Thursday, December 20, 2012

MAYAN OR AMERICAN DOOMSDAY COMING...?

THE MAYANS HAD A WONDERFUL CALENDER AND WRITING SYSTEM...BUT THEY EVENTUALLY COLLAPSED...AS DID MANY "GREAT" CIVILIZATIONS OF MESOAMERICA AND THE PERUVIAN PLATEAU...  

SOME MELDED INTO OTHER CULTURES...OR JOINED NEARBY  "TRIBAL CITY STATES"... SOME JUST BECAME EXTINCT...

EARLY MESOAMERICANS WERE MAZE GROWERS...AND THEIR "CITIES" WERE THE PLACES WHERE THEIR CHIEFS AND PRIESTS HELD SACRED CEREMONIES...

CITIES WHERE A "LUXURY ITEM" IN THOSE EARLY AMERICAN SOCIETIES...A PLACE FOR THE ELITES TO RESIDE AND RULE...A PLACE FOR RITUALS...NOT UNLIKE THE  CASTLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES IN EUROPE... OR EVEN LUXOR (THEBES) IN ANCIENT EGYPT...A "RITUAL CITY"...NOT A MODERN ONE...

MUCH LATER, THE AZTECS  AND THE INCAS HAD "TRUE CITIES" WHERE POPULATIONS AND SCARED BUILDINGS WERE IN THE SAME PLACE... 

THE MAYAN CALENDER SAYS NOTHING ABOUT DOOMSDAY THIS YEAR...EXCEPT PERHAPS THAT THE SACRIFICES TO THE SUN GOD HAD TO BE DONE EVERY YEAR...TO KEEP THE WORLD GOING...  BUT THOSE SACRIFICES STOPPED CENTURIES AGO...AND THE SUN IS STILL RISING...

THE AMERICAN MONETARY AND ECONOMIC SYSTEM IS SOMETHING ELSE...  THAT COULD BE A DOOMSDAY EVENT...!

BUT IF THE CURRENT SYSTEM COLLAPSES...LIKE THE MAYA...WE MIGHT JUST "MELD" INTO WHAT COMES NEXT...

THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE WILL SURVIVE...ALBEIT WITH A DIFFERENT SYSTEM FOR THE ECONOMY...

THE CURRENT ELITES WILL BE REPLACED...AS THEY ALWAYS ARE IN GREAT COLLAPSES...

IT IS THE ELITES THAT DECIDE THE FATE OF NATIONS...NOT THE PEOPLE TOILING IN THE MAZE FIELDS...AS IN MAYAN TIMES...OR NOW