About this title: Why does the Maya calendar end in 2012? In this groundbreaking book, Jenkins shows that the end date of the Maya long count calendar on December 21, 2012, marks the rare alignment of our solar system with the galactic center. This happens every 26,000 years, and the Maya believed this alignment would greatly accelerate human evolution. 200 illustrations.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bear & Co
Date Published: 1998-08-01
ISBN-13:9781879181489ISBN:1879181487
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Description: Brand New. Paperback. How did the ancient maya create a calendar over 2000 years ago to help guide us through the birth of a new world? This groundbreaking book shows that the end date of the maya long count calendar on dec. 21, 2012, marks the rare alignment of our solar system with the galactic center. This happens every 26, 000 years, and the maya believed this alignment would greatly accelerate human evolution. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bear & Company
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781879181489ISBN:1879181487
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Santa Fe, New Mexico, Bear & Co, 1998
ISBN-13:9781879181489ISBN:1879181487
Description: Small quarto, softcover, fine in black pictorial wraps. How did the ancient maya create a calendar over 2000 years ago to help guide us through the birth of a new world? This groundbreaking book shows that the end date of the maya long count calendar on dec. 21, 2012, marks the rare alignment of our solar system with the galactic center. This happens every 26, 000 years, and the maya believed this alignment would greatly accelerate human evolution. Many propose that that is the "end of the ... read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781879181489ISBN:1879181487
Description: New. Why does the Maya calendar end in 2012? In this groundbreaking book, Jenkins shows that the end date of the Maya long count calendar on December 21, 2012, marks the rare alignment of our solar system with the galactic center. This happens every 26, 00... read more
Binding: S Softcover
Publisher: Bear & Co.
Date Published: 1998
Description: No Jacket. New. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall 1998. 423p. The Maya Long Count calendar, a complex system for measuring time, was developed around 2000 years ago, possibly at the pre-Maya site of Izapa in southern Mexico. Jenkins, an independent researcher, presents a wealth of information about Maya astronomy, mythology, and calendrics in support of his analysis of the Long Count calendar end-date, scheduled to occur on December 21, 2012. Providing evidence that the end-date corresponds with a rare ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bear & Co, Vermont
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781879181489ISBN:1879181487
Description: Very Good++ 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. PB, pictorial card covers, VG++/--, 425pp, endnotes, bibliography, index, b/w illus. Minor rubbing to edges and small creases to corners of covers, inside has ight curling to top corner of pages at front, else square, clean and tight without markings. How the Mayan cosmology and calendar points to 2012 as an end date of time as we know it-or at least huge changes for the planet. 850g when packed. read more
Edition: Fourth American Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bear & Co, U. S. A.
Date Published: 1998
Description: Near Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Anyone visiting Mayan Temple cities today can not help but feel there was something going on there way beyond normal awareness. Here we see a glimpse into the star future. Amazing stuff. Great condition. 425pp. Illus. Large handsome trade paperback. read more
"This book was ok, even though the book was interesting it took a while for me to read and to fully understand it and it still left me with some unanswered questions. This was a ok/good book. Not bad."
"Informative historical account of Mayan culture and Mayan myths. Also includes interesting information regarding archaeoastronomical alignments. However, the author is fairly dry in writing ability. The best part was Terence Mckenna's prologue/intro. Go Terence!!! (R.I.P. too)."
"Really great book and quite academic which is nice given the range of speculation about 2012 end-date mythology. This places the theory within the context of cosmology and astronomy which is really a great way to learn about those topics as well."
"I bought this book in a bookstore in San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas state in Mexico because visits to some of the indigenous villages and to Casa Balom had piqued my interest in the mythology and the beliefs of the Maya. This book speaks to the prediction of the Maya of the end of the 5th world which the author calculates will occur at the winter solstice in 2012. It incorporates astronomical discoveries of the Maya, demonstrates the connections to Mayan city sites, especially Izapan, to astronomy and the Mayan creation stories. Jenkins does not suggests, even denies, that the Mayan calendrical end-date of 2012 is an end date for all the world, but rather a turning date in the cycle of the cosmos.
This book is long, complicated, involves a lot of discussion of Mayan writing and the meanings of various stele in various Mayan ruins, but the stories and the astronomy are interesting. I confess to skipping some details as I went along."
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