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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

transmit a warning to the future, and that this warning could be to do
with a global cataclysm, perhaps even a recurrence of the same cataclysm
that so clearly devastated mankind at the end of the last Ice Age when
‘Noah saw that the earth had tilted, and that its destruction was near, and
cried out in a bitter voice: “Tell me what is being done on the earth that
the earth is so afflicted and shaken ...” ’ These words are from the
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Hebrew Book of Enoch, but similar afflictions and shakings have been
foretold in all the Central American traditions that speak of the demise of
the present epoch of the world—an epoch, as the reader will recall, in
which ‘the elders say [that] there will be a movement of the earth and
from this we shall all perish.’
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The reader will also not have forgotten the date calculated by the
Ancient Maya calendar for the end of the world:

The day will be 4 Ahau 3 Kankin [corresponding to 23 December AD 2012], and it
will be ruled by the Sun God, the ninth Lord of the Night. The moon will be eight
days old, and it will be the third lunation in a series of six ...
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In the Mayan scheme of things we are already living in the last days of the
earth.
In the Christian scheme of things too, the last days are understood to
be upon us. According to the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of
Pennsylvania: ‘This world will perish just as surely as did the world before
the Flood ... Many things were foretold to occur during the last days, and
all of these are being fulfilled. This means that the end of the world is
near ...’
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Similarly the Christian psychic Edgar Cayce prophesied in 1934 that
around the year 2000: ‘There will be a shifting of the poles. There will be
upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic that will make for the eruption
of volcanoes in the Torrid areas ... The upper portion of Europe will be
changed in the twinkling of an eye. The earth will be broken up in the
western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into
the sea.’
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Curiously the epoch of the year 2000, which figures in these Christian
prophecies, also coincides with the Last Time (or highest point) in the
great upwards cycle of the belt stars of the Orion constellation, just as
the epoch of the eleventh millennium BC coincided with the First Time (or
lowest point) of that cycle.
And curiously, also, as we saw in Chapter Twenty-eight:

A conjunction of five planets that can be expected to have profound gravitational

25 1 Enoch, LXV, in The Apockryphal Old Testament (ed. H.F.D. Sparks), Clarendon Press,
Oxford, 1989, p. 247.
26 Pre-Hispanic Gods of Mexico, p. 24.
27 Breaking the Maya Code, p. 275.
Will The World Survive? Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, 1992.
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29 Circulating File, Earth Changes, Extracts from the Edgar Cayce Readings, Edgar Cayce
Foundation, Virginia Beach, 1994, p. 36.

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