deep within our dna,soul,instinct what ever you wanna call it is calling us.The news channels where I live got all giddy because venus past in front of the sun..??:suspicious:

Well all things being relative, and expensive

WhiteFeather
9th June 2012, 12:15
A great perspective by Eden Sky on 2012. Seems to coorelate with the above video i posted prior, A Hopi Elder Speaks.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTH_GvKyGAg