Apollyon Rising 2012: The Lost Symbol Found and the Final Mystery of the Great Seal Revealed by Thomas Horn

In his book, Apollyon Rising 2012: The Lost Symbol Found and the Final Mystery of the Great Seal Revealed, best selling author, researcher, and co-host of the popular radio show Raiders Live! News Talk Radio,Thomas Horn welcomes you to learn the secrets of the true Lost Symbol (what Dan Brown was looking for and did not find), the forbidden knowledge of the Vatican and Washington DC, and the two-hundred year old cipher hidden in plain site at the Capitol Dome and on the Great Seal of the United States. You are about to embark upon the discovery of a lifetime, with a countdown toward the year 2012 that is unlike anything you have heard or read anywhere before.

APOLLYON RISING 2012 REVEALS FOR THE FIRST TIME...

• Unrecognized by the vast majority of peoples around the world is the greatest conspiracy of all time, sitting right out in the open in Washington DC and at the Vatican. It is an ancient, magical, talismanic diagram—the Lost Symbol—which waits its final use by the hidden, occult hand guiding the Secret Destiny of America toward the year 2012.
• To make sure they are prepared, the ritual for what is coming has been rehearsed in the Heredom by the Supreme Council over Washington DC with every passing US president starting with George Washington in anticipation of the deity's return in 2012.
• Many US Founding fathers were aware of these prophecies and designed the Capitol City to serve as the home of these pagan gods on their return.
• This secret is also openly hidden in the most spectacular way in the US Capitol Dome, directly tying the US and Vatican to the Mesoamerican 2012 date.
• Catholic priests who tried to warn about what was coming died under mysterious circumstances.
• A 200 Year Old cipher encoded on the Great Seal of the United States points to the same prophecy concerning the return of the gods in the year 2012.
• Nearly 500 years ago the Maya prophesied about the Colonial date 1776 as the beginning of the last 13 katuns leading to apocalypse in 2012. When academic Richard N. Luxton interpreted The Book of Chumayel: The Counsel Book of the Yucatec Maya 1539–1638, he was astonished to find it was connected to the "Christian Last Judgment" and the date 2012.
• A couple modern "Mayan elders" - who have been getting themselves in the news lately by claiming the year 2012 will not lead to the end of the world - are covering up how their prophecies diametrically contradict the prophecies of their forefathers including the Maya, Aztec, and numerous other ancient peoples who foresaw this time as portending destruction and "judgment from the gods."
• 200 Years ago Cherokee Indians prophesied likewise and set their calendar, like the Maya and Aztec, to end in the year 2012.
• In more than one place in the New Testament, scripture reveals by the same name that the deity encoded in the Masonic prophecy on the Great Seal and elsewhere throughout Washington DC will be the dreaded Antichrist.
• Over 700 years ago Orthodox Jewish priests prophesied in the Zohar that their Messiah would arrive in the year 2012.
• The first degree Masonic Tracing Board contains the same prophecy toward the year 2012.
• Jesus Himself in may have set the date for the apocalypse around the year 2012.
• This is a short sample of the HUNDREDS of new revelations in Apollyon Rising 2012.

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David Flynn Blogs Extraordinary Illuminati Timeline Calculations

David Flynn Blogs Extraordinary Illuminati Timeline Calculations This is astonishing, even for me, to find information like this explaining the whole picture of the end time chronology according to the New World Order. Here in lies the answer to why the greatest UFO flap in history occurring now, in "triangle" patterns... Why the Great Pyramid, the Temple of Jerusalem and the Great Seal of the United States all agree on a time-line ending in 2016 and beginning in 2009. Illuminati - A.L., as in Masonry, means Anno Lumina--year of light. Craft Masonry's calendar commences with the creation of the world and uses the term Anno Lucius (A.L.) - "In the year of Light." To arrive at this date they add 4000 to the common time, as the Earth was believed in conventional theology to have began in 4000 BC . This is also the date believed to mark the birth of Horus by Isis in Egypt. According to the Illuminati, the great pyramid was built to commemorate and observe a supernova explosion that occurred in the year 4000 B.C.Dr. Anthony Hewish, 1974 Nobel Prize winner in physics, discovered a rhythmic series of radio pulses which he proved were emissions from a star that had exploded around 4000 B.C. George Michanowsky wrote in The Once and Future Star that "The ancient Sumerian cuneiform...described a giant star exploding within a triangle formed by...Zeta Puppis, Gamma Velorum, and Lambda Velorum...located in the southern sky....[An] accurate star catalogue now stated that the blazing star that had exploded within the triangle would again be seen by man in 6000 years."... Height of the Great Pyramid, 5,776 inches... U.S. Declaration of Independence, 5776 A.L (Anno Lumina--year of light)... The Jewish calendar year 5776 is 2016 in the Gregorian calendar

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Is Temple Mount God's time bomb?

New book sees Jerusalem real estate as roadmap to future events
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Was the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem more than a place of worship?
Was it, indeed, a roadmap to future events – a kind of prophetic landmark whose significance is only now revealed through the development of satellite imagery?
That is the contention of an explosive new book, "Temple at the Center of Time: Newton's Bible Codex Deciphered and the Year 2012," by David Flynn, a book that has risen dramatically to No. 1 among unexplained mysteries, No. 5 in world history and 110 overall on Amazon.com.
The book asserts it has "deciphered Isaac Newton’s greatest paradox: None other than 'the unified field theory' of Bible prophecy."
Sir Isaac Newton was not only a great thinker in physics, the book explains, but had extensive knowledge of the Scriptures with a special interest in prophecy. Newton believed there was a hidden code, a type of time-encrypted language. He believed the key to deciphering this code was the Temple of Solomon. He wrote extensively on the length measurements of the Temple and suggested it intersected time and dimension, serving as a prophetic and supernatural structure.
According to Flynn, although Newton never cracked this code, he was on the right track and was limited only by the lack of sophisticated satellite technology.
"The description of Jerusalem as a terrestrial center point, situated in the center of the world, is found in Philo's Legatio and Gaium," Flynn notes. "The world is like a human eyeball. The white of the eye is the ocean surrounding the world, the iris is this continent, the pupil is Jerusalem, and the image in the pupil is the Holy Temple."
To make his case, David starts by illustrating what the reader soon learns is the first of numerous extraordinary time-distance anomalies.
The prisca sapentia framework of Newton suggests that the distance between the temple of Jerusalem and the capital city of any nation historically effecting the chronicles of Jerusalem would be supernaturally connected. This relationship would be significant with respect to units of time, expressing meaning in line with God's divine plan as recorded in the word of his prophets.

See for yourself the theories of Flynn's book:

Newton and Flynn point out how Ezekiel recorded the dimensions of the future temple in chapter 40 of his book, starting with the lengths of the temple gates, chambers, courts, walls and its exterior. After this, calibrations of weights and measure for the temple functions were given in detail. Finally, the distance of land outward from the temple was measured.

And he brought me thither, and, behold, [there was] a man, whose appearance [was] like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. (Ezekiel 40:3)

The measure of distance away from Jerusalem in this text implies a spiritual significance, says Flynn. A relationship between Jerusalem and the nations existed from the foundation of the temple, but was not completely perceived – and could not be fully known until the conventions of modern science.
For instance, if a measurement is made from the point of the temple of Jerusalem's foundation stone to the palace of Balthazar – the political center of Babylon and the exact location where the writing on the wall occurred – the distance should relate to the period in which Babylon most influenced Jerusalem.
Such a relationship exists and is the important distance of 539.86 statute miles.
What makes this measurement unusual is that Babylon, which played such a significant role in Hebrew antiquity, was measured and numbered in its relationship to Jewish history in Daniel chapter five during the famous handwriting on the wall. When the prophet interpreted the manifestation, he proclaimed in verses 25-28:

And this is the writing that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it; TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting; PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

That very night King Belshazzar was slain, and Darius the Mede became king.
Babylon fell to the Medes and Persians on the 16th day of Tishri of the Jewish calendar, which correlates to Oct. 12, 539 B.C. Curiously, the number 539 is also the distance in statute miles between the temple of Jerusalem's foundation stone to the palace of Balthazar, as confirmed by modern satellite measurement.
Does this give insight to the handwriting on the wall or the dating and measuring of Babylon's affairs in the history of Israel? Does this imply that Babylon's influence over Israel was supernaturally predated and measured, or foreknown? Or was this just a fascinating coincidence? As the first of such discoveries made by Flynn, he wondered the same thing.
So Flynn studied epic moments having to do with the sovereignty of Israel and the nations that played key roles in Hebrew and Jewish history. Over and over he found fascinating date-measurement anomalies connecting pivotal moments in time to the temple in Jerusalem. He went through annals, considering when acts by world leaders had influenced the development of the Jewish state. He continued to find more.
A case in point was the relationship between Napoleon Bonaparte and the Jews.
Napoleon had previously encountered the prophecies of the Old Testament in the Jewish community of Malta, which he liberated under French law in 1798. For hundreds of years, the Knights Hospitalier of Saint John of Jerusalem had oppressed the Jews by enslaving them and preventing open worship. One of Napoleon's first acts after banishing the Knights was to allow the Jews to build a synagogue, and the community of Jews on Malta welcomed Napoleon as a conqueror equal to Cyrus the Great. They believed their liberation by him was the fulfillment of the "king of the North" prophecy in Daniel 11.
This was followed on the first day of Passover, April 20, 1799, when Napoleon issued his proclamation of a Jewish state of Palestine. On May 22, 1799, the Paris newspaper, Moniteur Universel, announced: "Bonaparte has published a proclamation in which he invites all the Jews of Asia and Africa to gather under his flag in order to re-establish the ancient Jerusalem. He has already given arms to a great number, and their battalions threaten Aleppo."
Although the proclamation did not come to fruition, it increased a drive for Jews worldwide to pursue a sovereign state in Israel. Napoleon's ideas were also embraced by many who viewed them as a fulfillment of ancient prophecy, even some belonging to the Church of England.
This is important because Paris was named after the Paris, a Celtic people who settled on this central island in the 3rd century B.C. The city later spread outward from this point along the banks of the Seine River. This island is considered the birthplace of Paris and was the site of the city's earliest settlements. It was home to the French Kings from A.D. 400 to A.D. 1300. The royal palace and parliament were located on the western side of the island. Extending a measuring line from this historical center of Paris to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem shows the distance in nautical miles, 1,799.
The intriguing connection to Flynn's book is clear: Napoleon made a proclamation of historical importance to the Jewish nation in the year 1799, and perhaps not coincidently the distance from Paris to the Temple Mount in nautical miles corresponds perfectly at 1,799.
As findings like these stack up and the mathematical improbability of Flynn's disclosure increases, one of the most extraordinary parts of the book is unveiled when we learn how the year 1948 is marked by time-distance relations to the Temple location and several other mind-boggling dates and places, both past and future, which we will not divulge here. However, a peek into this section of the book finds discussion of how Britain was the nation that was "friendly to the Jews" and enabled them to return to Israel over 200 after Newton's death. The British defeated the Ottoman Turks and became administrators of the land of ancient Israel in 1917. Through mandate after World War I and World War II until 1948, London was the heart of the governing intellect over the region.
London's original location at its founding is an important point in establishing the exact value of time and distance between it and Jerusalem's Temple.
The Romans established Londinium in about A.D. 47. It was a civilian settlement built where the Thames became narrow enough for a bridge to be built across it but was still deep enough to admit large ocean vessels. In the 16th century, William Camden believed that the "London Stone" was a Roman milestone from which all distances were measured in the province. In the 17th century, Christopher Wren was able to observe the foundations of the London Stone underneath Cannon Street during the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire. With this information, it is possible to extend a measuring line from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to the exact center of ancient London, and by fixing a point on the site of the temple mount, a measuring line extended over Jerusalem to the center of London produces 1,948.40 nautical miles.
Therefore, incredibly, recorded in the earth between the Temple Mount of Jerusalem and the historic center of London is what Flynn sees as the fulfillment of Newton's own prediction: Israel became a nation again May 14th, 1948, corresponding perfectly to a distance between the temple and London of 1948 nautical miles.
As the reader moves through Temple at the Center of Time, these time-length correlations accumulate quickly, including numerous ancient dates such as 1441 B.C. when the Exodus from Egypt occurred. It turns out is 1,441,000 feet from the Jerusalem Temple to the Great Pyramid in Giza. Flynn finds dozens of other key dates in the past through similar satellite mapping measurements including some related to the United States, Russia and Rome.
Before it is even officially released, Flynn's book is causing a sensation in some circles where it is being compared to the Bible Code.

Is Temple Mount God's time bomb?

Will Something Begin In A Few Days, On July 4?

RAIDERS NEWS UPDATE EXCLUSIVE
David Flynn releases potentially explosive news regarding this 4th of July

June, 2007

Editor's note: Tom Horn received the information below yesterday. He has forwarded part of the private message from David Flynn, one of Tom's favorite geniuses. Dave may have uncovered astonishing information concerning this 4th of July and the Roswell UFO incident.

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Tom,

Although I won't be joining the information exchange in Roswell this 4th of July in person, I have some info about this years event. For the last 2 years I've become aware that something very significant is going on with the July 4th date throughout history and will be especially important this 2007. Apart from the connection the 4th has with the Roswell incident in the "Cydonian" year 1947, the symbology of the holiday itself connects with the ufo phenomena, Mars and the nephilim.

For example:

On the 4th of July the sun rises in center the constellation Gemini, the zodiac sign that is represented by "pillars" in it's astrological glyph. This is significant with respect to the celestial maps of the early Greeks. Ptolemy assigned the "0" meridian of the heavens at Sirius, the brightest northern star. With the 0 meridian aligned on Sirius, the line continues through the exact center of Gemini, dividing it.

When I checked Skyglobe for the location of Sirius during the morning of the 4th of July in 2007 (7:07 AM) it appears on the horizon at the exact time the sun reaches 19.47 degrees above the horizon. This alignment occurs in the morning when viewed from the latitude of 33 degrees at the location of Roswell, New Mexico, or any place on earth at 33 degrees latitude on July 4th.

Because the precession moves only one degree every 72 years, the 19.47 alignment of the sun and Sirius on July 4th will end after the year 2013 and began around 1940.

Between the years 1776 and 2013, due to precession, the zodiac will have moved 3.3 degrees from its position relative to the sun. When The Declaration of Independence was adopted in July 4th, 1776, (America's division from England) the Sun stood only 16.3 degrees above the horizon when Sirius was on the horizon.

The theme of division of time and space continues in the calendar placement of July 4th itself exactly in the middle of the year. There are 182 days between the 1st of January and the 4th of July. 182.5 x 2 = 365 days. If the suggestion of pillars of Gemini as the number "11" is taken into account, it is perhaps no coincidence that the year 2007 divided by 11 also equals 182.5.

The Gematria values of the name of Jacob is 182, and because Jacob's name was changed to "Israel" by God, Israel can also be pronounced "Yesh - ral" literally meaning "There is 231" according to the early Kabbalists. Sefer Yetzira 2:4

There are 231 years from 1776 to 2007

The sum of latitude 38.5 and longitude 77 of Washington D.C. is 115.5. The sum of Jerusalem's longitude and latitude is 66.6
66.6 + 115.5 = 182.

The sum of latitude and longitude of Washington, D.C., 115.9 doubled = 231

....Washington and Jerusalem are linked in a Pythagorean "all is number" manner. Even the date for the rebirth of Israel 1948, a year that spans 1947 in the Hebrew calendar has 66.6 years until Dec. 21, 2012.

Washington DC's longitude, 77 degrees x 66.6 = 5128.5, Washington's exact distance from Jerusalem.

America's independence year is interactive with the "high number" 33, and the binding and release of Jerusalem by Babylon:

1776 / 3.3 = 538 (538 BC, fall of Babylon and release of the Jews from captivity)

17.76 x 33 = 586 (586 BC, fall of Jerusalem beginning of captivity of the Jews in Babylon)

The longitude of Washington DC is 77........................77 x 3 = 231

The topographical layout of Washington, D.C. was designed as an occult tribute to the Isis-Osiris religion of the Egyptians. The greatest obelisk in the world is there, symbolizing Osiris' phallus, the lost piece of his dismembered body, without which Osiris could not be brought back to life in the flesh. The cryptic presence of the virgin Isis is also represented in Washington, D.C., strategically situated between "Mary" land and "Virgin"ia. Isis was reputed to have immaculately conceived the reincarnated form of Osiris as Horus, "the sun", after Osiris was dismembered.

Osiris was killed twice, strangely, the first was by being sealed in an "ark" and set afloat, the second , dismembered and scattered in the same manner as the knowledge of the Watchers and the population of earth in the fall of the tower of Babel. Osiris' phallus was swallowed by a fish. The age of Pisces began about 2160 years ago, it will end near 2012 at the age of Aquarius.

The star Sirius also represented Osiris in Egyptian cosmology. It's rising and falling coordinated the Egyptian calendar as an allegoric narrative to his death- rebirth, as well as the cycle of the rise and fall of ages. Moreover the Isis-Osiris myth embodied the deeper meaning of the loss of knowledge once having been given to men by "gods" that descended from heaven in the beginning of civilization on earth. Obelisks commemorated the lost regenerative part of Osiris' body that needed to be recovered in order for the next age of rule by the gods could begin.

The Kabalists consider the number 231 as "gates" of creation itself. It would follow that the illuminati understand this and are using the same occult techniques in a wide sense to move into the creation of the New World Order, headed by the Antichrist, and overseen by the Watchers.

The year 2012, I think, is pinned down as the end of the age by the Revelation dragon that sweeps 1/3rd of the stars to the earth. If this image is taken as a pictorial representation of the circular movement of the celestial north pole around Draco, and especially, 1/3rd of the full circuit of precession, it demonstrates something phenomenal.

The tail of Draco lies along 1/3rd of the path that the celestial north pole moves around Draco in one circuit of precession (25,920 years). 1/3rd of that duration is 8,640 years.

To equal 8,640 years one counts backwards 6,660! years from the anchor point of 33 AD ... and forwards from 33 AD, 1,980 years.

6,660 + 1,980 = 8,640 years

33 AD + 1,980 years falls on 2012/2013 AD

2013 - 1947 = 66

2013 - 2007 = 6

Even the number 1,980 is based on 33 and 6

60 x 33 = 1,980

By using the Gregorian calendar, or "watcher" calendar in Latin, the calculations fit into a Roman measure of years, or taken an occult step further... a Martian measurement of years. This timing is anchored to the point in which Jesus RESURRECTED from the dead, when he was 33 years old. One third of precessional time will culminate in 33 x 60 + 33 years from the birth of Jesus, or 33 x 60 from the resurrection of Jesus, according to the Watcher calendar.

One last point:

The span of exactly 2,000 days will remain between the 4th of July 2007 until December 21st 2012. This is 5.55555555 x 360 day years. Why is this important?

The prophet Daniel counts the last "week" of years before the Messiah returns, in 360 day years. At the midpoint of the 7 year countdown, 1,260 days, the Antichrist kills the two witnesses and defiles the rebuilt temple of Jerusalem.

After 3 days the two witnesses will be resurrected and rise into heaven. If one counts 1,260 days backwards from December 21st, 2012 AD,(3 DAYS before CHRISTMAS!) the date falls on the week of the 7th of July, 2009, 3 days after "INDEPENDENCE day".

According to Daniel, the 7 year countdown begins at the start of sacrifice on the temple mount in Jerusalem. This could well commence at "Independence" day 2009. After 1,260 days on December 21st, 2012, the two witnesses are killed in Jerusalem and left laying in the streets for 3 days. During this 3 days before Christmas, the ritual of sending gifts takes place. How ironic would it be that on the culmination of this pagan holiday on the 25th, a holiday supposing to worship the birth of Christ with "buying and selling", set in Gregorian calendar purportedly anchored to his birth, that the resurrection of the witnesses occurs?

"And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth...And their dead bodies [shall lie] in the street of the great city,... where also our Lord was crucified...And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and SHALL SEND GIFTS ONE TO ANOTHER; And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet;...And they ascended up to heaven IN A CLOUD;"

Note this promise:

"...the DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST:Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them IN THE CLOUDS." 1Thes 4:16,17

Might it be deduced from these passages that the two witnesses constitute part of "the dead in Christ" and therefore those alive in Christ will rise immediately after the two witnesses?

Is this then, the meaning of 2012? Is it the reason the number of the year is so inextricably connected with the resurrection of Christ at 33? Is 2012 the "great year of mystery" spoken of by Enoch?

This scenario seems to fit the "mid- tribulation" rapture theory. However, because of errors in interpretation of the actual "time of Jacob's trouble", a duration of only 3 & 1/2 years- the 7 year "tribulation" is in actuality a time DIVIDED by 3 & 1/2 years of false peace set up by the Antichrist, and a second half of divine judgment over the whole earth for the next 3 & 1/2 years. This fulfills not only the "pre-wrath" version of the rapture, but also the understanding that the Antichrist will "war with the saints" in the first half of the 7 year countdown before the Messiah returns.

It is a mind boggling and exciting prospect to say the least. However, I am only cracking the numbers. God is sovereign. I am not giving prophecy or saying that this is THE way it will happen, only that it makes better chronological sense than any timeline I've ever seen. It also make the occult meaning of the 4th of July very, very powerful indeed.

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Does Maya calendar predict 2012 apocalypse?

Does Maya calendar predict 2012 apocalypse?


By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Special to USA TODAY

With humanity coming up fast on 2012, publishers are helping readers gear up and count down to this mysterious — some even call it apocalyptic — date that ancient Mayan societies were anticipating thousands of years ago.

Since November, at least three new books on 2012 have arrived in mainstream bookstores. A fourth is due this fall. Each arrives in the wake of the 2006 success of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, which has been selling thousands of copies a month since its release in May and counts more than 40,000 in print. The books also build on popular interest in the Maya, fueled in part by Mel Gibson's December 2006 film about Mayan civilization, Apocalpyto.

Authors disagree about what humankind should expect on Dec. 21, 2012, when the Maya's "Long Count" calendar marks the end of a 5,126-year era.

Journalist Lawrence Joseph forecasts widespread catastrophe in Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End. Spiritual healer Andrew Smith predicts a restoration of a "true balance between Divine Feminine and Masculine" in The Revolution of 2012: Vol. 1, The Preparation. In 2012, Daniel Pinchbeck anticipates a "change in the nature of consciousness," assisted by indigenous insights and psychedelic drug use.

The buildup to 2012 echoes excitement and fear expressed on the eve of the new millennium, popularly known as Y2K, though on a smaller scale, says Lynn Garrett, senior religion editor at Publishers Weekly. She says publishers seem to be courting readers who believe humanity is creating its own ecological disasters and desperately needs ancient indigenous wisdom.

"The convergence I see here is the apocalyptic expectations, if you will, along with the fact that the environment is in the front of many people's minds these days," Garrett says. "Part of the appeal of these earth religions is that notion that we need to reconnect with the Earth in order to save ourselves."

But scholars are bristling at attempts to link the ancient Maya with trends in contemporary spirituality. Maya civilization, known for advanced writing, mathematics and astronomy, flourished for centuries in Mesoamerica, especially between A.D. 300 and 900. Its Long Count calendar, which was discontinued under Spanish colonization, tracks more than 5,000 years, then resets at year zero.

"For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal River, Fla. To render Dec. 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."

Part of the 2012 mystique stems from the stars. On the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years. This means that "whatever energy typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time," Joseph writes.

But scholars doubt the ancient Maya extrapolated great meaning from anticipating the alignment — if they were even aware of what the configuration would be.

Astronomers generally agree that "it would be impossible the Maya themselves would have known that," says Susan Milbrath, a Maya archaeoastronomer and a curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History. What's more, she says, "we have no record or knowledge that they would think the world would come to an end at that point."

University of Florida anthropologist Susan Gillespie says the 2012 phenomenon comes "from media and from other people making use of the Maya past to fulfill agendas that are really their own."

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