The Mars Mystery by Graham Hancock

Author:Graham Hancock [Hancock, Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-0-307-55779-7
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Published: 2010-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

PERIODIC DESTRUCTIONS

According to the Hopi of Arizona:

The first world was destroyed, as a punishment for human misdemeanors, by an all-consuming fire that came from above and below. The second world ended when the terrestrial globe toppled from its axis and everything was covered with ice. The third world ended in a universal flood. The present world is the fourth. Its fate will depend on whether or not its inhabitants behave in accordance with the Creators plans.6

In Aztec and Mayan mythology, we are living in the fifth epoch of creation, characterized as the “Fifth Sun.” The fourth epoch was said to have been brought to an end by a great flood in which almost all men died (“There was water for fifty-two years and then the sky collapsed”). And it was prophesied that the fate of the fifth epoch—our own—is that it will end in a cataclysmic “movement of the earth” that will destroy civilization and perhaps even exterminate all traces of human life.7 In the enormously sophisticated mathematical and calendrical system of the Maya, which we have explored at length in other works, the date of this coming cataclysm was foretold. That date is 4 Ahau 8 Kankin. When it is translated into the Gregorian calendar that we use today it becomes A.D. 23 December 2012.

Ancient Egypt also preserved complex beliefs concerning the cyclic creation and destruction of worlds. The little-known Edfu Building Texts,8 for example, speak of a remote golden age, many thousands of years in the past, when the gods themselves lived on an island—the “Homeland of the Primeval Ones.” The texts tell us this island was utterly destroyed in a terrible storm and flood caused by “a great serpent.”9 The majority of the “divine inhabitants” were drowned,10 but the survivors of the cataclysm settled in Egypt where they became known as “the Builder Gods, who fashioned in the primeval time, the Lords of Light.”11 According to the Edfu Texts, it was these survivors who set out the foundations of all the future pyramids and temples of Egypt and who handed down the religion that would much later be practiced throughout the land under the semi-divine rule of the Pharaohs.

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