Ready for the End of the World

The moon temple in Tikal Guatemala 2011

 

To those who are ready

 

The return

They will come back from the north and from the west. Quetzalcóatl will take Chichén Itzá as his seat. Then the last katon will be finished. All these things will happen on the 21st of December 2012, as everyone knows it is the date that mankind has an appointment with the end of the world. The Mayas believed that the world had been created and destroyed several times; the last time the Earth was created again was more than five thousand years ago, concretely the 11^th of August of 3114 B.C. However not only the Maya culture tells us about the end of the world, there are also a lot of predictions that show the same idea more or less in the same period of time. The Apocalypse, the Hopi prophesies, the Hindu religion and how could I not mention the famous Nostradamus. We have a great quantity of information regarding this matter. There are many signs that indicate something could happen. Will it happen?

Other endings

In the year 1000 A.D people in Europe lived worrying about the same question. The unusual PopeSylvester II was head of the Catholic Church. According to the Apocalypse the beast would be liberated after one thousand years. There were a lot of signs that indicated that the end of the world was coming. Many things happened but the planet has continued rolling until today. And what about all the prophecies that were predicted about the year 2.000 A.D? We are still waiting for them...Now we have another date 2012, and it is possible that next year we could have another one that I was told about…2036.

Afraid of…

According to some psychologists guilt is the feeling that makes us think about the idea of a punishment that somehow we understand just deserts. War, hunger, economical crisis, natural environment, all these things have been created by us and maybe it is about time we changed. But we are also afraid of change. The certain thing is that " change " is always a difficult process for people and everything that involves the unknown naturally generates uncertainty and fear. But on the other hand, change is the only thing that is permanent.

Does it make sense?

First of all we must understand that the Mayas never wrote about the end of the world. The Maya concept of time is a cycle, so we are going to pass from one age to another, from darkness to light, from Pisces to Aquarius. It seems that this new age will be more spiritual than the last one, and this allows us to live in balance not only with the rest of humanity but with our environment too. For mankind it could be a good opportunity to make a wish list as we usually do every 1st of January. Being aware that we are going to start another period of time, will perhaps allow us to review the world we have and reinvent it again. Maybe it is time to imagine a new better world, and maybe it could happen eventually. Maybe a new world is awaiting us, maybe the good time   will return.