Mayan Calendar Prophecies: The Complete Collection of 2012 Predictions and Prophecies

by Gary Daniels

  “Comet Machholz meets the Pleiades” © Stefan Seip, Astromeeting.de

  9. Prelude to Disaster?Yet, as noted previously, Comet Machholz is a long period comet with an orbital period of 12,500 years.[42] This means the last time anyone on Earth would have seen this comet (and thus been able to calculate its return) was in the year 10,500 BC. Could the Maya have had access to astronomical data going back that far in history?

  Scholars have noted that the Mayan concept of the four world directions being associated with four different colors is remarkably similar to cultural practices in Asia and thus likely has origins in deep antiquity[43]; i.e., it came with them when their ancestors migrated across the Bering land bridge from Siberia at the close of the last Ice Age. Thus, at least one aspect of Mayan cultural practices still practiced today dates to that time period; thus, why not astronomical information encoded in their mythology?

  More importantly, what message were the ancient Maya trying to convey by encoding the year 10,500 BC into their prophetic books? Since it is known that the Maya believed time was cyclical and that past events would reoccur in the future, did something happen in 10,500 BC which they felt might repeat again in the future?

  In fact, one of the worst catastrophes ever to affect life on Earth occurred around 10,500 BC. Before this date, Earth had experienced rapid global warming which resulted in the melting of the glaciers from the last Ice Age raising sea levels hundreds of feet. Yet in 10,500 BC a catastrophe seems to have struck Earth. Temperatures plummeted as Earth entered a new period of extreme cold known as the Younger Dryas climate event.[44] In fact, this abrupt climate change happened within the course of only a few months![45]

  This was brought about by the collapse of an ice dam that allowed the enormous glacier lake known as Lake Agassiz to catastrophically dump its contents into the Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic. This influx of cold water shut down currents in the Atlantic which brought warm water up from the tropics to the northern hemisphere. Without this warm water the northern hemisphere reentered the Ice Age for another thousand years.

  It was also at this time that mastodons, mammoths, and other mega-fauna all became extinct and the people known as the Clovis Culture disappeared from North America. Scientists consider this the most severe mass extinction since the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago. Ninety-five percent of all large mammals went extinct but small animals were affected too. For example, ten genera of birds went extinct at this time. Such an event would clearly have left a strong cultural memory in the myths and legends of the survivors.

  Although this event appears to have affected North America the most, it also severely impacted Europe, Siberia, and South America. In their book The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture, scientists Richard Firestone and Allen West argued that the impact of a comet or meteor caused both the mass extinction and climate event.

  In order to validate a theory one must be able to make predictions and then verify those predictions with research data. Therefore, if comet Machholz was the basis of the Kukulkan myth then it would follow that Kukulkan should be associated with disasters, especially flooding, such as what happened at the onset of the Younger Dryas when comet Machholz last appeared. Is there any evidence that the Maya and other Mesoamerican cultures associated Kukulkan/Quetzalcoatl with floods and disasters?

  There is, in actuality, an abundance of evidence that the “sky serpent” was associated with floods and disasters. The earliest site in Mesoamerica dedicated to the worship of Quetzalcoatl was at Teotihuacan. A mural at Teotihuacan shows a flood of water streaming from the mouth of a great green serpent. A great flood caused by a “sky serpent” also occurs in the Mayan books known as the Dresden Codex, the Madrid Codex and the Popol Vuh.

  Teotihuacan mural shows a flood being emitted from the mouth of a green feathered serpent.

  In the Popol Vuh the deity known as Hunab Ku, “Heart of Heaven” (aka Kukulkan, Hurakan) destroyed the world by flood. Likewise, the Dresden Codex shows an image of the same giant serpent as seen at Teotihuacan with a torrent of water coming from its mouth. In this case, the story was also associated with Mayan deities known as the four Bacabs who were responsible for holding up the sky. According to this myth they did not do their job and the sky fell. The Bacabs are associated with the Pleiades and likely represented the four brightest stars of this asterism.[]

  Page from the Dresden Codex showing a flood of water coming from the mouth of a green serpent. Also shows the goddess Ixchel with a green snake on her head pouring water from a jar.

  In the Madrid Codex a similar story of a deluge is illustrated by a serpent that tears a hole in the sky.[46] In this case the serpent was blue yet in the Mayan language the same word, yax, is used for both blue and green, which shows they made no distinction between these two colors. Thus a blue serpent could easily serve in place of a green one.

  This scene from the Madrid Codex shows a blue serpent tearing a hole in the sky which led to a flood.

  It seems clear, then, that the Maya associated a green sky serpent with a catastrophic flood. According to their legends, this flood also brought about the end of a race of human beings.

  Scientists also believe that the catastrophic events at the onset of the Younger Dryas were caused by a comet or comet fragments that impacted the Earth.[47] Archaeological evidence suggests a group of hunter-gatherers known as the Clovis Culture disappeared from North America at this time as well. Due to the similarity between Clovis stone tools and those of the Solutreans in France, some have even argued that the Clovis Culture were Europeans.[48] Thus the scientific evidence of a catastrophe associated with a comet that included a flood and the disappearance of a race of people matches Mayan mythology quite closely.

  Yet scientists think fragments from comet Encke, not Machholz, impacted Earth and brought about these catastrophes.[49] In fact, every year we pass through the debris field from this comet. This debris causes the Taurid meteor showers each Fall around Halloween. These meteors appear to emanate from the Pleiades asterism in the constellation Taurus. Perhaps comet Machholz and thus Kukulkan were not the cause of the catastrophe but arrived before it and were later interpreted as a herald or messenger of the catastrophic floods that followed?

  Interestingly, Quetzalcoatl/Kukulkan was also associated with the invention of writing and the arts; thus, he was a god of communication, a messenger god. According to one interpretation, “His mission was to establish communication between Heaven and Earth….”[50] What was the message Quetzalcoatl was to deliver?

  Images of Quetzalcoatl show a green-feathered serpent devouring a man. This suggests Quetzalcoatl was associated with death and destruction. Thus Quetzalcoatl was like a herald whose appearance foretold of devastations to follow. Comets were often used for this purpose across all cultures throughout history, which further supports the idea Quetzalcoatl was meant to represent a comet.

  Quetzalcoatl’s association with death and destruction was the rationale behind the Mesoamerican practice of human sacrifice. They believed these deities were behind the natural disasters that consumed tens of thousands of lives. They believed they could appease this blood-thirst and avoid these catastrophes by sacrificing people to these gods. Of course the people they chose for sacrifice were their enemies. If the gods needed blood, they reasoned, then the blood of their enemies should suffice thereby saving their own people from future catastrophes. There was a logical, if not perverse, calculus and method to the madness of human sacrifice.

  Is this why the Maya chose a rattlesnake as opposed to some less deadly serpent to represent Quetzalcoatl? It should be remembered that a rattlesnake shakes its rattles as a warning before it strikes and unleashes its deadly venom. Did the Maya associate the Pleiades with rattlesnake rattles also as a way to encode the idea that these stars could serve as an early warning system before a catastrophe or series of catastrophes?

  In addition to “serpent”, coatl
also has a second meaning: “twin.” In Aztec mythology Quetzalcoatl had a twin known as Xolotl. Xolotl was associated with sickness, deformity, misfortune, and dogs (a taboo animal to the Aztecs).[51] His job was to guide souls to the underworld. (It should be noted in one myth Quetzalcoatl also visited the underworld after a great flood and used his own blood to recreate humans to repopulate the Earth.[52])

  It seems the mythological figure Quetzalcoatl perfectly encodes the idea of a green comet that passes near the Pleiades. Since the events of 10,500 BC had global impacts it should follow that other cultures around the world would also have encoded them in their myths. Can we find any other ancient myths that shared traits of Quetzalcoatl that will help support this idea? Indeed, another mythological figure is also associated with twin-winged serpents, the Pleiades, the underworld and a green comet: Hermes.

  10. Quetzalcoatl & Hermes: Cosmic Messengers?The symbol for Hermes in Greek mythology is the Caduceus or Staff of Hermes. This symbol consists of two serpents intertwined around a pole surmounted by a pair of wings. Thus the idea of twin serpents and wings are associated with both Hermes and Quetzalcoatl.

  Like Quetzalcoatl, Hermes also was associated with the invention of writing and the arts and considered a messenger god. Hermes may be derived from Hermeneus, which means the interpreter.[53] From Hermes comes our word “hermeneutics,” the study and theory of interpretation. He was also a god of commerce and of thieves. Like Quetzalcoatl and his twin Xolotl, Hermes guided souls to the underworld.

  Hermes had several stellar associations. In Greek mythology he was the child of Zeus and Maia (pronounced identically to Maya). Maia was one of the stars of the Pleiades and was herself the daughter of Atlas. Atlas, like the Mayan Bacabs, was responsible for holding up the heavens. According to researcher Jacqueline Brook, Hermes was also associated with a green comet.[54]

  To the Romans, Hermes was known as Mercury. According to legend, the green comet of Mercury was associated with “lightning’s, thunders, earthquakes, great winds, violent storms, and new arts, always destructive for mankind.”[55]

  Quetzalcoatl had a wind aspect known as Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl whose symbol was a swirling wind design. To the Maya this aspect of Quetzalcoatl was known as Hurakan where the modern word hurricane originates. Thus we see both Quetzalcoatl and Mercury/Hermes were associated with great winds, violent storms, and a green comet.

  How well does all the preceding evidence correlate with Comet Machholz? In August 2004 comet Machholz was first discovered. This coincided with the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, which climate scientists had predicted would be uneventful. Yet the 2004 hurricane season was “one of the deadliest and most costly Atlantic hurricane seasons on record” with “one of the highest Accumulated Cyclone Energy totals ever observed.”[56]

  In fact, there were eight named storms that formed during August despite a weak El Nino that emerged that summer. “In an average summer, only three or four storms would be named in August. The formation of eight named storms in August [broke] the old record….”[57] The highest number of tornadoes ever recorded also occurred in 2004.

  On Christmas Eve in December 2004 the third largest earthquake ever recorded occurred off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake spawned tsunamis that killed over 230,000 people in fourteen countries making this event one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history.[58]

  This rare event coincided with the brightest gamma ray burst ever recorded. This gamma ray burst came from a star only 12 miles across on the other side of our galaxy and released more energy in a tenth of a second than the sun emits in 100,000 years.[59]

  The burst also affected Earth’s ionosphere, briefly expanding it similarly to what happens during solar flares. The fact that a star so far away could affect Earth’s ionosphere was a great surprise to the scientists who discovered it.

  Physicist Dr. Paul LaViolette has theorized that such gamma ray bursts are preceded by gravity waves that can cause earthquakes on Earth.[60] Dr. LaViolette has calculated that such a gravity wave would have arrived around the same time as the 2004 Indonesian megaquake that caused the tsunami. Dr. LaViolette calculated that the odds were extremely small that two such rare and powerful events could occur together and be unrelated.

  On January 7, 2005, Comet Machholz made its closest visit to the Pleiades. Then just thirteen days later a solar flare “released the highest concentration of protons ever directly measured, taking only 15 minutes after observation to reach Earth….”[61]

  Protons can cause severe damage to body tissues leading to radiation sickness and death. Typically the protons from such flares take an hour or more to reach Earth giving astronauts plenty of time to take shelter. Yet this time they travelled nearly the speed of light.[62]

  It also should be noted that the strongest solar flare ever measured occurred on November 4, 2003, just nine months before the discovery of Comet Machholz. Other large solar flares have taken place on October 28, 2003, September 7, 2005, and February 17, 2011. In fact, “from January 2005 to September 2005 [Earth] experienced 4 severe geomagnetic storms and 14 X [class] flares.”[63]

  Could the green comet of Hermes/Quetzalcoatl be associated not only with increased terrestrial storms but also increased solar storms? Mercury, the Roman version of Hermes, is always shown wearing a solar hat thus clearly has solar associations.

  Likewise, the type of snake associated with Quetzalcoatl was the rattlesnake species Crotalus durissus. Researchers have noted that this rattlesnake has a design near its rattles that is identical to the Mayan glyph ahau that “designates the Sun God.”[64] Thus in addition to encoding the concepts of “twin” and “serpent,” coatl also encoded the concept of “sun.” There were other species of rattlesnake they could have used to symbolize Quetzalcoatl but they chose the Crotalus durissus with the ahau symbol on its tail. This seems quite purposeful.

  Usually humanity is protected from solar storms by Earth’s magnetic field but in 2008 NASA scientists discovered a huge hole in this field “ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist….The entire day-side of the magnetosphere was open to the solar wind.”[65]

  Any major flares occurring at that time would have hit Earth unimpeded by the protective magnetic field and caused immense damage to both life and technological infrastructure.

  Has the sun entered a new phase of activity that could pose dangers to Earth in the near future? Is this why the Maya referred to the beginning of a new age as the birth of a new sun? Is it the sun causing an increase in storm activity? Is the sun, in fact, the root cause of global warming and not carbon dioxide?

  Astronomer Sallie Baliunas and astrophysicist Willie Soon, researchers at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have shown that "changes in the Sun can account for major climate changes on Earth for the past 300 years, including part of the recent surge of global warming…[and] heat-trapping gases emitted by smokestacks and vehicles -- the so-called greenhouse effect -- appear to be secondary."[66]

  A few months after the January 2005 solar flare, the Atlantic hurricane season began. This was “the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history [with] a record twenty-eight tropical and subtropical storms formed, of which a record 15 became hurricanes. Of these, seven strengthened into major hurricanes, a record-tying five became Category 4 hurricanes and a record four reached Category 5 strength.... Among these Category 5 storms were Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma, respectively the costliest and the most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record.”[67]

  Since 2005 some of the largest and/or deadliest natural disasters in recorded history have occurred including the 2005 Kasmir earthquake (79,000 dead), 2006 Java earthquake, 2008 Sichuan earthquake (61,000 dead), 2008 Cyclone Nargis (138,000 dead), 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami (8.8 magnitude), 2010 Haiti earthquake and tsunami (222,000 dead), & the 2011 Tohoku Japan earthquake and tsunami (20,000 dead). [68]

  This period also included two of the deadliest avalanc
hes in history (2010 Salang & Kohistan avalanches in Afghanistan and Pakistan respectively) and two of the deadliest blizzards (2008 Afghanistan blizzard & 2008 Chinese winter storms). It also included two of the deadliest heat waves in history: Europe 2003 (40,000 dead) & Russia 2010 (56,000 dead) and two of the deadliest non-cyclone storms both in Brazil, 2008 (128 dead) and 2011 (1,000 dead).[69]

  The most tornadoes to touch down in a single day, 312, occurred on April 28, 2011, which was double the previous record.[70] In May 2011 flooding on the Mississippi River broke records in many locations.

  We have seen that since Comet Machholz arrived Earth has entered a period of extreme natural disasters. Two of the top ten deadliest natural disasters of all time have happened since 2004: the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Thus the green comet of Mercury-Hermes-Quetzalcoatl being associated with “lightning’s, thunders, earthquakes, great winds, [and] violent storms” seems fitting and just a little more than coincidental.

  Hermes was also a god of commerce and of thieves. Coincidentally, in 2008 the worst financial crisis in history struck the entire world.

  There is no known mechanism for a comet to be the source of such disasters nor do the ancient myths suggest this. The myths about Quetzalcoatl and Hermes suggest that a green comet serves as a herald or messenger of extreme catastrophes to come. If this is the case, then it would appear that there is a natural cycle of catastrophes with which the orbit of Comet Machholz just happens to coincide. Thus the next obvious questions are what is the orbit of Comet Machholz and when was the last time it visited Earth and what were the consequences?