Maya Cosmogenesis 2012: The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End-Date

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Summary: Fascinating and uplifting.
Review: A fascinating and in the end, uplifting book. I consider it to be the "Hamlet's Mill" of Mayan cosmology and I sincerely hope that it will serve as a departure point for future researchers.

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Summary: Twaddle
Review: All this twaddle about the end of time and the end of the world that has been floating about on street corners of the world since more than a couple of thousand goes on and on ad nauseum. All sensationalist rubbish to make a buck or to look very very important in the eyes of mommy maybe, I don't know, but this stuff really smells bad; a case of the blind leading the blind. Somewhere I read a future prediction for the world written by the Sung dynasty Chinese philosopher and mathematician, Shao Yong, that went on and on for something like 100,000 years and left of when he finally wearied of the whole thing and put his mind to more interesting puzzles. In 2012 the world will end like it did today and yesterday and will end tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. To quote a very wise friend of mine in respect to all this end of the world nonsense, "when NYC ends up at the bottom of the Bahamas, please write to me and tell me how you like it there." Buenas Noches.

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Summary: 2012: Celestial Cataclysm or Mayan Metaphor for Change?
Review: Are we linked in some way we do not understand to the greater cosmos?
Your daily horoscope is unlikely to tell you. Yet, the ancient Maya,
builders of stone monuments that intricately measured the movement of
the heavenly bodies and thus the passage of time, surely thought
so. Following the lead established in Giorgio de Santillana's HAMLET'S
MILL, Jenkins reaffirms the importance of the Precession of the
Equinoxes, the stately sliding and displacement of the morning risings
of the constellations of the zodiac -- each reigning for 2,160 years
-- until a "Great Year" of 25,920 has elapsed, and the
Precession has come full circle. Unlike Santillana, Jenkins
establishes the Maya, not the Sumerians, as the most ancient of
astronomers. And his hero is not Gilgamesh but the Hero Twins of the
POPOL VUH, the creation myth of the Maya. Jenkins believes that the
act of one of the twins, Hunahpu, in shooting the heavenly ruler,
Seven Macaw, from his throne, was in fact the removal of the reign of
the polar regions of the galaxy, and the reestablishment of the
galactic center. Jenkins views the falling from the sky of Seven Macaw
as a metaphor for a change in the way we view the cosmos, not as an
actual falling of a star, or a comet. Similarly, Jenkins views the
2012 end date for the current Mayan Age as a time when, "All the
values and assuptions of the previous World Age will expire, and a new
phase of human growth will commence." His vision of the
individual's connections to the galactic center owes much to Jose
Arguelles' THE MAYA FACTOR: PATH BEYOND TECHNOLOGY. It is a hopeful
look, but so, eventually, is the view of cyclical periods of
destruction and regeneration.







Rating:
Summary: 2012: Celestial Cataclysm or Mayan Metaphor for Change?
Review: Are we linked in some way we do not understand to the greater cosmos?
Your daily horoscope is unlikely to tell you. Yet, the ancient Maya,
builders of stone monuments that intricately measured the movement of
the heavenly bodies and thus the passage of time, surely thought
so. Following the lead established in Giorgio de Santillana's HAMLET'S
MILL, Jenkins reaffirms the importance of the Precession of the
Equinoxes, the stately sliding and displacement of the morning risings
of the constellations of the zodiac -- each reigning for 2,160 years
-- until a "Great Year" of 25,920 has elapsed, and the
Precession has come full circle. Unlike Santillana, Jenkins
establishes the Maya, not the Sumerians, as the most ancient of
astronomers. And his hero is not Gilgamesh but the Hero Twins of the
POPOL VUH, the creation myth of the Maya. Jenkins believes that the
act of one of the twins, Hunahpu, in shooting the heavenly ruler,
Seven Macaw, from his throne, was in fact the removal of the reign of
the polar regions of the galaxy, and the reestablishment of the
galactic center. Jenkins views the falling from the sky of Seven Macaw
as a metaphor for a change in the way we view the cosmos, not as an
actual falling of a star, or a comet. Similarly, Jenkins views the
2012 end date for the current Mayan Age as a time when, "All the
values and assuptions of the previous World Age will expire, and a new
phase of human growth will commence." His vision of the
individual's connections to the galactic center owes much to Jose
Arguelles' THE MAYA FACTOR: PATH BEYOND TECHNOLOGY. It is a hopeful
look, but so, eventually, is the view of cyclical periods of
destruction and regeneration.







Rating:
Summary: 2012: Celestial Cataclysm or Mayan Metaphor for Change?
Review: Are we linked in some way we do not understand to the greater cosmos?Your daily horoscope is unlikely to tell you. Yet, the ancient Maya,builders of stone monuments that intricately measured the movement ofthe heavenly bodies and thus the passage of time, surely thoughtso. Following the lead established in Giorgio de Santillana's HAMLET'SMILL, Jenkins reaffirms the importance of the Precession of theEquinoxes, the stately sliding and displacement of the morning risingsof the constellations of the zodiac -- each reigning for 2,160 years-- until a "Great Year" of 25,920 has elapsed, and thePrecession has come full circle. Unlike Santillana, Jenkinsestablishes the Maya, not the Sumerians, as the most ancient ofastronomers. And his hero is not Gilgamesh but the Hero Twins of thePOPOL VUH, the creation myth of the Maya. Jenkins believes that theact of one of the twins, Hunahpu, in shooting the heavenly ruler,Seven Macaw, from his throne, was in fact the removal of the reign ofthe polar regions of the galaxy, and the reestablishment of thegalactic center. Jenkins views the falling from the sky of Seven Macawas a metaphor for a change in the way we view the cosmos, not as anactual falling of a star, or a comet. Similarly, Jenkins views the2012 end date for the current Mayan Age as a time when, "All thevalues and assuptions of the previous World Age will expire, and a newphase of human growth will commence." His vision of theindividual's connections to the galactic center owes much to JoseArguelles' THE MAYA FACTOR: PATH BEYOND TECHNOLOGY. It is a hopefullook, but so, eventually, is the view of cyclical periods ofdestruction and regeneration.

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Summary: Brilliant scholarship...
Review: Brilliant scholarship, amazing talent and an intuitive feeling for Mayan thought make this book very significant  in understanding the importance of Dec. 21 (Solstice) 2012 as an end and beginning date in our human journey.

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Summary: The SHAMAN's SIREN
Review: Generation "X" will LOVE this BOOK.!!

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Summary: Boring
Review: I bought this book hoping to at least get some entertainment value out of it. I've read other New Age books and enjoyed them. However I got through the first couple of chapters, realized how far-fetched this particular theory was, skipped to the end, and found nothing new there.

Come on, people, use your brains. There is no possible way the ancients could have figured out where the galactic center was. I admit the idea of using stars makes at least some sense, but the actual galactic center? Come on. Like another reviewer wrote, you need lots of high tech gear to find it. And this book is so dull, it can't even pass for entertainment.

The Earth is not going to blow up in 2012. Aliens are not going to land. Humans aren't going to suddenly gain X-Men style mutant psychic powers or soemthing. Life will go on as usual 8 years from now (well, the Pagans might have one big heckuva Winter Solstice celebration that year, but most other people probably won't even care).

If you're looking for good New Age entertainment, read something like the Way of the Wizard by Deepak Chopkra. At least, his prose is readable.

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Summary: inspriational and eye opening for the esoteric !!!
Review: I can not understand why people don't take these matters a little more seriously. Cosmogenesis 2012 is not the only book that talks about this scenario, in fact even the bible talks about the same symbolism. You are on the right track, keep up the good work, our ancestors will be proud.

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Summary: Good Info -- A bit Tedious and Long -- I have a solution
Review: I finished it! But it took me four months. Then I got turned on to a book (I read an excerpt in a magazine) called LightShift 2000 by Ken Kalb, which I was able to read in about 2 or 3 hours. I came upon Chapter 7 called "Making Time on Planet Earth" which was an entire history of popular calendars, plus a solution to Y2K! Then the mystical Chapter 9, The Rites of Passage -- explained in 13 pages -- and took the material a step further -- everything and more I had spent four months laboring on in Mayan Cosmogenesis. I am becoming quite the expert on day keeping these days. Jenkins book is a good one to read during an El Nino winter in the Pacific Northwest.

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