will this happen?

The credibility of those claims deserves rational attention-which is what I intend to provide. Neither mystic nor prophet, I am a Mayanist. More specifically, I am a professional art historian and an epigrapher (less formally, a glypher), one who can read and write Maya hieroglyphs. For over a decade, I have focused my scholarly research specifically on Maya culture and writing, making some surprising discoveries that can present a more definitive perspective on the prophecies of the ancient Maya seers. As we approach the critical year, it is time to offer a more viable account of the Maya prophecy and expose both the fallacies and ethnocentricism tainting the current sensational accounts.

Here I intend to explain what we actually know about (1) Maya knowledge and attitudes, both ancient and modern, (2) the date 13.0.0.0.0. and (3) their many Creation stories and prophecies. I shall draw from recent decipherment, ethnography, interviews with Maya priests and knowledge-keepers, and especially from their surviving prophetic literature. That literature includes The Books of Chilam Balam, among others, the pre-Columbian Codices, and ancient inscriptions. The evidence is sometimes fragmentary and often puzzling to us moderns, at least at first. But I believe the effort will be worth it.

First, let me affirm that the year 2012 does hold particular significance in Mayan scholarship. Those of us who study the ancient and modern Maya — anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, linguists, historians, amateurs, collectors — have been anticipating the end of the Maya Great Cycle for some time. We write it 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ajaw 3 K'ank'in. We have known for half a century that this date probably correlates to December 21 (or December 23) in the year 2012 in the Gregorian calendar.

Campaign for the New Time

The purpose of the Great Cycle is to point out and define the moment of “judgment day,” the apocalypse of the Gregorian civilization and the end of the artificial 12:60 order of time. Given the exponential increase of man and machine, driven by money, it is more than obvious that by the final katun, 1993-2012, we are rapidly approaching a saturation point in time. The chronotopological pond of history has filled up, and there is nowhere else to go. Only prophecy can puncture the otherwise closed container of human thought enveloping the planet in the form of the 12:60 technosphere. By virtue of their advanced knowledge of the nature of time and the development of a science of time, the Maya alone were able to set forth a prophecy that establishes the criterion for determining the error in time, and hence, for understanding that judgment day had arrived. Inasmuch as the criterion is the distinction between the 12:60 timing frequency which governs all of human civilization and sets it apart from nature, and the 13:20 universal timing frequency which governs the whole of nature, the prophecy also sets forth the Thirteen Moon 28-day calendar as the instrument for making the decision to return to the universal timing frequency. Only by making this decision, says the prophecy, will humanity avoid destruction and reap the benefits of the rewards for the righteous after the apocalyptic “end time” - that is, the end of 12:60 time.

An orderly visit of Extraterrestrial Federation in 2012 representing 88 star constellations

An orderly visit of Extraterrestrial Federation in 2012 representing 88 star constellations

The world is getting ready for something spectacular in 2012. According to researchers, the Federation of the Universe representing all the 88 star constellations will officially visit earth in 2012 and reveal themselves. It will bring an end to all UFO cover-ups in various countries.

only 4 more years

The end is near. Well, more specifically, it's five years from this Friday: Dec. 21, 2012 — or so the doomsayers would have you believe. Others believe we're five years from an unprecedented spiritual awakening. Whatever you believe, there's no denying that the 2012 movement has become a hot topic.

Will the world end in 2012?

According to the culture of ancient Maya, part of what scholars call Mesoamerica, astronomy predicts some major cosmic developments for December 21, 2012, including, perhaps, the end of the world as we now know it, as some people believe. Mayan calendars are still used by a few cultures in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador and are said to be the most accurate ones in existence. They date the solar year accurately within minutes, taking account of the cycles of sun, moon, Venus, and other cosmic bodies and only have to add one "leap day" after 380,000 years. Mayan civilisation was quite advanced, possessing technology that modern man is still trying to comprehend.