[Aztlan] 2012 Movie Website

[Elaine Schele]

Due to be released November 13th of this year:
http://www.whowillsurvive2012.com/

Here is a bog about the film:
http://theoriginalunoriginal.com/the-original-blog/2012-movie-trailer-2/

>From USA Today:

But scholars are bristling at attempts to link the ancient Maya with
trends in contemporary spirituality. Maya civilization, known for
advanced writing, mathematics and astronomy, flourished for centuries
in Mesoamerica, especially between A.D. 300 and 900. Its Long Count
calendar, which was discontinued under Spanish colonization, tracks
more than 5,000 years, then resets at year zero.

“For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end
of a whole cycle,” says Sandra Noble, executive director of the
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal
River, Fla. To render Dec. 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic
shifting, she says, is “a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot
of people to cash in.”

Part of the 2012 mystique stems from the stars. On the winter solstice
in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for
the first time in about 26,000 years. This means that “whatever energy
typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will
indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time,” Joseph
writes.

But scholars doubt the ancient Maya extrapolated great meaning from
anticipating the alignment — if they were even aware of what the
configuration would be.

Astronomers generally agree that “it would be impossible the Maya
themselves would have known that,” says Susan Milbrath, a Maya
archaeoastronomer and a curator at the Florida Museum of Natural
History. What’s more, she says, “we have no record or knowledge that
they would think the world would come to an end at that point.”

University of Florida anthropologist Susan Gillespie says the 2012
phenomenon comes “from media and from other people making use of the
Maya past to fulfill agendas that are really their own.”

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