The common understanding of the Maya's 2012 prediction as an apocalypse is a misinterpretation; instead, it marked the beginning of a new cycle and a decades-long transition period of transformation, a concept echoed by the Aztecs and other global prophecies, suggesting our current era is a pivotal, albeit chaotic, moment of change.
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They told you the world was supposed to
end in 2012.
December 21st, the winter solstice, the
day the ancient Mayan calendar
supposedly ran out. Do you remember the
movies, the documentaries, the panic,
people building bunkers, websites
counting down the seconds, an entire
industry of fear built around a single
date carved into stone thousands of
years ago by a civilization most people
couldn't find on a map. And then nothing
happened. December 22nd arrived. The sun
rose. People went to work. The
apocalypse industry quietly packed up
and moved on to the next prediction. And
the world learned a lesson. The Maya
were wrong. Except they weren't. Welcome
to our world, our stories. And tonight,
we're going to correct one of the
biggest misunderstandings of the modern
age. Because here's what nobody told
you. The Maya never predicted the end of
the world in 2012. Not once, not ever.
That date, December 2012, wasn't an
ending. It was a beginning, the start of
a new cycle, a transition period that
the Maya believed would last [music]
decades. And according to their
calculations, we are now in the middle
of it. Right now, the Maya didn't
predict an apocalypse. They predicted a
transformation, a period of chaos,
upheaval, and rebirth that would unfold
slowly, not in a single day, but over 20
years. And they weren't alone. 500 miles
to the north, in the heart of what is
now Mexico City, another civilization
was carving its own prophecies into
stone. The Aztecs, they called our
current age the fifth sun. And they were
very specific about how it would end.
Not with fire, not with flood, with
movement, with earthquakes, with the
earth itself turning against humanity.
Tonight, we're going to do something
that should have been done years ago.
We're going to look at what the Maya and
Aztecs actually predicted. Not the
Hollywood version, but the real
prophecies translated from the original
sources. And what we'll find is
unsettling because these two
civilizations separated by centuries and
hundreds of miles saw the same future. A
future that looks remarkably like our present.
present.
The people of time. To understand Mayan
prophecy, you first have to understand
who the Maya were and more importantly
what they were obsessed with. Time. The
Maya didn't just track time. They
worshiped it. They feared it. They built
their entire civilization around
understanding it. While medieval
Europeans were still debating whether
the Earth was flat, Mayan astronomers
had calculated the length of the solar
year to within 30 seconds of modern
measurements. They tracked the cycles of
Venus with 99.99%
accuracy. They predicted eclipses
centuries in advance. Without
telescopes, without computers, without
any of the tools we consider essential,
just observation, mathematics, and
patience measured in generations. This
wasn't primitive superstition. This was
science. Rigorous, mathematical,
obsessive science, all dedicated to one
purpose. understanding the patterns of
time. Why? Because the Maya believed
something that sounds strange to modern
ears, but made perfect sense to them.
They believed time was circular, not
linear, not a straight line from past to
future, but a wheel, a spiral, a series
of cycles that repeated. Not exactly,
but rhyming. the same patterns, the same
energies returning again and again like
seasons, like the phases of the moon,
like breath. And if you could understand
those cycles, you could see what was
coming. This is why the Maya developed
not one calendar, but over 17 different
interlocking calendar systems, each
tracking a different cycle, each
revealing a different pattern, the
Sulken. 260 days. The sacred calendar of
ceremony and divination. The harb 365
days. The agricultural calendar of
seasons and harvests. The calendar round
52 years. The great cycle after which
the sulken and harb aligned again. And
then there was the long count. The
calendar that would make the Maya famous
and infamous thousands of years after
they carved it into stone.
The long count.
The long count was different from all
the other calendars. It wasn't designed
to track seasons or ceremonies. It was
designed to track history. To place
events within a framework so vast that
it could contain the entire story of
human civilization. It worked like an
odometer, a cosmic odometer, measuring
days since a mythological starting
point. August 11th, 3,114
BCE. The date the Maya believed the
current world was created. The system
used five positions, each representing a
different unit of time. Kin one day, wal
[music] 20 days, tun 360 days, roughly
one year. Kun 7,200 [music]
days, roughly 20 years. Baktun 144,000
144,000
days, roughly 400 years. And here's
where it gets interesting. The Maya
believed that a complete great cycle of
the long count consisted of 13 baktons.
That's approximately 5,125
years. Do the math. Start from August
11th, 3,114
BCI. At 5,125
years, you land on December 21st, 2012.
That's it. That's where the end of the
world prediction came from. The
completion of the 13th Baktune, the end
of a great cycle. But here's what
everyone missed. The Maya never said the
world would end when this cycle
completed. Just like your car's odometer
doesn't explode when it reaches 100,000
mi. It just rolls over, starts again.
December 21st, 2012 wasn't the end of
anything. It was 13 becoming 14.0. the
beginning of a new great cycle. So why
did we all think the world was ending?
The 2012 apocalypse was a modern
invention. It started in the 1970s and
80s with a handful of new age authors
who took the long count completion date
and layered their own interpretations on
top. Joseé Arguas's book, The Mayan
Factor, in 1987 was particularly
influential. It connected 2012 to
everything from extraterrestrials
to spiritual transformation to galactic
alignments. Then Hollywood got involved.
Roland Emmerick's disaster film 2012
History Channel specials with dramatic
music and CGI destruction. Countdown
websites, books, documentaries, a
billiondoll industry of fear. And in all
that noise, the actual Mayan voice was
completely drowned out. Because when you
talk to modern Maya, and there are still
six million of them living today in
Guatemala, Mexico, Biz, and Honduras,
they'll tell you something very
different. The end of a cycle is not a
catastrophe. It's a transition. Think of
it like New Year's Eve.
December 31st isn't the end of time.
It's a threshold, a moment of
reflection, of endings and beginnings.
Some things die with the old year. Some
things are born with the new. But the
transition isn't instant. [music] It
doesn't happen at midnight and then it's
done. The Maya understood this. They
spoke of a transition period surrounding
the cycle change. A period where the
energy of the old cycle fades and the
energy of the new cycle gradually takes
hold. Contemporary Mayan daykeepers, the
spiritual leaders who still maintain the
ancient calendar traditions, say that
this transition period lasts
approximately 20 years from 2012 to
2032, which means we are not after the
prophecy. We are inside it right now in
the turbulent middle. Now, let's look at
actual Mayan prophecies. Not calendar
mathematics but prophecies specific
predictions about the future written
down by Mayan priests. The most
important source is a collection of
texts called the Chillam Balam. Chillam
means prophet or spokesman. Balam means
jaguar, the books of the jaguar priest.
These texts were written in the Yucatk
Mayan language using the European
alphabet introduced by Spanish
missionaries. They date from the 16th
through 18th centuries after the
conquest, but they contain material much
older. Prophecies passed down orally for
generations, finally committed to paper
before they could be lost forever.
Several books of Chilamalam survive,
named after the towns where they were
found. Chumayel, Tisamin, Mani, Kawa.
Each contains history, mythology,
medical knowledge, and prophecy. The
prophetic sections are organized around
the cartoon cycle. That 20-year period I
mentioned earlier, each cartoon was
associated with specific energies,
specific tendencies, specific warnings,
and the prophecies for the Kun we're
living through right now are striking.
We are currently in Ken for a began in
2012 and runs until approximately 2032.
Let me read you what the Chilamalam of
Chumile says about this period. These
are the words of the Jaguar priests
translated by scholar Ralph Royce. The
Kettzel shall come. The green bird shall
come. Blood vomit shall come. Kukul Khan
shall come. Let me explain. The kettzle
is the sacred bird of Meso America.
Brilliant green feathers that shimmer
like emeralds associated with royalty,
divinity, and freedom. Its arrival
signals a moment of profound spiritual
significance. Blood vomit almost
certainly refers to epidemic disease,
hemorrhagic fevers, plagues. The Maya
had seen such things before and their
prophecies often echo across cycles
applying to multiple eras. And Kukulkan.
Kukan is the Mayan name for a god you
may know by his Aztec name Ketal Katal,
the feathered serpent. One of the most
important deities in all of Mesoamerican
religion. His return is one of the most
persistent prophecies in these
traditions. We'll return to him later.
The Chillimbalum continues, "It is the
time of the speaking Lord. There shall
be sorrow among the years." Sorrow among
the years. A period of grief stretching
across time. The face of the sun shall
be covered. Eclipses, climate events,
smoke from fires darkening the sky. Then
the sky shall be divided. What does that
mean? A sky divided. Perhaps you've seen
it. Perhaps you've looked up recently
and noticed something has changed. The
weather patterns that no longer behave
as they should. The seasons that have
lost their rhythm. Perhaps the sky is
already dividing. The prophecy continues
in this cartoon. There shall be scarcity
of corn and squash. Great shall be the
famine, food scarcity, agricultural
collapse, crops failing. The government
shall be paralyzed. There shall be no
agreement among the lords. The head
chiefs shall be scattered.
political chaos, leadership failures,
those in power unable to act, unable to
agree, scattered and ineffective. I want
you to think about these words. They
were written centuries ago, copied from
oral traditions, even older, describing
a period that the Maya calculated would
arrive in our time. Now, look around
you. Does any of this sound familiar?
The Chillam Balum isn't the only source
of Mayan prophecy. We also have the
coddices, the actual books created by
the Maya before the conquest. Only four
survive. The Spanish [music] priests
burned the rest, believing them to be
works of the devil. The most important
for our purposes is the Dresden Codeex,
named after the German city where it now
resides. It's a folding screen book made
of fig bark paper covered in hieroglyphs
and illustrations dating to sometime
between the 11th and 12th centuries.
Most of the Dresden Codeex contains
astronomical tables, Venus cycles,
eclipse predictions, the mathematical
obsession of the Maya laid out in
columns of dots and bars. But there's
one page that has haunted researchers
for generations. Page 74. It shows a
catastrophic flood. At the top, a great
serpent stretches across the sky. From
its mouth, water pours down upon the
world. Not rain, a deluge, a torrent.
The heavens themselves vomiting
destruction. Below the serpent, a
goddess stands. She's usually identified
as Ixchell, goddess of storms, of the
moon, of destruction and creation. In
her hand, she holds a jar. From the jar
more water flows, endless water and
below them both the world drowns. Cities
submerged, people overwhelmed.
Everything the previous age built
swallowed by the waters. Some scholars
say this is simply mythology, a
depiction of the flood that destroyed
the previous world age in the Mayan
creation story. Nothing more than a
religious illustration. But others point
out something important. The Dresden
Codeex is fundamentally a book of
predictions. Everything else in it is
about the future. Astronomical events
that hadn't happened yet when the book
was created. Why would this one page be
different? Why would the Maya place an
image of world destroying floods in
their book of prophecy? Unless they
meant it as prophecy. And here's what
unsettles me most. This image, water
from the sky, the heavens as weapon.
Civilization drowned appears in
prophecies across the world. Nostradamus
wrote of great floods. Edgar Casey
predicted coastlines would be altered by
rising waters. Mother Shipton said the
seas would rise. Babaanga described
floods consuming cities, different
prophets, different centuries, different
continents, the same vision. There's one
more Mayan concept I need to share
before we move to the Aztecs. The nine
lords of the night in Mayan Bologon
coup. These are nine deities who govern
the underworld. They represent the
forces of change, transformation, death,
and rebirth. They're associated with
war, sacrifice, and the transitions
between world ages. They are not evil
exactly, but they are dangerous powers
that reshape reality. forces that
destroy the old to make way for the new.
And here's why they matter to us.
There's an ancient inscription at a site
called Tortuger.
It's one of the only surviving ancient
Mayan references to the 2012 date,
carved in stone centuries before the
modern hysteria. The inscription is
damaged. Parts are broken and illeible,
but scholars have reconstructed what
remains. The 13th baktun will be
finished. It will happen. Darkness and
the descent of Bolon Yoku to the And
then the stone is broken. We don't know
how the sentence ends, but we know what
it says. The descent of Bolon Yoku, the
nine lords descending, not the end of
the world, but the arrival of
transformative forces, powers from below
rising into the world above. The Maya
believed that during transition periods,
the boundary between worlds grows thin.
What was hidden becomes visible. What
was below comes above. What was buried
rises to the surface. We're in that
period now. The nine lords are
descending. What's being revealed? Look
at the secrets being exposed. The hidden
systems becoming visible. The powers
that operated in darkness now dragged
into light. Perhaps the Maya were more
accurate than we ever imagined.
The Aztecs, children of the fifth sun.
500 miles northwest of the Mayan
heartland, another civilization was
building pyramids and studying stars.
The Aztecs, or more accurately, the
Mexica. Aztec was a term applied later
by historians. They called themselves
the Mexica. and they built their empire
on an island in the middle of a lake.
They called their capital Tennos Titlan.
Today we call it Mexico City. The Aztecs
weren't as ancient as the Maya. Their
empire rose in the 14th century and fell
in 1521 when Hernand Cortez arrived with
his concistadors. A civilization that
lasted barely 200 years. But the Aztecs
drew on traditions much older than
themselves. beliefs inherited from the
Toltechs, the Olme, and civilizations
whose names have been forgotten. A
cosmology with roots stretching back
thousands of years. And the most
important element of that cosmology for
our purposes tonight is the legend of
the five sons. According to Aztec
belief, the world has been created and
destroyed four times before our current
age. Each creation is called a son. Each
sun had its own humanity, its own gods,
its own characteristics, and each sun
ended in catastrophe. Let me take you
through them. The first son was called
Nahui Otalottal. For Jaguar, this world
was ruled by Tescat Poka, the god of
night and shadow, the smoking mirror, a
deity of power, conflict, and
transformation. The people of the first
sun were giants, massive beings who
walked the young earth. How did this
world end? Ketal Kuatal, the feathered
serpent, Tescat Lipoka's eternal rival,
struck him from the sky with a great
club. In his fury, Tescat Lipoka
transformed into a monstrous jaguar, and
he released all the jaguars of the world
upon humanity. The giants were devoured,
every last one. The first sun went dark.
End of an age. The second son was called Nahwehal
Nahwehal
for wind. This world was ruled by Ketal
Koatal himself. A gentler age. Some say
a time of wisdom and cultivation. How
did it end? Tescatipoka took his
revenge. He cast Ketal Koatal down from
the heavens and the wind became a
weapon. Catastrophic hurricanes swept
the world. storms beyond anything we can
imagine. The wind tore apart everything
humanity had built. The survivors to
save themselves transformed into
monkeys. They clung to trees while the
world was ripped apart around them. The
second son went dark. The third son was
called Nahu Quito for rain. This world
was ruled by Tallaloc, the god of rain
and storms. A time of water, of
agriculture, of growth. How did it end?
Fire from the sky. Not water. Fire. Quit
koatal in his turn brought destruction.
Some versions describe volcanic
eruptions. Others speak of something
falling from the heavens, fire raining
down, burning everything. The survivors
transformed into birds and flew above
the flames. The third sun went dark. The
fourth son was called Nahui Atal for
water. This world was ruled by
Khalutiku, the goddess of rivers, lakes,
and oceans. Talok's consort. How did it
end? A great flood. The rains came and
did not stop. The waters rose and did
not recede. The entire world drowned
beneath endless waves. The survivors
transformed into fish, but one man and
one woman in some versions of the myth
survived inside a hollow log, a vessel
that carried them through the deluge
until the waters receded and they could
begin again. Does this sound familiar? A
global flood, survivors in a vessel, a
humanity destroyed and reborn. This
story appears in virtually every ancient
culture on Earth. Sumerian, Hebrew,
Greek, Hindu, Chinese, Native American,
and Aztec. The fourth sun went dark. And
now we come to our world. The fifth sun,
Nahui Olen, for movement, for
earthquake. This is the age you and I
were born into. The sun that lights our
sky, the world we think of as permanent
and stable. But the Aztecs knew better.
According to their mythology, the fifth
sun was created at Teayotiwakan,
that magnificent pyramid complex
northeast of Mexico City. You may have
seen pictures, the pyramid of the sun,
the pyramid of the moon, the avenue of
the dead. After the fourth sun drowned,
the world was in darkness. The gods
gathered at Teayotiwakan to create a new
son. But this time the price was higher
than ever before. Two gods volunteered
to become the new son. The proud and
beautiful Teuchist
and the humble sick pox scarred Nanowatin.
Nanowatin.
The great fire was built. Teuchist
approached the flames four times. Four
times he faltered. The heat was too
intense. The sacrifice too great. Then
Nanahatin stepped forward. Without
hesitation, he threw himself into the
fire. His body was consumed and he rose
again as the sun. Shamed by the lesser
god's courage. Teuchistaka finally
leaped into the flames as well. He rose
as a second son, equally bright. The
gods couldn't allow two sons. They threw
a rabbit at Teuchist's face, dimming his
light. He became the moon. This is why
the Aztecs saw a rabbit in the moon's
surface. And this is why they believed
the fifth sun was born from sacrifice.
But there was a problem. The new son
hung in the sky and did not move.
Nanowatsen, now called Tonatio, demanded
payment for his service. He had given
everything, his life, his body, his
existence. Now he demanded the other
gods give as well. One by one, the gods
sacrificed themselves. Their blood
flowed and finally with their life force
as fuel, the sun began to move across
the sky. This is the origin of Aztec
human sacrifice. They believed the fifth
sun required constant blood to keep
moving. Without sacrifice, the sun would
stop, darkness would fall, the world
would end. But even with sacrifice,
every son must end.
The Aztecs were specific about how our
age would conclude. The name tells us
everything. Nah olin for movement. Not
jaguar like the first sun. Not wind like
the second. Not fire from above like the
third. Not flood like the fourth movement.
movement.
The Aztec prophecies describe it like
this. There will be earthquakes. There
will be movement. The world will shake
itself apart. The earth becoming
unreliable. The ground we stand on
betraying us. But it's more than just
seismic activity. The word olin in nual,
the Aztec language carries multiple
meanings. Movement, change,
transformation, instability. The fifth
sun doesn't end in a single catastrophic
moment. It ends in a period of
increasing instability. The familiar
world shifting, things we thought were
permanent, proving fragile, the ground,
literal and metaphorical, shaking
beneath our feet. Some scholars
interpret this as earthquakes and
volcanic eruptions, tectonic chaos, the
ring of fire coming alive. Others see a
broader meaning. Social movement,
political upheaval, economic
instability, the foundations of
civilization cracking. Perhaps it's
both. Perhaps for movement describes a
world where everything moves at once.
Tectonic plates, political systems,
social orders, the climate, all of it
shifting, changing, refusing to stay
stable. Does that sound like any time
period you recognize? The Aztecs
believed this ending was inevitable, not
a possibility, a certainty. Every son
had ended. The fifth sun would too. The
only question was when. And there were
those who believed they knew. Now we
come to the most famous prophecy in all
of Misoamerican history. And the most
misunderstood, the return of Ketal
Koatal, the feathered serpent, a god who
appeared in one form or another across
virtually every Mesoamerican
civilization. The Maya called him
Kukulkan. The Tolte claimed him as their
founder. The Aztecs inherited his legend
and made it central to their religion.
Ketal Ketal is a strange god, a
contradiction, a paradox. He is the
union of opposites. Ketzel, the divine
bird, creature of sky and heaven, symbol
of freedom and spirit. Coal, the
serpent, creature of earth and
underworld, symbol of matter and body.
Together, the feathered serpent, spirit
and matter united, heaven and earth
joined. According to mythology, Ketoto
was more than a god. He had once been a
god king, a ruler of the ancient Toltech
city of Tolen. He was described as a
bringer of knowledge, culture, and
civilization. He taught humanity,
agriculture, writing, astronomy, the
arts. He was associated with wind, with
Venus as the morning star, with wisdom
and learning. And unlike other
Mesoamerican deities, Ketal Kawat
opposed human sacrifice. This made him
unique. In a religious system built on
blood offerings, Ketal Kuato represented
another way. He accepted butterflies and
flowers, songs and incense,
self-sacrifice through penance rather
than the killing of others. The legends
say he was tricked by his eternal rival
Tescat Poka. The smoking mirror deceived
him, made him drunk, caused him to break
his sacred vows in a night of shame.
When Ketau realized what he had done, he
was consumed by guilt. He left Tolen,
walked to the eastern sea. Some versions
say he burned himself on a p and rose to
become the morning star. Others say he
sailed away on a raft made of serpents.
But all versions agree on one thing. He
promised to return one day. From the
east across the sea, Ketal Koal would
come back. And this prophecy nearly
destroyed the Aztec Empire.
In 1519, Ernan Cortez landed on the
eastern coast of Mexico. 500 Spanish concistadors,
concistadors,
16 horses, a handful of cannons against
an empire of millions. And yet within 2
years that empire would fall. How? The
answer involves disease, indigenous
allies, Spanish brutality, political
divisions within the Aztec world, and
hundred other factors. But there's
another element, a stranger element.
Cortez came from the east across the
sea. He arrived in a year called Se
Aatal in the Aztec calendar. One read, a
year sacred to Ketal Cotto, a year when
his return was particularly anticipated.
The Spanish had pale skin, some had
beards, characteristics that certain
traditions associated with Ketau. They
came with impossible technology, animals
no one had ever seen, weapons that
killed with thunder. Were they gods?
Were they the fulfillment of prophecy?
The Aztec Emperor Mocktuma II received
reports of these strangers and faced an
impossible question. Is this him? Is
this Ketal Katal returning? Historians
debate how seriously Mcktazuma believed
this. Some argue the Cortez's Ketal
Koatal story was invented after the
conquest, a way for the conquered to
explain their defeat, a narrative
imposed by the Spanish to justify their
victory. Others believe Mocktzuma
genuinely wasn't certain, and that
uncertainty paralyzed his response.
Either way, the result was catastrophic.
The Aztec response to the Spanish was
fatally hesitant. There were moments
when Cortez could have been crushed. He
wasn't. Within 2 years, Tenoshitlan had
fallen. The great city burned. The
emperor murdered. Within a century, 90%
of the indigenous population was dead,
mostly from European diseases against
which they had no immunity. The prophecy
of Ketalquat's return was fulfilled in
the most terrible way imaginable. Or was it?
it?
Some indigenous scholars and spiritual
leaders argue that Cortez was not the
true fulfillment of the Ketauquato
prophecy. He was a false qual,
a deceiver, a trickster wearing the
serpent's mask while serving the
darkness of Tescat Lipaka. Think about
it. What was Ketal Katal supposed to
bring? knowledge, enlightenment, civilization,
civilization,
an end to human sacrifice, the union of
heaven and earth. What did Cortez bring?
Enslavement, destruction, mass death, a
different kind of sacrifice. Entire
peoples offered up to the gods of gold
and empire. The conquest brought the
opposite of everything Ketal
represented. So perhaps the prophecy
wasn't fulfilled in 1519. Perhaps it was
interrupted, hijacked, a dark force
wearing the mask of light. Perhaps the
real return is yet to come. This
interpretation persists in many
indigenous communities today. The
understanding that 1519 was not the
prophecy fulfilled, but the prophecy
perverted, a false dawn, and that the
true return, the real awakening, is
still approaching. Some say we're
approaching it now. Before we leave the
Aztecs, we need to talk about the
sunstone. You've seen it. Even if you
don't know its name, you know its image.
That massive circular carving nearly 12
ft across over 20 tons of stone covered
in concentric rings of symbols with a
fierce face in the center. It's often
called the Aztec calendar, though that's
not quite accurate. It's more like a
cosmological map, a symbolic
representation of time, space, creation,
destruction, and destiny, all carved
into a single magnificent disc. The face
in the center is usually identified as
Tonatio, the sun god of the fifth sun.
His tongue protrudes from his mouth.
That tongue is a sacrificial knife.
around him in the ring called olin
movement are symbols representing the
four previous sons the four previous
worlds that were destroyed. The message
is clear. We are surrounded by endings.
Our world is built on the ruins of four
previous attempts. Four humanities that
rose and fell. Four sons that burned and
went dark. And our son, the fifth, will
join them eventually. The outer rings
contain day signs, solar symbols, fire
serpents, divine imagery. The whole
thing is a monument to the Aztec
understanding of cosmic cycles. But
there's a detail often overlooked.
Tonatio's tongue, that sacrificial
knife, protrudes from his mouth, a
demanding blood. Some interpret this as
a reminder. The fifth son requires
sacrifice. Stop feeding it and it dies.
Others see something more ominous. The
sun god's tongue is a knife. The source
of light is also an instrument of death.
The same power that gives life will
eventually take it. The sunstone isn't
just a record of the past. It's a
warning about the future. The fifth sun
will demand its sacrifice. Whether that
sacrifice is blood, transformation, or
something else entirely remains to be
seen. the convergence when Maya met
Aztec. We've examined Mayan prophecy.
We've examined Aztec prophecy. Now,
let's put them together. These
civilizations weren't isolated from each
other. They existed in the same region
for centuries. They traded, they fought,
they exchanged ideas, goods, and
beliefs. The Aztecs knew of the Maya.
Mayan merchants traveled Aztec roads.
Mayan religious concepts filtered into
Aztec traditions. The feathered serpent
god, Ketal Koatal to the Aztecs, Kukul
Khan to the Maya is the clearest
example. Same deity, different names. So
perhaps it shouldn't surprise us that
their prophecies overlap. Both
traditions describe time as cyclical,
[music] great ages that rise and fall.
Both speak of previous worlds destroyed
by various catastrophes. Both identify
our current age as a transitional
period, a time of ending and beginning.
Both predict upheaval, floods,
earthquakes, famine, social collapse.
Both speak of a return, whether of
Kukulkan descending or Ketcoal rising.
And both point to the period we're
living through as the critical
threshold. But the convergence doesn't
stop with Meso America. The pattern extends.
extends.
In a previous video on this channel, we
examined five prophets who lived across
centuries and continents. Nostradamus
from 16th century France, Baba Vanga
from 20th century Bulgaria, Edgar Casey
from early 20th century America, Mother
Shipton from 15th century England, St.
Maliki from 12th century Ireland. They
knew nothing of Maya or Aztec
traditions. They wrote in French,
Bulgarian, English and Latin, not
Yucatech or Nahwal. And yet consider
climate catastrophe. The Maya predicted
famine and agricultural failure during
cartoon for auo, our current period. The
Aztecs described the fifth sun dying in
a world of increasing instability.
Nostradamus wrote of great floods,
droughts, and burning from the sky.
Edgar Casey predicted the coastlines
would be redrawn by rising waters.
Mother Shipton said the seas would rise
and the climate would become hot and
cold and wet and dry. Babaanga spoke of
natural disasters increasing in
frequency and intensity. Consider
political chaos. The Chilamalum
predicted that during this cartoon the
government shall be paralyzed and the
head chiefs shall be scattered.
Nostradamus saw empires falling, leaders
fleeing, nations divided against
themselves. Babaanga spoke of Europe
becoming empty, of great powers
declining. Mother Shipton wrote of
kingdoms collapsing, of leaders who
betray their people. Consider spiritual
crisis. The Maya spoke of Kakul Khan
returning a profound spiritual
transformation coming to humanity. The
Aztecs awaited Ketawatal.
Enlightenment or destruction depending
on how humanity receives him. St.
Malake's papal prophecy ends with the
judgment of humanity itself. Edgar Casey
predicted a battle between light and
darkness within sacred institutions.
Consider something falling from the sky.
The Maya's Dresdn Codeex shows
destruction pouring from the heavens.
The Aztec third sun was destroyed by
fire from above. Nostradamus wrote of
the great star that will burn for 7 days.
days.
Mother Shipton predicted a fiery dragon
crossing the sky. Baba Vanganger spoke
of something falling from space.
Consider the time frame. The Mayan
transition period runs from 2012 to
approximately 2032.
Nostradamus' most troubling quatrains
point to the 2020s. Baba Vanga made
specific predictions for 2025 through
2028. Edgar Casey's timeline culminates
in this decade. Seven different
prophetic traditions across thousands of
years, spanning continents with no
contact between them. All pointing to
the same window of time, all describing
the same patterns. What are the odds? I
want to be careful here. I'm not saying
the world is definitely ending. I'm not
trying to frighten you. I'm trying to
show you something that I find genuinely
strange. These prophecies don't just
share predictions. They share a
structure. Every tradition we've
examined describes time as cyclical, not
linear. Cycles of creation and
destruction, ages that rise and fall.
Every tradition places humanity at or
near the end of a cycle. Every tradition
describes the transition not as a single
moment of catastrophe, but as a period
of transformation, chaos, upheaval, and
then renewal. And every tradition
suggests that the outcome is not
predetermined. Human choices matter.
Consciousness matters. The transition
can be navigated well or poorly. The
Maya didn't just predict disaster. They
developed rituals and ceremonies to help
humanity pass through dangerous
transitions. The Aztecs didn't just warn
of the fifth sun's end. They believed
human sacrifice, the offering of what is
most precious, could sustain the sun and
delay the ending. Even the European
prophets embedded choices in their
visions. A prophecy of warning implies
that the warned can act. Otherwise, why
warn? This isn't fatalism. It's a call
to awareness. The prophecies don't say,
"Sit back and watch the world end." They
say, "Wake up. This is a threshold. What
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