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THE ‘X’ CHRONICLES NEWSPAPER Planet Earth’s ONLY Paranormal / Parapsychology Newspaper Vol. 17, No 3 ISSN - 1499-8599 (E-dition) / ISSN - 1499-8602 (CD-ROM) MARCH 2012 (C) REL-MAR McConnell Media Company The Mayans and The Salvador. Before we continue, it's worth emphasizing that this Mesoamerican calendar (as used by several Over the two weeks of our expedition in Truth About the Land of the Mayan, I spoke with cultures, including the Maya, in Central and South America before European colonization) Government Officials, Mayan Scholars, and December 21 2012 yes, even the Maya themselves, and I am happy does not predict an apocalypse. It never did, despite what New Age believers and the movie to report that rumors of their demise years ago is false. The Mayans are alive and well, in fact, "2012" told us. there are an estimated 2.5 million Mayans living Archaeologists studying this fascinating in the Land of the Maya today. culture have been able to decipher their many It has been discovered through DNA calendars, but their longest period calendar, the testing that the origin of the Maya were from "Long Count,” is what set alarm bells off in the Mongolia and crossed the Bering Strait Ice fertile minds of New Age Practitioners, Bridge and continued south to where they conspiracy theorists, doomsayers and those settled in Central America. There are over 100 other unscrupulous people who prey on the Mayan cities have been found in the Land of the fears of others looking to make a fast buck. Maya, but to date, only 10% are presently The Aztec also had their own calendar, accessible to the public. which is rarely heard of. This calendar consisted The Mayans are considered to be the of a 365-day calendar cycle called xiuhpohualli leaders and pioneers of great sciences like (show-pow-walle) (year count) and a 260-day By Rob McConnell astronomy and mathematics. One of their great ritual cycle called tonalpohualli (tonal-pow- achievements, was the understanding of our wall-e) (daycount). These two cycles together solar system. All their architecture is based on formed a 52 year” century,” sometimes called By now, everyone has heard that according to astronomic observations and five centuries the “calendar round.” The xiuhpohualli is New Age practitioners, authors and self- proclaimed experts, that the End of the Mayan before Galileo Galilei, they knew that the center considered to be the agricultural calendar, since of our solar system was the Sun and not the it is based on the sun and the tonalpohualli is Calendar on December 21 2012 indicates the Earth. considered to be the sacred calendar. end of the world - and unfortunately, there are a When asked about the End of the Mayan growing number of people who are actually Calendar on December 21 2012 and the New (Continued on Page 2) believing these claims, with some preparing for the worst. Age prophecies of the end of the world, they THE ‘X’ ZONE RADIO SHOW simply laugh, for as they told us, December 21 In order to discover the truth about the with Mayan Calendar and what, if anything it 2012 is the end of the current round calendar, ROB McCONNELL prophecies, I went on a two week expedition and that is all. The Mayans never predicted that 7 Days A Week / 24 Hours A Day / 365 Days it would also indicated the end of the world and into the Land of The Maya, in present day there is no Mayan document or archaeological of the Year Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Guatemala and El artifact that makes such a claim or reference. www.xzbn.net/live.htm