Maya News Updates & Maya Glyph Blog
13.0.0.0.0, 4 Ajaw 3 Uniiw
December 21, 2012. Rijswijk, Holland
Here
in Holland the midnight hour has passed, it is now the 21st of
December, 2012. (But it is probably more relevant to wait to sun rise.)
The curtain has fallen (well ...) for the Dooms Day fear mongers and the
self-proclaimed "prophets" who either predicted an end of the world
through some horrible end-of-times scenario or some kind of spiritual
awakening or transition (while I applaud the positivism in spiritual
awakening and/or transition it is nowhere contained in ancient Maya
texts). Supposedly this "end of the world" is based on ancient
prophecies of the Maya, and ultimately to be found in one eroded text
from Tortuguero (the La Corona reference is just the date, no associated
description). So not true. If you need a resolution for the "last" days
of 2012 or simply next year: Ask your money back from the authors
and/or publishers for any book or item you bought in relation to 2012
that told you that a Dooms Day would be coming or some sort of Awakening
or Transition! They ripped you off, they were "in the game" for the
money, not to save you ... But no worries yet for those who want to fear
or want to (be) awaken; December 21, 2012 is the 13.0.0.0.0 date in the
584,283 correlation (between the maya calendar and the Gregorian
calendar). For the 584,285 correlation it would be December 23, and with
the recently proposed 584,286 correlation it would be December 24. And
still no worries after that, the 13.0.0.0.0 date will be associated with
any upcoming date in our calendar. Those self-proclaimed "prophets"
will make other calculations, or just simply tell you that the awakening
has begun or that the transition is taking place. What a load of ...
Anyways.
A long period of silence that has ensued at my blogs is hopefully over.
For this there is a simple reason. This year of my life was reigned by a
series of unfortunate events which made it impossible to do all the
things that I like and want to do. Two operations on my back (the first
on January 2nd) and subsequent periods of recovery seriously affected my
ability to do any substantial work during the first half of the year. A
third operation affected the early part of the second half. Managing to
finish papers with dead lines on time or just after (thank you dear
editors for the extensions!) as well as to present a couple of papers
abroad (Paris, Gargano, Hamburg) meant that something had to give. What
had to give were the blogs. Which was very unfortunate, because what a
year it has been for Maya archaeological studies and our growing
understanding of Classic Maya society (for instance the discoveries at
Tak'alik Abaj, Xultun, La Corona, El Peru, and El Zotz'). As the
archaeological projects at these sites will continue their research the
coming years I am sure that more important findings will be made. And
those new findings will be reported on at Maya News Updates in 2013 and
years beyond (I hope). For ancient Mesoamerica I hope to post updates at Ancient MesoAmerica News Updates, and here at Maya Glyph Blog I hope to post new syllabaries (Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras) as soon as possible as well as on a variety of other glyphic subjects.
Enjoy the Holidays, which ever one you prefer,
Erik
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