Fear Not The Year 2012
January 11, 2012
The year 2012 has finally risen from the mists of myth and will end in a cataclysmic rush toward doom. Or not.
The fabled Mayans had a calendar, a wonderfully accurate calendar that proves they:
a. were aliens sent to save us from ourselves
b. were an advanced race of Atlantans
c. are proof that humans have a wonderful capacity for creative and logical thought.
Try answer c.
The Mayans were brilliant, as were the ancient Greeks. Egyptians, Harrapans and Chinese. The calendar was created to define the Mayan’s cultural history and, like modern calendars, was never meant to be perpetual. Only one prophecy described the end of the world and it was written as a parable to warn against human greed and excess.
So, what should you do as December 12, 2012 draws close? Prepare for the holidays, celebrate solstice and like the Mayans thousands of years ago; buy a new calendar for 2013.
Hilary McLean is the author of the novel Fifth Sun: The Awakening. She combined the Mayan prophecy of 2012 , the light and dark of the old gods and a bunch of hapless mortals to explore the idea of what would happen if the world would end. She wishes to assure readers the world is quite safe for several more billion years, it was just fun to imagine! For more information, check out fifthsun.ca
