Re: FAMSI.ORG

Tue, 04 May 2010 20:14:29 +0000

Hi Laura,
Boiled down, it means that there is only one existing Mayan reference to the 2012 date and it is on the tortuguero Monument 6. It is partially obliterated so we can't be sure of all the words. Different people have made different interpretations of the partial inscription. This guy claims that it says Bolon Yokte will descend either to or from the black (illegible) and do (illegible).
Most interpretations I have seen say that the 9 support gods will descend to (illegible). Essentially, it means nothing for us. I don't believe in the Mayan gods.

FAMSI.ORG

Tue, 04 May 2010 20:02:48 +0000

Hi. Could you explain this paragraph a little clearer…

One monument –and one only–, Tortuguero Monument 6 (also shown in our presentation), does seem to predict an event on 21 December, 2012. Be warned; it is unique in many ways, and some very important scholars doubt that it really is talking about the future. Steve Houston, for example, believes the text's verb-endings imply that it is talking about then-contemporaneous events; noted archaeoastronomer Anthony Aveni agrees. However, it seems pretty straightforward, calculating with a correct distance number to "the end of 13 Pik (Bak'tuns)," using the utom verb, and then telling us, uniquely, something apparently non-trivial. Unfortunately, two of the glyphs are nearly obliterated, so the inscription tells us that on that date, Bolon Yokte' (a god of change) will descend to (from?) the "Black"-(??) and do (??). (FAMSI.ORG)

Thanks guys!