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PROPHECY DEMYSTIFIED: THE NON-EXISTENT “Mayan Prophecies” and the Real Meaning of Prophecy
Prophetic Voices or Sensationalistic Screams?
The word prophecy and prophet[2] have been grossly corrupted by the mainstream press and by the works of popularizing shenanigans ie., book, movie and video sellers who have no respect for academic accuracy or integrity.
I have been immersed in Maya studies over the last 22 years and I have yet to come across a single “Mayan prophecy” written, painted, inscribed or engraved anywhere. The Maya left no record of “prophetic worldly events” concerning Dec. 21, 2012.
John Major Jenkins, likely the most informed and highly acclaimed of all the 2012 Neo-Maya Scholars on the archeological record of Dec, 21, 2012, will confirm that the Maya had nothing more to say about what would transpire on or about Dec. 21, 2012 other than their own mytho-symbolic description of an astronomical conjunction between our sun and the center of our galaxy.[1]
Jenkins does use the term “world renewal” when interpreting some of the imagery, but the phrase needs to be understood within the context of Maya mythical lore and symbolism.
Jenkins’ interpretation of the archeological records maintains that the astronomical events of 2012 were represented by the ancient Maya as the “birth of a new world age”.
The “birth of a new world age” means the beginning of a new cycle of time. What else is to be implied by those 6 words? The ancient Maya made no other record of specific or general earthly events (prophecies) which we could expect to coincide with the Dec, 21, 2012 solstice alignment. [1]
The archeological record regarding 2012 points only to an astronomical event—end of story. At least end of story for the ancient Maya who had no clue the commotion so many people would make over their recording of Dec. 21, 2012.
My purpose is not to discuss the validity or accuracy of those considered “prophets” and their “prophecies” unless they pertain to the Dec. 21, 2012 phenomenon.
I am happy and relieved to announce that the Maya responsible for the notation of Dec. 21, 2012, left not a single stitch of information which could be construed as “prophetic” unless one wants to say that the Maya notation of the 2012 date and their corresponding rendition of the astronomical event is a prophecy.
If one wishes extend such a definition then we are all prophets.
Anyone can predict the sunrise and the sunset. Anyone can predict the changing of the seasons. But who can predict any one of countless occurrences which take place on any given day. Welcome to prophecy 101.
When you come across a site or someone talking about “Mayan prophecies” ask them for physical proof of such prophecies. Ask… where are they written down? You will stop the conversation in its tracks.
There are numerous books and articles titled “the Mayan Prophecies”, yet there is not a shred of evidence to substantiate a single “Mayan prophecy”. How do like them apples? But that does not mean that there are no prophecies associated with the 2012 Mayan Calendar phenomena (2012-MC). To my knowledge there are only 2 verifiable prophecies regarding 2012 and they both have already come true.
One was completely fulfilled in 1987 and the other is in the process of being fulfilled. Those 2 prophecies have yet to be addressed in any 2012-MC book. But they are discussed in my recently released book. The Legend of 2012: Part 1 The Legend is Alive and Well! ~ A True Story. Click on the link to learn more.
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Katy O'Leary
Amanda
would the pic of the water cycle work for a lake as well?
Thank you for this wonderful and thorough debunking article. The explicit political Agenda of 2012 is also tied up in pushing the new world government – the globalization agenda.
Much love,
SEM
Gab
how do u explain certain blessings people get??? God is very real and just doing the math for the galaxies down to the very shape of the human ear or sunflowers grid of the same kind of design?
First I would ask you… how do you define "blessings"? Next I would ask you to define God, I think then I will be better able to answer you.
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Dear Kin ~
Thanks for the link to this website. The ideas you have formulated here are just what I was ruminating on the last week or so. Imagine. Synchronicity. Fun. The Maya may have not left any idea of what was to happen in 2012 but they seeded the consciousness with enough energy to make it to now. That we are talking about it at all this many years later is amazing in itself. The 2012 “phenomena” is just making it through the mass consciousness coming out in the form of sensationalism ~ and competition to race to who’s “right”. Media frenzy call it. The medium is the message is what Marshall McLuhan called it. The message is mostly fear.
I’m no scientist ~ though I did study the sciences long ago, I’m merely a woman in the 21st Century. Women in the 21st Century are pretty much the bottom of the barrel. Unless you didn’t notice. The patriarchy (call it capitalism, whatever) has dominated so long we have barely any idea of what is true anymore. Time is money as dominated our culture that artists create art for money too Think of it. It’s crazy. That’s why so many people are feeling crazy right now. Many of them take drugs to feel balanced and to keep from going crazy. They are numbing themselves to make it through these days.
The Maya were shamans, that I learned from JMJ (funny that’s the abbrev for Jesus, Mary and Joseph!)
Shamans worked with the unseen. Now you can even be a shaman (for $3,000+) in the United States.
There are many schools to learn how to “be a shaman”. Truth is, we are all shamans. We just don’t know it.
I follow Dreamspell every day. Today is White Spectral Mirror ~ this is the glyph and tone of Meher Baba ~ and my friend is really into him. “Something’s happening here . . . what it is ain’t exactly clear . . . there’s a man with a gun over there . . . telling me I’ve got to beware”. . . For What It’s Worth, Buffalo Springfield, 1967. Other lines in that song go like this “paranoia strikes deep, into your heart it will creep, it starts when you’re always afraid, step out a line the man comes and takes you away”. . . as good a prophecy as I’ve ever heard. What did the Buffalo Springfield know in 1967? They must’v been shamans too. Bob Dylan’s been singing about time for a long while . . . his albums ~ Modern Times and many more examples. Listen to his lyrics, they are pretty profound. Listen to Leonard Cohen’s “the Future” written in the 90′s ~ especially “closing time”. . . it’s funny.
Thing is, Dear Kin, we can’t lose our sense of humor. Listen to the Earth. Go out into Nature. Watch the birds and animals, even the insects. They have not veered off the sacred path of the natural time frequency. They can’t read or understand languages. Fortunately for them.
I enjoyed this website. Look forward to more info on it. Thanks for the forum.
In Lake’ch,
Katy
Red Planetary Serpent
Galactic Midwife
Steward of the New Earth, at your service