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1
Grofe, Michael. PhD dissertation.
The Serpent Series: Precession in the Maya Dresden Codex
. Davis, CA: University of California, 2007, p. 335.
2
Gillespie, Susan D., and Rosemary A. Joyce. “Deity Relationships in Mesoamerican Cosmology: The Case of the Maya God L.”
Ancient Mesoamerica
9, 1998, pp. 279-296; Houston, Stephen, and David Stuart. “Of Gods, Glyphs, and Kings: Divinity and Rulership Among the Classic Maya.”
Antiquity
70, 1996, pp. 289-312.
3
King, Tom. “5 Years: 2012 and the End of the World as We Know It.” December 10, 2007. See discussion section and link.
http://www.lawrence.com/news/2007/dec/10/five_years/
.
4
Linguistic critique of my Nahuatl knock-knock joke. E-mail of September 12, 2008.
5
John Justeson spoke informally about his statistical analysis of the likelihood of the solstice placement of the cycle-ending date being a coincidence at the Tulane 2012 conference, February 2009. Archived online:
http://Alignment2012.com/Tulane2009.html
.
6
Aveni, Anthony, and Horst Hartung. “Water, Mountain, Sky: The Evolution of Site Orientations in Southeastern Mesoamerica.”
Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather,
ed. by Eloise Quiñones Keber. Labyrinthos, 2000, pp. 55-68.
7
Barbara MacLeod, e-mail of January 26, 2008.
8
Sitler, Robert K. “The 2012 Phenomenon: New Age Appropriation of an Ancient Maya Calendar.
Nova Religio
9 (3), 2006, p. 29.
9
Sitler, Robert. “13 Pik: Maya Perspectives.”
http://www.stetson.edu/~rsitler/13PIK/
.
10
Sitler, Robert K. “The 2012 Phenomenon: New Age Appropriation of an Ancient Maya Calendar.”
Nova Religio
9 (3), 2006.
11
Stray, Geoff.
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/sit.htm
. Aveni’s date is calculated in his 2001 book
Skywatchers
(second edition of
Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico
), Appendix B, Chapter IV.
12
Jenkins, John Major. “Maya Statements and 2012.” 2006.
http://www.alignment2012. com/mayan2012statements.html.
14
The entire exchange can be read in the Aztlan archives here:
http://www.famsi.org/pipermail/aztlan/2006-April/001978.html
.
16
Houston, Stephen. “What Will Not Happen in 2012.”
http://decipherment.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/what-will-not-happen-in-2012/
.
17
Jenkins, John Major. “In the Roots of the Milky Way Tree.”
New Dawn Magazine
. No. 97. Australia, July-August 2006.
18
Houston, Stephen. “What Will Not Happen in 2012.”
http://decipherment.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/what-will-not-happen-in-2012/
.
19
Ibid., comments section.
20
Ibid.
21
Houston, Stephen. “Classic Maya Depictions of the Built Environment.”
Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture,
ed. by Stephen Houston. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998.
23
Wikipedia “Mayanism” entry, accessed March 7, 2009.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayanism
.
25
Ibid.
26
Hoopes, John. “William S. Burroughs & 2012” thread on Tribe2012:
http://2012.tribe.net/thread/6b96e7c5-4ad7-4d0c-aed6-f513ecfc03bc
.
28
Irvin, Jan. Interviews with John Hoopes and John Major Jenkins, podcasts #004 and #008.
http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/
.
29
Coe, Michael.
The Maya
, first edition. 1966, p. 174.
30
Ibid.
31
Anastas, Benjamin. “The Final Days.”
The New York Times Sunday Magazine
. July 1, 2007. The article is preserved here:
http://www.alignment2012.com/NYTimes.html
.
32
Institute of Maya Studies newsletter, March 2008. Also here:
http://www.alignment2012.com/Aprilpg3.pdf
and
http://www.alignment2012.com/Aprilpg6.pdf
.
33
Strous has updated his website since our exchange transpired in 2004:
http://www.astro.uu.nl/~strous/AA/en/2012.html
. I have archived offline the original version, which I quoted from.
34
Jenkins exchange with Stephen Tonkin.
http://alignment2012.com/tonkins-error.html
.
36
de Santillana, Giorgio.
The Crime of Galileo.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955; de Santillana, Giorgio. “Galileo and Oppenheimer.”
Reflections on Men and Ideas
, 1968, pp. 120-136.
37
“Word of Mouth.” NPR radio program. December 31, 2008.
http://www.nhpr.org/wordofmouth
.
38
“Bad Astronomy.”
http://www.badastronomy.com/
.
39
Nassim Haramein on the orbital motion of our solar system:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ir5sQEg0rs4&feature=related
.
41
Jenkins, John Major. Original 2000 essay reprinted in
Galactic Alignment
. Rochester, VT: Bear & Company, 2002, pp. 40-42.
42
Pointed out to me by Michael Grofe, e-mail of February 2009. Grofe, Michael. “Palenque’s Temple XIX and the Creation Stories of Central Mexico: Flint, Fire, and Tlaltecuhtli.” n.d.
43
Transcript of Barb MacLeod’s interview for the film “Breaking the Maya Code” at:
http://www.nightfirefilms.org/breakingthemayacode/interviews/MacLeodTRANSCRIPT.pdf
.
44
Bibliographical resource for Maya Studies research:
http://Alignment2012.com/bibbb.htm
.
45
Stuart, David, and Stephen Houston. “Classic Maya Place Names.”
Studies in PreColumbian Art and Archaeology
#33, Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1994, p. 80.
46
Jenkins, “Commentary on Stuart and Houston’s Study of Mayan Place Names.” 1995.
http://www.alignment2012.com/fap11.html
.
47
Van Stone, Mark. “It’s Not the End of the World: What the Ancient Maya Tell Us About 2012.”
http://www.famsi.org/research/vanstone/2012/index.html
, 2008.
50
Online resource for the Tulane 2012 conference of February 2009:
http://alignment2012.com/Tulane2009.html
.
52
“Six Points Essential for a Fair Critique of the 2012 Topic”—a four-page document I handed out at Tulane.
http://Alignment2012.com/Six-essential-points-Tulane.html
.
53
Audio clips and/or the full recording of Aveni’s talk will remain available for informational purposes on:
http://alignment2012.com/Tulane2009.html
. Aveni’s quotes from various authors are transcribed directly from his reading.
55
Pawlowski, A. “Apocalypse in 2012? Date Spawns Theories, Film.” CNN .com/technology. January 27, 2009.
http://www.alignment2012.com/
CNNinterviewerPawlowski.html. Compare to Joseph’s comments in
Apocalypse 2012
, pp. 8, 10, 114, and 126.
56
Newsome, Elizabeth.
Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World.
Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2001.
57
Looper, Matthew G. “Quirigua Zoomorph P: A Water Throne and Mountain of Creation.”
Heart of Creation: The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
, ed. by Andrea Stone. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2002, p. 199.
58
The Lacandon Maya conceive of the Milky Way’s bulge in Sagittarius as the roots of a giant tree. Bruce, R. D., C. Robles U., and E. Ramos Chao.
Los Lacandones 2, Cosmovision Maya
. Publicaciones 26. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Departamento de Investigaciones Antropológicas, 1971.
59
Western science and philosophy marginalize the insights of Traditionalist philosophy. See: Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.
Coomaraswamy 1, Selected Papers: Traditional Art and Symbolism
, ed. by Roger Lipsey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977; Corbin, Henry.
Temple and Contemplation
, trans. by Philip Sherrard. London: KPI Ltd., 1986; Guénon, René.
Fundamental Symbols: The Universal Language of Sacred Science
. Cambridge, UK: Quinta Essentia, 1995; Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.
Knowledge and the Sacred
. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989;
The Betrayal of Tradition,
ed. Harry Oldmeadow;
Science and the Myth of Progress
, ed. by Mehrdad M. Zarandi; Wolfgang Smith.
The Wisdom of Ancient Cosmology
; René Guénon,
The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
, trans. by Lord Northbourne. New York: Penguin Books, 1972. Good books on Gnosis and Gnosticism include
The Gnostic Religion
by Hans Jonas,
Gnosis
by Dan Merkur, and
Gnosis
by Kurt Rudolph.
60
Publishers Weekly
on Aveni’s scientism, from a review on the
Amazon.com
listing for Aveni’s book
Behind the Crystal Ball
: “This informative but stacked-deck history of science and magic . . . presupposes a readership that embraces a scientific-materialistic worldview that sees little or no sense in the pursuit of so-called magical practices.”
61
More info on the keynote address and the Sunday panel, including audio clips, is here:
http://alignment2012.com/Tulane2009.html
.
62
Aveni, Anthony, and Horst Hartung. “Water, Mountain, Sky: The Evolution of Site Orientations in Southeastern Mesoamerica.”
Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather,
ed. by Eloise Quiñones Keber. Labyrinthos, 2000.
63
Jenkins, John Major. “Open Letter to Mayanists and Astronomers.”
http://www.alignment2012.com/openletter.htm
.
64
Aveni, Anthony, and Horst Hartung. “Water, Mountain, Sky: The Evolution of Site Orientations in Southeastern Mesoamerica.”
Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather
, ed. by Eloise Quiñones Keber. Labyrinthos, 2000, p. 58.
65
Field trip to Izapa in 2006 to measure the ballcourt.
http://www.alignment2012.com/izapa-solstice-2006.html
.
66
Lowe, Gareth, Thomas A. Lee, Jr., and Eduardo Martinez Espinoza. “Izapa: A Guide to the Ruins and Monuments.”
Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation
, No. 31. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1982; Norman, V. Garth. “Izapa Sculpture, Part 1: Album.”
Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation
, No. 30. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1973; Norman, V. Garth. “Izapa Sculpture, Part 2: Text.”
Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation
, No. 30. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1976; Norman, V. Garth.
Astronomical Orientations of Izapa Sculptures
. Master’s thesis, Anthropology Department. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1980.
67
Aveni, Anthony, and Horst Hartung. “Water, Mountain, Sky: The Evolution of Site Orientations in Southeastern Mesoamerica.”
Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather
, ed. by Eloise Quiñones Keber. Labyrinthos, 2000, p. 55.
68
Dennis Tedlock’s comments can be heard during the Sunday panel.
http://alignment2012.com/Tulane2009.html
.
CHAPTER 7. THE GALACTIC ALIGNMENT THEORY: UPDATE
1
Looper, Matthew. “The 3-11-pih Title in Classic Maya Inscriptions.”
Glyph Dwellers
, Report 15, December 2002.
http://nas.ucdavis.edu/NALC/R15.pdf
.
2
Grube, Nikolai, A. Lacadena, and S. Martin. “Chichén Itzá and Ek Balam: Terminal Classic Inscriptions from Yucatán.”
Notebook for the XXVIIth Maya Hieroglyphic Forum at Texas
. Austin, Tex.: Maya Workshop Foundation, 2003.
3
Barb MacLeod’s paper, “The 3-11 Pik Formula,” was circulated at the Maya Meetings in Austin in March 2008. It is reproduced here:
http://Alignment2012.com/3-11PikFormula.html
.
4
Grofe, Michael J. “Calculations of the Tropical Year and Precessional Cycles: Two Bone Fragments from Tikal Burial 116,” n.d., 2003.
5
Grofe, Michael J. “The Recipe for Rebirth: Cacao as Fish in the Mythology and Symbolism of the Ancient Maya.” The Foundation Research Department. Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc., 2009,
www.famsi.org/research/grofewriting
. Grofe’s latest observations were made very recently, in February of 2009, and are thus as yet unpublished. His overall work integrates epigraphic decipherment and astronomy, a sensitivity that very few epigraphers have. Grofe’s unpublished manuscripts include: “The Sidereal Year and Precession in the Cross Group of Palenque” and “Astronomical References in Tortuguero Monument 6.”

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