The
Solstice on December
21, 2012 ~ precisely at 11:11 AM Universal Time ~ marks the completion
of the 5,125 year Great Cycle
of the Ancient Maya Long Count Calendar.
Rather
than being a linear end-point, this cycle that is closing is naturally
followed by the start of a new cycle. What this new cycle has in store
for humanity is a mystery that has yet to unfold...
2012
is also considered the completion
of the 26,000 year Precession of the Equinoxes cycle, and some say it
also signifies the end of a 104,000 year cycle.
As a catalyst in our collective mind, the
2012 code now reflects the convergence of universal wisdom from
many cultural and religious prophecies of peoples from around the planet.
However, the specific timing originates as a gift from the ancient Maya,
the world's supreme timekeepers.
At
their peak, roughly 1500 years ago, the Ancient Maya
utilized 20 calendars simultaneously - weaving a holistic system that
tracked small cycles and vast cycles. From sunspots, to eras of consciousness,
Venus patterns to eclipses, agriculture to prophecy, their calendars unite
biological, physical cycles with invisible cycles, earth cycles with galactic
cycles - using the mathematics of Nature which shows us the microscosm
mirrors the macrocosm.
The December 21, 2012 date is specifically referring to the completion of the Ancient Maya's Long Count Calendar, known as the 13 Baktun Cycle, or Great Cycle. The research of John Major Jenkins reveals the Maya birthplace of this calendar system as Izapa, which is located near the Guatemala border in the Mexican State of Chiapas.
The December 21, 2012 date is specifically referring to the completion of the Ancient Maya's Long Count Calendar, known as the 13 Baktun Cycle, or Great Cycle. The research of John Major Jenkins reveals the Maya birthplace of this calendar system as Izapa, which is located near the Guatemala border in the Mexican State of Chiapas.
According
to this calendar, Earth entered a new "creation cycle" on August
11, 3114 BC which is written in long count notation as 13.0.0.0.0. This
cycle is 1,872,000 days long, and every
day from that beginning point was measured in terms of
Mayan cycles called kin, uinal, tun, katuns and baktuns. Many
ancient Mayan monuments are carved with long count dates as this is the
way they tracked huge cycles of time and kept chronological records of
important historical events.
On
the Long Count Calendar, December 20, 2012 would be written as 12.19.19.17.19.
At the completion of the cycle, December 21, 2012 the cosmic odometer
resets and we return to 13.0.0.0.0, coming back to a sacred Zero point,
re-birthing into a New Cycle.
B'ak'tun :The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar used by the Maya. For this reason, it is sometimes known as the Maya (or Mayan) Long Count calendar.
"According to the Popol Vuh, a book compiling details of creation
accounts known to the K'iche' Maya of the Colonial-era highlands,
we are living in the fourth world. The Popol Vuh describes the first
three creations that the gods failed in making and the creation of the
successful fourth world where men were placed. In the Maya Long
Count, the previous creation ended at the start of a 13th b'ak'tun.
The previous creation ended on a long count of 12.19.19.17.19.
Another 12.19.19.17.19 will occur on December 20, 2012, followed
by the start of the fourteenth b'ak'tun, 13.0.0.0.0, on December 21,
2012. "
