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Q&A On Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 w/ John Major Jenkins
Is the solar system really passing through the galactic center on the calendar end date of December 21st, 2012?
JMJ: No, the solar system does not pass through the galactic center, ever. What you are getting at here is the “galactic alignment” that is the center-piece of my reconstruction work. However, the definition being used here needs to be clarified, otherwise the proposal sounds absurd. The galactic alignment in era-2012 is the alignment of the December solstice sun with the galactic equator, the lateral mid-line of the Milky Way. This alignment is real astronomy, was calculated by Jean Meeus and Patrick Wallace, and I summarized and clarified the definitions of the galactic alignment in many books, websites, interviews, and articles beginning in 1994, especially in my 2002 book Galactic Alignment and in my 2009 book The 2012 Story.
What are your thoughts on why so many ancient cultures signify 2012, or the planetary alignments therein, with a time of great change? As it is well documented in Hopi, Hindu, Sumerian, South American and Mayan….
JMJ: As I explored in my 2002 book Galactic Alignment, the galactic alignment itself (which is NOT an “alignment of planets”), does seem embedded in many traditions around the world. That’s not an explicit reference to “2012”, but a general knowledge o the astronomy involved seems indicated. It has to do with the great cycles of time in which the earth is embedded — namely, the precession of the equinoxes. It is not surprising that many ancient civilizations and also indigenous societies sensitive to the stellar movements, have a knowledge of the great cycles, the World Age doctrine, and the idea that the earth and humanity passes through many changes, many chapters or phases, over vast periods of time. The early Maya, some 2,100 years ago, made a calendar and a profound cosmology around this knowledge, blending good scientific astronomy with cosmological beliefs and Creation Myth teachings.
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