2012 is, of course, when Planet Earth will enter the giant cosmic beam that will change the clock speeds of all living cells and thus cause the mass mutation of all carbon-based life. We are about to go one more rung up the evolutionary ladder.
Seriously, speaking as a Tellurian (and don't bother to look it up - it's so secret that it certainly won't be in wikipedia), I am amazed how little the human race understands of the big cycles. Everything is measured only in human scale: our weight is what defines things as heavy or light, our lifespan is a stupid unit of time, what our retinas can detect is called light, even though it is a narrow band in a continuous range of radiation. etc
We Tellurians always like to point out what a stop-motion movie of the earth would look like if we took only one frame every 1 year (25 frames make one second of screen time). Human beings (as all creatures) would disappear. Instead we would see the explosive organic growth of habitation, forests dancing across the landscape, and the sea rising and falling like a global tide.
But I think I need another latte to wake up properly... You can't be me, I'm taken
And, not that it'll change anyone's mind about anything...
Maya stela occasionally show dates beyond 2012. Most of these are in the form of "distance dates", where a Long Count date is given with a distance date to be added. For example, on Tikal Stela 10 we find the following Long Count date: 9.8.9.13.0 8 Ahau 13 Pop (24th March 603 AD Gregorian) with a distance date of 10.11.10.5.8. The resulting date is given as 1.0.0.0.0.8 5 Lamat 1 Mol,[8] or 21st October 4772 AD - a 2,000 years into the future.
Summary
Despite the publicity generated by the 2012 date, "we have no record or knowledge that [the Maya] would think the world would come to an end" in 2012.[9]
"For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal River, Fla. To render Dec. 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."[10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_long_count#Inscriptions_beyond_2012
Pick an exotic ancient culture, preferably one with pyramids
Hint at either an apocalypse, an ascension, or both.
Arguelles got extra points because he also incorporated DNA and the I Ching into his ramblings.
(Nice work if you can get it.)
But, on the other hand, I find all fiction fascinating. Especially when it oscillates around peoples' ill-informed perceptions - which is basically what life is about ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
Ah! I needed that.
Ill-informed perceptions. Ouch! Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
We still have a site for our museum in Uusikapunki http://www.bonkcentre.fi/p2_eng.htm - so I guess you found it there ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
You are part of that? KEWL! Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Tomorrow we have the first preview for journalists. You don't have a McCain critic-proof vest about your person, perchance? You can't be me, I'm taken
Or wear a ridiculous hat and keep a straight face...
Surely they wouldn't criticise it while you're there though? That's what their articles will be about.
So...avoid buying newspapers while the moon swims between the dolphin and the newt.
(rg astrology services.) Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
It was not an easy decision. It was the last night of the funfair where I had got permission to shoot, before they go up north on tour and become inaccessible to our budget.
Our actor was the leading figure in This rock band of the Seventies. The name of the band means 'Mad John'. You can understand why I would be attracted to them ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
(Boo hoo! No flash chez rg. No youtube. No videos. The most moving my computer gets is a .gif animation.)
(Especially annoying when now is the time I could watch great videos of the various cycles of earth, moon, sun, stars...)
(Luckily I have sun-venus-moon doing their dance outside my window at the moment, though it's more like the end of a friendship...the moon arriving ever later...Venus going ever earlier...until next time round...which will be over a year, I think--my astonomical calculating device--YE NOGGIN--need oiling.)
(Sip...ah.) Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Unless one is prepared to learn to jump effortlessly between so-called 'reality' and so-called 'fiction', I think the chances of finding love and happiness in this world are rather slim. ;-)
We've both found that, don't you agree? Not together, of course. I couldn't co-habit with someone who decorated all the time ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
Is the following simple fiction?
The commonly-established way of expressing the correlation between the Maya calendar and the Gregorian or Julian calendars is to provide number of days from the start of the Julian Period (Monday, January 1, 4713 BCE) to the start of creation on 0.0.0.0.0 (4 Ajaw, 8 Kumk'u).
The most commonly accepted correlation is the "Goodman, Martinez, Thompson" correlation (GMT correlation). The GMT correlation establishes that the 0.0.0.0.0 creation date occurred on 3114 BCE September 6 (Julian) or 3114 BCE August 11 (Gregorian), Julian day number (JDN) 584283, the number of days since the start of the Julian Period. This correlation fits the astronomical, ethnographic, carbon dating, and historical sources. However, there have been other correlations that have been proposed at various times, most of which are merely of historical interest, except that by Floyd Lounsbury, two days after the GMT correlation, which is in use by some Maya scholars.
Today, 14:54, Wednesday April 25, 2007 (UTC), in the Long Count is 12.19.14.4.13.
(My emphasis)
As they counted using astronomical events and were interested in cycles, it's not surprising that one of their cycles will end at an astronomical event.
Maybe I'm just getting some sparks in my brain, but ancient cultures with pyramids and other astronomical features have an interest because, among other things, they show the ancient culture's astronomy and, by inference, tell us something of how the culture viewed its movement through time and space (D'où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ?.)
I'm sure some over-doped people have invented theories from this...who among us has never been over-doped and invented a crazy theory?
Oh...cough cough.
And maybe some people write their theories in books and sell a lot and make money.
But I don't see the "crazy theory" types as subtracting from analysable historical artifacts (eg. pyramids, both egyptian and mesoamerican, but not just pyramids...have a looksee at this...)
Which, when polished up might have looked like this.
...they think.
The Antikythera Mechanism
I see the crazy theories as...well...crazy theories. More entertaining than the ones told in religious buildings and maybe with a few more shafts of something real sneaking through...
...may just be sparks in my head...
(...and may I just add that when I think of "gullible people" I don't think of hippies being conned by ancient stories, I, more depressingly, think of people turning up to these meetings...
Eight million and counting! Quick! I need...something funky!
Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
