2012 Mayan Calendar Nibiru

2012 Mayan Calendar Nibiru

The Real Story Behind 2012:

There's been all kinds of talks out there regarding the date, December 21, 2012. There are all these theories, predictions, and prophecies about 2012. You hear speculations about a polar shift, others are talking about a shift in human consciousness, some people believe the end of the world is coming, but before you start building an underground bunker, before you buy any survival kits please know the real story behind this enigmatic date. There's a lot of confusion and misinformation out there and I wanted to make a website to educate people on the truth regarding 2012 and the truth about our origins.

The Anunnaki and Nibiru

In order to have a full understanding of this whole thing, you need to learn of the work of Zecharia Sitchin. Sitchin is one of a handful of people today able to read and translate the ancient languages of the Sumerians, Egyptians and Hebrews along with other modern languages. He has devoted his life on studying ancient civilizations and translating ancient texts, cuneiform and clay tablets. What he discovered was that the Ancient Sumerians (Sumerian civilization was the first civilization on earth) was taught everything they knew by their gods, whom they called 'Anunnaki'(translated "Those who from heaven to earth came.") The Sumerians knew of every planet in our Solar System, they knew their colors, they knew about their moons, they mentioned Mars once had water which is interesting considering we are just starting to discover this. Everything they knew, they said was taught to them by the Anunnaki, who came from another planet they called Nibiru(translated "The planet of the crossing") They said that Nibiru comes into our Solar System every 3,600 years due to its very long elliptical orbit. So basically the Anunnaki was an advanced race of beings who visited us and started our very first civilization. Astronomers today are now looking for this planet, they call it 'Planet x'("planet of the unknown" or "tenth planet") In 1990 Sitchin met with Dr. Robert Harrington, who was a Supervising Astronomer at the US Naval Observatory and he told Sitchin that they were indeed looking for Planet X.You can check out the video on youtube: Zecharia Sitchin interviewing Dr. Robert Harrington.

The Mayan Calendar                                  

So this is where the date came from. The Mayan Calendar does indeed end in December 21, 2012. But what will happen then? In order to find out you need to know the history of this calendar. The Mayan Calendar actually started with the Olmecs not the Mayas. The Olmecs were given this calendar by their god Quetzalcoatl, the Mayans called him Kukulcan or Ququmatz, to the Ancient Egyptians he was known as Thoth. He was known by different names to different civilizations but to the Sumerians he was known as Ningishzidda. Ningishzidda was one of the Anunnakis who came to Earth from Nibiru! According to ancient texts Quetzalcoatl/Ningishzidda, before he left, promised that he would return, and his return would be at the end of a cycle(December 21,2012). In fact in 1519 the Aztecs mistook the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes as Quetzalcoatl. In 1519, when Cortes and his men showed up in what is now Veracruz, the natives greeted them with gifts thinking that it was the promised return of their god, not knowing that the Spaniards were there to take over their land, it ultimately led to the fall of the Aztec Empire. (read The Fall of the Aztec Empire) So this is the real Mayan Prophecy - it's the return of their god, Quetzalcoatl. So does this mean that the Anunnakis will come back to Earth in 2012? Not exactly. In the past, the Anunnakis comings and goings to and from our planet occured when Nibiru was close to our planet and as you know Nibiru has a 3,600 year orbit so that's approximately every 3,600 years. According to Zecharia Sitchin the date December 21, 2012 is wrong and the year should actually be 2087. He explains the reasons for this in his book "The End of Days" and I urge everyone to read it and also his other books. He wrote a series of books called The Earth Chronicles and if you really want to know the true history of Earth, you should read his books.

So this is basically the story behind 2012. Anyone who knows the origins of the Mayan Calendar knows this. Anyone who's a reader of Zecharia Sitchin's books would know this. All these comet theories and disaster theories all stemmed from Planet X or Nibiru because in the past whenever Nibiru came into our Solar System it did bring catastrophe like for example according to ancient texts The Great Flood which occurred around 11,000bc was caused by Nibiru.

Among their other accomplishments, the ancient Mayas invented a calendar of remarkable accuracy and complexity. At right is the ancient Mayan Pyramid Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. The Pyramid of Kukulkan at Chichén Itzá, constructed circa 1050 was built during the late Mayan period, when Toltecs from Tula became politically powerful. The pyramid was used as a calendar: four stairways, each with 91 steps and a platform at the top, making a total of 365, equivalent to the number of days in a calendar year.

The Maya calendar was adopted by the other Mesoamerican nations, such as the Aztecs and the Toltec, which adopted the mechanics of the calendar unaltered but changed the names of the days of the week and the months. An Aztec calendar stone is shown above right.

The Maya calendar uses three different dating systems in parallel, the Long Count, the Tzolkin (divine calendar), and the Haab (civil calendar). Of these, only the Haab has a direct relationship to the length of the year.

A typical Mayan date looks like this: 12.18.16.2.6, 3 Cimi 4 Zotz.12.18.16.2.6 is the Long Count date.

3 Cimi is the Tzolkin date.

4 Zotz is the Haab date.

What is the Long Count?

The Long Count is really a mixed base-20/base-18 representation of a number, representing the number of days since the start of the Mayan era. It is thus akin to the Julian Day Number.

The basic unit is the kin (day), which is the last component of the Long Count. Going from right to left the remaining components are:

uinal      (1 uinal = 20 kin = 20 days)

tun         (1 tun = 18 uinal = 360 days = approx. 1 year)

katun    (1 katun = 20 tun = 7,200 days = approx. 20 years)

baktun  (1 baktun = 20 katun = 144,000 days = approx. 394 years)

The kin, tun, and katun are numbered from 0 to 19.

The uinal are numbered from 0 to 17.

The baktun are numbered from 1 to 13.

Although they are not part of the Long Count, the Mayas had names for larger time spans. The following names are sometimes quoted, although they are not ancient Maya terms:

1 pictun = 20 baktun = 2,880,000 days = approx. 7885 years

1 calabtun = 20 pictun = 57,600,000 days = approx. 158,000 years

1 kinchiltun = 20 calabtun = 1,152,000,000 days = approx. 3 million years

1 alautun = 20 kinchiltun = 23,040,000,000 days = approx. 63 million years

The alautun is probably the longest named period in any calendar.

When did the Long Count Start?

Logically, the first date in the Long Count should be 0.0.0.0.0, but as the baktun (the first component) are numbered from 1 to 13 rather than 0 to 12, this first date is actually written 13.0.0.0.0.

The authorities disagree on what 13.0.0.0.0 corresponds to in our calendar. I have come across three possible equivalences:

13.0.0.0.0 = 8 Sep 3114 BC (Julian) = 13 Aug 3114 BC (Gregorian)

13.0.0.0.0 = 6 Sep 3114 BC (Julian) = 11 Aug 3114 BC (Gregorian)

13.0.0.0.0 = 11 Nov 3374 BC (Julian) = 15 Oct 3374 BC (Gregorian)

Assuming one of the first two equivalences, the Long Count will again reach 13.0.0.0.0 on 21 or 23 December AD 2012 - a not too distant future.

The date 13.0.0.0.0 may have been the Mayas’ idea of the date of the creation of the world.

What is the Tzolkin?

The Tzolkin date is a combination of two "week" lengths.

While our calendar uses a single week of seven days, the Mayan calendar used two different lengths of week:

a numbered week of 13 days, in which the days were numbered from 1 to 13

a named week of 20 days, in which the names of the days were:

0. Ahau 1. Imix   2. Ik        3. Akbal                4. Kan

5. Chicchan         6. Cimi   7. Manik               8. Lamat               9. Muluc

10. Oc    11. Chuen            12. Eb    13. Ben 14. Ix

15. Men               16. Cib   17. Caban            18. Etznab           19. Caunac

The diagram at left shows the day symbols, in the same order as the table above.

As the named week is 20 days and the smallest Long Count digit is 20 days, there is synchrony between the two; if, for example, the last digit of today’s Long Count is 0, today must be Ahau; if it is 6, it must be Cimi. Since the numbered and the named week were both "weeks," each of their name/number change daily; therefore, the day after 3 Cimi is not 4 Cimi, but 4 Manik, and the day after that, 5 Lamat. The next time Cimi rolls around, 20 days later, it will be 10 Cimi instead of 3 Cimi. The next 3 Cimi will not occur until 260 (or 13 x 20) days have passed. This 260-day cycle also had good-luck or bad-luck associations connected with each day, and for this reason, it became known as the "divinatory year."

The "years" of the Tzolkin calendar are not counted.

When did the Tzolkin Start?

Long Count 13.0.0.0.0 corresponds to 4 Ahau. The authorities agree on this.

What is the Haab?

The Haab was the civil calendar of the Mayas. It consisted of 18 "months" of 20 days each, followed by 5 extra days, known as Uayeb. This gives a year length of 365 days.

The names of the month were:

1. Pop   7. Yaxkin              13. Mac

2. Uo     8. Mol   14. Kankin

3. Zip     9. Chen 15. Muan

4. Zotz   10. Yax  16. Pax

5. Tzec  11. Zac  17. Kayab

6. Xul     12. Ceh 18. Cumku

In contrast to the Tzolkin dates, the Haab month names changed every 20 days instead of daily; so the day after 4 Zotz would be 5 Zotz, followed by 6 Zotz ... up to 19 Zotz, which is followed by 0 Tzec.

The days of the month were numbered from 0 to 19. This use of a 0th day of the month in a civil calendar is unique to the Maya system; it is believed that the Mayas discovered the number zero, and the uses to which it could be put, centuries before it was discovered in Europe or Asia.

The Uayeb days acquired a very derogatory reputation for bad luck; known as "days without names" or "days without souls," and were observed as days of prayer and mourning. Fires were extinguished and the population refrained from eating hot food. Anyone born on those days was "doomed to a miserable life."

The years of the Haab calendar are not counted.

The length of the Tzolkin year was 260 days and the length of the Haab year was 365 days. The smallest number that can be divided evenly by 260 and 365 is 18,980, or 365×52; this was known as the Calendar Round. If a day is, for example, "4 Ahau 8 Cumku," the next day falling on "4 Ahau 8 Cumku" would be 18,980 days or about 52 years later. Among the Aztec, the end of a Calendar Round was a time of public panic as it was thought the world might be coming to an end. When the Pleaides crossed the horizon on 4 Ahau 8 Cumku, they knew the world had been granted another 52-year extension.

When did the Haab Start?

Long Count 13.0.0.0.0 corresponds to 8 Cumku. The authorities agree on this.

Did the Mayas Think a Year Was 365 Days?

Although there were only 365 days in the Haab year, the Mayas were aware that a year is slightly longer than 365 days, and in fact, many of the month-names are associated with the seasons; Yaxkin, for example, means "new or strong sun" and, at the beginning of the Long Count, 1 Yaxkin was the day after the winter solstice, when the sun starts to shine for a longer period of time and higher in the sky. When the Long Count was put into motion, it was started at 7.13.0.0.0, and 0 Yaxkin corresponded with Midwinter Day, as it did at 13.0.0.0.0 back in 3114 B.C.E. The available evidence indicates that the Mayas estimated that a 365-day year precessed through all the seasons twice in 7.13.0.0.0 or 1,101,600 days.

We can therefore derive a value for the Mayan estimate of the year by dividing 1,101,600 by 365, subtracting 2, and taking that number and dividing 1,101,600 by the result, which gives us an answer of 365.242036 days, which is slightly more accurate than the 365.2425 days of the Gregorian calendar.

(This apparent accuracy could, however, be a simple coincidence. The Mayas estimated that a 365-day year precessed through all the seasons twice in 7.13.0.0.0 days. These numbers are only accurate to 2-3 digits. Suppose the 7.13.0.0.0 days had corresponded to 2.001 cycles rather than 2 cycles of the 365-day year, would the Mayas have noticed?)

In ancient times, the Mayans had a tradition of a 360-day year. But by the 4th century B.C.E. they took a different approach than either Europeans or Asians. They maintained three different calendars at the same time. In one of them, they divided a 365-day year into eighteen 20-day months followed by a five-day period that was part of no month. The five-day period was considered to be unlucky.