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| Author | Jenkins, John Major |
|---|---|
| Full Title | Maya Cosmogenesis 2012: The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End-Date |
| Binding | Softcover |
| Publisher | Bear & Co. (1998) |
| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 9781879181489 |
| Language | English |
| Short Description | Those looking for a premonition of imminent apocalypse will have to looks elsewhere. Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 is a work of serious scholarship by a man who has spent most of his life studying Mayan civilisation. In this book, Jenkins presents the evidence which shows that the Mayan calendar displays an understanding of the Earth's precession as well as its orbit around the center of our galaxy, and how this led the Mayans to end the present cycle of their calendar on 21 December 2012. While Jenkins establishes that this is, indeed, the correct date, he denies that the Mayans ever claimed that anything would actually happen on that date. What Jenkins postulates that the Mayans intended instead is a much more subtle, and much more interesting meaning to it. |
| Praise | John Major Jenkins is the most global and erudite voice of a swelling chorus of Galactic Center theorists. -- Joscelyn Godwin, author of The Theosophical Enlightenment and Arktos: The Polar Myth |
| About the Author | John Major Jenkins is a leading independent researcher elucidating the mysteries of ancient Mesoamerican cosmology and calendrics, who has authored five books and over a dozen articles on the Maya. Since 1986 he has journeyed to Mexico and Central America five times, thoroughly exploring the ancient sacred sites and contemporary indigenous cultures. Throughout this period, Jenkins has researched the inner workings of Maya calendar science, writing his first book 'Journey to the Mayan Underworld' in 1989. His book 'Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies', published by Borderlands Science and Research Foundation in 1994, reconstructs the Mayan Venus Calendar and establishes that the 'True Count' of the ancient tzolkin calendar is still followed by contemporary Maya daykeepers. In August 1997, Jenkins presented his pioneering research on the astronomy of the Maya calendar end-date in 2012 at the prestigious Institute of Maya Studies, associated with the Museum of Science in Miami. In March of 1998 he presented his construction of the true meaning of the Pyramid of Kukulcan at 'The Cosmic Serpent of the Ancient Maya Conference' in Merida, Mexico, having been invited to speak by the Indigenous Council of the Americas and the Mayoan Council. |
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