The 2012 Story

Foundation, No. 30. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1976; Norman, V. Garth. Astronomical Orientations of Izapa Sculptures. Master’s thesis, Anthropology Department. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1980.

67 Aveni, Anthony, and Horst Hartung. “Water, Mountain, Sky: The Evolution of Site Orientations in Southeastern Mesoamerica.” Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather, ed. by Eloise Quinones Keber. Labyrinthos, 2000, p. 55.

68 Dennis Tedlock’s comments can be heard during the Sunday panel. http://alignment2012.com/Tulane2009.html.

CHAPTER 7. THE GALACTIC ALIGNMENT THEORY: UPDATE

1 Looper, Matthew. “The 3-11-pih Title in Classic Maya Inscriptions.” Glyph Dwellers, Report 15, December 2002. http://nas.ucdavis.edu/NALC/R15.pdf.

2 Grube, Nikolai, A. Lacadena, and S. Martin. “Chichen Itza and Ek Balam: Terminal Classic Inscriptions from Yucatan.” Notebook for the XXVIIth Maya Hieroglyphic Forum at Texas. Austin, Tex.: Maya Workshop Foundation, 2003.

3 Barb MacLeod’s paper, “The 3-11 Pik Formula,” was circulated at the Maya Meetings in Austin in March 2008. It is reproduced here: http://Alignment2012.com/3-11PikFormula.html.

4 Grofe, Michael J. “Calculations of the Tropical Year and Precessional Cycles: Two Bone Fragments from Tikal Burial 116,” n.d., 2003.

5 Grofe, Michael J. “The Recipe for Rebirth: Cacao as Fish in the Mythology and Symbolism of the Ancient Maya.” The Foundation Research Department. Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc., 2009, www.famsi.org/research/grofewriting. Grofe’s latest observations were made very recently, in February of 2009, and are thus as yet unpublished. His overall work integrates epigraphic decipherment and astronomy, a sensitivity that very few epigraphers have. Grofe’s unpublished manuscripts include: “The Sidereal Year and Precession in the Cross Group of Palenque” and “Astronomical References in Tortuguero Monument 6.”

6 Aveni’s considered comments are found in the DVD film 2012: Science or Superstition? The Disinformation Company, 2009.

7 Taube, Karl. “The Jade Hearth: Centrality, Rulership, and the Classic Maya Temple.” Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture, ed. by Stephen Houston. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998.

8 Gronemeyer, Sven. Tortuguero, Tabasco, Mexico: History of a Classic Maya Site as Known from Its Inscriptions. 2004. http://www.sven- gronemeyer.de.

9 Grofe to Jenkins, personal e-mail communication. February 20, 2009.

10 See the archive of Copan Notes online: http://utmesoamerica.org/CopanNotes.php.

11 Alexander, Helen. “God K on Ceramic Vessels.” Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, http://www.famsi.org/research/alexander/god kceramic.pdf, p. 1.

12 Newsome, Elizabeth. Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2001, p. 172.

13 Jenkins, John Major. “Evidence for a Black Hole in Maya Creation Texts.” Appendix 4 of Maya Cosmogenesis 2012. 1998, pp. 351-356.

14 Milbrath, Susan. Star Gods of the Maya. Austin. Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1999, pp. 264-266.

15 Harris, John F., and Stephen K. Stearns. Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyphic Handbook, second revised edition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1997; Coe, Michael, and Mark Van Stone. Reading the Maya Glyphs. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001; Macri, Martha, and Matthew Looper. The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003; Montgomery, John. How to Read Maya Hieroglyphs. New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., 2002.

16 The possible reading of the “broken sky” toponym as jagged mountain peaks in the immediate geography was suggested by Simon Martin in “A Broken Sky: The Ancient Name of Yaxchilan as Pa’ Chan.” The PARI Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, summer 2004. http://www.mesoweb.com/pari/journal/.

17 Jenkins, John Major. Galactic Alignment. 2002, p. 217.

PART II: 2012 AND THE BIG PICTURE

1 James, William. A Pluralistic Universe. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909, p. 292.

2 Rumi. “Sheba’s Throne.” The Essential Rumi. Trans. by Coleman Barks. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995, p. 190.

CHAPTER 8. SACRED SCIENCE AND PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY

1 Daumal, Rene. Mount Analogue, Shambhala edition, 1992, p. 104.

2 Carlson, John B. “A Geomantic Model for the Interpretation of Mesoamerican Sites: An Essay in Cross- Cultural Comparison.” Mesoamerican Sites and World Views, ed. by Elizabeth P. Benson. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks. 1981, pp. 143-216.

3 Frazer, James, The New Golden Bough. Criterion Books, 1959, p. 223ff.

4 Huxley, Aldous. Introduction to The Song of God, Bhagavad Gita. Mentor paperback, 1972, p. 17.

5 Coomaraswamy, Ananda. Guardians of the Sun-Door. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2004, pp. viii-ix.

6 Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Introduction to Guardians of the Sun-Door. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2004, p. ix.

7 Huxley, Aldous. Introduction to The Song of God, Bhagavad Gita. Mentor paperback, 1972, p. 12.

8 Ibid., p. 13.

9 Guenon, Rene. The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, trans. by Lord Northbourne. New York: Penguin Books, 1972; Guenon, Rene. Crisis of the Modern World, trans. by Arthur Osborne. Ghent, New York: Sophia Perennis et Universalis, 1996.

10 Zerzan, John. Twilight of the Machines. Port Townsend, WA: Feral House, 2008.

11 Wikman, Monika. Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of