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167 Chapter 1: IntroduCtIon: how dylan Got Me Started 1. L. Joseph, Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilization’s End (New York: Broadway, 2008), back cover. Chapter 2: what’S In Store? a uSer’S GuIde to 2012 Maya propheCIeS 1. E. Todras-Whitehill, “Touring the Spirit World,” New York Times, April 29, 2007, Travel section, 7. 2. J. Rivard, “A Hierophany at Chichen Itza,” Katunob 7:3 (1970): 51–55. 3. R. Grant, Gnosticism: A Sourcebook of Heretical Writings from the Early Christian Period (New York: Harper, 1961), 18. 4. G. Stray, “Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Ecstasy; A Complete Guide to End of Time Predictions,” www.diagnosis2012.co.uk (accessed March 10, 2008). n o t e S noteS 168 5. Ibid. See also T. and D. McKenna, The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching (New York: Seabury Press, 1975). 6. If DNA is a sentence and the nucleotides are the operations, then the codons are the words. I owe that little analogy to my colleague, biologist Frank Frey. 7. J. Argüelles, The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology (Santa Fe, NM: Bear and Co., 1987), 184. 8. Ibid., 170. 9. Quetzalcoatl (Kukulcan to the Maya) is also the Mesoamerican god of creativity. His mischievous, darker counterpart Tezcatlipoca is often misinterpreted as the devil. The black and white Christian-duality of evilgood , however, does not accurately represent Maya beliefs. 10. J. M. Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenesis 2012: The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End Date (Santa Fe, NM: Bear and Co., 1998), xxxii. 11. It is customary to refer to the Milky Way Galaxy, the vast system of 200 billion stars, of which the sun is but one, and the accompanying interstellar dust and gas, with a capital G. Astronomers reserve the lowercase g for the billions of other known systems that lie at vast distances. 12. Izapa is not a Maya site but rather a site occupied my Mixe-Zoque speakers. 13. Modern astronomy identifies the center of the Milky Way Galaxy as a point located in Sagittarius, some 25,000 light-years from the position of the sun and its system of planets. Thus, we dwell in a kind of “galactic suburbia.” 14. Quiché is one of some twenty-nine dialects spoken by the contemporary Maya, who live in the region of the western Guatemalan highlands. 15. Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, 107. 16. Ibid., 150. 17. Ibid., 311. 18. Ibid., appendix 5. 19. Accessed May 10. 2009. 20. C. J. Calleman, Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our Time: The Maya Calendar (London: Garev Publishing International, 2000). 21. www.calleman.com (accessed March 25, 2008). 22. See, for example, C. Zaleski, Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987). noteS 169 23. D. Pinchbeck, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (New York: Jeremy Tarcher/Penguin, 2006), 307–308. 24. Ibid., 308. 25. Ibid., 309. 26. Joseph, Apocalypse 2012, back cover. 27. Ibid., 114. 28. Ibid., 105. 29. Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, 331. 30. Argüelles, The Mayan Factor, 15. 31. www.greggbraden.com (accessed March 20, 2008). 32.“MayanPerspectiveson2012,”www.stetson.edu/~rsitler/perspectives (accessed May 17, 2008). Also see R. Sitler, “The 2012 Phenomenon: New Age Appropriation of an Ancient Maya Calendar,” Novo Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 9:3 (2006): 24–38, esp. 28. 33. Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, head of the National Mayan Council of Elders of Guatemala, in his address at the inaugural of Guatemalan President Colom on January 2008. 34. José María Tol Chan, K’iche’ daykeeper from Chichicastenango (2006). Chapter 3: what we Know about the Maya and theIr IdeaS about CreatIon 1. T. Knowlton, Words and Worlds of Classical Yucatecan Maya Creation Myths (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, forthcoming). 2. See, for example, G. Vail and A. Aveni, The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004). 3. A. Tozzer, Landa’s Relación de las Cosas de Yucatan, a Translation (Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 1941), 27 4. D. Tedlock, Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings, rev. ed. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), 146. 5. See, for example, D. Webster, The Fall of the Ancient Maya: Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse...