Mayan Calendar Prophecies: The Complete Collection of 2012 Predictions and Prophecies (16 page)

Finally, Samson’s name meant “man of the Sun” which was likely an allusion to the brightness of the fireball that resulted as the comet fragment entered the atmosphere. This recalls the eyewitness account from Tunguska which noted the meteor was as bright as the sun.

Thus we see many of these myths in the Old World and the New World seem to encode a struggle or battle between a comet and the sun in which the final outcome was a breakup and devastating impact event on Earth.

The Aztec Calendar Stone was carved in 1427. The artisans included a wealth of information encoded on this stone about the Aztec belief in a cycle of cosmic destructions that had befallen Earth four times in the past. They believed we currently lived in the fifth such era or Fifth Sun and that this age would also be destroyed.

At the top of the Aztec Calendar Stone was the date 13 Reed, the date the Aztecs believed the Fourth Sun was destroyed by flood and the Fifth Sun was born. The date 13 Reed corresponded with the year 1011 AD in our Gregorian calendar.

In 1980, astronomer Anthony Aveni noted in his book
Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico
that there appeared to be star patterns or constellations carved into the flanges (i.e., the rock edges) of the Aztec Calendar Stone. In 1999 astronomer Robert S. McIvor published a paper in the
Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
entitled “Star Patterns on the Aztec Calendar Stone” in which he hypothesized that one of these star patterns represented the Milk Ladle asterism (star group) located within the constellation Sagittarius and another represented three prominent stars in the constellation Aquila, the Eagle.

McIvor also noted that according to Chinese records, a “guest star” appeared near the Milk Ladle asterism (known to them as the asterism Nan-tou or the Rice Ladle) in 1011 AD. In Chinese astronomy a “guest star” represented any light in the night sky that appeared and disappeared over a short period of time such as a comet or super nova. McIvor theorized that the carving of both the 1011 AD date and the Milk Ladle asterism on the Aztec Calendar Stone possibly were connected to this Chinese “guest star” event.

What message did the Aztecs intend to send by encoding all of this information (the date 1011 AD, the Milk Ladle asterism from the Sagittarius constellation, and three stars from the Aquila constellation) on the Aztec Calendar Stone? And what type of “guest star” did the Chinese spot near the Milk Ladle in 1011 AD: a comet, super nova or something else entirely?

In 1997, physicist Paul A. LaViolette wrote a book entitled
Earth Under Fire
. In this book he theorized that the intense radio source at the direct center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A, was a star not a black hole and periodically it had enormous outbursts of energy and matter called a galactic superwave. We know such outbursts occur at the centers of other galaxies. Coincidentally, Sagittarius A and the center of the Galaxy appear in our night sky near the Milk Ladle asterism in the constellation Sagittarius.

(Credit: ESA/NASA/AVO/Paolo Padovani)

LaViolette theorized that these outbursts from Sagittarius A would be devastating to life on earth. In fact, the last such large outburst appears to coincide with the onset of the Younger Dryas climate event and the great mass extinction which accompanied it which included the demise of mastadons, wooly mammoths, saber toothed tigers and more. He theorized that a smaller outburst occurred around 3300 BC which coincides with the date recorded in the Mayan Flood Myth.

LaViolette theorized that when Sagittarius A, which is not visible to the naked eye, experienced one of these outbursts it would appear to persons on earth as the sudden appearance of a new bright blue star. This “guest star” would then fade from view once the eruption was over yet the energy and mass it erupted would be hurling through space directly towards Earth.

Does the Chinese guest star of 1011 AD near Nan-tou, the Milk Ladle asterism, represent such an eruption of Sagittarius A? If so, what effects did it have on Earth? The Aztecs claimed the Fourth Sun, which ended in 1011 AD, was destroyed by a flood. Is there any evidence of such a flood? In fact, there is.

The
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
states that in England 1014 AD, on the eve of St. Michael’s day (September 28, 1014),

“came the great sea-flood, which spread wide over this land, and ran so far up as it never did before, overwhelming many towns, and an innumerable multitude of people.”
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This is clearly a reference to a tsunami similar to the one that struck Indonesia in December 2004 and killed over 250,000 people.

What could have caused this tsunami? Unlike the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean is not known for earthquakes since it is located on a tectonic plate boundary that is spreading apart along the Mid Atlantic Ridge not colliding with another plate. Thus what else could be responsible for the flood recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle? Could a meteor or comet impact in the Atlantic Ocean have been the cause?

Researcher Dallas Abbott of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University discovered material in a bog at Black Rock Forest in Cornwall, New York that “is difficult to explain except with an impact event.” This material included impact glass and spherules that can only be created by the forces associated with a meteor or comet impact as well as marine sediments and fossils that were determined to have come from the mid-Atlantic ridge, over 3800 kilometers from Black Rock Forest. Abbott noted, “because these locations are so far away from Black Rock Forest, the only viable method for transporting the material to Black Rock Forest is an impact event.”
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In other words, the evidence suggests that a comet or meteor slammed into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and ejected material from the bottom of the ocean, which flew over 3800 kilometers and landed in the bog at Black Rock Forest in New York. The material at Black Rock was dated to around 1014 AD. Abbott also noted that such an impact event would have also created a tsunami that would radiate out in all directions from the point of impact thus she began looking for evidence of such a tsunami.

In addition to the afore-mentioned tsunami in England on September 28, 1014, researchers in North Carolina noted that either a major storm surge or tsunami devastated the coastal areas of the state around this time as well.
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The wave wiped the Outer Banks off the map and it took four hundred years for them to reform. Considering all the evidence for a major Atlantic tsunami at this time it was most likely this tsunami not storm surge that devastated coastal North Carolina.
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Abbott also found tsunami deposits in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean that also dated to around 1014 AD. By noting the angle of the tsunami deposits in both England and the Lesser Antilles, Abbott was able to
 
deduce the probable location of the impact in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. All of this evidence showed that the tsunami impacted the coastlines on both sides of the Atlantic and thus affected millions of people living along those coasts.

Abbott also noted there was a “prominent ammonium anomaly,” i.e., an increase in ammonia in the atmosphere, as represented in Antarctic ice core data associated with the year 1014 AD. This same spike in atmospheric ammonia can be seen associated with two other known impact events: the Tunguska, Russia event on June 30, 1908 and the Brazilian Tunguska of August 13, 1930. This provided more supporting evidence for an impact event in 1014 AD.

Other researchers going back through the historical record found that the 11
th
century featured some of the most active Taurid meteor showers ever recorded. I. S. Astapovich and A. K. Terent'eva conducted a study of fireballs appearing between the 1st and 15th centuries and revealed the Taurids to have been "the most powerful shower of the year in the 11th century (with 42 fireballs belonging to them) and no shower, not even the great ones, could be compared with them as to activity."
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Thus the Taurid meteor storm of 1014 must have been truly an awe-inspiring spectacle even greater than the Leonid meteor storm of 1833.

Leonid meteor storm of 1833 as seen at Niagara Falls, New York

Thus all the evidence supports the theory that a meteor slammed into the middle of the Atlantic and produced tsunamis that impacted coasts on both sides of this ocean in the fall of 1014 AD.

Coincidentally, according to Aztec legend, their Fourth Sun ended in 1011 AD due to a great flood followed by the sky falling. This event is recorded on the Aztec Calendar Stone or Stone of the Fifth Sun that included two
xihucoatls,
“fire serpents,” around the outside edge of the sculpture. Each “fire serpent” had a snout with seven star symbols that represented the seven stars of the Pleiades.
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This suggests these “fire serpents” were flaming meteors emanating from the Pleiades and thus were part of the Taurid meteor stream. The Taurids are known for slow-moving fireballs with long smoke trails thus the designation of “fire serpent” is quite appropriate. The fact that the Fourth Sun ended with a flood is consistent with these “fire serpents” having impacted the ocean creating a tsunami. Yet their date of 1011 AD is two years off from the known impact date of 1014 AD. Why?

Researchers have noted that after the Aztecs won their independence in 1428 they revised many historical events to fall on important dates within their 52 year calendar cycle called the
xiuhmolpilli
.
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One researcher noted, “A number of events of early history were assigned to dates with important positions in the 52-year cycle and that certain types of events were recorded as occurring in years of the same name.”
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Additionally, astronomer Anthony Aveni noted that “calendrical adjustments were frequently geared to the 52-year
xiuhmolpilli
or one [of] its multiples….”
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Thus this could explain why the flood that ended the Aztec’s Fourth Sun and resulted in the creation of the Fifth Sun is said to have taken place in 13 Reed, 1011 AD, instead of the actual date of 1014 AD.

The Taurids are active from early October until late November in modern times and a thousand years ago would have ranged from late September until mid November. Thus the date recorded in the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
, September 28, 1014 (October 4, 1014 AD in our modern Gregorian calendar), is consistent with an interpretation that two large meteors (fire serpents) part of the Taurid meteor stream crashed into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and caused tsunamis that spread out and impacted shores all around its perimeter.