What Might Happen On December 21, 2012

And Why You May Want To Put Lots Of Sunscreen On

Disclaimer: I'm no expert on this December 21, 2012 doomsday prophecy. I just read enough materials on it to come up with my conclusions.

Here comes the sun and I say it's alright. That's a line from The Beatles / George Harrison song Here Comes The Sun which I think, could very well be the appropriate theme song for December 21, 2012.

All around the world, people are bracing themselves for what could be the end of the world come this Friday. For sure, 21 Decemeber 2012 is going to be a busy day for astronomers and doomsday believers alike.

Scientists are assuring everyone that it's going to be just another day. I'm hoping they are right. My best bet is that they are right.

But if they are wrong, I have a possible scenario based on events that we know will happen on either 20 or 21 of December (depends how you interpret the Mayan Long Count Calendar) and other ancient, historical facts available on the Internet.

1. The Mayans are genius mathematicians and their calculations of time and astronomy are quite accurate and intricate (for their time and technology).

2. The Mayans are huge Sun worshippers.

3. The Mayans do human sacrifices as part of their sun worship.

4. There's going to be a shift in our planet's axis, the precession of the equinoxes on 21 December 2012. This will change our perspective of the night sky including common navigational references such as our North Star.

5. The Earth and the Sun will align directly with the Milky Way's Nuclear Bulge (center) on 21 December 2012. This is a very rare event which happenes once every 25,000 or so years.

6. The Sun will bulge horizontally by half a degree (or so, due to the magnetic tug and pull) making it appear larger on 21 December 2012.

7. The Mayan long count calendar is a 5,124 year cyclic calendar. How they came about this number is anyone's guess but for a civilization that's only been around for 5000 years (including modern age), it's a mystery how they calculated this and proved it's accuracy to actually use it.

8. No other ancient culture is more steeped in extra-terrestrial references than the Mayans (Mesoamericans). Their writings and monuments are filled with innuendos about visitors from outer space, etc.

(Let me point out that these facts are documented on the Internet and that you can find them if you so wish to do some research.)

Connecting the facts together, we can hypothesize that on Friday, we will have an extraordinarily hot day. The shift of the earth's axis combined with a larger sun and our galactic alignment could potentially weaken slightly and briefly the magnetic field that shields us from cosmic radiation and in turn, giving us an extraordinarily warm day. A worst case scenario is the possible disruption of the same magnetic fields but in a much larger scale, allowing the complete thinning of our ozone layer and the direct and unhindered penetration of harmful UV rays that can burn the skin, disrupt communication systems and weaken structures. This scenario sounds indeed like a doomsday scenario.

Now, I'll tie it up with the Mayan culture. The Mayans civilization is one of the oldest civilizations in the planet. They've been around for at least 5,000 years. Their religion is based on the movements of the Sun, Moon, Planets and the Stars. They revere heavenly bodies and most importantly, the sun, because they affect the harvest, the tides and the overall Mayan way of life. Sometime around 3000 BC, they claimed that creation took place. As such, we are in the current creation age of 5125 years. They also claimed that once this creation age is over, a new one will begin.

Now, let's imagine ourselves as a sun worshipping Mayan about 5000 years ago. If you looked above and notice that the sun looks slightly bigger than before, you'd most probably be at awe. If you felt that it's extraordinarily hot while the sun is at it's largest, you'd most probably feel very uncomfortable, alarmed and quite weary. If you see people around you dying, burning, your house made of straw bricks burning, etc., because of this extraordinary heat, you'd probably be very afraid. Seeing dead people might make you think that the sun god isn't happy and demands human sacrifice. Thus, you sacrifice human life regularly to appease it.

Looking at it, well, it does make some sense. Oh my crazy imagination working at full-throttle. Personally, I'm hoping that Friday is just another beautiful day. So far, we have a very mild Christmas season and I'd like to keep it that way.

Of course, these are just my theories. Like I mentioned earlier, I'm not an expert. But it won't hurt to wear sunblock and avoid going out on Friday if you feel "endangered." With Christmas just around the corner, it'll be terrible if my worst case scenario theory is correct and you develop a pretty nasty case of the sunburns. Imagine the kind of Christmas portraits that would make.

V Dela Casa