2012 Galactic Alignment & the Long Count Calendar: An Evaluation

The Mayan Long Count Calendar Evaluated

In the previous essay 2012 Mayan Calendar Galactic Alignment there was presented a detailed description of a rare celestial alignment that certain researchers, most notably John Major Jenkins, have suggested was actively targeted by the Mayan Long Count Calendar, thought itself to have been established some 2500 years ago. Now indeed, with the mechanics of the alignment thus revealed, one is bound to consider next the actual strength of the association between the Mayan Calendar itself and the Galactic Alignment pattern. Several issues present themselves in this regard: Just what evidence is there of a real linkage? How accurate is the Long Count (13 Baktun cycle) in tracking to completion the Alignment? And finally, is such a celestial pattern of any real energetic significance at all? The following 3 essays consider each of these issues in turn:


1) Mayan Long Count: Evidence of a Link to the Galactic Alignment?

Just what is the actual basis of the suggested connection between the Long Count and the purported Alignment as described? What do the ancient and also the modern day Maya themselves have to say on the matter. Indeed, do the Maya themselves subscribe to the linkage? Or is the idea of a connection between the Long Count and the 2012 Alignment a theory developed purely by present day scholars outside of the Mayan Community? If so, then just what actual evidence exists to support the theory? An interpretation of Mayan myths, stone carvings and iconography; or a breakthrough evaluation of the Long Count Calendar sub-cycles? All are considered.


2) Accuracy of the Mayan Long Count in Targeting the Galactic Alignment

With the theory put forward that the ancient Maya knew of precession, which indeed forms the basis of any forward calculation of a future conjunction of the Earth at Winter Solstice, the Sun, and the Milky Way Galactic Equator, just how accurate is the Long Count in synchronising the completion of the 13 Baktun cycle with the 2012 alignment as determined by modern instruments? And what credit is due to the ancient Maya in the construction of the Long Count, in terms of their developing an accurate long range calendar?


3) The Energetic Significance of the 2012 Galactic Alignment

Is there anything about the celestial configuration of the alignment as would suggest a trigger for monumental earth changes, as indeed certain researchers have theorised? Looking to the ancients, to the Music of the Spheres and esoteric astrology, including also modern science, and most especially quantum physics, is there any evidence to be had that the 2012 galactic alignment itself will manifest as some sort of grand energetic event? Or will it indeed pass just like any other day? Essentially, do such claims that the Alignment event will cause global destruction or ‘world renewal’ have any basis in physical science?