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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, 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

Publishing details

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Other sites of Interest

The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies * The Orion Mystery.
Peter James' The Sunken Kingdom * David Rohl's A Test of Time
Fingerprints of the Gods * Indra Girt by Maruts * Red Earth, White
Lies

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