The 2012 Story

by John Major Jenkins

  6 Aveni, Anthony, and Horst Hartung. “Water, Mountain, Sky: The Evolution of Site Orientations in Southeastern Mesoamerica.” Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather, ed. by Eloise Quiñones Keber. Labyrinthos, 2000, pp. 55-68.

  7 Barbara MacLeod, e-mail of January 26, 2008.

  8 Sitler, Robert K. “The 2012 Phenomenon: New Age Appropriation of an Ancient Maya Calendar. Nova Religio 9 (3), 2006, p. 29.

  9 Sitler, Robert. “13 Pik: Maya Perspectives.” http://www.stetson.edu/~rsitler/13PIK/.

  10 Sitler, Robert K. “The 2012 Phenomenon: New Age Appropriation of an Ancient Maya Calendar.” Nova Religio 9 (3), 2006.

  11 Stray, Geoff. http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/sit.htm. Aveni’s date is calculated in his 2001 book Skywatchers (second edition of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico), Appendix B, Chapter IV.

  12 Jenkins, John Major. “Maya Statements and 2012.” 2006. http://www.alignment2012.com/mayan2012statements.html.

  13 Aztlan discussion. http://www.famsi.org/pipermail/aztlan/2006-April/001978.html.

  14 The entire exchange can be read in the Aztlan archives here: http://www.famsi.org/pipermail/aztlan/2006-April/001978.html.

  15 See the University of Texas Mesoamerica discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/utmesoamerica/browse_thread/thread/2ad64b039cb60983/0396cfd4957fd61e?pli=1

  16 Houston, Stephen. “What Will Not Happen in 2012.” http://decipherment.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/what-will-not-happen-in-2012/.

  17 Jenkins, John Major. “In the Roots of the Milky Way Tree.” New Dawn Magazine. No. 97. Australia, July-August 2006.

  18 Houston, Stephen. “What Will Not Happen in 2012.” http://decipherment.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/what-will-not-happen-in-2012/.

  19 Ibid., comments section.

  20 Ibid.

  21 Houston, Stephen. “Classic Maya Depictions of the Built Environment.” Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture, ed. by Stephen Houston. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998.

  22 University of Texas Mesoamerica discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/utmesoamerica/browse_thread/thread/a636bb7dfc6d7e85/c412ee3a86e38b1a.

  23 Wikipedia “Mayanism” entry, accessed March 7, 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayanism.

  24 Aztlan discussion group: http://www.famsi.org/pipermail/aztlan/2008-January/003957.html.

  25 Ibid.

  26 Hoopes, John. “William S. Burroughs & 2012” thread on Tribe2012: http://2012.tribe.net/thread/6b96e7c5-4ad7-4d0c-aed6-f513ecfc03bc.

  27 Aztlan discussion group: http://www.famsi.org/pipermail/aztlan/2008-January/003957.html.

  28 Irvin, Jan. Interviews with John Hoopes and John Major Jenkins, podcasts #004 and #008. http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/.

  29 Coe, Michael. The Maya, first edition. 1966, p. 174.

  30 Ibid.

  31 Anastas, Benjamin. “The Final Days.” The New York Times Sunday Magazine. July 1, 2007. The article is preserved here: http://www.alignment2012.com/NYTimes.html.

  32 Institute of Maya Studies newsletter, March 2008. Also here: http://www.alignment2012.com/Aprilpg3.pdf and http://www.alignment2012.com/Aprilpg6.pdf.

  33 Strous has updated his website since our exchange transpired in 2004: http://www.astro.uu.nl/~strous/AA/en/2012.html. I have archived offline the original version, which I quoted from.

  34 Jenkins exchange with Stephen Tonkin. http://alignment2012.com/tonkins-error.html.

  35 Zap, Jonathan. http://alignment2012.com/zap-on-tonkins-error.html. Also on www.zaporacle.com.

  36 de Santillana, Giorgio. The Crime of Galileo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955; de Santillana, Giorgio. “Galileo and Oppenheimer.” Reflections on Men and Ideas, 1968, pp. 120-136.

  37 “Word of Mouth.” NPR radio program. December 31, 2008. http://www.nhpr.org/wordofmouth.

  38 “Bad Astronomy.” http://www.badastronomy.com/.

  39 Nassim Haramein on the orbital motion of our solar system: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ir5sQEg0rs4&feature=related.

  40 Geoff Stray. http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/idiot.html.

  41 Jenkins, John Major. Original 2000 essay reprinted in Galactic Alignment. Rochester, VT: Bear & Company, 2002, pp. 40-42.

  42 Pointed out to me by Michael Grofe, e-mail of February 2009. Grofe, Michael. “Palenque’s Temple XIX and the Creation Stories of Central Mexico: Flint, Fire, and Tlaltecuhtli.” n.d.

  43 Transcript of Barb MacLeod’s interview for the film “Breaking the Maya Code” at: http://www.nightfirefilms.org/breakingthemayacode/interviews/MacLeodTRANSCRIPT.pdf.

  44 Bibliographical resource for Maya Studies research: http://Alignment2012.com/bibbb.htm.

  45 Stuart, David, and Stephen Houston. “Classic Maya Place Names.” Studies in PreColumbian Art and Archaeology #33, Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1994, p. 80.

  46 Jenkins, “Commentary on Stuart and Houston’s Study of Mayan Place Names.” 1995. http://www.alignment2012.com/fap11.html.

  47 Van Stone, Mark. “It’s Not the End of the World: What the Ancient Maya Tell Us About 2012.” http://www.famsi.org/research/vanstone/2012/index.html, 2008.

  48 Aztlan discussion group: http://www.famsi.org/pipermail/aztlan/2008-December/005363.html.

  49 Aztlan discussion group: http://www.famsi.org/pipermail/aztlan/2008-December/005366.html.

  50 Online resource for the Tulane 2012 conference of February 2009: http://alignment2012.com/Tulane2009.html.

  51 David Stuart. http://www.alignment2012.com/CNNinterviewerPawlowski.html.

  52 “Six Points Essential for a Fair Critique of the 2012 Topic”—a four-page document I handed out at Tulane. http://Alignment2012.com/Six-essential-points-Tulane.html.

  53 Audio clips and/or the full recording of Aveni’s talk will remain available for informational purposes on: http://alignment2012.com/Tulane2009.html. Aveni’s quotes from various authors are transcribed directly from his reading.

  54 Geoff Stray. http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/logo.htm.

  55 Pawlowski, A. “Apocalypse in 2012? Date Spawns Theories, Film.” CNN .com/technology. January 27, 2009. http://www.alignment2012.com/CNNinterviewerPawlowski.html. Compare to Joseph’s comments in Apocalypse 2012, pp. 8, 10, 114, and 126.

  56 Newsome, Elizabeth. Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2001.

  57 Looper, Matthew G. “Quirigua Zoomorph P: A Water Throne and Mountain of Creation.” Heart of Creation: The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele, ed. by Andrea Stone. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2002, p. 199.

  58 The Lacandon Maya conceive of the Milky Way’s bulge in Sagittarius as the roots of a giant tree. Bruce, R. D., C. Robles U., and E. Ramos Chao. Los Lacandones 2, Cosmovision Maya. Publicaciones 26. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Departamento de Investigaciones Antropológicas, 1971.

  59 Western science and philosophy marginalize the insights of Traditionalist philosophy. See: Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy 1, Selected Papers: Traditional Art and Symbolism, ed. by Roger Lipsey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977; Corbin, Henry. Temple and Contemplation, trans. by Philip Sherrard. London: KPI Ltd., 1986; Guénon, René. Fundamental Symbols: The Universal Language of Sacred Science. Cambridge, UK: Quinta Essentia, 1995; Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Knowledge and the Sacred. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989; The Betrayal of Tradition, ed. Harry Oldmeadow; Science and the Myth of Progress, ed. by Mehrdad M. Zarandi; Wolfgang Smith. The Wisdom of Ancient Cosmology; René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, trans. by Lord Northbourne. New York: Penguin Books, 1972. Good books on Gnosis and Gnosticism include The Gnostic Religion by Hans Jonas, Gnosis by Dan Merkur, and Gnosis by Kurt Rudolph.

  60 Publishers Weekly on Aveni’s scientism, from a review on the Amazon.com listing for Aveni’s book Behind the Crystal Ball: “This informative but stacked-deck history of science and magic… presupposes a readership that em
braces a scientific-materialistic worldview that sees little or no sense in the pursuit of so-called magical practices.”

  61 More info on the keynote address and the Sunday panel, including audio clips, is here: http://alignment2012.com/Tulane2009.html.

  62 Aveni, Anthony, and Horst Hartung. “Water, Mountain, Sky: The Evolution of Site Orientations in Southeastern Mesoamerica.” Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather, ed. by Eloise Quiñones Keber. Labyrinthos, 2000.

  63 Jenkins, John Major. “Open Letter to Mayanists and Astronomers.” http://www.alignment2012.com/openletter.htm.

  64 Aveni, Anthony, and Horst Hartung. “Water, Mountain, Sky: The Evolution of Site Orientations in Southeastern Mesoamerica.” Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather, ed. by Eloise Quiñones Keber. Labyrinthos, 2000, p. 58.

  65 Field trip to Izapa in 2006 to measure the ballcourt. http://www.alignment2012.com/izapa-solstice-2006.html.

  66 Lowe, Gareth, Thomas A. Lee, Jr., and Eduardo Martinez Espinoza. “Izapa: A Guide to the Ruins and Monuments.” Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, No. 31. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1982; Norman, V. Garth. “Izapa Sculpture, Part 1: Album.” Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, No. 30. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1973; Norman, V. Garth. “Izapa Sculpture, Part 2: Text.” Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, No. 30. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1976; Norman, V. Garth. Astronomical Orientations of Izapa Sculptures. Master’s thesis, Anthropology Department. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1980.

  67 Aveni, Anthony, and Horst Hartung. “Water, Mountain, Sky: The Evolution of Site Orientations in Southeastern Mesoamerica.” Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather, ed. by Eloise Quiñones Keber. Labyrinthos, 2000, p. 55.

  68 Dennis Tedlock’s comments can be heard during the Sunday panel. http://alignment2012.com/Tulane2009.html.

  CHAPTER 7. THE GALACTIC ALIGNMENT THEORY: UPDATE

  1 Looper, Matthew. “The 3-11-pih Title in Classic Maya Inscriptions.” Glyph Dwellers, Report 15, December 2002. http://nas.ucdavis.edu/NALC/R15.pdf.

  2 Grube, Nikolai, A. Lacadena, and S. Martin. “Chichén Itzá and Ek Balam: Terminal Classic Inscriptions from Yucatán.” Notebook for the XXVIIth Maya Hieroglyphic Forum at Texas. Austin, Tex.: Maya Workshop Foundation, 2003.

  3 Barb MacLeod’s paper, “The 3-11 Pik Formula,” was circulated at the Maya Meetings in Austin in March 2008. It is reproduced here: http://Alignment2012.com/3-11PikFormula.html.

  4 Grofe, Michael J. “Calculations of the Tropical Year and Precessional Cycles: Two Bone Fragments from Tikal Burial 116,” n.d., 2003.

  5 Grofe, Michael J. “The Recipe for Rebirth: Cacao as Fish in the Mythology and Symbolism of the Ancient Maya.” The Foundation Research Department. Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc., 2009, www.famsi.org/research/grofewriting. Grofe’s latest observations were made very recently, in February of 2009, and are thus as yet unpublished. His overall work integrates epigraphic decipherment and astronomy, a sensitivity that very few epigraphers have. Grofe’s unpublished manuscripts include: “The Sidereal Year and Precession in the Cross Group of Palenque” and “Astronomical References in Tortuguero Monument 6.”

  6 Aveni’s considered comments are found in the DVD film 2012: Science or Superstition? The Disinformation Company, 2009.

  7 Taube, Karl. “The Jade Hearth: Centrality, Rulership, and the Classic Maya Temple.” Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture, ed. by Stephen Houston. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998.

  8 Gronemeyer, Sven. Tortuguero, Tabasco, Mexico: History of a Classic Maya Site as Known from Its Inscriptions. 2004. http://www.sven-gronemeyer.de.

  9 Grofe to Jenkins, personal e-mail communication. February 20, 2009.

  10 See the archive of Copan Notes online: http://utmesoamerica.org/CopanNotes.php.

  11 Alexander, Helen. “God K on Ceramic Vessels.” Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, http://www.famsi.org/research/alexander/godkceramic.pdf, p. 1.

  12 Newsome, Elizabeth. Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2001, p. 172.

  13 Jenkins, John Major. “Evidence for a Black Hole in Maya Creation Texts.” Appendix 4 of Maya Cosmogenesis 2012. 1998, pp. 351-356.

  14 Milbrath, Susan. Star Gods of the Maya. Austin. Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1999, pp. 264-266.

  15 Harris, John F., and Stephen K. Stearns. Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyphic Handbook, second revised edition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1997; Coe, Michael, and Mark Van Stone. Reading the Maya Glyphs. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001; Macri, Martha, and Matthew Looper. The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003; Montgomery, John. How to Read Maya Hieroglyphs. New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., 2002.

  16 The possible reading of the “broken sky” toponym as jagged mountain peaks in the immediate geography was suggested by Simon Martin in “A Broken Sky: The Ancient Name of Yaxchilan as Pa’ Chan.” The PARI Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, summer 2004. http://www.mesoweb.com/pari/journal/.

  17 Jenkins, John Major. Galactic Alignment. 2002, p. 217.

  PART II: 2012 AND THE BIG PICTURE

  1 James, William. A Pluralistic Universe. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909, p. 292.

  2 Rumi. “Sheba’s Throne.” The Essential Rumi. Trans. by Coleman Barks. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995, p. 190.

  CHAPTER 8. SACRED SCIENCE AND PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY

  1 Daumal, René. Mount Analogue, Shambhala edition, 1992, p. 104.

  2 Carlson, John B. “A Geomantic Model for the Interpretation of Mesoamerican Sites: An Essay in Cross-Cultural Comparison.” Mesoamerican Sites and World Views, ed. by Elizabeth P. Benson. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks. 1981, pp. 143-216.

  3 Frazer, James, The New Golden Bough. Criterion Books, 1959, p. 223ff.

  4 Huxley, Aldous. Introduction to The Song of God, Bhagavad Gita. Mentor paperback, 1972, p. 17.

  5 Coomaraswamy, Ananda. Guardians of the Sun-Door. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2004, pp. viii-ix.

  6 Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Introduction to Guardians of the Sun-Door. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2004, p. ix.

  7 Huxley, Aldous. Introduction to The Song of God, Bhagavad Gita. Mentor paperback, 1972, p. 12.

  8 Ibid., p. 13.

  9 Guénon, René. The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, trans. by Lord Northbourne. New York: Penguin Books, 1972; Guénon, René. Crisis of the Modern World, trans. by Arthur Osborne. Ghent, New York: Sophia Perennis et Universalis, 1996.

  10 Zerzan, John. Twilight of the Machines. Port Townsend, WA: Feral House, 2008.

  11 Wikman, Monika. Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness. Berwick, ME: Nicolas-Hays, Inc., 2004, p. 29.

  12 Oldmeadow, Harry (ed.). The Betrayal of Tradition: Essays on the Spiritual Crisis of Modernity. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, Inc., 2005.

  13 Wilber, Ken. Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, revised edition. Boston and London: Shambhala, 2001, p. 211.

  14 Ibid.

  15 The relationship is a bit more nuanced than this summary allows; see Ira Progoff’s Jung, Synchronicity, and Human Destiny: Noncausal Dimensions of Human Experience. New York: Julian Press, 1973.

  16 Jung, Carl. Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, trans. by R.F.C. Hull. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1973.

  17 Wasiutynski, Jeremi. The Solar Mystery. Oslo: Solum Forlag, 2003, p. 15.

  18 Wind, Edgar. Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance, revised and enlarged edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1968.

  19 Woodhouse, C. M. Gemistos Plethon, the Last of the Hellenes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.

  20 Wasiutynski, Jeremi. The Solar Mystery. Oslo: Solum Forlag, 2003, p. 15.

  21 Ibid.

  22 Ibid., p. 16.

 
; 23 Ibid., p. 14.

  24 Dewey, John. “The Need for a New Party.” John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1953, vol. 6. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989, p. 163.

  CHAPTER 9. THE FULFILLMENT OF THE MAYA PROPHECY

  1 Tedlock, Dennis (trans.). The Popol Vuh, second edition, 1996, p. 73.

  2 For more on this, see Jenkins, John Major. Unlocking the Secrets of the 2012. 3-CD audio. Louisville, CO: Sounds True, 2007; Jenkins, John Major. “The Origins of the 2012 Revelation.” The Mystery of 2012. Louisville, CO: Sounds True, 2007.

  3 Iraq war casualties: http://icasualties.org/oif/.

  4 Hanley, Charles J. “Massive New Embassy in Iraq Flaunts U.S. Power, Critics Say.” Associated Press. April 15, 2006. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0415-07.htm.

  5 http://mediamatters.org/items/200604270005.

  6 Ibid.

  7 Ibid.

  8 Hermann Göring’s comments were made in a private conversation with prison psychologist and U.S. Army Captain Gustave M. Gilbert during the Nuremberg trials. Gilbert, G. M., Nuremberg Diary. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1947, pp. 278-279.

  9 Valenti, Jack. “Speech before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.” October 1, 1998. Posted on the Los Angeles World Affairs Council website.

  10 Shaheen, Jack. Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People. Media Education Foundation, 2007. http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaRaceAndRepresentation/ReelBadArabs/studyguide/ReelBadArabs.pdf.

  11 Joseph Goebbels. http://thinkexist.com/quotes/joseph_goebbels/.

  12 Michael Parenti, http://www.radioproject.org/transcript/1998/9839.html.

  13 Keith Olbermann. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#31416352.

  14 Hall, Kevin G.. “Obama to propose new financial regulator, stronger Fed.” http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090617/pl_mcclatchy/3253921, June 16, 2009; Rachel Maddow show. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#31416637