Frank Joseph - 20 March

ATLANTIS and the COMING ICE AGE

Once again Frank Joseph has shown that when it comes to Atlantis and related subjects, no one else knows as much. In this case he has taken on two very difficult subjects but has succeeded in extracting some of the most fascinating history anyone has seen in a long time.

J. DOUGLAS KENYON, EDITOR OF FORBIDDEN HISTORY AND ATLANTIS RISING MAGAZINE

Tracing the dispersal of Atlanteans and their knowledge, both prior to and after the destruction of their homeland, becomes extremely convincing because of the results of Josephs scholarship and preciseness.

NEW DAWN MAGAZINE

Time Line of Significant Events

9400 BCE The Atlantean flood occurred, according to a literal reading of Platos dialogues, Timaeus and Kritias.

3814 BCE The Age of Atlantis began with the zodiacal Age of Taurus.

3114 BCE The Mayan calendars Long Count opened on 4-Ahau 3-Kankin (August II), coinciding with the first of four global catastrophes. It was referred to by the Mxihcah as 4-Ocelotl, or 4-Jaguar.

2193 BCE Earths brush with Comet Encke resulted in a worldwide catastrophe, the Mxihcah 4-Ehcatl, or 4-Windstorm.

1628 BCE The Mxihcah 4-Quihuitl, or 4-Fire from Heaven, was aptly named for Comet Enckes return barrage of meteoric material, which generated a series of gigantic tsunamis to obliterate Lemuria.

1198 BCE The final destruction of Atlantis was associated with the Mxihcah 4-Atl, or 4-Water.

561 BCE Solon returned to Athens from Egypt with the story of Atlantis.

399 BCE Plato composed his account of Atlantis based on Solons copy.

391 CE The memorial column from which Solon had transcribed thehistory of Atlantis was lost when Christians demolished EgyptsTemple of Neith, where it had been preserved until that time.

1514 Pope Leo X declared that the world would end five hundred yearshence.

1479 The Aztec Calendar Stone was erected atop Tenochtitlns greatpyramid.

1521 Tenochtitln fell to Spanish invaders on August 13.

1790 Sewer workers in Mexico City accidentally excavated the Aztec Calendar Stone on December 17.

1930 Serbian scientific genius Milutin Milankovi discovered the relationship between recurring ices ages and variations in Earths rotation.

1945 The death of Edgar Cayce.

1968 The Bimini Road was discovered.

1972 The U.S. government launched Project Stargate.

1973 Unaware of Nahui-Ollin, or 4-Ollin, Dennis and Terence McKenna calculated the end of time from the Chinese I Ching for December 22, 2012.

2012 The Mayan calendar ended on the morning of the winter solstice, December 21, 2012, marking the beginning of a world transformation for better or for worse...

Map of the ancient world showing the location of Atlantis and the Lemurian Islands, drawn by Kenneth Caroli.

INTRODUCTION

Rewinding the Mayan Calendar

Millions waited on the morning of December 21, 2012, to see if humanity would survive the next twenty-four hours. The much-ballyhooed Mayan calendar was poised to tick off its last moments after more than five millennia of marking time. The mystifying timekeeper had been set in motion 1,872,000 days earlier by the Long Count.

During the final years leading up to that terminal expectation, growing crowds of authors, magazine reporters, movie makers, and television producers foreshadowed doomsday with increasingly lurid imagery. Their dire prognostications were dismissed by scoffers, for whom 4-Ahau 3-Kankin, as the Maya referred to it, was simply the conclusion of an artificial cycle of time, nothing more. They claimed bragging rights when the proposed end date came and went with no perceptible change. But by limiting the Mayan calendars final prediction to a single day, skeptics missed the point by a cosmic margin.

The Maya deliberately chose December 21, the shortest day followed by the longest night, as an allegory for decline and ignorance. It signifies an extended dark termthe figurative death of the sunnot a single cataclysmic twenty-four-hour period. They never intended 2012s winter solstice to be an event in and of itself, but instead meant it to delineate a shadow into which our world would begin to irreversibly move. Accordingly, the Mayan prophecy is right on target, as climate and civilization experience an accelerating dissolution of forms Friedrich Nietzsche himself predicted for humankind 150 years ago. The quite observable imbalance of Earths biosphere parallels political, economic, and cultural deterioration with unprecedented storm violence and record-breaking temperatures contrasting with popular mistrust of government, the collapse of long-established financial networks, and burgeoning illiteracy. Only in this broader sense can the Mayan calendar be properly understood as it was originally intended.

The morning of December 21, 2012, nonetheless presented a singular event in the heavens, with the southern end of our galaxys Dark Rift forming a perfect alignment with the midpoint in the Milky Way. The Long Count began 5,126 years before, on August 11, 3114 BCE, with a celestial orientation as well, with the planet Venus transiting directly over the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacn (meaning where men become gods), in the Valley of Mexico. If the older date is correct, then it precedes the rise of the Maya by twelve hundred years and must, therefore, belong to an earlier, unknown people at least contemporaneous with the Olmec, who were Mesoamericas earliest known civilizers, beginning around 1500 BCE.

Even with the older radiocarbon date, the time gap between the start of the Mayan calendar and the earliest evidence of occupation at Teotihuacn is quite large. We are left to speculate whether a sacred structure venerated before the present Pyramid of the Moon occupied the same position at the earlier date to align with the singular transit of Venus. Unique it certainly was, because the planets appearance directly over the Pyramid of the Moon (or a preexisting edifice) was a one-time orientation that never occurred before and will not happen again, just as the alignment between the Dark Rift and the midpoint in the Milky Way on December 21, 2012, was entirely novel. Although separated by fifty centuries, they nonetheless took place within six minutes of each other, at 11:05 a.m. and 11:11 a.m., respectively. Were the Maya and their unknown predecessors aware of the time synchronicity as well?

There are other cogent similarities: Their Long Count began with a universal catastrophe that Aztec high priests knew as 4-Atl, or 4-Waterwith the number four signifying the cardinal directions, indicative of the disasters global magnitude. The Long Count was likewise envisioned as terminating in a similarly worldwide cataclysm, a less specified Rebellion of Earth, suggestingappropriately, in view of todays ecological concernstrouble with our biosphere. The incredible astronomical precision with which the Maya and their forerunners delineated both the opening and closing of their calendar appears to have been a deliberate attempt at underscoring the accuracy of their predictions for global upheavals.