Today, 22nd December 2011 begins the countdown to the end of the Mayan calendar on 21st December 2012.
Who amongst us believes that this will be the Apocalypse? Or is it just the beginning of another era!
The Mayans had a Long Count Calendar which measured vast amounts of time. the Long Count Calendar is based on a 360 day year called a tun. Twenty tuns make a katun (7200 days) and twenty katuns make a baktun (144,000 days). Thirteen baktuns make a Great Cycle or a Sun. At the end of each Great Cycle the Mayans believed that a huge catastrophe destroyed most of mankind and civilisation needed to re-establish itself. At present, we are in the Fifth Sun which began on 13th August 3114 BC and will finish on 21 December 2012
Venus was seen as the bringer of strife, conflict and war. The rising and setting of Venus was seen as the potent indicator of dark happenings. An eclipse was catastrophic.
| 2012 May 20: Annular Solar Eclipse |
| 2012 Jun 04: Partial Lunar Eclipse |
| 2012 Nov 13: Total Solar Eclipse |
| 2012 Nov 28: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse |
I don’t believe it will be the end of the world, but I do think there will be many natural disasters leading up to this date. Mother Nature is sure to cause an accounting for the way we have used her Earth during this the Fifth Sun.
