Figure 1--Mayan Calendar

Figure 2--Mayan record of the Long Count system of time recording.


Figure 3--The Galactic Cross


Figure 4--The Templar Cross, cf. The Galactic Cross

Figure 5--The Cross at Hendaye

Figure 6--The Freemason Pyramid, cf. the pyramid that will be drawn from the Sun to the Mayan pyramid temples on December 21, 2012.

Figure 7--The shapes and positions of the figures and the items on the table in Da Vinci's The Last Supper, are reminiscent of the position that will be assumed by the stars and planets on December 21, 2012, when they will be "laid flat"--as if on a table--when compared with the horizon.


Figure 8--The Milky Way will, due to the precession, be "laid flat" with respect to the horizon on December 21, 2012, and will thus bear a great resemblance to Da Vinci's The Last Supper.


Figure 9--On December 21, 2012, the Sun will be at a point in the sky at noon such that if one was to draw lines from the Sun to these Mayan temples, the lines would form a "perfect pyramid." 


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20 / Uinal

360 / Tun

                    7200 / Katun

144000 / Baktun

However, at the tun level, the uinal period is instead multiplied by 18 to make the 360-day tun. The Maya used this system to track a sequence of days from the time it was created. Long Count dates  have been found in dig sites where the time count was kept in the following mechanism: furst the baktun place value separated by dots. For example: 6.19.19.0.0 equals 6 baktuns, 19 katuns, 19 tuns, 0 uinals and 0 days. Each baktun has 144,000 days (remember this number), each katun has 7,200 days, etc. By adding up all the values the sum of 6.19.19.0.0 is acheived which indicates that a total of 1007640 days have elapsed since the Zero Date of 0.0.0.0.0. The key 13-baktun cycle will be completed 1,872,000 days after 0.0.0.0.0. The Mayans knew this 13-baktun period as the "Great Cycle" of the Long Count and it equals 5,125.36 years.

So, all of this information is well and good, but you may want to know what it means in "our language." The standard question to answer became: what does the "zero date" of 0.0.0.0.0 equal in the modern Gregorian calendar? The answer to this question is incredibly importnat because, once the "zero date" is derived, we then add 5,125.36 years to that date, and viola! we know when time will end according to the Mayans.  After years of analyzing data from varied fields such as astronomy, ethnography, archeology and iconography, researchers have determined that 0.0.0.0.0 corresponds to the Gregorian calendar date of August 11th, 3114 B.C. (remember this date as the "beginning of time"). This means that the end date of 13.0.0.0.0, some 5,125 years later, is December 21st, 2012 A.D.

Bottom Line: The Mayan Calendar Predicts That Time Will End on December 21, 2012.  But the question is, WHY?

Precession and the Galactic Alignment:

Precession and the Galactic Alignment are not taken from science fiction; each theory represents astronomical--not astrological--fact. 
The precession of the equinoxes is caused by the slow wobbling of the earth's polar axis. Right now the earth's polar axis roughly points to Polaris, commonly known as "The North Star" or "The Pole Star," but this changes slowly over long periods of time as the earth's axis wobbles. The earth's wobble causes the position of the seasonal quarters to slowly precess against the background of stars.  For example, currently the winter solstice position of the earth's polar axis points in the direction of the constellation of Sagittarius. However, 2000 years ago the earth's polar axis during the winter solistice was in the direction of Capricorn. As time passed, the earth's polar axis has precessed backward almost one full Zodiac sign. The universal belief is that the Greek astronomer Hipparchus was the first to discover precession around 128 B.C. However, research indicates that more ancient Old World cultures such as the Egyptians, Mayans, and Babylonians also knew about the precession of the earth's polar axis.  This continual precession of the earth's polar axis will lead--you guessed it, in December of 2012--to the Galactic Alignment.

First, we must inform you that the Ecliptic is a great circle on the Celestial sphere along which the Sun appears to travel in its journey around the Earth, taking one year to do so.  Thus, the Ecliptic is the path that the Sun takes around the Earth.

Second, the Celestial Sphere is a commonly referred to imaginary sphere around the Earth on which the stars in the sky are projected.  Think of yourself in a planetarium, where the stars are projected by lights onto the walls and ceiling; this is the Celestial Sphere. 

Third, the (Celestial) Equator is thought of as a great circle on the Celestial sphere; it lies in the plane being perpendicular to the Earth's own axis of rotation.

Because the rotation of the axis of the Earth is not perpendicular to the Earth’s orbital plane around the Sun but makes an angle of about 23 degrees, known as the Obliquity of the Ecliptic, the Equator and Ecliptic intersect on the Celestial Sphere. The two opposite points on the Celestial Sphere where they intersect are known as the Vernal and Autumn Equinoxes.  The Equinoxes signal the start of the spring and autumn seasons when the day and night equal in length (Latin: Aequi = equal, Noctium = night).

The line on the plane of Ecliptic which connects these two points is called the axis of Equinoxes; it embodies the intersection of the planes of ecliptic and Equator. Astronomically, the axes of Solstices represent the projection of the Earth's axis of rotation on the plane of Ecliptic; the respective points on the Ecliptic are called the Winter and Summer Solstices (Latin: Sol = Sun Stitium= stand still). For the Northern Hemisphere they define the moment of the year when the noon Sun has the lowest or highest elevation.

Mathematically, these axes of Solstices and Equinoxes are perpendicular one to another. For this reason they form a perfect cross on the plane of Ecliptic; call it the Terrestrial Cross.

It is to be noted that on December 21, 2012, all of the axes will line up forming a perfect 3 dimensional cross when viewed in light of the position of the Milky Way in the galaxy.  (See Figure 3 above).  This perfect 3 dimensional cross is thought to be the origin of the
cross used by the Knights Templar (Figure 4), is thought to be the origin of the shape of the mysterious Cross at Hendaye (Figure 5), is one
of the reasons the Free Masons use a pyramid (Figure 6), and is thought
to be a possible reason for theseemingly unexplained 
positioning of the figures in Da Vinci's "The Last
Supper" (Figures 7 and 8).