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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Illuminati: Order of the Illumined Wise Men
by Terry Melanson extracted from ConspiracyArchive Website recovered through WayBackMachine Website May 1, 1776, was the most important date in Freemasonry's Luciferic New World Order Plans. On that date an obscure Jesuit-trained professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Adam Weishaupt, founded a secret society called the Ancient and Illuminated Seers of Bavaria (AISB for short). Illuminati was founded on a mixture of: A unique and dangerous element was it's scientific use of the drug, hashish, to produce an "illuminated" state of mind-derived directly through the Knights Templar's association with the Order of the Assassins (circa 1050 AD). Illumination had long been a cherished component of Masonry and other occult groups. The Masonic candidate requests, and is promised "light in Masonry." As he goes up the ladder of initiation, he receives "more light". It is because of this society's emphasis on illumination that the AISB became known by its more common title, the Illuminati.
- Masonic secrets (Luciferic Doctrine)
- Islamic Mysticism (Sufism)
- Jesuit mental discipline (Hatha Yoga)
The term Illuminati, is the plural of the Latin, Illuminatus, meaning "one who is illuminated." Thus, it means a person who has received the full extent of the initiation that is available through Freemasonry.
Technically, an Illuminatus is a Master Mason who has received all the "light" Masonry can bestow. He is beyond 32° and even beyond 33°! Such people are known as the Masters of Masters of the Temple, and collectively are known by several names other than the Illuminati. Great White Brotherhood
Argentium Astrum (Silver Star)
Order of One
Torch-bearers
Invisible College
Custodians of the Plan
The Lords of Compassion Guardians of the Grail Society of Illumined Minds
World Mind
Council of Masters
Hesychasts
Order of the Perfectibilists
The Council of All Beings
Wisemen
Invisible Order Secret Brotherhood
The Brain Trust
Crusaders of the Green Cross
Seekers on the Threshold
Masters of Wisdom
The Hierarchy
Council of Nine
Fraternitas Saturni
Hermetic Brotherhood of Light
Illuminati Structure ("click") Most of The Elite were born elite. Their upbringing is steeped in tradition and is a kind of secret society in of itself. Their father was a Mason, his father was a Mason, his father's father was a Mason. Perhaps while growing up the child heard stories of his father's involvement in other secret groups. 'There exists in the world today, and has existed for thousands of years, a body of enlightened humans united in what might be termed, an Order of the Quest. It is composed of those whose intellectual and spiritual perceptions have revealed to them that civilization has secret destiny...Darkbird18 is still on the trail of this group who call themselves, “The Illuminati” and why it is so hard to understand who and what they’re. It takes many years of research and finding good information on the Bad Elites and how they are setup. This website does a very good job of starting with the organs and the why of this group. If you want to get more information on this subject read this article and then go to the website link below and dig deeper for more information………………………… Illuminati: Order of the Illumined Wise Men
The outcome of this 'secret destiny' is a World Order ruled by a King with supernatural powers.
This King was descended of a divine race; that is, he belonged to the Order of the Illumined for those who come to a state of wisdom then belong to a family of heroes-perfected human beings.' from 'The Secret Destiny of America' by Manly P. Hall 33° Mason
Saturday, October 27, 2012
The Mayans Push Back About ‘the Myth’ of 2012
Dawn Gifford Engle is a six time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and she is an activist and film-maker and co founder of Peace Jam which often brings kids together with the great minds of our Universe in congregation and contemplation … and then… actions to the good.
From the trailer….
What do the Maya really say about 2012? Is the world going to end on December 21, 2012? Learn more from the most famous Maya in the world, 1992 Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum of Guatemala, and her Mayan elders. Filmed over a period of five years, this 50 minute documentary film takes you deep into the Guatemalan highlands, where a small group of elders have preserved the traditions of the ancient Mayas, passing this deep knowledge down from generation to generation in an unbroken lineage of over 2,000 years.
There is a good long film clips here...
Darkbird18 (Charlie) is still online but working from many outside computers and computer centers all over Anaheim,CA. I found this article and movie clip and it is worth while posting. Watch the movie and Darkbird18 is always on point with 2012, don't forget to FIGHT THE FUTURE!
http://www.2012thetruemayanprophecy.com/
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Bilderberg 2012 Official list of Participants Pawns of the New World Order « New World Order War
Bilderberg 2012 Official list of Participants Pawns of the New World Order
The Bilderberg group is a secret group of powerful people from around the world that are basically pawns of the New World Order. They Meet once a year minimum to receive instructions on the New World Orders agenda for the year. They met yesterday in Virginia and are there for a couple of days with no real national media coverage. Below is a list of the Pawns.
Chairman
FRA Castries, Henri de Chairman and CEO, AXA Group
DEU Ackermann, Josef Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG
GBR Agius, Marcus Chairman, Barclays plc
USA Ajami, Fouad Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
USA Alexander, Keith B. Commander, US Cyber Command; Director, National Security Agency
INT Almunia, JoaquÃn Vice-President – Commissioner for Competition, European Commission
USA Altman, Roger C. Chairman, Evercore Partners
PRT Amado, LuÃs Chairman, Banco Internacional do Funchal (BANIF)
NOR Andresen, Johan H. Owner and CEO, FERD
FIN Apunen, Matti Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA
TUR Babacan, Ali Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs
PRT Balsemão, Francisco Pinto President and CEO, Impresa; Former Prime Minister
FRA Baverez, Nicolas Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
FRA Béchu, Christophe Senator, and Chairman, General Council of Maine-et-Loire
BEL Belgium, H.R.H. Prince Philippe of
TUR Berberoğlu, Enis Editor-in-Chief, Hürriyet Newspaper
ITA Bernabè, Franco Chairman and CEO, Telecom Italia
GBR Boles, Nick Member of Parliament
SWE Bonnier, Jonas President and CEO, Bonnier AB
NOR Brandtzæg, Svein Richard President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
AUT Bronner, Oscar Publisher, Der Standard Medienwelt
SWE Carlsson, Gunilla Minister for International Development Cooperation
CAN Carney, Mark J. Governor, Bank of Canada
ESP Cebrián, Juan Luis CEO, PRISA; Chairman, El PaÃs
AUT Cernko, Willibald CEO, UniCredit Bank Austria AG
FRA Chalendar, Pierre André de Chairman and CEO, Saint-Gobain
DNK Christiansen, Jeppe CEO, Maj Invest
RUS Chubais, Anatoly B. CEO, OJSC RUSNANO
CAN Clark, W. Edmund Group President and CEO, TD Bank Group
GBR Clarke, Kenneth Member of Parliament, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of Justice
USA Collins, Timothy C. CEO and Senior Managing Director, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC
Darkbird18 is still in business and doing research about the bad and how they’re setup. The Bilderberg has been in business for a long time and is part of the NWO; they control from within governments and is part of the shadow government. Check out this list and click on the link below to get the complete list on the Blog………
Bilderberg 2012 Official list of Participants Pawns of the New World Order « New World Order War
Saturday, September 8, 2012
UFO 'Secrets' To Be Revealed In September, Says National Atomic Testing Museum
UFO 'Secrets' To Be Revealed In September, Says National Atomic Testing Museum
Posted: 09/01/2012 6:20 am Updated: 09/02/2012 4:43 am
In just a few weeks, some kind of UFO-related secrets will be revealed at a Smithsonian Institution affiliated museum.
That's the implied promise in the title of a special lecture coming up at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas on Sept. 22.
The secrets haven't yet been revealed, but the players involved certainly present the potential for something intriguing to emerge from this one-night event that's part of the museum's ongoing Area 51 lecture series.
Watch this promo for the upcoming UFO lecture at the National Atomic Testing Museum.
"We wanted to concentrate on people who had personal stories and exposure to what they thought were real UFOs from the military side, because they might have just a little more credibility than your average Joe," Palmer told The Huffington Post.
"We looked at bringing in some people to talk about extraterrestrials and UFOs," said museum CEO and executive director Allan Palmer, a highly decorated former Air Force and Navy combat jet fighter.
"We wanted to concentrate on people who had personal stories and exposure to what they thought were real UFOs from the military side, because they might have just a little more credibility than your average Joe," Palmer told The Huffington Post.
Four of the participants had previous American military security clearances:
Ret. Army Col. John Alexander: Former military insider who created Advanced Theoretical Physics -- a group of top-level government officials and scientists brought together to study UFOs.
Ret. Air Force Col. Charles Halt: Former base commander of the RAF Bentwaters military base in England and vital eyewitness to the amazing UFO-related events at Rendlesham Forest in December 1980, where he believed the observed UFOs were extraterrestrial in origin.
Ret. Air Force Col. William Coleman: Former USAF bomber pilot, chief of Air Force public information and producer of NBC's "Project UFO" series.
Ret. Air Force Col. Robert Friend: Former director of the Air Force's Project Blue Book from 1958 to 1963.
The fifth guest at the museum's upcoming UFO lecture is former U.K. UFO desk officer Nick Pope.
What's going to be different about this one-time lecture compared to previous gatherings where military personnel have stepped forward to reveal details about personal UFO experiences?
"One of the things that is different is that you have high credibility vetted sources," Alexander told HuffPost. "What you're getting from this panel are people who have worked with the military, all of whom certainly agree that UFOs are real, and I think most of them would say it ought to be researched.
"Here, you're getting a small number [of participants], but high credibility people."
At the Sept. 22 lecture, Pope will speak of the similarities between how the U.K. and U.S. governments had similar UFO study groups and why both countries officially got out of the UFO business.
Darkbird18 is still in the UFO research and it look like something real big is coming down the line from the military about their UFO files. What does it all mean why now at the end of 2012? This is only part of the article from the HuffPost and the rest is at the link below……….
UFO 'Secrets' To Be Revealed In September, Says National Atomic Testing Museum
Thursday, August 23, 2012
New Insider Footage from Bohemian Grove | Illuminati Conspiracy Archive Blog
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New Insider Footage from Bohemian Grove
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From “BohemianKyle,” who works at the Bohemian Grove. Footage includes the Owl Shrine, the Lamp of Fellowship, the mock sacrificial effigy and its hearse, the druidic robes used during the Cremation of Care ritual, as well as a look at the camps Mandalay, Hillbillies, and others2012 -- new exclusive footage inside the elite Bohemian Grove provided by infiltrator "Kyle." This new video shows never before seen shots of a road into Bohemian Grove, a burning lamp stand, a burning effigy, Hillbillies and Mandalay camps, and much more. Set to the Eagle's Hotel California, Bohemian Grove is exposed like never before. Watch for yourself where America's elite party during the second week of every July among homosexual revelry and Satanic rituals!
Darkbird18 is looking at this secret group and doing research on what they are about. This is the 1% of the world and what they do.
New Insider Footage from Bohemian Grove | Illuminati Conspiracy Archive Blog
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Cannon Fodder for the New World Order | Deanna Spingola
Cannon Fodder for the New World Order
- by Deanna Spingola, 25 August 2010
In 1926, General Cherep-Spiridovich wrote, “War is only a ‘legalized mass murder.’ Thus Christ pointed out those who arrange all wars and revolutions, and that their chief cause is Satan and his sons’ ‘lust of murder.’ But ‘Christians’ never seem to agree with Christ.”1 Gandhi concurred when he said, “Everyone but Christians understands that Jesus was nonviolent.” Those who “arrange all wars,” are typically among the very top echelon of secret societies, often Illuminati front groups like Skull and Bones, many of whom serve in elected and unelected government positions. Government officials implement a dark agenda of terrorism and genocide through directives developed by members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) the Bilderberg (BB), and the Trilateral Commission (TC). Some may view these allegations as incredible conspiracy theories, which is exactly the perspective that the media-managing elites encourage in order to conceal their reprehensible operations and their true loyalties.
General Cherep-Spiridovich said that those who arrange wars have a “lust of murder.” They also demonstrate a lust for power and profit, made possible by government-sanctioned warfare, funded by privately owned central banks which print billions of debt-based, interest-laden dollars, debt that is passed off onto the citizens who also fight and die in those wars. The increased glut of cash into the market devalues the currency already in circulation and further jeopardizes the country’s diminishing economy. The malevolent, parasitical bankers achieve their objectives by funding power-hungry, often psychopathic, well-compensated politicians who accommodate the bankers at the expense of the citizens they claim to represent. Representative government ends when the polls close. Christians have been persuaded to accept what Christ long ago disdained and warned against – usury. Citizens are manipulated into participating in war. Essentially, in accepting pro-war propaganda, we abandon Christianity and acquiesce to the mass slaughter of strangers targeted by the warmongers. In effect, we idolatrously “worship the golden calf” of the banker-backed, man-made state when we abandon the peaceful tenets of Christianity. If double-minded individuals, either naively or knowingly, promote war while claiming to abhor abortion, we absolutely must evaluate their motives and loyalties and then withhold our support for warfare. In Christianity, there should be no fence sitting, no serving of two masters.
The Ten Commandments include “You shall have no other gods before me” and “You shall not murder (kill).” Communists and Socialists, who like Lucifer, are rebellious towards God, attempt to replace Him and impose their own laws upon the naïve masses. An authoritative state advocates, with numerous deceitful justifications, mass murder through warfare, actually genocide of entire foreign populations. Like Lucifer, since Lincoln’s War, the war planners always shift the blame for the initiation of warfare onto others via the use of false flag operations. The highly skilled war planners choreograph or aggressively provoke an attack and then call for a retaliatory strike against the people they attribute the attack to. From the shots fired at Fort Sumter, the explosion on the USS Maine, the sinking of the Lusitania, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Tonkin incident, and numerous attacks on various U.S. embassies, there have been managed assaults. One of the major functions of the CIA is to create chaos in other countries – just so the U.S. can justify sending in military troops to restore order. That is how the deceitful war planners get our support; we believe that we are valiantly defending our country.
Christians should be the first to recognize the probability of secret societies or secret combinations and money interests that are so intent on depriving others of their liberty, life and property. Christ’s death, though redemptive, was the result of a currency conspiracy. There were also plots to kill Paul and other disciples. Early day “public relations” provocateurs skillfully influenced the pliable masses in order to execute their covert agenda – remember, the loving admirers who bowed before Christ upon His entry into Jerusalem, were the exact same people who, a few days later, clamored for His death. What changed? The moneychangers, the same greedy people who sold the over-priced sacrificial animals in the temple courtyard, would have lost their future profits if people accepted His rational teachings on usury and the charitable cessation of the exploitation of others. After all, we work for our sakes, not to have others confiscate the product of our labors.
Government education spawns battalions of potential soldiers who are willing to die “for their country.” Eager soldiers have been advantageously and subtly prepared through compelling peer pressure participation in Pentagon-designed video games that have been commercially marketed as entertainment. Dutiful teachers working within the federally controlled educational system regularly memorialize the vilest, most warmongering politicians of the past. This subtle programming is supported by a controlled media which has been licensed and regulated by the federal government (FCC) since the 1920s. The international bankers, who profit most from warfare, have controlled the entertainment and documentary media for decades. Media moguls, often in conjunction with the Pentagon, produce movies that glorify war, promote immorality, immodesty and profanity, all in an effort to subtly shape our opinions, alter our culture and persuade us to abandon traditional Christian values. If Christians forfeit so-called small ideals, they are more likely to relinquish Christ’s prohibition against warfare.
Prior to the U.S. entering World War II, the influential media vilified anti-war activists by characterizing them as unpatriotic, Nazi and anti-Semitic. They were portrayed as un-American traitors.2 These psychologically devised tactics were created by Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud and are still employed today to discourage dissent and immobilize inquiry. Anti-war activists and dissidents are allowed airtime with super-skilled radio and television hosts whose sole purpose is to repudiate the ideas of their guests, ridicule the truth, and castigate candidates who question U.S. foreign policy. These tactics are designed to produce a herd mentality within the population. Individuals reconsider their rhetoric when they see others discredited for similar views and remain silent. These devices, which discredit individuals and information, also discourage others from examining certain events and circumstances for themselves.
International bankers, without particular national loyalties or regard for those used as cannon fodder, typically fund both sides of every war and often have major investments in, or outright ownership of, ammunition production facilities. Guaranteed contracts for tons of one-time-use bullets and bombs are tremendously more lucrative than selling cars and washing machines to consumers. Henry Kissinger, one-time U.S. Secretary of State said, “Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.”3
Given the manner in which individual governments exploit soldiers to enrich the bankers, those troops are evidently expendable. Their bloodied bodies create massive profits for the international bankers, the original advocates of globalism, acquired through warfare, usually followed by sanctions, reparations and finally obedience to an international entity. A nation uses warfare to impose its policies on another nation. Gutele Schnapper Rothschild, the wife of Mayer A. Rothschild, who grew enormously wealthy by collecting usury while funding the European wars, said, “If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” One might add “grandsons, great grandsons and other male relatives and all of their banking affiliates camouflaged under numerous names – Goldman Sachs, Lehman, Kuhn-Loeb, Citibank and others.”
While Mother Rothschild sounded decidedly cold-hearted, other Talmudic Judaics, like the contemporary Rabbi Haim Druckman, a leader of the Religious Zionist movement, said on September 7, 2004, “Killing enemy civilians during war is normal.” Druckman and other like-minded Zionists view gentiles and even their own Semitic kinsmen, the Palestinians, including children, as sub-humans. The Talmud states, “Our lives come first.” Druckman ridiculed Christian opposition to warfare, “The Christian preaching of ‘turning the other cheek’ doesn’t concern us, and we will not be impressed by those who prefer the lives of our enemies to our lives.”4 And who is the enemy – any country that resists the international banker’s insistence on installing a central bank within their country. Further, banker-backed corporations target, confiscate and profit from the seizure and control of the natural resources in the said enemy’s land. Many Christians, indoctrinated to believe that there is such a thing as a “good war,” have unwittingly accepted barbaric total war tactics regarding unarmed women and children, and are perfectly willing to engage in mass slaughter at the behest of the bankers.
Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), a Bolshevik said, “The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.”5 The way to get the U.S. to incrementally embrace communism began in 1913 with the establishment of the privately owned Federal Reserve. The massively wealthy owners of the Federal Reserve would ultimately invest in and sit on the boards of every major corporation and eventually capture the majority of America’s wealth in addition to usury, burdensome taxation and continual warfare.
International Communism, adapted for expediency, was a means of brutal seizure of control, a perfect political mechanism for the international bankers. If people objected to tyranny, they were sent to slave labor camps or were quickly killed and silenced. Lenin and Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) were divided on one issue – Lenin supported violent revolution while Trotsky favored a non-violent, intellectual approach to total government control.6 Lenin maintained, “The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” In America, the bankers control the left and the right paradigm, the conservatives and the liberals, the Democrats and the Republicans. American Trotskyites, who prefer intellectual infiltration, seized the “conservative” label and continue to promote their agenda through numerous “conservative” groups. They manipulate and publicly promote certain religious leaders who then endorse that same agenda. The Trotskyites fund influential, noble named think tanks and regularly appear in the media.
Americans are aghast when they hear about the millions of Chinese and Russian citizens who have been slaughtered by their Communist masters. Yet, under the federally sanctioned abortion laws, approximately fifty million people have been eliminated under the intellectual guise of “freedom of choice.” The ultimate abortion decision was fueled by the CIA-funded women’s movement. Steinem and the others were well paid to pretend concern for the rights of women while ignoring the rights of infants. So rather than Lenin’s depopulation method, the U.S. used Trotsky’s more subtle process. The results are the same.
Contemporary Neo-cons William “Bill” Kristol and Robert Kagan established the Project for a New American Century, which called for a “new Pearl Harbor” in order to implement momentous change and to conduct Middle East warfare. Kristol’s late father, Irving Kristol who was often funded by the CIA, is known as the “godfather of neo-conservatism.” His organization promotes warfare (revolution), first in Iraq and now in Iran. Charles Krauthammer and Kristol, editor of the Rupert Murdoch-funded The Weekly Standard, the official voice of this cabal,7 and their Neo-con cronies provide opposition to the left agenda, as suggested by Lenin. On September 18, 2002, Kristol claimed that a war in Iraq “could have terrifically good effects throughout the Middle East.”8 Krauthammer and Kristol regularly appear on pro-Israel Murdoch’s “fair and balanced” Fox News where they allege that Iran is building nuclear weapons, a subtle form of their previous allegations about Iraqi’s weapons of mass destruction. Murdoch has always been a Rothschild family asset.
On February 17, 2003, Krauthammer, a prominent Washington Post columnist writing in Time admitted that America’s imminent war against Iraq “is not just to disarm Saddam. It is to reform a whole part of the world…What the U.S. needs in the Arab world is not an exit strategy but an entry strategy. Iraq is the beckoning door…” Krauthammer further targeted “Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and beyond” as part of the neo-conservative war policy. On February 18, 2003, as reported in the Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suggested that the U.S. wage war on Iran, Libya and Syria after “the successful destruction of Iraq.”9 Krauthammer, a former psychiatrist has called for an all-out U.S. war against the Muslim world.10 War is the most effective way of bankrupting a nation and to set it up for total collapse and a tyrannical takeover. The warfare in the Middle East is not in the best interests of America – it only serves the international bankers.
On March 17, 2003, just before the U.S. invaded Iraq, Kristol, in his editorial in The Weekly Standard, wrote, “obviously, we are gratified that the Iraq strategy we have long advocated . . . has become the policy of the U.S. government.” On March 18, The Washington Post clarified his obvious influence when their columnist, Richard Cohen, referred to the impending conflict as “Kristol’s War” and prior to the “shock and awe” bombing of Baghdad, “this would seem to be Kristol’s moment.”11
Millionaires and billionaires buy up politicians. Those who defy the bankers suffer dire consequences, like Charles A. Lindbergh, whose grandson was kidnapped and murdered. Lindbergh had written articles of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors against five members of the Federal Reserve Board, W. P. G. Harding, Paul M. Warburg, Frederick Delano, Adolf C. Miller and Charles S. Hamlin. Louis T. McFadden, another defiant Congressman died as a result of poisoning, their third attempt to eliminate him. Other non-compliant politicians are run out of office, assassinated, arrested, die in airplane crashes, are impeached or publicly humiliated. U.S. politicians understandably fear the international bankers more than they fear the wrath of their disgruntled constituents.
Author R. Duane Willing, in his book Money: the 12th & Final Religion, claims that Richard M. Nixon, once compliant, fell from grace when he attempted to alter the nation’s money system and develop an interest-free Greenback-style currency which would have immobilized the national debt and obliterated the curse of usury. In 1969, Nixon appointed Dr. Preston Martin as Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Martin allegedly masterminded Nixon’s currency plan which would have converted 4,950 Savings and Loans into full commercial banks with the capacity of issuing checking accounts. This would have created a nationwide banking network outside of the auspices of the Federal Reserve network.12
Austrian-born Arthur F. Burns (Burnseig), chairman of the Federal Reserve (1970-1978), had offices on the 8th floor of the Watergate Apartment Hotel. On June 17, 1972, five husky Watergate burglars were apprehended on the 6th floor after they had carried heavy files from Burns’ office down to the 6th floor for photographing.13 Allegedly, the burglars had broken into the Democratic National Committee headquarters, a convenient cover story. However, Martin was apparently promised the future chairmanship of the Federal Reserve if he abandoned Nixon and the populist currency plan that would have ended the power of the Federal Reserve. Nixon was purged from the presidency by a media-driven frenzy and forced to resign on August 9, 1974.14 He was later pardoned by Ford, probably on the basis of his continued silence about the real details surrounding the Watergate break-in.
Martin didn’t replace Paul A. Volcker (CFR, TC, and BB) as chairman (1979-1987). Instead, Alan Greenspan was appointed as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Burns (CFR) suggested that a review board be established to evaluate wage and price freezes.15 Nixon’s handlers created a comprehensive New Deal, Democratic-style strategy called the New Economic Policy after clandestine consultations at Camp David with George P. Shultz (CFR), Burns, Paul W. McCracken (CFR), Caspar W. Weinberger (CFR, TC), H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Peter G. Peterson (CFR), Volcker, John Connally and Speechwriter Bill Safire. Volcker initiated the collapse of the U.S. economy. He has, since 1952, as an economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, influenced U.S. economic policies. In 1962 he became the director of financial analysis at the Treasury Department and in 1963 he was appointed as deputy under-secretary for monetary affairs. He returned to the Treasury as under-secretary (1969-1974) where he promoted international solutions to monetary problems.
The House of Rothschild continues to influence the U.S. economy and domestic and foreign policies. Volcker, after having served as the Federal Reserve Chairman under Presidents Carter and Reagan, went to work for the Rothschilds as chairman of the European investment-banking firm, J. Rothschild, Wolfensohn and Co. in March 1992. Since February 2009, he has been the Chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board under the obedient President Barack Obama who continues to decimate the economy at the behest of the international bankers.
Richard N. Goodwin, former speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy (assassinated in 1963), said, “The principal power in Washington is no longer the government or the people it represents. It is the Money Power. Under the deceptive cloak of campaign contributions, access and influence, votes and amendments are bought and sold. Money establishes priorities of action, holds down federal revenues, revises federal legislation, and shifts income from the middle class to the very rich.”16 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Darkbird18 here and this article will open your eyes to the big banks and the Dark forces behind them and how they use us to make profits for the “Bad people of the 1% who control and rule this world! Cannon Fodder for the New World Order | Deanna Spingola
Thursday, August 2, 2012
‘Global Economic Crisis’ Exposes Plans For a Global Military Dictatorship : The Intel Hub.com
Global Economic Crisis’ Exposes Plans For a Global Military Dictatorship.
The Intel HubBy Rady Ananda – Contributing Writer
February 26th, 2011
Review of: The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century Editors, Michel Chossudovsky and Andrew Gavin Marshall
Publisher: Global Research, 2010 (391 pp)
Editors, Michel Chossudovsky and Andrew Gavin Marshall
Publisher: Global Research, 2010 (391 pp)
There’s a certain irony to my reading this book while waiting at the Food Stamp office. I’m part of an increasing number suffering under the New World Order’s systematic destruction of the planet’s middle classes so as to concentrate wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer families. While global uprisings now threaten global governance under a single currency, scheming rulers have long anticipated this reaction. In The Global Economic Crisis, we learn exactly how a planet-wide military dictatorship plans to enforce its feudal vision.
Neatly organized into five sections comprising 20 essays by fifteen different authors, Global Economic Crisis carefully ties militarization with the planned economic meltdown. Client states and the U.S. itself have openly and sometimes secretly developed the legal framework for martial law. Testifying before a US Senate committee on Intelligence in early 2009, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, warned that civil unrest owing to the economic collapse posed a greater threat than Arab terrorism. One of the book’s essayists, Bill Van Auken, points out that this is the first time in several years that Al Qaeda did not top the list of threats to national security.
The book’s major theme, supported by well-documented sources (and we expect nothing less from Global Research), hammers out the connection between military dominance and planned economic crises. Cuts in social spending augment the buildup of arms. Intellectual property laws bolster control of the world’s food supply by a handful of multinational corporations. Captured by transnational corporations that escape national anti-trust laws, the “free market” has given way to corporate control of prices, while driving down wages. Social protest of such polices is met by military and police violence.
In GEC, we learn that today’s global economy is driven by trade in oil, arms, drugs, and slavery (including prostitution). Where neoliberalism flourishes, so do these sectors. On the drug trade, Michel Chossudovsky writes, “The underlying military and intelligence objective is to protect the cocaine and heroin markets, which feed billions of narco-dollars into the Western banking system.” Indeed, a recent report by Bloomberg News exposed how Bank of America and Wachovia (now owned by Wells Fargo) finances Mexico’s drug cartels:
One can travel to any major city in the world and buy supposedly illegal drugs, arms, prostitutes or slaves. The level of infrastructure required for such a ubiquitous global market implies government and banking support.Those writing about the social and economic ramifications of globalist actions will greatly appreciate Peter Phillips’ essay, “Poverty and Social Inequality.” It’s chock full of charts laying out facts and statistics.
One of the more intricate essays, “The Political Economy of World Government,” details how economic classes are being restructured, with the potential for the middle classes to unite “using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes.” In this piece, Andrew Gavin Marshall shows how various private interest groups like the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg group and the Trilateral Commission are deliberately restructuring society to make national borders irrelevant.
On par, Ellen Brown’s piece, “The Towers of Basel: Secretive Plan to create a Global Central Bank” shows how a shadowy global banking committee can break national economies, or boost them if the country does what the moneylenders dictate.
Not entirely an easy read, Global Economic Crisis nonetheless exposes the deep underworkings of a criminal class of bankers and industrialists who serve their own economic interests at the expense of everyone else, backed up by an expanding global military presence.
By fully digesting the information presented, the world’s people can best strategize effective resistance. Nonviolence has been a key feature of street protests and strikes that started in Greece and France last year, though often met with violence by police and military. But the stark “austerity” measures neoliberals are foisting on the globe, while they rake in trillions of dollars in bankster bailouts and no-bid contracts, have emboldened populists across Northern Africa. Austerity has even inspired the otherwise anemic US labor movement, with protests spreading from Wisconsin to Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and beyond.
Such street action must also be coupled with direct measures taken at the local level, however. It is here that the ideas presented in Global Economic Crisis can be of most use. By understanding how banks engineered this “bloodless coup,” we find impetus for restoring national sovereignty and a more sane and equitable economy.
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Why 2012?
THE HOW AND WHY OF THE MAYAN END DATE IN 2012 A.D.
by John Major Jenkins
¾ May 23rd, 1994
Originally published in the Dec-Jan '95 issue of Mountain Astrologer.
Why did the ancient Mayan or pre-Maya choose December 21st, 2012 A.D., as the end of their Long Count calendar? This article will cover some recent research. Scholars have known for decades that the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan "Long Count" system of timekeeping was set to end precisely on a winter solstice, and that this system was put in place some 2300 years ago. This amazing fact - that ancient Mesoameri- can skywatchers were able to pinpoint a winter solstice far off into the future - has not been dealt with by Mayanists. And why did they choose the year 2012? One immediately gets the impression that there is a very strange mystery to be confronted here. I will be building upon a clue to this mystery reported by epigrapher Linda Schele in Maya Cosmos (1994). This article is the natural culmination of the research relating to the Mayan Long Count and the precession of the equinoxes that I explored in my recent book Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies (Borderlands Science and Research Foundation, 1994).
The Mayan Long Count
Just some basics to get us started. The Maya were adept skywatchers. Their Classic Period is thought to have lasted from 200 A.D. to 900 A.D., but recent archeological findings are pushing back the dawn of Mayan civilization in Mesoamerica. Large ruin sites indicating high culture with distinctly Mayan antecedents are being found in the jungles of Guatemala dating back to before the common era. And even before this, the Olmec civilization flourished and developed the sacred count of 260 days known as the tzolkin. The early Maya adopted two different time keeping systems, the "Short Count" and the Long Count. The Short Count derives from combining the tzolkin cycle with the solar year and the Venus cycle of 584 days. In this way, "short" periods of 13, 52 and 104 years are generated. Unfortunately, we won't have occasion to dwell on the properties of the so-called Short Count system here. The Long Count system is somewhat more abstract, yet is also related to certain astronomical cycles. It is based upon nested cycles of days multiplied at each level by that key Mayan number, twenty:
Number of Days / Term 1 / Kin (day) 20 / Uinal 360 / Tun 7200 / Katun 144000 / Baktun
Notice that the only exception to multiplying by twenty is at the tun level, where the uinal period is instead multiplied by 18 to make the 360-day tun. The Maya employed this counting system to track an unbroken sequence of days from the time it was inaugurated. The Mayan scholar Munro Edmonson believes that the Long Count was put in place around 355 B.C. This may be so, but the oldest Long Count date as yet found corresponds to 32 B.C. We find Long Count dates in the archeological record beginning with the baktun place value and 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 144000 days, each katun has 7200 days, and so on. If we add up all the values we find that 6.19.19.0.0 indicates a total of 1007640 days have elapsed since the Zero Date of 0.0.0.0.0. The much discussed 13-baktun cycle is completed 1872000 days (13 baktuns) after 0.0.0.0.0. This period of time is the so called Mayan "Great Cycle" of the Long Count and equals 5125.36 years.
But how are we to relate this to a time frame we can understand? How does this Long Count relate to our Gregorian calendar? This problem of correlating Mayan time with "western" time has occupied Mayan scholars since the beginning. The standard question to answer became: what does 0.0.0.0.0 (the Long Count "beginning" point) equal in the Gregorian calendar? When this question is answered, archeological inscriptions can be put into their proper historical context and the end date of the 13-baktun cycle can be calculated. After years of considering data from varied fields such as astronomy, ethnography, archeology and iconography, J. Eric S. Thompson determined that 0.0.0.0.0 correponded to the Julian date 584283, which equals August 11th, 3114 B.C. in our Gregorian calendar. This means that the end date of 13.0.0.0.0, some 5125 years later, is December 21st, 2012 A.D.1
The relationship between the Long Count and Short Count has always been internally consistent (both were tracked alongside each other in an unbroken sequence since their conception). Now it is very interesting to note that an aspect of the "Short Count", namely, the sacred tzolkin count of 260 days, is still being followed in the highlands of Guatemala. As the Mayan scholar Munro Edmonson shows in The Book of the Year, this last surviving flicker of a calendar tradition some 3000 years old supports the Thompson correlation of 584283. Edmonson also states that the Long Count was begun by the Maya or pre-Maya around 355 B.C., but there is reason to believe that the Long Count system was being perfected for at least 200 years prior to that date.
The point of interest for these early astronomers seems to have been the projected end date in 2012 A.D., rather than the beginning date in 3114 B.C. Having determined the end date in 2012 (for reasons we will come to shortly), and calling it 13.0.0.0.0, they thus proclaimed themselves to be living in the 6th baktun of the Great Cycle. The later Maya certainly attributed much mythological significance to the beginning date, relating it to the birth of their deities, but it now seems certain that the placement of the Long Count hinges upon its calculated end point. Why did early Mesoamerican skywatchers pick a date some 2300 years into the future and, in fact, how did they pinpoint an accurate winter solstice? With all these considerations one begins to suspect that, for some reason, the ancient New World astronomers were tracking precession.
The Precession
The precession of the equinoxes, also known as the Platonic Year, is caused by the slow wobbling of the earth's polar axis. Right now this axis roughly points to Polaris, the "Pole Star," but this changes slowly over long periods of time. The earth's wobble causes the position of the seasonal quarters to slowly precess against the background of stars. For example, right now, the winter solstice position is in the constellation of Sagittarius. But 2000 years ago it was in Capricorn. Since then, it has precessed backward almost one full sign. It is generally thought that the Greek astronomer Hipparchus was the first to discover precession around 128 B.C. Yet scholarship indicates that more ancient Old World cultures such as the Egyptians (see Schwaller de Lubicz's book Sacred Science) and Babylonians also knew about the precession.
I have concluded that even cultures with simple horizon astronomy and oral records passed down for a hundred years or so, would notice the slow shifting of the heavens. For example, imagine that you lived in an environment suited for accurately demarcated horizon astronomy. Even if this wasn't the case, you might erect monoliths to sight the horizon position of, most likely, the dawning winter solstice sun. This position in relation to background stars could be accurately preserved in oral verse or wisdom teachings, to be passed down for centuries. Since precession will change this position at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years, within the relatively short time of 100 years or so, a noticeable change will have occurred. The point of this is simple. To early cultures attuned to the subtle movements of the sky, precession would not have been hard to notice.2
The Maya are not generally credited with knowing about the precession of the equinoxes. But considering everything else we know about the amazing sophistication of Mesoamerican astronomy, can we realistically continue to deny them this? Many of the as yet undeciphered hieroglyphs may ultimately describe precessional myths. Furthermore, as I show in my book Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies, the Long Count is perfectly suited for predicting future seasonal quarters, indefinitely, and precession is automatically accounted for. Some of the most incredible aspects of Mayan cosmo-conception are just now being discovered. As was the case with the state of Egyptology in the 1870's, we still have a lot to learn. In addition, Mayanists like Gordon Brotherston (The Book of the Fourth World) consider precessional knowledge among Mesoamerican cultures to be more than likely.
The Sacred Tree
We are still trying to answer these questions: What is so important about the winter solstice of 2012 and, exactly how were calculations made so accurately, considering that precession should make them exceedingly difficult?
If we make a standard horoscope chart for December 21st, 2012 A.D., nothing very unusual appears. In this way I was led astray in my search until Linda Schele provided a clue in the recent book Maya Cosmos. Probably the most exciting breakthrough in this book is her identification of the astronomical meaning of the Mayan Sacred Tree. Drawing from an impressive amount of iconographic evidence, and generously sharing the process by which she arrived at her discovery, the Sacred Tree is found to be none other than the crossing point of the ecliptic with the band of the Milky Way. Indeed, the Milky Way seems to have played an important role in Mayan imagery. For example, an incised bone from 8th century Tikal depicts a long sinking canoe containing various deities. This is a picture of the night sky and the canoe is the Milky Way, sinking below the horizon as the night progresses, and carrying with it deities representing the nearby constellations. The incredible Mayan site of Palenque is filled with Sacred Tree motifs and references to astronomical events. In their book Forest of Kings, Schele and Freidel suggested that the Sacred Tree referred to the ecliptic. Apparently that was only part of the picture, for the Sacred Tree that Pacal ascends in death is more than just the ecliptic, it is the sacred doorway to the underworld. The crossing point of Milky Way and ecliptic is this doorway and represents the sacred source and origin. In the following diagram of the well known sarcophagus carving, notice that the Milky Way tree serves as an extension of Pacal's umbilicus. The umbilicus is a human being's entrance into life, and entrance into death as well:
Diagram 1: Pacal and the Sacred Tree.
We may also remember at this point that the tzolkin calendar is said to spring from the Sacred Tree. The Sacred Tree is, in fact, at the center of the entire corpus of Mayan Creation Myths. We should definitely explore the nature of this astronomical feature.
The first question that came up for me was as follows. Since Lord (Ahau) Pacal is, by way of divine kingship, equated with the sun, and he is portrayed "entering" the Sacred Tree on his famous sarcophagus lid, on what day does the sun come around to conjunct the crossing point of ecliptic and Milky Way? This would be an important date. In the pre-dawn skies of this date, the Milky Way would be seen to arch overhead from the region of Polaris (Heart of Sky) and would point right at where the sun rises. This (and the corollary date 6 months later) is the only date when the Sun/Lord could jump from the ecliptic track and travel the Milky Way up and around the vault of heaven to the region of Polaris, there to enter the "Heart of Sky." It should be mentioned that 1300 years ago, during the zenith of Palenque's glory, Polaris was much less an exact "Pole Star" than it is now. Schele demonstrates that it wasn't a Pole Star that the Maya mythologized in this regard, it was the unmarked polar "dark region" symbolizing death and the underworld around which everything was observed to revolve. Life revolves around death - a characteristically Mayan belief. The dates on which the sun conjuncts the "Sacred Tree" are thus very important. These dates will change with precession. Schele doesn't pursue this line of reasoning, however, and doesn't even mention that these dates might be significant. If we go back to 755 A.D., we find that the sun conjuncts the Sacred Tree on December 3rd. I should point out here that the Milky Way is a wide band, and perhaps a 10-day range of dates should be considered.
To start with, however, I use the exact center of the Milky Way band that one finds on star charts, known as the "Galactic Equator" (not to be confused with Galactic Center). Where the Galactic Equator crosses the ecliptic in Sagittarius just happens to be where the dark rift in the Milky Way begins. This is a dark bifurcation in the Milky Way caused by interstellar dust clouds. To observers on earth, it appears as a dark road which begins near the ecliptic and stretches along the Milky Way up towards Polaris. The Maya today are quite aware of this feature; the Quich» Maya call it xibalba be (the "road to Xibalba") and the Chorti Maya call it the "camino de Santiago". In Dennis Tedlock's translation of the Popol Vuh, we find that the ancient Maya called it the "Black Road". The Hero Twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque must journey down this road to battle the Lords of Xibalba. (Tedlock 334, 358). Furthermore, what Schele has identified as the Sacred Tree was known to the ancient Quich» simply as "Crossroads."
This celestial feature was not marginal in ancient Mayan thought and is still rec- ognized even today. In terms of how this feature was mythologized, it seems that when a planet, the sun, or the moon entered the dark cleft of the Milky Way in Sagittarius (which happens to be the exact center of the Milky Way, the Galactic Equator), entrance to the underworld road was possible, which could then take the journeyer up to the Heart of Sky. Shamanic vision rites were probably involved in this scenario. In the Yucatan, underground caves were ritual places used by shaman to journey to the underworld. Schele explains that "Mayan mythology identifies the Road to Xibalba as going through a cave" (Forest of Kings, 209). Here we have a metaphorical reference to the "dark rift" in the Milky Way by way of its terrestrial counterpart, a syncretism between earth and sky which is characteristic of Mayan thinking. Above all, what is becoming apparent from the corpus of Mayan Creation Myths is that creation seems to have taken place at a celestial crossroads - the crossing point of ecliptic and Milky Way.
To clarify this ever growing picture, we should stop here and plot out some charts. In addition to the detailed star maps from Norton's 2000.0 Star Atlas which allowed me to pinpoint the crossing point of Galactic Equator and ecliptic, I use EZCosmos to plot these positions3. What I found answers the question of why the Maya chose the winter solstice of 2012, a problem seemingly avoided by astronomers and Mayanists alike. While it is true that the sun conjuncts the Sacred Tree on December 3rd in the year 755 A.D., over the centuries precession has caused the conjunction date to approach the winter solstice. So, how close are we to perfect conjunction today? Exactly when might we expect the winter solstice sun to conjunct the crossing point of Galactic Equator and ecliptic - the Mayan Sacred Tree? Any astronomer will tell you that, presently, the Milky Way crosses the ecliptic through the constellation of Sagittarius and this area is rich in nebulae and high density objects. In fact, where the Milky Way crosses the ecliptic in Sagittarius also happens to be the direction of the Galactic Center.4
The Charts
So the quest returns to identifying why December 21st, 2012 A.D. might represent some kind of astronomical anomoly. I'll get right to the heart of the matter. Let's look at a few charts.
Chart 1.
Here is a full view of the sky at noon on December 21st, 2012 A.D. The band of the Milky Way can be seen stretching from the lower right to the upper left. The more or less vertical dotted line indicates the Galactic Equator. The planets can be seen tracing a roughly horizontal path through the chart, indicating the ecliptic. The sun, quite strikingly, is dead center in the Sacred Tree. Let's look closer.
Chart 2.
The field is now reduced from a horizon-to-horizon view to a field of 30 degrees. Part of the constellation of Sagittarius can be seen in the lower left portion of the chart. The planet in the middle-to-upper left portion of the chart is Pluto, which rarely travels directly along the ecliptic. The center square near the sun is placed on the Trifid Nebula (M20). According to the star chart I used, this nebula is very close to the crossing point of Galactic Equator and ecliptic. However, a small star (4 Sgr) is even closer; it sits right on the Galactic Equator and its declination is only 00 .08' below the ecliptic. Let's look closer at these features.
Chart 3.
The field is now reduced to a 5-degree span, what astrology considers to be within conjunction. The dot to the lower right of the sun is the star 4 Sgr. Amazingly, the Sun is right on target. We couldn't have hoped for a closer conjunction. 1 day before or after will remove the sun a noticeable distance from the crossing point. December 21st, 2012 (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count) therefore represents an extremely close conjunction of the winter solstice sun with the crossing point of Galactic Equator and the ecliptic, what the ancient Maya recognized as the Sacred Tree. It is critical to understand that the winter solstice sun rarely conjuncts the Sacred Tree. In fact, this is an event that has been coming to resonance very slowly over thousands and thousands of years. What this might mean astrologically, how this might effect the "energy weather" on earth, must be treated as a separate topic.
But I should at least mention in passing that this celestial convergence appears to parallel the accelerating pace of human civilization. It should be noted that because precession is a very slow process, similar astronomical alignments will be evident on the winter solstice dates within perhaps 5 years on either side of 2012. However, the accuracy of the conjunction of 2012 is quite astounding, beyond anything deemed calculable by the ancient Maya, and serves well to represent the perfect mid-point of the process.
Let's go back to the dawn of the Long Count and try to reconstruct what may have been happening.
Why: Winter Solstice Sun Conjuncts The Sacred Tree in 2012 A.D.
First, the tzolkin count originated among the Olmec at least as early as 679 B.C. (see Edmonson's Book of the Year). We may suspect that astronomical observations were being made from at least that point. The tzolkin count has been followed unbroken since at least that time, up to the present day, demonstrating the high premium placed by the Maya upon continuity of tradition. In this way, star records, horizon positions of the winter solstice sun, and other pertinent observations could also have been accurately preserved. As suggested above, precession can be noticed by way of even simple horizon astronomy in as little time as 100 to 150 years. (Hipparchus, the alleged "discoverer" of precession among the Greeks, compared his own observations with data collected only 170 years before his time.) Following Edmonson, the Long Count system may have appeared as early as 355 B.C. Part of the reason for implementing the Long Count system, as I will show, was probably to calculate future winter solstice dates.
We must assume that even at this early point in Mesoamerican history, the crossing point of ecliptic and Milky Way was understood as the "Sacred Tree". Since the Sacred Tree concept is intrinsically tied into the oldest Mayan Creation Myths, this is not improbable. At the very least, the "dark rift" was already a recognized feature. Early skywatchers of this era (355 B.C.) would then observe the sun to conjunct the dark ridge in the Milky Way on or around November 18th.5 This would be easily observed in the pre-dawn sky as described above: the Milky Way points to the rising sun on this date.
Over a relatively short period of time, as an awareness of precession was emerging, this date was seen to slowly approach winter solstice, a critical date in its own right in early Mayan cosmo-conception. At this point, precession and the rate of precession was calculated, the Long Count was perfected and inaugurated, and the appropriate winter solstice date in 2012 A.D. was found via the Long Count in the following way.
How: Long Count and Seasonal Quarters
Long Count katun beginnings will conjunct sequential seasonal quarters every 1.7.0.0.0 days (194400 days). This is an easily tracked Long Count interval. Starting with the katun beginning of 650 B.C.:
Long Count Which Quarter? Year
6.5.0.0.0 Fall 650 B.C.
7.12.0.0.0 Winter 118 B.C.
8.19.0.0.0 Spring 416 A.D.
10.6.0.0.0 Summer 948 A.D.
11.13.0.0.0 Fall 1480 A.D.
13.0.0.0.0 Winter 2012 A.D.
Note that the last date is not only a katun beginning, but a baktun beginning as well. It is, indeed, the end date of 2012.6
The Long Count may have been officially inaugurated on a specific date in 355 B.C., as Edmonson suggests, but it must have been formulated, tried, tested, and proven before this date. This may well have taken centuries, and the process no doubt paralleled (and was perhaps instigated by) the discovery of precession. The Long Count system automatically accounts for precession in its ability to calculate future seasonal quarters - a property which shouldn't be underestimated.
Summary
This has been my attempt to fill a vacuum in Mayan Studies, an answer to the why and how of the end date of the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan Long Count. The solution requires a shift in how we think about the astronomy of the Long Count end date. The strange fact that it occurs on a winter solstice immediately points us to possible astronomical reasons, but they are not obvious. We also shouldn't forget the often mentioned fact that the 13-baktun cycle of some 5125 years is roughly 1/5th of a precessional cycle. This in itself should have been suggestive of a deeper mystery very early on. Only with the recent identification of the astronomical nature of the Sacred Tree has the puzzle revealed its fullness. And once again we are amazed at the sophistication and vision of the ancient New World astronomers, the decendants of whom still count the days and watch the skies in the remote outbacks of Guatemala.
This essay is not contrived upon sketchy evidence. It basically rests upon two facts:
1) the well known end date of the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan Long Count, which is December 21st, 2012 A.D. and
2) the astronomical situation on that day. Based upon these two facts alone, the creators of the Long Count knew about and calculated the rate of precession over 2300 years ago. I can conceive of no other conclusion. To explain this away as "coincidence" would only obscure the issue.
For early Mesoamerican skywatchers, the slow approach of the winter solstice sun to the Sacred Tree was seen as a critical process, the culmination of which was surely worthy of being called 13.0.0.0.0, the end of a World Age. The channel would then be open through the winter solstice doorway, up the Sacred Tree, the Xibalba be , to the center of the churning heavens, the Heart of Sky.
Notes:
1Linda Schele and David Freidel, unlike most Mayanists, continue to support the work of Floyd Lounsbury in promoting the 584285 correlation. This is 2 days off from the Thompson correlation that I use. The decisive factor in supporting the Thompson correlation of 584283 is the fact that it corresponds with the tzolkin count still followed in the highlands of Guatemala. To account for this discrepency in his correlation, Lounsbury claims that the count was shifted back two days sometime before the conquest (not likely), thus explaining its present placement. This means that either correlation will give the December 21st end date. Nevertheless, Schele and Freidel still report that the end date is December 23rd, 2012 rather than Dec. 21st, an unfortunate faux pas understandable only because they aren't particularly interested in the specifics of the correlation debate. For a detailed discussion of this topic, refer to my book Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies.
2Case in point is the mysterious existence of myths obviously describing precession in the ancient verses of the Kalevala, the Finnish National Epic. These myths were relayed from the earliest times by way of singers. Many of these stories are thoroughly magical and are filled with sky lore. The Finnish language is not of Indo- European origin and up until the late 19th century peasants in Finland and northwestern Russia had little contact with Europe. Indeed, their heritage suggests more contact with Central Asia than Europe. Some of the Kalevala stories describe a sacred Mill called the Sampo (derived from sanskrit Skambha = pillar or pole) with a "many ciphered cover". This spinning Mill is a metaphor for a Golden Age of plenty and the starry sky spinning around the Pole Star (known as the Nail of the North), which in the Far North is almost straight over head. The Mill at some point is disturbed, its pillar being pulled out of its peg, and a new one - a new "age" - must be constructed. This becomes the chore of Ilmarinen, the primeval smith. In this legend, ancient knowledge of precession among unsophisticated "peasants" who were nonetheless astute skywatchers, was preserved via oral tradition almost down to modern times.
3EZCosmos is a graphic software package that can accurately plot and animate the positions of planets, stars, nebula and so on, for 14,000 years. It is well suited to this research because it accounts for precession in its positional calculations. It also happens to be the software that Linda Schele used to discover the astronomical meaning of the Mayan Sacred Tree.
4 Here we briefly converge with the ideas of Terence McKenna. In the book he co- authored with his brother Dennis (Invisible Landscape, Seabury Press 1975 and Harper San Francisco, 1993), Terence suggests that the position of winter solstice sun within 3 degrees of the Galactic Center in the year 2012 A.D. (a "once-in-a-precessional- cycle" event) may provide the eschatological end point for his theory of time known as Timewave Zero. His end date was chosen for historical reasons and was, apparently, only later discovered to correspond with the Mayan end date. The McKennas point out that this unusual astronomical situation has been noted by other writers, namely, Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend in Hamlet's Mill (1969). As ACS Publication's The American Ephemeris for the 21st Century shows, in the year 2012 the Galactic Center is at 27 Sagittarius (within 3 of winter solstice). Thus McKenna demonstrates that on winter solstice of 2012, Galactic Center will be rising heliacally just before dawn, in a way reminiscent of how the Maya observed Venus's last morningstar appearance.
5This basically follows the "1 degree every 72 years" rule of precession. In this way, back in 3114 B.C. the sun conjuncted the Sacred Tree on Oct 10th, which is 72 degrees, or 1/5th of the ecliptic from the winter solstice. The Fall Equinox sun conjuncted the Sacred Tree about 6400 years ago (1/4th of a precessional cycle). Ancient cultures in Mesopotamia may have recognized this alignment, and called it a Golden Age. The fall from this state of alignment may be responsible for the original Fall from Paradise myth, which filtered out to the Judaic tradition.
6The Long Count has other strange astronomical properties. For instance, the 13- katun cycle of 256 years was known to the Yucatec Maya as a prophecy cycle. We see it used in the Books of Chilam Balam. The astronomical reference here is to conjunction cycles of Uranus and Pluto, two of which equal 256 years. From another angle, 3 katuns equal exactly 37 synodical cycles of Venus.
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Author's Biographical Information:
John Major Jenkins (March 4th, 1964, 9:19 p.m., Chicago) is a student of Mayan time. On several trips to Central America in the late 80's, he worked and lived with the Quich» and Tzutujil Maya in Guatemala. Observations gathered on these trips were published in Chicago area newspapers. Since then he has devoted his time to studying Mayan cosmo-conception and the mathematical and philosophical properties of the sacred calendar. More thought provoking ideas can be found in his recent book Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies (Borderlands Science and Research Foundation, 1994). Additional information on the Mayan end date alignment is available by writing the author at Four Ahau Press: P.O. Box 3; Boulder, CO 80306. Four Ahau Web Site
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