Posted at www.tvwritersvault.com during July 2005...
Regardless of how you care to look at it; a time will come to an end during the December solstice of 2012. The Mayan calendar will come to its last moment on record. That particular calendar is called the Long Count calendar. It has an ancient starting date and a definitive ending date.
That is unheard of about calendars. Usually a calendar will merely track time; not looking further back than when it first came to be published, then also adjust according to shifts in time. Political holidays. Chronological adjustments. Daylight savings, and modifications imposed by nature. We usually think of calendars as records. Forecasts are expected to be dependable, based on what happen last calendar cycle, but anything can change. Foretelling events it will not do.
There are some prophecies which read like calendars. Chinese. Egyptian. Logs and predictions from seers; Nostra Damas the better known. But those are not calendars.
A calendar determines the keeping of time. It relies on events which can be scheduled and recorded. It will predict only according to successful past schedules. It does not suppose prophesize.
The Mayan Long Count calendar is by every definition a true and actuate calendar. It's start date, which is by our calendar, November 11, 3374 B.C. assumes the start of the Mesoamerican people; those who required the calendar to farm and hunt, people living in Mexico and parts of Central America. The Long Count is part of a trilogy of the Mayan Calendar and was not followed by the Mayan themselves. It spoke of things too long ago and too far ahead for a simple farmer or hunter to pay attention to. However, to date, to this very day, all the forecasts of the Long Count calendar have been exact. Most of those predictions, of course, concern the movement of prey, the success of crops. But some are bewildering, such as floods, natural disasters and even political upheavals which, although they did happen when indicated, seem impossible to believe. And it will end, by its own schedule on December 21, 2012. And it perdicts an upheavel far beyond anything we can comprehend.
Over the last 40 years amazing discoveries have been made about record keeping by the Mesoamericans. What was hidden in jungles and rain forests and within the secrets of undecipherable writings, and communication systems is quickly coming to light. Scholars such as Gray Urton, William Sullivan, John Major Jenkins, and an impressive list of others are shedding light upon cultures long thought to be dead and gone. And a sense of urgency can be played upon the public because, 1) If what the calendar suggest to predict is true, we can not ignore it and, 2) the opportunity to bring North America closer to its southern neighbors - especially before a time when attention will be drawn to it anyway - should effect many institutions and organizations who will likely aid the programmers along in their quest. 3) Consider the rewards of offering a forum and opportunity to those from all spectrums of this Mayan end of time debate.
This show will be dedicated to marching with time to the end of time. It should take the entire 7 years to communicate properly all the facts, theories and conjecture surrounding the end of time.
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Copyrighted 2005, Joe Auricchio