Replacing the Gregorian calendar with the Mayan 13-moon calendar is about to get a big boost from Mel Gibson, whose The Passion of the Christ ranks as the most successful independent film of all time.
With a penchant for the authentic, a bearded Gibson, in Mexico shooting his latest film apocalypto, will be filming entirely in the Mayan language with local indigenous Mayan actors as the cast,
The script of the film, slated for release in the summer of 2006, is top secret. But in Greek, the word "apolcalypto" means "an unveiling" and a "new beginning".
Mel's Mayan movie will bring to the big screen the ancient, highly evolved and mystery steeped Mayan civilization.
Latter day activists connected to the United Nations want to replace the Gregorian calendar with the Mayan one, because with the Gregorian calendar the whole world marks time based on the birthday of Jesus Christ.
Calendar reform got its start from the United Nations "Calendar Reform and the Future of Civilization" (CRFC).
In 1999, calendar duty was taken over by lifetime activist for peace, Dr. Jos™ argelles.
Dr. arguelles' World Summit on Peace and Time was convened on June 22-27, 1999 at the UN-sponsored University for Peace in Costa Rica.
The final goal is to change the calendar from its present "artificial" 12-month year to a more "natural" 13-month year that more closely parallels the lunar and biological cycles.
The Thirteen Moon "Natural Time" calendar is touted as "a universal application of the mathematics and cosmology of the Mayan calendar as deciphered by Dr. arguelles, and presents a simple yet so profound opportunity to shift our everyday consciousness."
Described on his Internet home page as "both a visionary and a prophet", Dr. arguelles bestowed upon himself the pagan name of "Valum Votan". In a New age magazine interview, he said it was "not until after he experimented with LSD that he realized he was a visionary."
The Mayans, credited with being as learned as the Greeks, may not have approved of Valum Votan.
"The Mayans were a much advanced people," says Hector Carreon in La Voz de aztlan. "They were superb mathematicians and astronomers who devised one of the most accurate calendars known to man, far more accurate than the modern Gregorian calendar.
"The Mayan calendar was devised through extremely accurate observations of the sun, the planets, the stars and the Milky Way galaxy. Mayan astronomers knew, through yet unknown methods, the exact location of the center of the Milky Way and attached great meaning to the birth and death of stars at this center."
"In addition," says Carreon, "the Mayas possessed the required knowledge concerning the "Precession of the Equinoxes" that is necessary to create an accurate calendar.
"There is no question that the Mayas viewed time differently than Western man. Their magnificent pyramids were perfectly aligned to the sun and the one at Chichenitza was constructed in such a way that during the equinoxes, the setting sun casts a shadow of a serpent (Kukulcan/Quetzaicoatl/Jesus Christ) descending on the northern steps of the pyramid. This effect could only be obtained by extremely precise architectural and astronomical measurements."
Says Carreon: "The Mayas tied their philosophy entirely on what they observed in the heavens. They thought that the center of our galaxy was a "Cosmic Mother Womb" and that it gave birth to our world. They believed that our world went through cycles of birth, death and rebirth. October 21, 2012, they said, will end the cycle and our world will end by fire but will be reborn in a new, different and more evolved form. This will be the beginning of a new sun or the "Sixth Sun" according to the Mexicas (aztecs)."
Meanwhile, it would be the irony of ironies if the genius who gave the world The Passion of the Christ, gives it, perhaps unwittingly, a calendar replacing the one that marks time by the birthday of Jesus Christ.
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