Bolivia announces the “end of Coca Cola and capitalism” for December 21

From MercoPress:  Bolivia announces the “end of Coca Cola and capitalism” for December 21


According to the head of Bolivian diplomacy on that day marked by the Mayan calendar as the end of an era, will not be the end of the world as affirmed by some prophecies, but rather the beginning of a new life full of changes and respect for Mother Earth.

For this reason the Bolivian government is preparing a special ceremony to celebrate the summer solstice day in the Titicaca Lake shared by Bolivia and Peru at an altitude of 4.080 metres above sea level.

That day “will also mark the end of egoism, of division, it must be the end of Coca Cola” and the beginning of “mocochinchi” (a pop drink made out of dried peaches) and of “willcaparu” (a corn refreshment).

According to the “long counting” Maya calendar on 21 December 2012 will be the end of a civilization and the beginning of another one that implies spiritual transition towards a new cosmic conscience.

The first of the seven Mayan prophecies says that on that day humanity will have to choose between disappearing as a thinking species which threatens to destroy the planet, or evolve towards the harmonic integration with the entire universe.

For Choquehuanca that day will signal “the end of the Macha, the end of hatred, the end of capitalism” and the beginning of “la Pacha, the start of love, of community spirit”. The Foreign minister announced that to welcome Pacha the Bolivian government is preparing a ceremony in the island of the Sun with the attendance of 50.000 indigenous members from different countries.

Choquehuanca made the announcements during a ceremony next to President Evo Morales and Vice-president Alvaro García in which a contract was signed to construct an airport in Copacabana, the main Catholic sanctuary of Bolivia, 120 kilometres west of La Paz.

Will the righteous resurrect on December 21, 2012? Televangelists Jack and Rexella Van Impe think something big will happen.

From The god Discussion:  Will the righteous resurrect on December 21, 2012? Televangelists Jack and Rexella Van Impe think something big will happen.

December 21, 2012, is an important day for Christian televangelists Jack and Rexella Van Impe.  Jack Van Impe says that all sorts of things are going to start happening after that day and that Jesus' return is imminent.
Many doomsday believers think that the December 2012 date marks the end of the Mayan calendar and the end of the world as we know it.

According to Rexella Van Impe, one of the signs is that the Hadron Collider is expected to "solve" the God particle question by the end of 2012, which she characterizes as a "very, very serious thing."  (The term "God particle" is referring to the Higgs boson which could explain why mass is formed.  Scientists do not care for the term, "God particle." Research is being conducted to verify whether a particle announced on July 4 is actually the Higgs boson or some other type of particle.)  Jack Van Impe says that the Hadron Collider is "a monstrous machine" and he will reveal God's word about it, along with the Big Bang Theory, next week.  But in the meantime, the Van Impes point to material published in the book, The Ark of Millions of Years, as evidence that December 21, 2012, is "the resurrection date" in the prophecies of many religions.  Among other things, the book claims that "the Zodiac Clock in the main reading room of the Library of Congress portrays the Roman god Saturn holding the sickle of the December 21, 2012, harvest."

"What's shocking is that these people said this a few thousand years ago," Jack Van Impe remarked about the book.  "They weren't trying to frighten someone into becoming a member of their religion because of that date.  They looked ahead and all of them — the pagan religions — predicted that the resurrection of their dead in their religions would happen December 21st, 2012.  Now, wouldn't that be something if our rapture also occurred then?  We're not setting dates, but this is exciting stuff."

Jack Van Impe thinks that something cataclysmic will happen after December 21, 2012.  "Now listen carefully," he admonished.  "We are to be looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.  Why?  Because we're going to miss all the horrendous things that will happen probably from 2012 onward, because I believe the tribulation hour is going to begin very soon."

Christians will be "caught up" and ascend to heaven, avoiding the tribulations that everyone else will go through, he explained.  "I'm not setting dates now, but God showed me something about a year ago and I've used it once on television already.  A generation is not 40 years," he said, recounting some biblical math. "It comes out to 52 years for a generation.  [...] Get ready, this is exciting!"  Counting from the 1967 6-day war in Israel, he said that Jesus could return by 2019, and minus the 7 years of tribulation before Christ's return, it would be 2012.

"Wouldn't it be exciting if all of us were resurrected on the same day, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame?" he speculated.

Recent storms and power outages are some of the biblical signs that people should be watching for, the Van Impes said. According to Jack Van Impe, a dark supernatural presence created the power outages in early July in the midst of heat waves and extreme weather. "You know who's behind it, all these power shortages? We don't have electricity and light? The Prince of Darkness, Satan. He controls space. God gets the bad rap for everything — Oh, it's an Act of God. No, no. Satan is the god of this world's system (2 Corinthians 4:3). He is the prince of the power of the air and the airwaves. He controls what's going on there. To bring all this darkness into our lives, as the transmissions go out so that we can't have a cool home and we can't turn on the lights, it's satanic power."

 

Head Mayan Elder, Apolinario Chile Pixtun, Visits San Francisco to Discuss Mayan Calendar

From the Sacramento Bee:  Head Mayan Elder, Apolinario Chile Pixtun, Visits San Francisco to Discuss Mayan Calendar

SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Elisabeth Thieriot, a San Francisco-based business woman, co-founder of PhoneCharge, Inc, philanthropist and author of Be Fabulous at Any Age hosted a questions and answers session for the Head Elder of the Mayan Council, Apolinario Chile Pixtun, on June 27th for friends and media at her home, Lions Gate in Tiburon, CA.

"I always enjoy coming to Elisabeth's house because she is a gracious host and has a warm heart," says guest, Sudha Pennathur. "It's even more of a pleasure to be invited to Lions Gate and get the rare chance to meet Apolinario to learn about the Mayan culture and her [Thieriot's] film that has been a big part of her life this year."

Guests sipped wine and savory hors d'ouerves, while Thieriot and Pixtun answered questions one by one from guests and media. Question topics ranged from the Mayan culture and the calendar, to the upcoming movie "Decoding B'aqtun." Guests represented a wide range of backgrounds, from the Catholic Church, a Cryptologist, an Indian jewelry designer, a Guatemalan female empowerment advocate and more.
Pixtun clutched his Mayan spiritual guidance stick while explaining spirituality in the Mayan culture and the meaning of this b'aqtun in particular. He also discussed the film, "Decoding B'aqtun," and the pleasure of working with Thieriot.

"[Working] with Elisabeth was different. It is a different work relationship. It is a different way of seeing life," Pixtun explained. "Working with her is good and especially working on a project that will save humanity."
Thieriot and Pixtun worked well together and bonded in a strong friendship during production. This is why Pixtun made a stop to Thieriot's house on his U.S.A. tour of hosting various Mayan conferences.

The film is a guide to the secret of how to live a fulfilled life through spirituality by the Mayan example. While Pixtun explained the Mayan culture, there is more to be revealed that the film touches on. "Decoding B'aqtun" is scheduled to come out at the end of 2012.

To watch the interview of Thieriot and Pixtun, respectively, as well as highlights from the question and answer session, tune in on July 29 at 5:25 p.m. to "It's a Red Carpet Life…" Red Carpet Bay Area's summer shorts on KICU TV36 and re-watch the segment with additional photos here.

About Apolinario Chile Pixtun Apolinario Chile Pixtun is the Head Elder of the Mayan Council. He is a spiritual guide. He carries the wisdom of his Mayan ancestors and passes it on to generations. He travels around the world to hold Mayan conferences and speak about the calendar.

About Elisabeth Thieriot Elisabeth Thieriot is a San Francisco-based business woman, co-founder of PhoneCharge, Inc, philanthropist and author of Be Fabulous at Any Age. She executive produced and financed the movie "Decoding B'aqtun."

About "Decoding B'aqtun" The film does not yet have a debut date. Shot in Guatemala, the film uncovers previously seen Mayan artifacts from the sites of Tikal and Quirigua, Guatemala. It takes its audience on a journey to discover the optimum quality of life through the Mayan prophecies and example.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/10/4622502/head-mayan-elder-apolinario-chile.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/10/4622502/head-mayan-elder-apolinario-chile.html#storylink=cpy

 

Mayan Calendar: World Will Not End In December 2012, Expert Says

From Huffington Post:  Mayan Calendar: World Will Not End In December 2012, Expert Says

It's a bright summer day at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Outside, in the sprawling front plaza rimmed by palm and willow trees, young couples cuddle by the steps, vendors sell wrestling masks and tacos, and five men dressed in traditional Totonac garb slowly spin upside down in the death defying "Dance of the Flyers" for the tourists.

Inside the museum is a wonder of culture and history. Each wing is dedicated to a separate civilization in Mesoamerican culture—one for the Toltecs, another for Teotihuacan. But the largest spaces are reserved for the Aztecs and Maya. And in the center of the building is the stunning Aztec Stone of the Sun—often erroneously called the "Aztec Calendar"—perhaps the most recognizable symbol in Latin America. Diana Magaloni Kerpel, the museum director, peers at the stone.

"It is not a calendar. It's really the image of space and time. It's an image of how the Aztecs conceived themselves as in the center of time and space," she says. "Look at that. There is face in the middle—that is the cosmos. The Maya wouldn't do that—ever."

If you have not been paying attention to doomsayers or John Cusack movies, December 21, 2012, is the day that many say the Maya predicted the world would end. Internet stories regularly detail the Maya calendars although displaying the Aztec Stone of the Sun (including one, we regret, that was published on Scientific American Online). Looking at the reality of ancient Mesoamerica, it quickly becomes clear that much of the uproar rose out of a confusion of two distinct cultures that lived 500 years apart.

"There's a lot of conflation between these two cultures. It would almost be like comparing England at the time of the War of the Roses to the Romans or the Romans to the Greeks in the age of Pericles," says Stephen Houston, a Mayanist at Brown University. "They are vastly different periods, separated by considerable distances. The societies had many shared features but they were organized in very different ways."

To the average tourist, all the magnificent art here may blend together, and indeed they share many themes. But the Maya and Aztecs were very different cultures, analogous in many ways to the Greeks and Romans. Like the Greeks, the Maya were the older civilization to the east. Rather than a unified empire, they were more a collection of powerful city-states like Tikal and Calakmul, who occasionally fought each other. They also had highly realistic art and a form of mathematics far beyond that of ancient Europe.

The Aztecs (properly called the Mexica), on the other hand, ran a Romanesque, centrally organized empire with a powerful origin story for their all-powerful central city. They believed their people began in a mythical place to the north, called Aztlán. Like the Romans or the Jews before, they wandered through the wilderness, eventually reaching a giant lake in the mountains where they built Tenochtitlan—the largest city in the world at the time, now called Mexico City.

That was A.D. 1325, four centuries after the end of the great Maya era. The differences between the cultures can be seen in their art, politics and especially the way they perceived time.

Mexica mythology was full of wrath, death and enough cataclysmic destruction for a Hollywood movie. Their art evolved from highland people like the Toltecs through a tradition of sculpture. The Mexica regularly discussed the end of the world and sacrificed people to prevent it. Pieces like the Stone of the Sun or the Tlaltecuhtli monolith, discovered in 2006, were highly representational and filled with intimidating monsters. Tlaltecuhtli, the largest Mexica icon ever discovered, has claws, blood spurting from her mouth and skulls for knees. People were blocky with generic faces, almost like communist or nazi propaganda.

The Maya, in contrast, had a more fluid style of art founded by painters. They depicted people more or less how they looked, often with subtle emotions rather than blank stares. Scientists recently announced the discovery of a mural found in the home of a royal scribe in the long-forgotten Maya city of Xultun —a city now reduced to little more than mounds of rubble and vegetation in northern Guatemala. The mural depicts an actual king, rather than a god, and accurately renders his court.

The mural also showcases the unique Maya Calendar, which was wholly distinct from the calendar used by the Mexica. As with the Mexica, Maya dates combine at least two calendars—one covering 365 days and the other 260 days, such that every day had two names, which reset every 52 years. But unlike the Mexica, it also uses a "long count" system that adds a numeral at the end of a cycle to keep a constant count of years, more like the Christian calendar. "Let's say something happened in '76. Is that 1976 or 1776?" says Karl Taube, an iconographer at the University of California, Riverside. "Unless you have a constant chronology, we don't really know. But with the Maya long count, we know exactly."

This "long count" feature is how we are able to extend the Maya calendar all the way to 2012. The Mexica calendar, by contrast, simply reset at zero at the end of a cycle. The Mexica would have no way of conceiving such a specific date so far into the future.

Yet it is the Mexica, not the Maya, who trafficked in the apocalypse. The Classic Maya had almost no tradition of cataclysmic endings (though they may have picked it up centuries later from groups like perhaps the Mexica). For them, 2012 is just a year when several of their calendars reset, like 2000 for modern calendars. Taube, who is helping interpret the paintings around Xultun, says the 2012 hysteria totally misses the point. It's not that Maya were tracking the apocalypse but that they saw significance in every new day. With multiple calendars, ancient Mesoamericans had a different combination of dates for every day, each combination having a special significance. Almost as if every day was a holiday.

"It's a much more lush view of time," he says. "Every day is going to have multiple, multiple inputs. It's going to have multiple shadings of possible meaning. In a way, it's a richly rewarding way to go through time. You are not just ticking off a day in your calendar. Each day is just percolating with all of these different meanings and recollections and hopes."

Back at the  museum, Magaloni shakes her head over people asking about the 2012 prophecy. Museums like this, she says have a much bigger message to tell of the past. Namely, they celebrate and inform the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and try to uncover their culture that was nearly eradicated during the Spanish Conquest.

"The world is coming to an end in 2012—that's an idea of the 21st century," she says. It's not about the world ending; it's about cycles of time. They [the Maya] are really in love with those calculations and they are discovering the universe through their calculations."

 

December 21, 2012: warriors from the spirit world for humanity?

From CantonRep:  December 21, 2012: warriors from the spirit world for humanity?

The Mayan Calendar

Good news and bad news

 

 The Maya Long Count calendar is divided into bak'tuns, or 144,000-day (394 years) cycles that begin at the Maya creation date. The winter solstice of 2012 (Dec. 21) is the last day of the 13th bak'tun, marking what the Maya people would have seen as a full cycle of creation.

 

A second discovery of a Mayan tablet predicting doom and gloom on that date was a carving found on a staircase in Guatemala. The 1,300-year-old inscription is said to be the most significant find in decades. In it there is a reference to "the end".

 

There are other believers and experts and that are predicting that December 21, 2012 does not indicate “the end of the world”, but, some sort of profound global spiritual event. This 1300 year old inscription talks about political history rather than prophecy and experts claim Mayan predictions refer to the start of a new era rather than the end of time.

In the Bible it is said that we will not know the day and the time at the end of days.

Taking into account what we know or believe the answer is either Yes, No or Maybe.

 

The bad news:

The world ends.

The good news:

The world does not end.

Under this scenario; there could be some prime opportunities to see a lot of ghosts. The period between the Autumn Equinox (September 22, 2012) and the Winter Solstice (December 21, 2012) is considered as when the “Veil” that separates the worlds of the living and the dead are at its thinnest.

Since ghosts are of a spiritual nature and there are an equal number of experts who believe that December 21, 2012 represents a global spiritual event; could this possibly mean that the spirits of the dead are somehow going to play into a global spiritual scenario that then represents the expected new era of humanity?

 

More bad news:

No one knows what condition the planet will be in on December 21, 2012 as a result of the Zombie Apocalypse tearing apart humanity bit by bit. Could the spirits of the dead be the new warriors and one of the reasons they could come back in order to fight the zombies and other threats to save humanity?

  

 

New discovery indicates Mayan 'doomsday date' meant something else

From StraitsTimes:  New discovery indicates Mayan 'doomsday date' meant something else

(THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Archeologists have found a new reference about so-called 'doomsday date' of Dec 21, 2012, that suggests Mayans may have never predicted the apocalyptic end of world, according to news reports.

Scientists from Tulane University and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala announced on Thursday findings of Mayan hieroglyphs carved on a stone steps in the Mayan ruins of La Corona. It was the second known reference that mentions the famous date.

Contrary to the beliefs of many new-age believers and doomsday anticipators, the 7th century Mayan text does not contain prophecy on the end of the world.

Instead, it describes the actions of a powerful Mayan ruler at the time, Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' of Calakmul, or Jaguar Paw, who visited La Corona after severe defeat by the Kindom of Tikal in AD695.

Maya Calendar Ending In 2012, New Inscription Discovered

From Planet Save: Maya Calendar Ending In 2012, New Inscription Discovered

Researchers working at the La Corona site in Guatemala have found a 1,300-year-old Maya inscription referencing the so-called “end date” of the Maya calendar, December 21, 2012; this is only the second known reference to this date.
This discovery is one of the most important hieroglyphic discoveries in the past couple of decades. The finding was announced at the National Palace in Guatemala on June 28, 2012.

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This discovery is one of the most important hieroglyphic discoveries in the past couple of decades. The finding was announced at the National Palace in Guatemala on June 28, 2012.

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