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    2012 In Your Pocket
    2012 In Your Pocket
    2012 In Your Pocket
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    2012 In Your Pocket

    By Geoff Stray

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    Everything you ever wanted to know about 2012 is packed into this handy little guidebook by 2012 expert Geoff Stray. With illustrations, diagrams, and concise text, Stray takes us on a journey from our past to our future with Mayan prophecies, hints from ancient Egypt, Shamanism, solar cycles, the Galactic alignment and so much more. Learn how our past is speaking to us about what lays ahead. What will the world be like after December 21, 2012? This pocket-sized guide gives the answer.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA.R.E. Press
    Release dateNov 1, 2009
    ISBN9780876046371
    2012 In Your Pocket
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    Geoff Stray

    Geoff Stray has been studying the meaning of 2012 for more than years. His research has been compiled on the Web site Diagnosis 2012 http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/, which has become the Internet's leading database on 2012. Geoff currently lives in Glastonbury, in the UK. In his spare time, he makes handmade footwear, and rides a dirt bike.

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      2012 In Your Pocket - Geoff Stray

      Introduction

      Why is everyone talking about the year 2012? There are mumblings of the End of the World, but haven't we heard all this before? William Miller's followers all expected the return of the Messiah in 1843, then when he failed to show, they put it forward to the Spring Equinox 1844, and then October 22, 1844 (the Jewish Day of Atonement), when Miller led his flock to a hilltop to await the return of their saviour. This date became known as the Great Disappointment. The movement mutated into the Seventh Day Adventists, who expected Armageddon to arrive in 1999, when the wicked will perish leaving the good to be harvested to heaven to rule with Christ for 1, 000 years. Charles Taze Russell, who founded the Jehovah's Witnesses said God's Kingdom would be established in 1874, and when nothing happened, he put the date forward to 1914, and then 1975.

      The Mormons were expecting the Holy City—New Jerusalem—to descend in the year 2000.

      All these previous doom-dates were generated from the Bible, but the year 2012 focus derives primarily from two sources, and neither of them are Biblical—or even Christian. These sources are the calendar and prophecies of the ancient Maya people of Mesoamerica, and the oracle system from ancient China, known as the I Ching, or Book of Changes. The origins of both of these systems lie well before the birth of Christ.

      So, to investigate the mystery of 2012, we should avoidtryingtoforce-fititintotheChristianapocalyptic mold even if that is what fueled our fascination.

      Maya Calendars & Prophecies

      Several Maya scholars now agree that the calendars of the Maya were probably first developed in Izapa by the Olmecs—the first civilization known to have inhabited Mesoamerica. Izapa was first inhabited some time between 1500 BC and 800 BC. The Maya lived there from about 250 BC. Three main calendars were used:

      1.  The Haab: a 365-day calendar, consisting of 18 months of 20 days, and an extra 5-days (the Uayeb).

      2.  The Tzolkin: a 260-day sacred calendar relating to the time of development in the womb (birth is due 260 days after the woman misses her period). It is still in use in the Guatemala highlands.

      3.  The Long Count: based on a 360-day year, (a tun), and the 360-day year consists of 18 twenty-day months—uinals. Twenty tuns is one katun; twenty katuns is one baktun, and 13 baktuns is one Sun, or 13-baktun cycle, that consists of 260 katuns. There are larger cycles that were sometimes used for longer calculations. This calendar fell out of use around 900 AD and was replaced by the Short Count.

      It is now clear, after almost a century of disagreement among Maya specialists, that the Creation of the current Sun—the start-point of the 13-baktun cycle—equates to August 11, 3114 BC, and will be replaced by the next Creation on December 21, 2012.

      In the 1970s, at a site called Tortuguero in Mexico, a T-shaped monument (Monument 6) was discovered that was erected in 669 AD and is inscribed with glyphs from the three calendars, cross-referencing the end-date in 2012, and supplying a prophecy for that date. The prophecy says that at the next Creation, in December 2012, Bolon Yokte Ku, or the Nine Support Gods, will return.

      Right: Monument 6 from Tortuguero, Mexico, which contains a prophecy regarding the 2012 end date. The text reads as: Tzuhtz(a)j-oom u(y)-uxlajuun pik; (ta) Chan Ajaw ux(-te' ) Uniiw. Uht-oom ? Y-em(al)?? Bolon Yookte' K' uh ta ? which David Stuart translates as The Thirteenth Bak' tun will be finished (on) 4 Ahaw, the 3rd of K' ank' in…? will occur. (It will be) the descent(?) of the Nine Support (?) God(s) to the (?)… (Image: Sven Gronemeyer).

      Question marks refer to damaged sections of the text. The top-right glyphs are clearly identfiable as 13 baktuns, 4 Ahau, 3 Kankin, the 2012 end date. The Nine Gods in question are mentioned in the post-conquest Chilam Balam books, as is the suggestion that the gods will return at the end of the 13-katun cycle, or Short Count.

      Left: From Bishop Landa's writings we can see that the Maya conceived their 13-katun cycle as a wheel. It moved counterclockwise and started with katun 11 Ahau, and ended with katun 13 Ahau. Makemson highlighted the following prophecy, …in the final days of tying up the bundle of the thirteen katuns on 4 Ahau, then the end of the world shall come… Since the older 13-baktun cycle ended on 4 Ahau, Makemson argued that this prophecy and those associated with it, originally referred to the end of

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