I've been doing some reading on Quetzalcoatl and some various Native American groups, mostly the Maya and the Toltecs, and I had come to the conclusion that because the Mayan calendar ends on December 21st 2012 that the world was going to end, or at very least that a major facet of human civilization was going to be shattered or changed drastically.
But I just read an extremely interesting article from USA Today that claims otherwise.
There is, however, one extremely exciting coincidence. The following is an expert from the aforementioned article.
"Part of the 2012 mystique stems from the stars. On the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years. This means that 'whatever energy typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time,' Joseph writes."
Truly, truly interesting.
5 comments:
Blake said...
Well, it'll be disrupted if it can be disrupted by something like a star, in which case it may well have been disrupted more recently any number of times by other stars passing between us and the center of the Milky Way.
I have a feeling that stars are loosely packed enough for that to be extremely unlikely, but I don't know.
All of that assumes that there is some kind of energy stream. Perhaps all of our philotic connections will flicker.
William Fletcher said...
I agree, but it isn't the disruption of cosmic energy that interests me.
What's interesting is that on the day that the Mayan calendar ends, our solar system will be in a very rare position, one that may possibly have implications for our role in the galaxy, or at very least marks a major event in our celestial neighborhood.
It's amazing that the Maya calculated it so precisely, whether they knew what was being calculated or not.
Blake said...
That is exquisitely interesting, I agree.
Prolly a coincidence, durrr.
William Fletcher said...
Mmm.
That would be a pretty big coincidence in my book.
Blake said...
Yeah, I know, I forget how poorly sarcasm translates on the internet. That would have to be a freaking epic coincidence.