With all the hoopla about December 21, 2012, I found this particular article intriguing. I initially ran across a reference to it on Whitley Strieber’s site, then went looking for the original article and found it at The Guardian.
Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History has long downplayed the apocalyptic references to the Mayan calendar. Most Mayan experts contend there’s only one surviving reference to the December 21, 2012 in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
But now the institute has announced that there is another apparent reference to the date in the nearby Comalcalco ruin. The ruin is unusual among Mayan temples because it was constructed of brick and the inscription is on the molded face of one such brick.
The government has known about this inscription for years and, according to Arturo Mendez, a spokesman for the institute, it’s been thoroughly studied by experts. The Comalcalco brick, as the fragment is called, isn’t on display and is kept in storage at the institute.
Interestingly, the brick coincides with the “end of the 13th Baktun; Baktuns were roughly 394-year periods and 13 was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas. The Mayan Long Count calendar begins in 3114 B.C., and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012. “
David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin is skeptical. “Some have proposed it as another reference to 2012, but I remain rather unconvinced. But the date on the brick could also correspond to similar dates in the past. There’s no reason it couldn’t be also a date in ancient times, describing some important historical event in the Classic period. In fact, the third glyph on the brick seems to read as the verb huli, “he/she/it arrives.”
I took a double take at this point. He/she/it arrives??
The Tortuguero inscription – the first reference to 12/21/12 – and the Comalcalco brick are believed to have been carved 1,300 years ago and both are odd in some way. The Tortuguero inscription supposedly describes an event that’s supposed to occur in 2012 which involves Bolon Yokte, a Mayan god associated with both war and creation. “However, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible, though some read the last eroded glyphs as perhaps saying, He will descend from the sky.
The inscribed faces of the Comalcalco brick were probably laid facing inward or covered with stucco, suggesting they were not meant to be seen.
Given all the hoopla and rumors swirling around the end of the Mayan calendar, the institute is organizing a special panel of Mayan experts who will meet at Palenque, another famous archaeological site in Mexico, next week. They hope to “dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another, in the Mayan Long Count calendar.”
So we have two interesting interpretations that are eerily similar about 12/21/12: he/she/it arrives and He will descend from the sky.
To a fundamentalist, it might sound like the rapture. To me, it sounds ore like UFOs, maybe a fleet of them, darkening the sky. Now that would be a game changer.
I read that the 13 crystal skulls that made their way across the US as part of 11/11/11 was also part of new information being given to the public from the Mayan Elders. Information that had been kept secret until this time. I wonder if this is the information?
(Blogger is down by the way – I haven’t been able to post.)
i saw this article not long ago, too – i’m choosing to go with david stuart’s perspective – that it comes from an event in the past – too many thoughts floating around of some horrific coming event already – thoughts create – so i’m just trying to define my thoughts in the most positive way! one thought at a time! 😉
very intriguing story, though!
I can’t help wondering what José Argüelles would have to say about this.
Interesting post, hadn’t heard of the Comalcalco Brick previously. ‘He will descend from the sky’ sounds very Biblical in nature but could be anything including the UFOs you mention. There is so much going on in the world that it feels as if something big may happen but it could well be something quite subtle, even ‘the beginning of true enlightenment’ as Math writes. Time, as we know it, will tell. (I couldn’t get this post yesterday for some reason)
Snafu on dates! It went up, then we took it down to put up today.
Something big or subtle, either one is welcome!
I think of CHARIOTS OF THE GODS and the BOOK OF REVELATION and THE RAPTURE as I read this material in your post. Like you, I visualize a sky filled with unidentified flying objects, or even a sky filled as far as the eye can see, with only ONE gigantic Mother Ship surrounded by clouds of fire, which is described in all of the above. A Spielberg Sky, if you will. The End Times? Perhaps the end of ignorance and the beginning of true enlightenment, IF those who arrive are those ancestral entities who seeded this planet and long ago decided to return and assist us towards making a fresh start. A pipedream maybe, but not necessarily. I know there are dark ETs and Light ETs, and I prefer to hope that when they re-appear to everyone and not just in the scattered viewings, they will be out of the Light and not out of the Darkness. I have the conviction that if this is the situation, we may avoid another Atlantis-type annihilation.