Hi Daniel;
I don't think Ben Tremblay needs our help. He pretty much cuts to the chase with his point: "2012 is a business … selling fear".
On the other article, TheGreatJuju has done an excellent job in his response here. The only thing that I would add to what he said is in response to this remarkable passage from the original article:
… They were ultimately driven to Ceylon where they inhabited the province of Maya. Later, they went to the Americas, having been taken there by Kubera and his Yakshas. Read my article about the Mayans. They were ultimately driven to Ceylon where they inhabited the province of Maya. The Mayans were ultimately driven to ceylon, etc., etc.
Before the ancient Meso-American Mayans' civilization fell into decline, they prophesied the cataclysm that is supposed to happen in 2012 — the end of this Kali Yuga.
It surprises and shocks the people of India to find out that the Meso-American Mayans predicted that this Kali-Yuga will end in 2012 AD. Today's Hindus insist that mankind has been in the Kali-Yuga for only 4,000 to 7,000 years. However, they must realize that the Mayans, the ones who really knew the secrets of the universe, were driven out of India and forced to live in Ceylon. There, they inhabited the province of Maya which was named after them. Afterwards, Kubera and his Yaksha subjects took them to Meso-America.
"Ceylon" is modern Sri Lanka. I don't know where the author finds the "province of Maya", unless he refers to the Maya Rata (which translated means "Country of the Sub King") which was a Medieval kingdom on the island. http://lakdiva.org/codrington/chap01.html
The author pulls an old trick here, claiming that similarities in words in two languages indicate that the two languages are connected. Regardless of the fact that many words in different languages sound the same or are spelled the same way, but have no relationship to each other, the author ignores the fact that "Maya" is an artificial group, imposed by the European colonialists. It was originally "Maia" in Spanish, meaning "industrious"… as in "the people who built those massive ruins". The Maya themselves would identify themselves by their language grouping, such as Yucatec, or Quiche, and there were hundreds of them in the region.
In addition, the author makes the claim (disputed by Hindu scholars) that the "Kali Yuga" ends in 2012, and that the end of the Kali Yuga signals a time of change. We've seen this claim before, and have a link to a site discussing this on our Links page.
It surprises and shocks the people of India to find out that the Meso-American Mayans predicted that this Kali-Yuga will end in 2012 AD.
As well it should, since (1) they didn't and (2) the Mayans had no relationship to India.
The author also appears to have a big thing for stating his belief that the Maya were "driven out of India and forced to live in Ceylon"… in the short passage above he states it four times! Repetition does not make something true, and the author does not present any evidence for his assertion, leaving the reader to make the connection between "The Maya" (an artificial name imposed on a collection of Meso-american city-states) and "Maya Rata", the name of a medieval kingdom on the island of Ceylon.
All in all, color me "unimpressed".
daniel jesus garcia (guest) 20 May 2010 02:25