End of the World: Hear the Dec 21, 2012 Prophecy … Direct from the Mouths of the Mayan Priests
INSPIRATIONAL, 17 Dec 2012
Washington’s Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service
Ignore Second-Hand Information … Hear the Real Prophecy
While educated adults obviously don’t believe the 2012 prophesy, many children are terrified, and NASA reports that some are contemplating suicide. So please spread this as a Public Service Announcement.
Many people are talking about the Mayan 2012 prophecy.
But few know what the Mayan priests actually said about 2012. In reality, Mayan elders say something very different from what you might have heard.
For example, Wakatel Utiw – leader of the National Council of Elders Mayas, Xinca and Garifuna (the Xinca and Garifuna are non-Mayan tribes in Central America), Day Keeper of the Mayan Calendar, and 13th generation Quiche Mayan Spiritual Leader – says that the end of the Maya calendar has nothing to do with the end of the world.
He also explains that December 21, 2012 might not even be the end of this cycle of the calendar:
Contrary to popular belief the living elders of the Maya do not agree that December 21, 2012 is the end of their calendar. A new “Sun” represents the beginning of a new Long Count cycle in the calendar system of approximately 5,200 years, which they say may not happen for many years.
And see this.
(A brand new film called “Shift of the Ages” tells the Mayans’ beliefs in detail … and gives their true warnings.)
Similarly, Tz’utujil Mayan elder Tata Pedro Cruz says that the world will not end in 2012:
Mayan elder and priest Carlos Barrios – who has extensively studied the Mayan calendars – says:
Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. It’s just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.”
Leonzo Barreno – a Guatemalan native who was trained by Mayan elders to read the ancient calendars – says says the ‘apocalypse’ concept is a false interpretation of the Long Count calendar, that the Mayan elders taught him that December 21 this year simply marks the start of a new calendar:
‘There are two sides to the story,’ he told CBC. ‘The one that we know is this apocalyptic meaning that has been given to the Long Count.
‘The other side of the story is the Mayan side, which you rarely see on media articles, because they never interview my own people.’
‘For them it’s a joyous event, not an apocalyptic event. What is coming is the end of a calendar and the beginning of a new one.
Ricardo Cajas – president of the Collective of Native Organizations of Colectivo de Organizaciones Indígenas de Guatemala – said the date did not represent an end of humanity or fulfillment of the catastrophic prophecies, but that the new cycle “supposes changes in human consciousness.” (Translation).
Pedro Celestino Yac Noj – a Mayan sage living in Cuba – says:
The 21st is for giving thanks and gratitude and the 22nd welcomes the new cycle, a new dawn.
Rather than being the end of the world, Mayan priest Jose Manrique Esquive believes that 2012 may bring a transition to a better time for humankind.
And AP noted in 2009:
Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly “running out” on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it’s not the end of the world.
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Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists.
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Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.
And if you don’t believe what the current Mayan leaders say, please remember that archaeologists recently found a cache of ancient Mayan calendars which goes thousands of years past 2012. And see this.
Note: The Mayan elders do make prophetic warnings, but it has nothing to do with 2012. Specifically, they warn that we need to rein in war or pollution or we will destroy ourselves.
Given that numerous end of the world prophecies have come and gone without incident, and that the Pope has declared that – due to a miscalculation – we are currently in AD 2016, not 2012 – it is smart to take all date-specific predictions with a spoonful of cynicism.
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Until some one hundred ago or so, a “New World” meant the American continent. For instance, Antonin Dvorak composed the “Symphony No. 9 in E Minor ‘From the New World’” in 1893. (If you are interested in the term “new world,” visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World ) In this century, however, let’s assume that a “New World” means the world after “21 December 2012”. In what sense is it “new”? Decide it according to your own idea about the “new” world. Be free to think!
Mayan ancient calendar ends on “21 December 2012”. But how about the Hindi calendar? According to Sri Yukteswar’s book, “Holy Science”, the year 1894 – the year he wrote that book – was 194 years of Dwapara Yuga. That means that the year 2012 is 312 years of the Yuga. He says nothing about the year 2012. The period of Dwapara Yuga continues. He says that the next Treta Yuga will start in the year 4099. That implies that the world will still continue to exist, if Yukteswar’s claim is true.
For ancient Mayans, it was impossible to calculate their calendar indefinitely. They needed to stop calculating it one day. They calculated more than 5,000 years ahead. That was enough for them. They chose the day “21 December 2012” as the last day of their calendar, perhaps for some important reasons, perhaps for some trivial reasons or perhaps for some technical reasons. We, those living in the 21st Century, have no idea for that. But regardless of whatever the reason, they needed to stop calculating the calendar one day. They could not continue calculating their calendar forever.
By the way, most of the calendars installed in wrist watches today will work for some 100 years. That is more than enough for the most users. If your great-great- great-grand child will use your watch whose calendar will stop working one day, what will he or she think about it? Will he or she think that the world will end on that day? Imagine that! You can laugh. As such, if ancient Mayans were here today in the 21st Century, probably they would also laugh at those who believe that the end of the Mayan calendar means the end of the world.
So, anyhow, (hopefully) we will be able to read the TMS next week. Israel-Palestine conflict will go on, then. Millions of children will continue to starve, especially in developing countries. Regrettably, avoidable tragedies as such will still continue. In the meantime, many people will begin to return to their hometown for holidays to unite with their families, while some people will be spending this season alone. Some of them have no food and no shelters. In this season especially, some people will pray to God in their desperation. Some people will die somewhere on the street, while others will decide to end their lives by themselves. And so on and so forth. Heartbroken events will continue. But, meanwhile, there will also be some positive events as well. All those things will be overall 99% certain. But, among others, one thing will be 100% certain. What is it? The answer is this: Ten days after “21 December 2012”, this year will end.
May more peace and love be given to this world.