"Sadly the Maya 2012 target will not put us out of our misery. We will survive the hype."
The book I am finishing on this subject is probably the first to ever reveal the true importance of what the Maya discovered. They believed in cycles. The uninitiated have taken the mere end of the current cycle and turned this into a doomsday forecast like Y2K, the Biblical end of the world in April 2010, and so many other crazy stories. Why people tout the end of the world is a mystery. Perhaps they are just pissed-off (mad not drunk) and wish retribution for being short-changed in skill and imagination.
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It is true that one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction, as government desires to eliminate all rights, privileges, and immunities. But this is part of the cycle that constantly repeats. Government is the enemy of the people. Historically it always has been. They seek only one thing, power over others. They will do anything to retain that power. For they cannot sleep at night worrying that someone has something they want or is doing something they do not approve of. This is part of a long cyclical process where government is always the great evil empire for it ultimately always seeks to dominate the people regardless of what form it has taken.
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The Maya were students of TIME. This amazing fact that the ancient Maya were sky watchers and were able to pinpoint a winter solstice far off into the future demonstrates that their discovery was indeed important. The Mayan Long Count and the precession of the equinoxes are the key.
The Maya Classic Period is thought to have lasted from 200 – 900AD, but recent archeological findings are pushing back the dawn of Mayan civilization. Large ruin sites indicating high culture with distinctly Mayan antecedents are being found in the jungles of Guatemala dating back to before 200AD and may even have existed before the Olmec civilization. But this is not yet confirmed.
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It is interesting that the dominance of the Arab world ended with about 400 years or one Baktun. Where the Renaissance marked the beginning of one cycle, 1200 to 1600, it now appears that the current cycle 1600 to 2000 may mark the culmination of the Mayan 13th Baktun and hence the Sovereign Debt Crisis could mark its end. These are just rough assessments and we will look at these aspects in much more detail in an effort to resurrect the Maya from the slander heaped upon them by the doom-and-gloom crown intent upon create unnecessary hype over extrapolated nonsense.
