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ancient calendars forecasting a deadly countdown

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the Maya have this opinion that what's happened in the past will happen again

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a galactic alignment triggering a wave of natural disasters

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it's like having a whole bunch of massive earthquakes at the same time

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could our planet really be headed for extinction

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these changes could be life changing or they could be life-ending

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or is there another agenda one even more profound

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each age for the Maya was clearly defined and it was defined by the gods returning

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millions of people around the world believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings

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what if it were true did ancient aliens really help to shape our history

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and if so might evidence of alien contact help to unlock the mystery behind the Maya prophecies of doom

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for over 2,000 years rain drenched jungles and fertile plains served as the home of one of the ancient world's greatest civilizations

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the Maya

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scholars estimate that between 250 and 900 AD the Maya population consisted of between 15 to 20 million people

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and extended as far south as Costa Rica and Guatemala

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archaeological evidence suggests the Maya were one of the first ancient people to develop a written language

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use modern mathematical methods and build massive multi-story celestial observatories

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all at a time when Europeans were struggling through the so-called Dark Ages

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the Maya are considered one of the great advanced civilizations with hyper-advanced astronomy, astrology, trigonometry, architecture

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all of these things while the Europeans were at the time rolling around in the mud

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but perhaps the most amazing Mayan achievement was their system of charting the stars and planets in the form of a calendar

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the Mayans were timekeepers above and beyond all other things

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keeping up with time was magic it was power to the Mayans

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they were tracking in particular Venus, phases of the moon, eclipses

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but they also tracked precession which is an extraordinarily long cycle

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what it means is that every year on say March 15th the Pleiades rise for the first time in the sky

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if you wait 72 years the day of the rising of the Pleiades will be one day earlier

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if you wait another 72 years it will be a day earlier still

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and if you wait 26,000 years the Pleiades will move back to that same day

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according to scholars the Maya believed that time like the stars moved in repeating patterns called calendar cycles

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and that these cycles could be used to predict future events

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one of these calendar cycles the Mayan long count lasts for 5,125 years

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and will end on December 21st 2012

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but why?

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why did the Maya choose this date?

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and what did they believe would happen to our world?

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perhaps a clue can be found in an astronomical phenomenon located at the center of the Milky Way galaxy

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an area where there are no stars

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the Mayans knew not only did they know where the center of the galaxy was

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but they understood that it was a light year across black hole that they called the Great Rift

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the Maya believed this was the birth canal of the universe

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and that all things came from the birth canal of the universe

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and on December 21st 2012 the earth, the sun and this birth canal the dark rift are all in perfect alignment

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and this only happens every 26,000 years

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could the fact that the Maya long count calendar ends on the same day as this rare alignment in the Milky Way galaxy

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be a mere coincidence

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and did this advanced understanding of celestial cycles really come from ancient Mayan astronomers

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observing the stars with only their naked eyes

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the Mayans believed that this knowledge came to them from their gods and their gods then existed in the stars

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so is it possible that these gods could have been extraterrestrials?

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the answer to that question is yes it's possible

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according to the Maya themselves this knowledge was not something that they came up with

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but it was given to them as a gift from the gods

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the gift back then was not material stuff it was knowledge

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knowledge is the currency of the universe

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but even if the information pertaining to the long count calendar comes from an otherworldly or extraterrestrial source

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why 2012?

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what is it about this date that has a special significance?

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researchers believe a clue may recently have been found among the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Tortugero

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one that was pieced together from broken fragments of a panel of hieroglyphs known as monument number six

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in my opinion the one and only clear reference to the date in the long count that arrives in 2012 is on Tortugero monument 6

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basically the inscription in Tortugero was half destroyed

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and everybody assumed that what it was saying was that the nine gods would return on December 21st 2012

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but because there was some destruction on that inscription certain things were implied

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for years scholars dismissed the evidence found at the Tortugero monument as a solitary anomaly without any special significance

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but on November 24th 2011 the Mexican National Institute of Archaeology and History revealed to the world the existence of a second artifact

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a sun-dried mud brick that was discovered at the ancient Mayan city of Comalcalco

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with an inscription many believe refers to an exact date December 21st 2012

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it's one of thousands of mud bricks that we found at Comalcalco

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a very few of them have hieroglyphs on them

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one of them has a date inscribed on it which is very rare and it says for a how three concave which is the calendar round date that's going to occur in 2012

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well the Comalcalco brick is important because it is verification of inscription in Tortugero

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the brick has shown that the people who thought that it meant the nine gods were going to return were right

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an extraterrestrial visitation one which signals the end of the world

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for most archaeologists and researchers the concept is not just a little far-fetched

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but one feature of the brick hieroglyph is not so easy to dismiss

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the inscriptions on the brick were apparently carved on the interfacing side hidden from view

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why would they write a date on a brick and then turn it around so no one could see it and put it into the wall

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didn't want that to be public knowledge

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why would the Maya conspire to keep this date secret

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if there is some kind of doomsday at the end of the Mayan calendar

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it could be a combination of of pole shifts

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it would be a catastrophic event for the planet

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is it really possible as ancient astronaut theorists believe

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that the Maya actually received detailed astronomical knowledge from ancient alien visitors

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and could this help explain why their calendar which accurately predicts an extraordinary galactic alignment

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perhaps the answer can be found by examining the doomsday prophecies of other ancient cultures

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or if the Maya were attempting to warn us of a future cataclysm

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could there be other evidence that they were not alone

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this is the day when the Mayan calendar suggests the world will come to an end

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but there is another equally curious aspect to the Mayan calendar

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not when it ends but when it begins

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more than 3000 years before the Mayan civilization even existed

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the origin of the long count calendar

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why they created day one to be August 13th 3114 years ago

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and the Mayan calendar in 2014 BC is still a mystery

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it's obviously back dated

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so why did they backward project 3000 years into the past

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one of the ideas about why they back dated 3114 BC is because some kind of cataclysm happened then

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research discovered that an asteroid or multiple asteroids did hit an area around Austria and Europe

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and that could have caused a blackout of the sky for several years

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and this is then when the calendar began

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scientists at Harvard and Princeton have said that this massive global worldwide catastrophe

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a mass glaciation of the planet occurred when this age of the Mayan calendar begins

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literally this took everyone by surprise

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according to the Mayans we are coming to the end of the fifth age

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there have been four catastrophes before us

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each one ended up with a destruction of the earth

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and now we are just coming to the end of the fifth age of the Mayans

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which will end now in December of 2012

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according to the Mayan predictions this will also end in a giant catastrophe

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the western view of time is very linear

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is it possible the Mayan calendar ends on December 21 2012

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because they expected that the fifth age of man will end much in the same way as it began

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were they privy to some ancient knowledge that has been lost in time

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and if so can proof be found by examining similar doomsday predictions from other ancient cultures

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Egyptian time coding in the great pyramid of Giza is telling us that there would be a series of water-based catastrophes

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which is warning us of some massive cosmic event maybe a solar flare what have you

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but then washes humanity back into this pit

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researchers have also noticed a connection in the doomsday predictions of the Hopi Indians of the American Southwest

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the Hopi people of the Native American nations believe that we are in the fifth age of man

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and that this is an age of purification and that it is near the end time

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the Hopi believe that unless all the people of the earth can come down and live more in harmony with themselves and with the planet

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that there is going to be a great destruction coming

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Surya Sadanta predicts that mankind will soon reach the end of the Kali Yuga

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the male divinity Kali that is referred to in the end of days in the Mahabharata

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refers to a time of great chaos and discord

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and depending on how you read the dating in the script we are well into it

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even the Christian Bible predicts in great detail a horrific fiery apocalypse

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the Christian writers on the end of time focus on certain things

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that the Jewish people return to the holy land and reclaim it which happened some years ago

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that the nation thereby established would finally claim Jerusalem

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which has happened some years ago

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that there would be a great expansion of the territory until it was a very large nation

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the idea that we are living in end times

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not necessarily the end of the world but the end of a world is quite global

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while most ancient doomsday prophecies only broadly suggest the timing of the so-called end of days

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the Maya prediction boldly points to an exact date

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their long-count calendar comes to a decisive end on Friday December 21st 2012

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a date that many scientists and astronomers agree

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will coincide with an extremely rare alignment of celestial bodies in the Milky Way galaxy

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but how could the Mayan calendar be so accurate?

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it is a true thing to say about the Maya that they created the most elaborate calendar system of any culture in the world

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they had a solar calendar but before that they had the sacred calendar

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but they admit that at the fourth decimal point they could be plus or minus five wrong

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so we're not sure who's more accurate is it the Maya or is it the atomic clock?

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the sophisticated way the Maya tracked time is incredible even by today's standards

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it's almost like they had sophisticated computer technologies or programs that could somehow run it

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and even today we're just catching up and trying to understand how they managed to do such an amazing job

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the third Maya calendar known as the long count

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the long count is really just like an odometer in your car it just ticks off days it counts

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the Maya long count calendar also measured time in a series of 13 Bakhtun cycles

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totally 5,125 years

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according to scholars the dates stretch from August 11 31 14 BC to December 21st 2012

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and there inexplicably it stops

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why were the Maya tracking celestial events in cycles of over thousands of years

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or did they as ancient astronaut theorists believe create the calendar as a way of marking time

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beings that were believed by them to be gods

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some calendar systems from the Mayans today science has no idea about what they are based on

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but we just know that they exist for a specific reason

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so it is clear that they were given to them by an intelligence who knew what these calendar rounds represented

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and so what we are seeing is that the Mayans are working with tools

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technology i calendar systems which were specifically engineered because they had been told

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that when certain things in the skies looked a certain way then the gods would return

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the Mayans were incredible at what they did

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the big question is how did they know this

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you have to say to yourself perhaps civilizations might be much older than we think

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or somebody came down and taught them

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did the Maya create the long-count calendar to warn us of a deadly cataclysm

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or were they simply intending to inform us of the day which will signal the return of their gods

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but who or what were these gods and what is their agenda

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this archaeological site was once one of the great urban centers of the Mayan civilization

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here along the Grand Plaza the Maya built seven pyramid shaped temples

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aligned to mimic the constellation Pleiades

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they called it the seven sisters because it consisted of seven bright stars

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so when they looked at the Pleiades they believed that that may have been the center of all creation

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and they believed that they came from the center of that creation

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or simply put they came from Pleiades

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why would the Mayans go through such a tremendous effort to recreate a mere image of the stars on the ground

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why would they do that unless they wanted to contact the extraterrestrial gods

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who had originally given them the information

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Pleiades was not only important to the Maya it was also important to Native Americans

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the Cherokee for example will hope you believe that they descended from star beings that came from the Pleiades star cluster

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according to scholars the Maya believed that powerful gods descended to earth from the stars

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including a feathered serpent known as Kukulkan

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according to Maya legend Kukulkan was the wing serpent some serpent god who could fly

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sometimes he is human sometimes he's a serpent

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sometimes we see him emanating from a serpent's head

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we know that there's no way that a human being can emerge from a physical serpent

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so the serpent must stand for something else either a construction or a device

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now because we know Kukulkan is a deity we also definitely need to consider that this device is somehow a ship

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Kukulkan emerges from within the confines of the ship to the outside world

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and reveals himself as a deity to the people

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Kukulkan was the creator of all life who led the Maya into an age of scientific advancement

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an advancement of art and architecture

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according to ancient Maya mythology Kukulkan left the people and said he would return one day

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and many scholars believe that the ending of the Maya calendar on December 21st this year

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will mark the return of Kukulkan

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400 miles north of Tikal in the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza

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stands a uniquely designed pyramid built by the Maya to honor Kukulkan

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unlike most of the pyramids all around the world the platform pyramid we can find at Chichen Itza

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is not directed in a north south or east west direction

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but it's a little bit off

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there's a specific reason for that

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and that is during the spring and fall equinox

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a shadow play is cast upon the side of the pyramid

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signifying the descent of Kukulkan

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the extraterrestrial descending from the sky

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staying a while on earth and then ascending towards the heavens

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what we have here is an example of living mythology

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so my question is what did they mean when they talked about this deity that descended from the sky

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why was it so important to the Maya to build such an elaborate temple to honor Kukulkan

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did they really expect this serpent god to ascend to the heavens and then descend to earth

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or could Kukulkan be something even more incredible

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something not of this world

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so if you look up in the air today and you watch a plane

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and it leaves behind this plume of smoke as it travels across the sky

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and you've got the snake's tail wiggling at its backside

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so if you look at it from that perspective that can be described as a flying snake

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and in my opinion that was nothing else but a description of some type of an extraterrestrial craft

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that descended from the sky out of which the gods lowercase g emerged and taught them in various disciplines

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and the message is clear

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God Kukulkan descended to the humans

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he was a certain time among the humans

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he was the teacher of the humans and then he disappeared again

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but with the promise to return one day to the humans

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is it really possible as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest

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that Kukulkan was in fact a flying spacecraft

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engineered and piloted by other worldly visitors

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and if so could this explain the frequent depictions of this ancient Mayan god

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as having a face appearing out of a serpent's head

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similar to that of a pilot operating a vehicle

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according to researchers

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clues to the connection between the Maya and other worldly beings

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can also be found in the Mayan manuscript known as the Popovu

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meaning the book of the people

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it is a collection of the only known Maya oral histories still surviving

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translated and written in the mid-16th century

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this book encompasses a range of subjects including Mayan creation myths

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the Popovu begins with nothing

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there's nothing there

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there's a watery surface but there's no sky there's no land

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the gods emerge out of this water

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they begin with nothing

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and the gods decide to make people

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coming right out of one of the most seemingly inhospitable places

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for civilization to sprout

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comes this culture the Maya

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who create this collection of independent city-states and build pyramids

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they develop a written language and a mathematical system

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they grow up into this forest there

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reaching populations into the multi-millions

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in the Popovu it clearly states

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that life was brought here by the gods

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and that those gods came from outer space

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it doesn't say that they came from inner earth

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it also doesn't say that they came from another continent or another land

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but it states specifically that they descended from the sky

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and essentially brought knowledge to planet earth

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what you have in the Popovu is very much like a manual

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there's something that you want to give to the people and say

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this is what we, our ancestors, have decided to get away with the gods

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and this is really what you should keep in mind for the next few centuries

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up until the moment in time when the gods return

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is it really possible, as ancient astronaut theorists believe

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that the Maya god Kugelkahn was an extraterrestrial entity

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one that is destined to return one day from the stars

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and if so, does it suggest that there may be truth to another Mayan legend

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one that predicts that our time on earth may be running out

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monument number six

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on this stone tablet are carved a series of ancient Mayan hieroglyphs

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that according to scholars, ominously predict a cataclysmic event on December 21, 2012

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this is a long monument that talks about the lifetime of a particular king

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but at the end of it goes forward into the future

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takes this big leap from the 600s AD up to 2012

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definitely says Borahao, Aitkonkeen, arriving the 13th Bakhtun or 400 year period

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but then there are only three glyphs and they are eroded and broken partially

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some scholars believe that the eroded glyphs on monument six

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suggest that Bolenyakti, a god similar to Kugelkahn

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will return at the end of the Mayan calendar

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the Maya specialist can read it

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will descend from heaven, god Bolenyakti

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Bolenyakti was one of the Maya gods who was present with the creation of man

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so they say will descend, god Bolenyakti

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so some gods, some extraterrestrials were expected to return

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and definitely some of the gods will return

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there is absolutely no doubt

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who was this Bolenyakti?

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according to the documents that have survived and their only fragmentary

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he was always described as someone with great powers who had the capacity of flight

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and who had incredible knowledge about the universe

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the god Bolenyakti is not a very well understood god

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sometimes he's associated with texts that talk about the beginning of creation

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back in 3114 BC

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and we see him in some context that seemed to be connected with war

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Bolenyakti was also described as being very tall and very shiny, glowing

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is it possible that what we have here is a description of an ancient alien?

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and the answer is yes

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but while there is much mystery surrounding the legend of Bolenyakti

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researchers say the ancient Maya believed this entity had visited their ancestors before

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thousands of years in the past

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there is another reference to Bolenyakti at Palenque in temple 14

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where it is clearly stated that Bolenyakti appeared on earth over 900,000 years ago

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why would anyone in their right mind record a date that goes back over 900,000 years ago?

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well, something happened, something very significant and according to the ancient texts

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that is when Bolenyakti descended to earth from the sky

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similar stories suggesting that the Maya were in some way connected to other worldly beings

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can be found in an ancient Maya text known as the Chalam Balam

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a collection of oral histories passed down through the ages

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the Chalam Balam books were written between the 16th and the 18th centuries

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when the Spanish people were in the Middle Ages

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when the Spanish conquerors were already there

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first the Spanish arrived, they found hundreds of Maya writings

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they destroyed them all, but then some of the priests escaped

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and they start to write up their old knowledge

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that's the reason how the Chalam Balam books came to existence

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the name Chalam Balam is actually the name for a priesthood

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who were kind of the historians of communities in the Yucatan

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but we have this collection of books that we call the Chalam Balam

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these are the books in which we find this information about

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how the Maya believe that what's happened before will happen again

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in the opinion of the people that write the Chalam Balams

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they believe them to be very accurate

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the Chalam Balam talks about these 20 year periods

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in this 20 year period you could see it was a bad time for us

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we can expect negative things to fall us

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and of course one of the most negative and bad luck times they have

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is the arrival of the Spanish

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and they point to that is see clearly in the cycles of time

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we could almost predict that this calamity was bound to happen to us at this time

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in the Chalam Balam it states that the god Bologna

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will someday return and battle the deities of heaven

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in an epic war of good versus evil

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each age for the Mayans was clearly defined

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and it was defined by the gods returning

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and so what we have today or in the near future

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is the imminent arrival according to the Maya tradition of these deities

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this prediction of a final apocalyptic battle between good and evil

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as described in the Chalam Balam

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can also be found in the Christian Bibles book of Revelation

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it is interesting that if you look at the last book of the Bible

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it talks about some great war in heaven between the Archangel Michael and the great dragon

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is there some last great war in heaven that occurs at this final age

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if the Maya prophecy about the return of Bologna is true

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might there really be a so-called battle between good and evil

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one that will result in the annihilation of all mankind

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but how?

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Planet Earth

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although there are many theories about its age and origin

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one fact is certain

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our planet is billions of years old

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and mankind's existence on its surface is relatively recent

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and fragile

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throughout history the biggest threat to mankind

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has come in the form of natural disasters

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but does that mean the world will end on December 21st 2012

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recent evidence has shown that the ancient Mayans possessed knowledge about the universe

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and its fate that we are only just beginning to understand

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according to the Mayans the world has already ended four times before this coming cataclysm

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it ended before in fire and in ice and in water

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and this next cataclysm could be a combination of all that

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or even something completely different

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not only did the Mayans know our place in the universe

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but they also knew how old the universe was

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Mayans put the date of the universe at 16.4 billion years

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modern science today puts it at about 14.5 maybe 15

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and yet the better our technology gets the more we begin to realize that the Mayans were correct

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is it possible then as the Mayans predicted

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that the Earth and Sun will align with a black hole on December 21st 2012

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and if so will such a cosmic event have dire consequences for our world

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the Tibetans believe that the Sun is a lens

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that it activates and amplifies things behind it or things coming in front of it

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if that's the case on December 21st you have an energy that's coming from the center of the galaxy

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that comes from the dark rift that comes from the womb of the galaxy if you will

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that is now going to be amplified by the Sun

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that is going to have some kind of effect on humanity

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I think the Mayans had an understanding of celestial mechanics

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they understood that the Sun was going through change

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and so my belief is that something will happen with the Sun

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what we know from past experiences solar flares can interfere with electronic equipment

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we could see the power grid go down for example

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we could see major things change in modern society that pretty much would crumble us

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but if we're talking about losing that ability for any extended period of time

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I daresay we'd be talking about a scenario that would result in major changes

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and quite possibly some very ill effects

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some researchers speculate that the galactic alignment might change

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or even reverse how the Earth spins on its axis

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by altering its magnetic field

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a sign of the magnetic field changing quickly would mean something has to happen dramatically

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to the angular momentum of the stuff inside the Earth

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which might also mean something happens drastically to the spin of the Earth itself

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and once you change the rotation of the Earth you do have a chance of causing huge effects

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it's like having a whole bunch of massive earthquakes at the same time

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we talk about a magnitude 7 or a magnitude 8 or a magnitude 9 earthquake is being destructive

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beyond imagination

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but what would a magnitude 12 or a magnitude 20 earthquake do?

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could it replace the land with the sea and the sea with the land?

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we're talking about events that we've never experienced before

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so some of these changes that people that were talking about that could occur

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could be life changing or they could be life ending

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will the Earth really be affected by some strange powerful astronomical alignment

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one that will have profound consequences for all of us

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and if so, might those consequences come in the form of death and destruction?

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or might there be another perhaps more positive outcome?

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the end of the Mayan long count could mean some doomsday for planet Earth

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or on the other hand perhaps it is the return of the extraterrestrial gods as the Mayans believed

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it's hard to know the future what's gonna happen at the end of 2012

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but it seems that perhaps the Mayans had some glimpse into the future that we have yet to find out

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we are living in a time specifically in culture which really doesn't address the ancient alien theory that we are not alone

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it is indeed gonna come for a global village as a complete revelation that we are not alone

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and that is really I think a gift from the Mayans when it comes to 2012

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it is absolutely correct that a calendar round is about to end

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but that does not signify the end of the world

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in fact the only thing it signifies is the beginning of another calendar round

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of another period in time

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could the Mayan doomsday prophecies really come true?

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will December 21st 2012 signal the end of civilization as we know it?

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or are the dire predictions nothing more than a myth?

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a misinterpretation of an even greater truth?

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perhaps what awaits us is not the end of our world but a new beginning

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one that will reveal the celestial origins of man