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The Mayan Prophecies
*Published 1995 (c) by Adrian Gilbert and Maurice Cotterell*
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Short Overview.
The authors demonstrate how the Mayan Holy Number 1,366,560 days,
known as the birth of Venus and the basis of their calendar,
indicates ancient knowledge of sun spot cycles and their effect on
the human race. They explore the popular myth of Quetzalcoatl and
its origins in Maya ideas concerning the sun cycle.
They show the links between the pre-Columbian civilizations of
Central America and the Old World, in particular Egypt. Examining
the archaeological record, they find further evidence for linking
the origins of Mayan civilization with the mythical lost continent
of Atlantis, which according to Plato was destroyed in a series of
catastrophes.
They reveal that the Mayan calendar prophesies the end of our own
"Age of the Jaguar", the fifth and final "sun" in 2012 AD. This,
according to Cotterell's sun-spot theories, will be brought about by
a sudden reversal in the earth's magnetic field.
The book is lavishly illustrated with 40 colour plates as well as
many black and white pictures and diagrams. It is a book full of
startling discoveries not only about the past and the seemingly
remote civilization of the Maya but ourselves and the destiny of the
human race.
Introduction
Mexico is a strange country that contains many secrets. On March 4
1519 Hernan Cortes, with 11 ships, 600 foot soldiers, 16 horses and
some artillery landed on the coast near what was to become Vera
Cruz. By August 13 1521 he had conquered the Aztec Empire, the most
powerful state in all of the Americas. Part of the reason for his
success was a case of mistaken identities, the Indians believing
that he was a god named Quetzalcoatl whose return had long been
prophesied.
The Spanish for their part were both fascinated and appalled by what
they found in this 'New World'. To them the indigenous religion,
which included human sacrifice on a grand scale, was both barbarous
and satanic. Accordingly they set about destroying it without trace.
Whole libraries of colourful bark-books were burnt and those natives
who did not die from disease, hunger and over-work were forcibly
converted to Catholicism.
Fortunately not all the Spanish were as unsympathetic towards the
Indians as Cortes. A few, such a friar named Bernadino Sahagun, made
friends with the natives and attempted to record for posterity their
traditional beliefs and ideas. He discovered that central to their
philosophy was a belief in the cyclical nature of time and an
awesome fear that one day, possibly sooner rather than later, their
world would come to an end. It seems that they believed that the
sun, which they nourished with their sacrifices, would one day no
longer send its life force, thereby bringing to an end the fifth and
last age of man. They counted the days according to two calendars,
one a "vague" year of 365 days and the other a shorter cycle of 260
days. Every day had two names, one according to each calendar so
that the same combination of names would not recur for 52 years.
When one of these 52 year time periods, known as an Aztec century,
came to an end they would leave their cities and, going up into the
surrounding hills, anxiously watch the stars. The sign they were
looking for was the Pleiades star-group, symbolising for them a
cosmic snake's rattle, crossing the southern meridian at midnight.
This, they believed, meant that the heavens had not stopped turning
and the sun would rise again. The Aztecs celebrated the birth of
this new 'century' with rejoicing and the lighting of fires,
symbolising the rebirth of the world.
Most native Meso-American documents were destroyed in the early
years of the Spanish occupation but a few priceless books and relics
did survive the destruction, either having been hidden by the
Indians or exported back to Europe as presents for the King. The
most important of these was what is now called the /Dresden Codex/,
named after the town in whose library it was lodged. This strange
book, inscribed with unknown hieroglyphs, was written by Maya
Indians who once ruled over much of Central America, the ruins of
their once grand civilization littering the jungle. In 1880 a
brilliant, German scholar, who was working as a librarian in
Dresden, turned his attention to this codex. By a process of
extraordinary detective work he cracked the code of the Mayan
calendar making it possible for other scholars and explorers to
translate the many dated inscriptions to be found on buildings,
stelae and other ancient Mayan artefacts. He discovered that the
/Dresden Codex/ itself was concerned with astronomy providing
detailed tables of lunar eclipses and other phenomenon. These were
so accurate that they put our own calendar to shame. He also found
evidence for a curious "magic number"- 1,366,560 days, which could
be factorised in a number of ways and which harmonised the cycles of
Venus and Mars with two "yearly" cycles also used by the Maya: the
sacred /tzolkin /of 260 days and the /Haab/ of 365 days. However, he
also found that they had another system of counting the days
relative to a starting date, called the Birth of Venus and now known
to be 13 August 3114 BC. This calendar was divided into "months" or
/uinals /of twenty days, "years" or /tuns /of 360 days and longer
periods of 7200 days, the /katun/ and 144,000 days, the /baktun/.
The number 13 was magically important to them and they believed
that, starting from the Birth of Venus, after 13 of these longest
periods, or /baktuns, /the world would come to an end. Working from
their start date this Mayan Prophecy points to a date in our own
time, 22 December 2012.
In 1986 Maurice Cotterell put forward a revolutionary theory
concerning astrology and sun cycles. He had for some years suspected
that the sun's variable magnetic field had consequences for life on
earth. The sun has a complex field which loops and twists itself
into knots. It has long been suspected that these loops give rise to
sunspots, which are dark blemishes on the sun's skin. The number,
size and location of sunspots are constantly changing and as a
former Radio Officer, Cotterell was well aware that they have
profound effects upon the earth's magnetic envelope, the
magnetosphere. Whilst working as Head of Electrical and
Communications Engineering (Estates) at Cranfield Institute of
Technology, he devised a program that would compute the relationship
between the sun's magnetic field and the Earth. As expected his
model predicted that there should be a sunspot cycle of roughly
eleven and a half years, closely corresponding to what has been
observed over several centuries. However, he also found graphic
evidence for longer cycles including a period of 1,366,040 days. His
work took a new turn when he read about the Mayan super number from
the /Dresden Codex/: 1,366,560 days. This was exactly two 260 day
cycles larger than his theoretical sunspot period. He therefore
proposed that the two were related. As his earlier work on what he
called /Astrogenetics /indicated that human fertility was dependent
on the presence of sunspots, he now had evidence that the Mayan
calendar was not arbitrary but was based on a knowledge of the
effects of sunspots. This explained the near obsession they had for
long cycles of time and their belief in the rise and fall of four
previous ages of man.
Travelling in Mexico, Cotterell extended his ideas and gave them a
public airing on television. After giving a lecture at the Voluntary
Cultural society, he was awarded a medal by the wife of the
President. By now his work included some very esoteric
investigations into the 'Lid of Palenque', a mysterious sarcophagus
cover made famous in the 1960s by Eric von Däniken, who believed it
showed the picture of an ancient astronaut. Cotterell now identified
the lid as a graphic representation of Mayan philosophy and as
containing many hidden messages and codes.
In 1994 he met up with Adrian Gilbert, who had recently co-authored
a book on the Egyptian pyramids called /The Orion Mystery/. Gilbert
too went to Mexico and was fascinated to discover the extent to
which the ancient Mexicans venerated the rattlesnake. He discovered
some curious cultural similarities between the early Maya and the
ancient Egyptians, even though their civilizations are separated by
millennia. Whereas the Egyptians studied the movements of the
Hyades, Orion and its companion star Sirius, the Maya were more
interested in the nearby Pleiades star-cluster. They viewed it as
the warning rattle of a great cosmic serpent, which seems to have
corresponded to the ecliptic. The head of this serpent was the sun
and they believed that it was the source of all life on earth.
The Maya, like the Aztecs, believed there had been four ages prior
to our own. Gilbert was able to relate the first of these to
Atlantis and investigated certain prophecies relating to this fabled
civilization. It seems that the serpent religion, which the early
Spanish conquistadors attempted to eradicate, may well owe its
origins to survivors of this lost race, some of whom went to Egypt
and some to Central America. The original Quetzalcoatl, whose name
means 'plumed serpent' and who was identified with the planet Venus,
probably lived at the start of the fourth age, around 3114 BC and
initiated a highly ethical religion of penance. This later
degenerated into human sacrifice: physical hearts instead of
emotions being offered to the sun. Other prophets of the same name
lived later and Cortes was mistaken for his reincarnation. The Mayan
calendar points to 22 December 2012 as being the end of our present
age. Changes around that time to the sun's magnetic field could have
consequences for us all. Perhaps we are already witnessing the
beginnings of this change with the desertification of more and more
land. This seems to have happened in a more localised way at the
time of another sun spot minima, leading to the collapse of the
Mayan civilization. Their ruined, jungle cities are a warning to us
all.
Table of Contents
Prologue. 1. The Mysterious Maya. 2. Mayan Concepts of Time. 3. A
New Solar Astrology. 4. Maurice Cotterell in Mexico. 5. Land of the
Rattlesnake. 6. The New Fire, the Chacmools, and the Skull of Doom.
7. Transatlantic Traditions. 8. The Olmecs and Atlantis. 9. The Sun,
its Energy and Influences. 10. The Atlantean Cataclysm. Notes.
Appendices by Maurice Cotterell. 1. Astrogenetics. 2a. Astrogenetics
and the Twelve Astrological Types. 2b. A Scientific Rationalization
of Astrology. 3. Solar Radiation and Hormone Production in Humans.
4. The Sunspot Cycle. 5. The Decline of the Maya. 6. Catastrophe and
Destruction. 7. Maya Numbers and Counting Systems. 8. The Amazing
Lid of Palenque. Glossary. Bibliography. Index
About the authors
* *Adrian Gilbert*, Cotterell's co-author for the /Mayan
Prophecies/, is the co-author of the number one international
best-seller The Orion Mystery <../orion/index.htm>, regarded
by many as the greatest breakthrough in Egyptian, pyramid
research this century. He is currently working on a new book,
provisionally entitled "Magi: quest for a secret tradition",
which will be published by Bloomsbury next autumn. He has his
own Web site .
* *Maurice Cotterell*, is an internationally acclaimed writer,
Engineer, and Independent Scientist, author of /Astrogenetics/
(1988), /The Amazing Lid of Palenque/ (1993), /The Mosaic Mask
of Palenque/ (1994), and /The Mural of Bonampak/ (1995).
His new book, /The Supergods/ (1997), builds up Velikovsky's
work and explains how ice ages are caused, why the mammoth
disappeared, how the Maya encoded secret knowledge into their
art, Architecture and carvings, and how the intellectual
ascent of man is punctuated by outside intevention just as
geological evolution is punctuated by catastrophes. He may be
contacted by fax (UK) on 01752 840945. his co-author for /The
Mayan Prophecies/
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