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Doomsday prophecies have more than a few worried
By Diana Washington Valdez / El Paso Times
Let's hope Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce and Jeane Dixon are wrong.
These psychics predicted the world would experience a cataclysmic
event -- perhaps a meteor strike or a reversal of Earth's
electromagnetic poles -- in 2012. That's the year the Mayan calendar
ends.
This year, the History Channel (cable Channel 58) is showing "Doomsday
2012: The End of Days," a program about predictions that link such an
event to the Mayan calender. The show also points to changes in
Earth's climate as possible signs of future disaster.
Hollywood plans to capitalize on doomsday predictions with the filming
this year of "2012," a family action-adventure based on the Mayan
calendar and directed by Tom Dey for Paramount Pictures' Nickelodeon
Movies.
Mark Thompson, a Mayan culture expert and director of the El Paso
Museum of Archaeology, is familiar with the History Channel series. He
doesn't believe it.
"Some of the 2012 views come from the fringe element," he said.
Thompson said the Mayan calendar was so complex that the Mayas had
specialized priests to interpret them.
"The Mayas had a different concept of time than we do. For them, time
is a continuum, circular rather than linear. One cycle ends and
another one starts."
The cycle that the Mayas thought of as the Fifth Sun will end around
Dec. 23, 2012.
"The Mayas believed the end of the Fifth Sun age is a time of great
risk," Thompson said. But that doesn't mean it's the end of the world:
"I believe the end of the Fifth Sun means the beginning of a new
period, in this case, the Sixth Sun," a new era.
He said other scholars who also study the Mayan culture are promoting
the 2012 doomsday view and attributing it to the Mayan calendar.
They include New Age guru Jose Arg=C3=BCelles, leader of the 1987 Harmonic
Convergence world event. Anthropologist Robert K. Sitler analyzed the
writings of Arg=C3=BCelles and others in 2006 for Nova Religion: The
Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, in an article titled
"The 2012 Phenomenon."
"I've heard about the 2012 prediction," said Tanya Coleman, a pre-law
student who has a minor in astronomy. "I saw the History Channel
program about it and wondered whether the Mayas based their prediction
on their astronomical studies."
The Mayan calendar also projected an alignment of the Milky Way and
the sun, which occurs just every 25,800 years, at the end of the Fifth
Sun. That's enough for some people to deduce the worse.
The belief that there will be some kind of catastrophe in 2012 was not
limited to Mayan thinking:
Saint Malachy, a Roman Catholic archbishop in Ireland in the 12th
century, reportedly predicted judgment would come to the world when
the "last pope" comes on the scene on or around 2012, according to the
Catholic Encyclopedia of Saints.
Giant meteors, asteroids and unusual earthquakes are apocalyptical
scenarios mentioned in the Book of Revelation. These end-time
predictions have contributed to popular books by Christian writers Tim
Lahaye, author of the "Left Behind" series, and Hal Lindsey, author of
"The Late, Great Planet Earth."
Charles Hapgood, a scholar and former Central Intelligence Agency
official who died in 1982, advocated the polar shift theory, a view
supported by Albert Einstein. Hapgood published a book on the topic,
"The Path of the Pole," and Einstein wrote the foreword for it. A
polar shift changes the locations of the north and south poles, and
creates vast changes in Earth's climate, Hapgood said. In the past, he
said, a previous polar shift probably caused the Ice Age.
Not everyone is fixated on the end times, of course.
The Rev. Ed Roden-Lucero, a Roman Catholic priest and pastor of San
Juan Diego Church, said the Catholic Church does not teach that the
world will end with Armageddon-like destruction. "The resurrection
will be a time of joy because it means Jesus Christ will return," he
said.
Jaime Padilla, a Conservative Jew, said Jews don't believe the world
will end in 2012. "We believe that Messiah (the savior) will come one
day, but we don't believe in an Armageddon, and we don't believe in a
hell."
The publicity, Internet chatter, books and more movies inspired by the
2012 predictions of doom are reminiscent of the 2000 Y2K scare, when
many people believed a computer software glitch would lead to world
collapse. As it turned out, of course, nothing major happened.
Thompson said the same thing will happen again.
"The day after the 2012 winter solstice," he said," people will be
back at a Starbucks cafe drinking coffee while the next big doomsday
plot is hatched."
Diana Washington Valdez may be reached at dvaldez@elpasotimes.com;
546-6140.
Predictions' record
Predicting the end of the world - or any other event - is hardly a new
phenomenon. Here are some predictions, listed by source, and whether
they came true or not.
By Nostradamus
Polar shift sometime from about 1999 to 2012: Stay tuned. Nostradamus'
end-time prophecies often were not specific on dates.
By Edgar Cayce
Polar shift or similar event in 2000-2001: No.
By Jeane Dixon
World War III in 1958: No.
Fidel Castro's death in 1966: No.
Antichrist is born in Egypt in 1962: Stay tuned.
By Ruth Montgomery
The late psychic claimed spirit guides as her sources.
Polar shift in 2000: No.
By the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
Armageddon in 1914: No.
Christ's thousand-year reign begins in 1975: No.
By many sources
Y2K computer glitch will lead to global collapse in 2000: No.
By El Paso clairvoyant Bob McKnight
Electromagnetic event related to Jupiter or Saturn in 2012: Don't know
yet.
Osama bin Laden killed in bombing in 2002: Ask the CIA.
Fred Thompson will be next U.S. president in 2008: Stay tuned.
In the Book of Revelation
World will end; a new world will replace it; no date: Stay tuned.
Sources: www.suite101.com; www.truthabouttax.com
Learn more
DVD: The History Channel online store sells a DVD about the Mayas and
2012, "Doomsday 2012: The End of Days." It costs $24.95.
Information:"www.history.com.
At the movies: "2012," scheduled for release in 2007 or early 2008;
directed by Tom Dey ("Failure to Launch").
At the bookstore: "Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Ecstasy -- A Complete
Guide to the End-of-Times Predictions," Geoff Stray, Vital Signs
Publishing, 2005; "2012: The Year of the Mayan Prophecy," Daniel
Pinchbeck, Piatkus Books, 2006.
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