7.11 – THE VANISHINGS (4.24.15)

THE MAYA ^[12d]

The Maya constructed the Long Count calendar to count down 5,125 years, or one Great Cycle. The calendar was further divided into 13 units of approximately 400 years each called baktuns. At the end of each baktun, the Maya held a major celebration. But curiously, on the tenth baktun, they did not.

“Their Maya calendar has this very important juncture called a baktun, it’s a 400-year period that comes up in 830 AD, and they should have celebrated it, but it’s odd, we know at Tikal, for example, that there was no celebration of that tenth baktun.” – Edwin Barnhart, Ph.D. (Archaeologist / Dir., Maya Exploration Ctr.)

“The Maya are the best timekeepers, possibly, of any civilization of all time. So, if they know so much about time, and they knew when to do things, was their disappearance from their cities really planned according to their calendar? Now, the Maya of today that have survived talk about how their ancestors went home. Where is home?”  – Logan Hawkes (Publisher, The Mexico Less Traveled), (Author/Producer, Ancient Mysteries of the Americas), (Author, Close Encounters of the Old West), (Ancient Aliens of the Americas)

Is it possible the Long Count calendar was actually counting down to a preordained date when the Maya knew they would disappear? And if so, could further evidence of this be found by examining the clues left behind in Tikal? Archaeoastronomers have noted that the seven most important pyramids in the Grand Plaza form the same geometric patterns as the seven stars comprising the Pleiades constellation, a star cluster revered by many ancient cultures across the globe.

“Many of the Mayan monuments have undeniable celestial alignments with the Pleiades star cluster.” – David Wilcock (Author/Filmmaker), (Author, The Source Field Investigations), (The Synchronicity Key)

Is it possible that these people originally came from the Pleiades? And that’s why they encoded the Pleiades in their monuments so many times? And then eventually they returned home.

“Today in abduction lore many people report that their abductors come from the Pleiades. That’s what they tell the people who have been taken away. So, we seem to have a situation, potentially, where entities from the Pleiades have visited the earth, have interacted with humans for literally thousands of years.” – Nick Redfern (Author, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter), (The Real Men in Black), (Final Events), (The World’s Weirdest Places), (Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind), (Bloodline of the Gods), (The NASA Conspiracies), (On the Trail of the Saucer Spies: UFOs and Government Surveillance)

“Those Mayans didn’t leave because of drought. They left because it was some kind of harvest. It was an experiment. The Mayans reached some place and somebody took them from here. It was the end of a calendar cycle and the beginning of another calendar cycle that means a lot to some intelligence out there.” – Linda Moulton Howe (Author / Investigative Journalist, Earthfiles)

Could it be that the collapse of the Classic Maya society was due to a mass abduction, as some Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest? Was this an event that the elite priests and rulers were counting down to? Perhaps answers can be found 2,300 miles north with the disappearance of another tribe intricately connected to the Pleiades.

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