The Maya inherited their basic calendrical information from an earlier civilisation called the Olmecs who developed the Long Count between the second and first centuries BC. There is only one known inscription that mentions the end date. It is Monument 6 from Tortuguero, and is damaged and broken. At the end of the damaged inscription, three calendars cross-reference one date: “It was 2 days, 9 Uinals, 3 Tuns, 8 Katuns and 3 Baktuns before the 13th Baktun is completed on 4 Ahau 3 Kankin. Then it will happen – darkness, and Bolon-Yokte will descend to the (???)”
In the most popular correlation to our calendar, this equates to the 21st December 2012.
Baktun 13 (which is also Baktun zero) starts when the calendar reaches 13.0.0.0.0 in December 2012… (The Book of Chilam Balam of) Tizimin adds a prediction of UFOs, poor harvests and extreme weather, along with a mass near-death experience. However, the Maya were not the only ones to see this coming. There are several other independent sources that also mark 2012 as a conspicuous time. In the 1970s, the Chinese oracle, the I Ching was found by Terence McKenna, (who knew nothing of the Maya calendar at that time), to encode a fractal time wave that terminates late in 2012.
In the 1980s, the Paqos, who are priests of the Q’ero tribe living in the Andes, Peru, announced that their Pachakuti formula – the overturning of spacetime – would start in 1990 and last 22 years. Thus 2012 would bring the start of a Golden Age called Taripay Pacha, when the upper world, lower world and everyday world will unite.
All these other sources knew nothing of the Maya Long Count, so what can it all mean?
In the most popular correlation to our calendar, this equates to the 21st December 2012.
Baktun 13 (which is also Baktun zero) starts when the calendar reaches 13.0.0.0.0 in December 2012… (The Book of Chilam Balam of) Tizimin adds a prediction of UFOs, poor harvests and extreme weather, along with a mass near-death experience. However, the Maya were not the only ones to see this coming. There are several other independent sources that also mark 2012 as a conspicuous time. In the 1970s, the Chinese oracle, the I Ching was found by Terence McKenna, (who knew nothing of the Maya calendar at that time), to encode a fractal time wave that terminates late in 2012.
In the 1980s, the Paqos, who are priests of the Q’ero tribe living in the Andes, Peru, announced that their Pachakuti formula – the overturning of spacetime – would start in 1990 and last 22 years. Thus 2012 would bring the start of a Golden Age called Taripay Pacha, when the upper world, lower world and everyday world will unite.
All these other sources knew nothing of the Maya Long Count, so what can it all mean?
