Mayan Calendar Prophecies: The Complete Collection of 2012 Predictions and Prophecies (17 page)

The Aztec Calendar Stone was associated with the New Fire Ceremony and this ceremony, in turn, was associated with the Pleiades. The New Fire Ceremony was conducted every 52 years when the Aztec’s two primary calendars came back into sync. They called this event the “binding of years” and the New Fire ceremony marked the occasion.

The last New Fire ceremony took place in 1507 at the temple of
Huixachtlan
on the top of
Huixachtecatl
, “Hill of the Star.” The “star” in question was the Pleiades asterism. According to the Franciscan missionary Bernardino de Sahagun who wrote a 12 volume history of Mexico the New Fire ceremony went something like this:

...they considered it a matter of belief that the world would come to an end at the conclusion of one of these bundles of years. They had a prophecy or oracle that at that time the movement of the heavens would cease, and they took as a sign [of this] the movement of the Pleiades. On the night of this feast, which they called
Toximmolpilia
[the Binding of the Years***] it so befell that the Pleiades were at the zenith at midnight with respect to the horizon in Mexico. On this night they made new fire, and before they made it, they extinguished all the fires in all the provinces, towns and houses in all of this New Spain. And they went in a solemn procession. All of the priests and servants of the temple departed from here, the Temple of Mexico, during the first quarter of the night, and went to the summit of that mountain near
Itztpalapan
which they call
Uixachtecatl
. They reached the summit at midnight, or almost, where stood a great pyramid built for that ceremony. Having reached there, they looked at the Pleiades to see if they were at the zenith, and if they were not, they waited until they were. And when they saw that now they passed the zenith, they knew the movement of the heavens had not ceased, and that the end of the world was not then. [Vol. 4, p143]

And when they drew the new fire, they drew it there at
Uixachtlan
, at midnight, when the night divided in half, They drew it upon the breast of a captive, and it was a well-born one on whose breast [the priest] bored the fire drill. And when a little [fire] fell, when it took flame, then speedily [the priest] slashed open the breast of the captive, seized his heart, and quickly cast it there into the fire. [Vol. 7, p25]

Then [the priests] slashed open [the captive’s] breast. In his breast [cavity] the new fire was drawn. They opened the breast of the captive with a flint knife called
ixcuauac
. [Vol. 7, p28]

These New Fire rituals were dedicated to the god Huitzilopochtli.
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Curiously he was associated with birds and birds were given to him as offerings, primarily hawks and quail. (This recalls the bird cemetaries associated with Thoth.) Other ceremonies dedicated to this god also appear to reenact a meteor impact event. For instance, Sahagun’s description of the annual
Panquetzalitztli
festivals, held in honor of
Huitzlilopochtli
, notes:

“in a concluding episode of the ritual events, a large paper-and-feather
xihucoatl
[fire serpent] was brought down the steps from the platform of the Main Pyramid, to be presented at an altar on the bottom landing: Thereupon likewise descended the fire serpent, looking like a blazing pine firebrand. Its tongue was made of red arara feathers, looking like a flaming torch. And its tail was of paper, two or three fathoms long. As it descended, it came moving its tongue, like that of a real serpent, darting in and out. And when [the priest] had come [with it], bringing it down to the base [of the pyramid], he proceeded carefully to the eagle vessel. Then he went up [to the eagle vessel] and raised [the fire serpent] also to the four directions. When he had [so] raised it up, then he cast it upon the sacrificial paper, and then they burned. (Sahagun 1951-70, Bk. 2:136).”
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A fire serpent descending from the heavens (i.e., top of the pyramid) and bursting into flames once reaching earth is the perfect metaphor for a meteor impact.

The date of the 1014 AD tsunami, falling on the eve of St. Michael’s Day, is also interesting. The legends surrounding the Biblical character of Michael sound very reminiscent of an impact event:

“there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down - that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.”

As noted previously, comets were associated with serpents and dragons throughout the ancient world. This “war in heaven,” then, sounds a lot like an eyewitness account of a comet fragmentation and impact event. The “dragon” would represent the parent comet and “his angels” were fragments of the comet as it broke apart. The dragon being “hurled down” and “hurled to the earth” would represent the impact event.

Yet this passage from the book of Revelation was written over 2,000 years ago, a thousand years before the impact event of 1014 AD. So why was September 28 already associated with Michael? This suggests that Earth has experienced a previous cosmic impact on September 28 during a previous era that was the basis of the story in Revelation and the reason the date was devoted to Michael, the hero of the impact allegory. Thus could there be a predictable cycle of such impacts? Instead of viewing the ancient writings as prophecies could they be closer to forecasts based on a predictable cycle?

Not only does the end of the Aztec’s Fourth Sun correspond with a suspected impact event so does the end of their Third Sun. For instance, Aztec legends noted that the Third Sun ended with a rain of fire. They also noted that the beginning of the Fourth Sun was associated with the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue crying blood for 52 years producing destructive floods. Rains of fire, blood rain and floods are all known phenomenon associated with impact events.

Interestingly, these legends correspond well with events that happened on Earth beginning in the year 536 AD. Researchers have noted that Earth appears to have entered a dense cloud of cosmic dust that blocked out the sun for 18 months. Written records from the time noted how the sun only shown for four hours a day and was only as bright as the Sun during an eclipse. Other written records noted that real blood fell from the sky during this time followed by deadly plagues and that these events lasted for 52 years.

Researchers have noted that an ammonium spike appears in the ice core record dated to around 540 AD. As noted previously, these ammonium spikes are associated with known impact events thus there appears to have been such an impact event in 540 AD. Dallas Abott noted that evidence for at least two major tsunamis dated to this time period as well. Red rain or blood rain is also a known phenomenon associated with impact events thus eyewitness accounts of blood falling from the sky further supports this impact hypothesis. Thus the Aztec “myths” regarding the events associated with the end of the Third Sun, start of the Fourth Sun, and end of the Fourth Sun are consistent with actual events in 540 AD and 1014 AD.

Researchers have noted that another significant impact tsunami occurred around 1491 near Australia. Taking into account the 540 AD event, 1014 AD event and the 1491 AD event it thus appears that significant impact events occur every five hundred years that are capable of causing major regional destruction and global climatic disruptions.

Astronomers have argued that not only is there a 500-year cycle but also a 3,000 year cycle of impact events associated with the Taurid meteor stream. This begs the question: did the Maya know of another cycle of cosmic catastrophes that occurred every 5,000 years for which their calendar cycle was designed to encode? Did they expect another impact on or around December 21, 2012?

As we have seen so far, the Maya appeared to have recorded the actual date of a real event that devastated the ancient world 5,000 years ago. The event was undoubtedly the breakup of a comet and impact of its fragments into the Earth’s oceans that led to immense mega-tsunamis that devastated coastal civilizations around the world. In one text the Maya referred to this comet as a Cosmic Crocodile or Crocodile Star. In another they referred to it as a Celestial Bird.

The Maya recorded that this event occurred near the end of the last calendar cycle. What did the Maya expect would happen the next time the calendar cycled ended? Did they also expect another devastating impact event?

The end of the Mayan 13
th
Baktun occurs on December 21, 2012. They recorded this date as 13.0.0.0.0,
4 Ahaw 3 Kankin
. One researcher noted that the date recorded on the previously discussed Mayan Blowgunner Vase was
1 Ahaw 3 Kankin
and thus “echoed the 2012 date.”
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As noted in Part 3, chapter 17, this vase was likely also a record of the impact event that occurred near the end of the last Mayan calendar cycle. By echoing the end of the current calendar cycle, were the Maya suggesting they thought an impact event would be associated with the end of the current calendar cycle?

To explore this idea further we must turn to Monument 6 at the Tortuguero site in Tabasco, Mexico. This is the only Mayan “prophecy” that explicitly alludes to December 21, 2012. According to various interpretations, the inscription on Monument 6 notes that the deity
Bolon Yokte Kuh
will “descend” on 12/21/2012.

It has been noted that
Bolon Yokte
played an important part in the events at the end of the previous Mayan calendar cycle. In fact, one researcher noted he is related to the Avian Bird Deity
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, another name for the Celestial Bird. Thus the fact that the Tortuguero Monument 6 records that
Bolon Yokte
, the Celestial Bird, descends on December 21, 2012 is eerily similar to the impact event recorded on the Mayan Blowgunner Vase. Does this suggest that the Maya believed an impact event would occur on this date?

Researchers have noted that
Bolon Yokte Kuh
was both a “god of war and transition, and as such, he apparently attacks and destroys the supports which hold up the sky.”
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A deity that causes the sky to fall is consistent with an interpretation that this deity is associated with an impact event. The fact that this text mentions the encircling of this deity while wearing robes is also interesting. As noted in chapter 8, “Comet Machholz and the Return of Kukulkan,” comets were often described as wearing robes and, of course, comets’ orbits could be described as “encircling”; thus, these parts of the prophecy are also consistent with an impact interpretation.

Researches have also noted that
Bolon Yokte
presided over
Katun 11 Ahau
in the
Katun
prophecies in the books of
Chilam Balam
.
Katun 11 Ahau
is always the first katun of a new cycle and served as a transition from
Katun 13 Ahau
, the final
katun
of the cycle. The next Katun 11 Ahau begins in 2052. As noted in Part 1, chapter 6, “Predictions for Katun 13 Ahau (2032-2052),” the Mayan predictions for this time period sound remarkably like an impact event. Thus
Bolon Yokte
serving as a transition between
Katun 13 Ahau
and
Katun 11 Ahau
is fitting if the Maya were trying to encode a comet impact event.

One final association of
Bolon Yokte
is also interesting. One researcher noted that
Bolon Yokte
appears to be associated with or one-in-the-same as God L.
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Mayan depictions of God L always show him smoking a cigar. Researchers recorded an interesting prophecy in the Yucatan about a cigar-smoking god:

“THE CIGAR OF THE LORD OF HEAVEN

Have you seen the smoking stars (meteors) in the sky? Do you know what those things are? I am going to tell you what the smoking stars are.

The lord of the heaven daily smokes his cigar, the whole day he smokes his cigar. He is watching what the people here on earth are doing while he smokes his cigar. Because there are many bad people here on earth there are days when he get angry with us. He thinks then, "I am going to finish the life there on earth." He throws then his cigar butt, he flicks it with his finger.

Only because the beautiful lady virgin Mary feels sorry for us, she saves us. When she sees the lord of heaven has just thrown his cigar she quickly moves her hand. With the back of her hand she flicks the cigar butt into the sea. But the day is going to arrive when the beautiful lady virgin Mary will be fed up with us, she will then let the cigar fall here in the middle of the earth. On that day then the whole surface of the earth has to burn. Thus then all the people here on earth will die.”
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If one needs an explicit reference to an impact event in order to accept the connection between
Bolon Yokte Kuh
with such events, one could do no better than this story.

Researchers have also noted that Tutuguero’s Monument 6 is one of only two monuments that feature “deep-future forecasts,”
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the other being the West Tablet from Palenque. Coincidentally, the West Tablet contains a “prophecy” that is also likely a reference to a future impact event.