Two of Top Three Mayan Calendar and 2012 Theories Proven Wrong

The most well-known theories about the meaning of the Mayan Long Count calendar and what will happen in 2012 are those of John Major Jenkins, Carl Johan Calleman and Patrick Geryl. Two of those three, Calleman and Geryl, have been proven wrong by more than one expert, archaologist or other expert.

Geryl and Cotterell Theories Shown to be Wrong

Geoff Stray has debunked Patrick Geryl's theory, which in The Orion Prophecies and The World Cataclysm in 2012 supposedly shows the Long Count encodes a sunspot megacycle that will cause polar shift and crustal displacement in 2012. (See pages 150-154 of Stray's book, Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Awakening?. He does the same for the "data" and theory upon which Geryl bases his own theory, that of Maurice Cotterell and Adrian Gilbert inThe Mayan Prophecies.

Calleman's Theory of Mayan Calendar Also Wrong

Countless are the number of scientists, Mayanists, archaelogists and other experts who have proven Calleman's theory wrong. Links to some of these appear below.

Mayanist Scholar Refutes Calleman Calendar Theory

Calleman Proved Wrong About
End Date of Long Count Calendar

How to Spot a Prophet's Maya Hoax

Geoff Stray Proves Calleman Wrong about 2012 End Date

Calleman Calendar Proven Wrong, His Predicitions Fizzle and Fail

Jenkins/Calleman Email Exchange on Mayan elders

What's God Got to Do With It?

In his own words, Calleman admits to using the Mayan calendar to prove the existence of God, which makes him nothing more than an Intelligent Designer who also happens to be a scientist (though in biology, not archaeology or any field related to Maya culture or civilzation.

As Calleman says on page 68 of this first book, "The seven even-numbered baktuns and the six odd-numbered baktuns of the Maya are none other than the 7 DAYS and 6 NIGHTS, respectively, of God's creation as it is described in the Book of Genesis. This may well be the most significant message of this book, and can be formulated as a very simple equation:

Seven DAYS + six NIGHTS = Thirteen Heavens

This equation is then the "solution" to the Mayan calendar...."

Whose Mayan Calendar is It, Anyway?

Only the theory of John Major Jenkins remains standing. He says the Long Count was devised to track the precession of the equinoxes and that the end date was established to alert future civilizations of the 2012 galactic alignment.(See Mayacosmogenesis 2012, the most thoroughly researched and documented work on the topic).

And we don't have long to wait to find out if Jenkin is right or wrong.

Shay Addams
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