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I suggest that you first read these two essays:

      Why the Maya Picked 2012
      (5 pages)

      and

      The Maya Year Is Extremely Accurate!
      (4 pages)

Or if you prefer a more thorough preparation:

      The Actual Astronomy of 2012 in a Nutshell
      (10 pages)

      and

      The Maya Year Is Extremely Accurate!
      (4 pages)

 

Many people finish those essays with a very intriguing question on their mind:

Did an extraterrestrial create the Maya calendar?

 

Did an extraterrestrial create the Maya calendar?

It is important that we don't jump to conclusions that are not supported by evidence. Just because I don't see how the Maya created their calendar with the limited tools at their disposal does not mean that they didn't do it. They could have gained the required astronomical knowledge by using an ingenious method that I am simply unaware of. And even if the Maya were not responsible, I certainly don't think that we should automatically assume that ETs were.

As I see it, there are several possible sources of this knowledge: the Maya or pre-Maya, off-planet ETs, human survivors of a previous advanced civilization such as Atlantis or a combination of these elements. Shamanic rituals could also play a role.

The required astronomical precision is strong evidence that should motivate us to seriously explore the hypothesis that ETs or other advanced beings were involved. While I am only presenting this as an hypothesis that should be investigated further, I personally find it very interesting that the Maya themselves say that a vastly superior being gave them their entire way of life including their calendar. Should we listen to them?

Zecharia Sitchin links the cultures of Mesoamerica and Egypt together in his book The Lost Realms. He claims that the Egyptian god Thoth is the same as the Maya god Kukulcan and that he is an extraterrestrial. As many of you know, he bases this on the stories he finds in the ancient Sumerian clay tablets. (1)

Additional support for this bold theory comes from the reports that the gods of both Mesoamerica and Egypt had large, cone-shaped heads. It is astonishing to me that archeologists have found skulls with this stunning characteristic yet the evidence is problematic in that some of these skulls seem to be non-human while others are deformed human skulls.

The latter is the result of parents changing the shape of their infant's head via a technique called head binding. Is it possible that this was an effort to emulate the gods they saw walking openly amongst them? There were reports from indigenous people still practicing head binding in the 1930s and they said that they did it to enhance the beauty of their children and to give them a mark of spiritual advancement. Were ETs the forgotten source of these ideals? Are we being too quick if we conclude that all elongated skulls are human? Since this subject is so important, I have many articles linked in the endnotes section. (2)

Are these elongated skulls from extraterrestrials?

Sitchin also offers an interesting story about a Mesoamerican clay elephant statuette. Obviously, since there aren't any elephants in the region, the question arises as to the origin of this knowledge. According to Sitchin, Thoth brought many Africans over to Mesoamerica to start a new civilization. So did they just remember the elephants from when they lived in Africa? Sitchin's story of the elephant is linked in the endnotes. (3)

Sitchin's photograph of a Mesoamerican clay elephant statuette.
Copyright 2000 Zecharia Sitchin. Reproduced by permission.

I would also like to point out that while the Maya say that they got their calendar from an advanced being, this being need not be an extraterrestrial at all. Perhaps there is some truth to the stories of an advanced civilization that collapsed almost completely in the distant past. Perhaps there were survivors who watched over the Maya and gave them their corn and their calendar.

No matter what, we should be very careful when discussing Kukulcan. While he could be exactly as Sitchin claims, what if he is both the personification of the Maya solar hero and a metaphor for the real source of their knowledge, regardless of what that source was? This possible blurring of real history and metaphorical stories can be extremely difficult to correctly dissect into truth and fiction. This is a very complex topic and I simply don't have the expertise to go into it much further but there is plenty of material from Sitchin and others if you are inspired to learn more.

If there were ETs or other advanced beings in Mesoamerica, no one knows why or when they left. Will they come back in 2012? The Maya give no indication that this is what they expect.

 

2012: A Period of Transformation and Rebirth

Be all that as it may, I think that it's best to think about 2012 as a period of time, not as a specific event happening at a precise point in time. And this period is a time of transformation, a rebirth.

Consider the rebirth of the sunrise. It can be debated as to when it actually starts. Does it begin as soon as the light of the sun starts to remove some of the darkness from the sky? Or does it start when the sun just begins to peak over the horizon? Or do we have to wait until the sun is entirely visible? But all this is just intellectual busy work. The important thing is that there is a shift that unfolds through time.

I think 2012 is similar. Yes, the astronomy of December 21, 2012 is specific to that exact day. This might be like the moment when the sun just begins to peak over the horizon. But we should not think that this moment contains the entire shift. Since the precessional cycle is so long, I think that it is safe to say that this period of transformation is happening now. Astronomically, there is very little difference between the position of the earth's axis now and where it will be in 2012. In fact, it is 99.986 percent in that position today (Spring 2009). Add to this the fact that the galactic alignment happens every year and we should completely remove people's fear of imminent global disaster due to some astronomical driving force.

I hope that I have been able to help people understand the actual astronomy of 2012 and show them how it provides the foundation for the Long Count calendar. I also hope that the important question of the possible involvement of advanced beings will be researched more thoroughly by people with expertise in that matter. And finally, I hope that we won't get too caught up in a debate about certain details that in the end don't really matter at all. Let's instead bring a positive attitude forward and do our best with what arises! Maybe along with the calendar and the sun, we too will be reborn, both individually and as a group!

The End

Thanks for reading my essay! Have a magical and mystical day!

Thomas Razzeto

Written: April 10, 2009
Revised: October 22, 2009

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Endnotes

(1) The following is a brief review of Zecharia Sitchin's The Lost Realms. It points out that the Egyptian god Thoth brought many Africans over to Mesoamerica thousands of years ago to create a new civilization.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/395509

And here is Sitchin's main website:
http://www.sitchin.com

(2) Here are some articles about elongated skulls that I found interesting. Of course I understand that some things can be surprisingly misleading in their appearance but I think that these cone-shaped skulls deserve a very close look and should not be quickly dismissed as completely human, yet deformed.

The following is a good introduction to the subject and the author explains her shift from think the skulls were from aliens to the conventional view that they are human. (Hmm. Many people go the other way.)

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_6ctimes1.htm

The next article contains photographs from Robert Connolly and comments by Lloyd Pye about the DNA analysis of two skulls; one is human and the other is very unusual. Two laboratories had access to the skulls. Pye is quoted as stating that “DNA links in some sections differed from the human ones.” Did both labs get the same result? We don't know. The link to the full DNA report is several paragraphs below but it does not appear to be very strong, one way or the other, due to insufficient and low-quality DNA material, due to the fact that the skull is about 900 years old and it has been x-rayed. Here is the link to this interesting article:

http://www.crystalinks.com/incanskulls.html

In this next article, Steve Quayle states that Lloyd Pye's DNA analysis revealed a human skull even though, according to Quayle, Pye claims that the amount of DNA analyzed was insufficient for a definitive conclusion. Are they both talking about the lab results mentioned above? If so, we have a conflict between what two different people claim Pye is saying. To find out what Lloyd Pye is really saying, you can visit his two websites.

Here is Steve Quayle's article. (There are no pictures in this article.)
http://www.stevequayle.com/Giants/Ancient.Civ_Technol/weird.skeletons.html

Here is Lloyd Pye's main website:
http://www.lloydpye.com

(By the way, if you are an Art Bell fan and want to hear Lloyd tell a very funny story about getting Art's Green Bay Packer helmet signed by Brett Favre, watch Lloyd's 18-minute story. It's in the humor section. Art was one of the most important radio hosts to interview Lloyd when his work with the skull was just beginning to unfold.)

And here is Lloyd's website that focuses on the unusual skull, which he calls the starchild:
http://www.starchildproject.com

Here is the full DNA report. It is very technical, as you would expect. There were two skulls found in Mexico in approximately 1930. One is from a human female and the other is the starchild:

http://www.starchildproject.com/reports_dna.htm

Many good pictures are in the following article including a skull with horns (!) and what might be a Sumerian tablet depicting beings with elongated skulls. They also appear to be much larger than normal humans, judging from the beings in their laps.

Here is an important quotation from Lloyd Pye, as presented in this article:

“Things have changed dramatically since 2004 in regard to the Starchild. The site link is www.starchildproject.com. I have recently published a book about the eight years of scientific testing that we've done with it, The Starchild Skull: Genetic Deformity or Human-Alien Hybrid? This book makes clear that we don't yet know what the Starchild is, neither its sex or its age at birth [Thomas Razzeto: I think he means its age at death.] (though we do know it died 900 years ago.) [Thomas Razzeto: plus or minus 40 years via Carbon-14 dating.]

“However, we DO know its mother was a Native American human and its father was NOT human. What we have been unable to prove was exactly what his father was, or how far his father was from the human norm. As of late last year (2006), there is a new test that we can apply to the Starchild's DNA that will answer those questions in full. We expect to be able to pay for this expensive, time-consuming procedure sometime in 2009, and we fully expect that it will prove beyond any shadow of doubt that the Starchild was indeed a human-alien hybrid, and its father was a pure alien.”

Also in this article is the story of Joel Mills and his efforts to raise the awareness of the general public about the existence of elongated skulls found around the world including but not limited to Egypt, Peru and Mexico. This project was titled The Secrets of Stargate and this refers to the movie Stargate. This could be one of the most important stories relating to the subject of elongated skulls. In my opinion, Joel's intentions were genuine but naive. Later, he removed himself from the project out of frustration since the people in charge were completely against even the slightest mention of any of this paradigm-shattering topic.

Here is the link to this very interesting article:
http://www.burlingtonnews.net/skulls.html

In the following article, we are told that head binding can deform the skull but it cannot make it bigger. I agree that the capacity of the skulls shown here do seem to have over twice the capacity of a normal human skull. (Other articles claim one-third more capacity but I think that it is much more than that.) The first half of the article seems off-topic since it talks about a “monster;” it is the second half that has interesting pictures and text about an elongated skull. By the way, “Ica area, Peru” should be “Inca area, Peru.”

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/monster.htm

An elongated skull was found in Russia in January 2009. Here we have a fairly long article plus a one-minute video that shows a skull that has sutured very well. There are no gaps that some people claim would result from head binding. In other words, this skull formed naturally. The article discusses many areas were elongated skulls have been found or artistically depicted, including Egypt.

http://newsfornatives.com/blog/2009/05/10/mysterious-skulls-found-natural-or-manipiluated-you-decide-video-poll/

The next article has the same one-minute video as above but different text. Its brief discussion of Egypt is interesting.

http://t-incognita.blogspot.com/2009/03/mystery-of-elongated-skulls.html

(3) Sitchin's essay about Africans settling in Mesoamerica and the Mesoamerican clay elephant statuette is here:

http://www.sitchin.com/elephant.htm

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