December 21st, 2012 Doomsday.

It is foretold in the Mayan Calendar, the Chinese Oracle I-Ching and

even an internet-based software program. Its December 21st, 2012, the date that is prophesized as
The End of the World. With this dire prediction, is there any science behind it? Could ancient Oracles
predict the future? The answer could be surprising and affect us all. History proves a good track record
for those who say Doomsday is almost here.
War, thoughts of war, signs and its devastation, there are those who say that this is just a dark times and
that these destructive events are not random. All of these days and occurrences were prophecy days
ago: in the pages of The Bible, the temples of Ancient Rome, the pyramids of the Ancient Maya, even
the Internet. There are a number of prophecies that seem to indicate that something is going to happen
in the 21st century and it also ties into the number of prophecies made in the Old Testament these
warnings of coming judgment of a coming Doomsday, because people are not following the rules of
the law. More than one oracle in history points to the same, single date. They all imply A disastrous
convergence not far in the future. The Mayans marked December 2012 as being the end of the cycle.
The ancient Mayans in Central America created a calendar, so precise, that it could literally predict lunar
eclipses thousands of years in the future. Yet this Mayan calendar mysteriously ends on one single date
the Winter Solstice in 2012. Many questions are asked such as is the world going to end or is there
going to be some sort or major shift in the cycles of history? The answer is unknown to anyone while
the answer to any of these questions remains open. The newest version of the 2012 Doomsday
prophecy comes from an Oracle that isnt even human. Its inventors call it the Web-Bots project.
Beginning in the late 1990s, it was made to predict possible future stock values. Independent
programmers developed an application made from miniature applications called Spiders, or agents,
to crawl the web for hints of future financial news. The concept behind this is that massive scans of
language will reveal a direct connection to the collective unconscious and a hint of the future.
However it works, the Web-Bots track record is really impressive. In August 2004, developers made a
prediction that about earthquakes. It predicted 300,000 dead and the water rising all of which turned
out to be the tsunami in November of 2004. The Web-Bots also foretold the anthrax attacks in
Washington D.C. in 2001, the east-coast power outage in 2003, the massive amount of damage from
Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but its prophecies of the future that are the most disturbing prediction.
If the Web-Bots are correct, there will be serious escalations leading to limited nuclear war in 2008-2009
type-of-timeframe. According to the Web-Bots, its future predictions will come to a halt in the year of
2012. Is it true prophecy, or just a lot of random noise? In the ancient world, the most highly regarded
psychics were considered Oracles. The word Oracle is one who has some sort of prophetic connection
with a God or was God himself. One of the most important oracles in history was based in the Roman
Empire. She was called The Civil and she lived in a cave near modern-day Naples, around the sixth
century, B.C. Statesmen, Aristocrats, figures from the upper-classes of the Roman Society would go and
consult with The Civil about anything ranging from war to domestic concerns. Before giving her
prophecies, The Civil would go into a trance, which it was said that the God Apollo would take over her
body. The God possessed The Civil, she entered a furious altered state. The Civil wrote her
pronouncements on oak leaves, so that if the oak leaves got lost in the wind, they were not to be
collected, so the messages were often scrambled. The Civils prophecies were housed in the temple of
Jupiter in a series of scrolls. They were pronounced the most important religious books in Ancient Rome.
Among the Civils prophecies was a distant apocalypse, she predicted that the world would last for nine
periods of 800 years each, the tenth generation would begin approximately 2000 A.D., and it would be
the last. Excerpt from The Sibylline Prophecy Fire shall come flashing forth in the broad heaven, and
many cities burn and men destroy, and much black ashes shall fill the great sky, and small drops like red
earth shall fall from heaven, and then know the anger of the God of heaven. The Sibylline Oracles,
Book 4. The Civils prophecies wouldnt mean much if she didnt have such a good track record. In the
sixth century B.C., the Civil predicted the invasion of Italy by Hannibal, 700 years before it happened.
And she predicted his ultimate defeat. She predicted the rise of the Emperor Constantine, by name, 800
years before he was born. Yet her greatest prophecy gave her a place of honor among early Christians.
In Virgils fourth eclogue, he has the Civil give a prophecy of a new age coming a new golden age, a
new child that will be born who would initiate this golden age. This was written approximately around
20 B.C. Later on, Christians took this as a prophecy of Christ. The Civils prophecy of the coming of Jesus,
20 years before his birth, caused her to be revered by early Christians. Even Michelangelo gave her a
prominent place in the Sistine Chapel. Nobody knows how the Civil saw into the future. But a new
archeological discovery suggests that the source of her prophecies was not God, but gas.
This evidence comes from another Oracle of the ancient world, this one at Delphi, Greece The Oracle
Adelphi. They thought that the god Apollo could inspire a person who could be a priestess of Apollo to
foresee the future. The priestess entered an underground chamber and there, went into a trance. In this
trance, she would give prophecies that were evocative, intriguing and that were surprisingly accurate. In
1998, a geological team discovered two fault lines running under the temple at Delphi, which led to
underground stores of Ethylene Gas. In small quantities, Ethylene produces a mild euphoria and is the
key ingredient in the dangerous practice of glue sniffing. In large quantities, the gas is a powerful
hallucinogen that produces visions and sometimes, incoherent ravings. This ambiguity may be the key to
the Oracles success. A good key to any prophet or oracle is to keep it vague. Allow for a variety of
different futures to be taken as fulfillment of prophecy and leave it open to interpretation. These were
poetries that came from the Oracle of Adelphi. Like the Adelphi, the cave of the Civil was also
underground, connected to volcanic gasses and fault lines. If you ingest hallucinogens, the brain
interprets that as external to itself, which adds to the mystery to the overall sense that something
special is going on. Yet the fact remains that the Delphic Oracle seemed to accurately and specifically
predict The fame of Socrates, years before he was known, the defeat of the Persian invasion of Greece
in 480 B.C. and Alexander the Greats conquest of known world.
The accuracy of these ancient Oracles is not just a moot point, because these Doomsday prophecies
apparently referred to our own time, and some find disturbing confirmation of the 2012 doomsday in
the calendar of the Ancient Mayans which gives a far more specific timetable of the apocalypse,
including the year, the month and the day. The Mayan calendar seems to say that the world will end in
2012. Its a startling precise prediction from a culture that took its calendar very seriously. The Mayan
civilization flourished in Central America from the 6
th
to the 9
th
century A.D. They were simply obsessed
with time-keeping their calendar was incredibly precise more accurate than even our own calendar
the Gregorian calendar. Its interlocking time scales of lunar, solar and planetary cycles, could accurately
predict a solar eclipse thousands of years into the future. The calendar is also prophetic. In the 8
th

century, A.D., it predicted that white-skinned, bearded gods would arrive from across the sea in March
5
th
, 1519. On that precise date, Cortez and his conquistadors arrived in the new world. Was it a
coincidence, or was the calendar prophetically accurate. The answer matters for the Mayan calendar
also predicts the end of the world as we know it on the date that the Mayans called Hunab-Ku. The
winter solstice, 2012, December 21
st
, the sun rises and then the dark hole appears at the center of the
Milky Way was called the Cosmic Mother. Only in the last five years, astronomers have discovered an
actual black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Modern astronomers concur with the Ancient Mayans
on December 21
st
, 2012, the earth will be in exact alignment of the sun in the center of the Milky Way
Galaxy, a galactic event that only takes place every 25,800 years. Nobody knows what effect this
extraordinary alignment will have on the earth, but the Mayans believed that it will be dire.
Geophysicists have a theory that is similar to the events of the Mayan alignment. This would be called
Pole Shift, in which the entire mantle of the earth would shift in a matter of days, perhaps hours,
changing the position of the North and South Pole causing world-wide disaster. Earth quakes would
rock every continent, massive tsunamis would annihilate coastal cities it would be the ultimate
planetary catastrophe. As unlikely as this theory seems, it is backed by science. Albert Einstein first
suggested it in 1955 and a new study from Princeton University reveals that the poles have shifted
before. The North Pole rested in the middle of the Pacific, 800 million years ago, placing Alaska at the
equator. Even if this pole shift took place slowly over years, it would result in global climate change and
shifting sea levels. If it took place rapidly, it would mean planet-wide disaster and mass extinction of
species.
On the other side of the world, the 2012 date also emerges in prophecy. According to one theory, the
identical doomsday date can be found in old Chinese text, in the I-Ching or, The Book of Changes.
The I-Ching was the most remarkable and most enduring oracle in existence. Its origins are shrouded
in mystery it is quite possible that the first messages of the I-Ching are approximately 5000 years
old. Chinese legend says Emperor Fu-Chi, invented the I-Ching around 2800 B.C., a century before the
pyramids were built in Egypt. The I-Ching is usually used for fortune telling you ask a question of the
text, then you toss three coins. If they are mostly tails, you draw a straight line, if they are mostly heads;
you draw a pair of broken lines. This is repeated six times until the questioner has a series of six straight
and broken lines, called a Hexagram. There are 64 possible combinations and theres little texts
appended to each of these hexagrams in which it gives you some reading about the future. Despite the
opinion of skeptics, the 500-year-old I-Ching remains to be a best-seller used by fortune tellers,
psychotherapists, and Shanghai business tycoons. But only in the past decades, has the ancient I-Ching
become an Oracle of Doom.
A controversial researcher named Terrance McKenna did mathematical graphing with I-Ching and
turned it into a map of time. Before his death in 2000, McKenna recognized an unrecognized pattern in
the 64 hexagrams of the I-Ching. The six lines and sixty-four possible combinations can be expressed
as a ratio of change in each hexagram and plotted on a graph. When McKenna mapped that graph over
a timeline, he found intriguing correlations that matched all 4000 years of recorded history. His graph
starts with the I-Ching creation in the Chinas Shang Dynasty the same period as the dawn of
civilization in other parts of the world. The sixty-four hexagrams repeat sixty-four times over history.
McKenna called his theory Timewave-0. The highs and lows of his I-Ching graph seem to have
accurately predicted: The fall of the Roman Empire, the discovery of the new world, and the world wars
of the 20
th
century. But the strangest thing of all is that McKennas timeline came to an end on one
specific date: December 21
st
, 2012. It was later that McKenna discovered that the Mayan civilization
ended its calendar at the point of 2012. He felt that there was something truly prophetic about that
date.
Did the I-Ching from ancient China and the Mayan Calendar from medieval Mexico independently arrive
at the same date for Doomsday? It seems that all these prophecies seem to imply that something is
going to happen at this same date. The wizard Merlin, with prophecies that foretold the end of the
world, was an ancient oracle of doom. Merlin was considered one of Europes greatest oracles. His
prophecies included terrorist attacks, global warming and planetary catastrophes possibly in our own
time. The legends of Merlin have their birthplace in ancient England. The prophecies were published in
1135 A.D., but were based from texts that were dated from the fifth century. These texts described
Merlin as a Celtic shaman half man, half demon. The name Merlin is an English version of an ancient
Welsh name, Myrddin. The ancient Welsh called him Myrddin Wilt Merlin the Wild, a half-crazed
man of the forest. But was Merlin a character of legend or did he really exist? It seems very likely that
the word Merlin or Myrddin was a title than an individual name. But the researchers and writers felt
that there were probably at least 2 or 3 persons with the title of Merlin. Merlin was a title for a male
prophet.
The prophecies of Merlin seem to predict events that happen centuries in the future, 1,000 years before
anyone knew America existed. Merlin predicted the first American colony by name: Virginia. Merlin
also predicts the British victory over Napoleon at Waterloo and foresees the horrors of the holocaust.
But it is Merlins prophecies for the 20
th
century that are the most astonishing. At that time, shall a man
standing on the shore of England speak instantly to a man standing on the shore at France, through a
speaking stone. From there, Merlins prophecies turned darker. First, he foresees a disaster in Great
Britain: The seven seas shall discharge itself and the rivers burn for seven months. Fishers shall die in
the heat thereof and shall grow multiple tails. Oddly enough, the Svorjn nuclear power site is where
this is located in Britain so which this describes something like a meltdown. The prophecies get worse:
London shall mourn for the death of twenty thousand, and the river tints shall turn to red blood." Is this
a reference to a terrorist attack? Merlin goes on to foresee a more global problem: the sea shall rise up
in the twinkling of an eye; the winds shall fight together with a dreadful blast. These all seem to be
signs such as the global warming. Prophesies of Merlin ends with its own deadly apocalypse the
apocalypse in prophesies from Merlin is astrological. It says that the planets will run out of their
appointed paths and it says that the planets will run riot through the suns. The only way that can
happen is if the movement of our earth changes its rotation. Like the Mayan calendar, Merlins
prophesies seem to reflect a prediction of polar shift. If its correct, that means the magnetic changes of
our planet will continue and will be as dramatic as described by some scientists then it does really
mean that the planet will change. Then of course, thats where it ties in with some other prophesies in
other traditions.
Centuries after prophesies of Merlin was written down, another English oracle appeared. Her time line
of doom is nearly identical its apocalypse now. Quoted: when pictures look alive with movements
free when ships like fishes swim in the sea when men outstripping birds can sore the sky, then half
the world deep trenched in blood shall die. These prophesies came from a woman named Mother
Shipton, said to have lived in Yorkshire, England in the early 1500s. According to her biography, written
in the 1600s, Mother Shipton correctly prophesized the death of Henry the eighth and the defeat of the
Spanish armada Predicted Queen Victoria by name and prophesized the up-evils of WWI and WWII.
The prophases of Mother Shipton first appeared in print in 1641. But when scholars have tried to track
down the original texts, they have come up empty handed. Despite the fame of Mother Shipton, there is
no evidence that she has ever lived at all. Most of the prophesies of Mother Shipton was written by later
people. People would produce small books or verses saying The new prophesies of Mother Shipton
discovered. Much like the National Inquirer. Mother Shipton may have been invented by the London
writer Richard Head, in 1684, whose faltering writing career was saved when he began to publish these
prophesies. Richer Head claimed Mother Shipton accurately predicted the Spanish Armada, the Great
Plague, and the London fire of 1666 because he was writing about these events years after the fact.
Scholars call his technique post-diction instead of pre-diction, whereas pre-diction is statements of the
future and post-diction is previous predictions. But there is a strange twist, even if Richard Head made
up the predictions of Mother Shipton in the 1600s; many of his future predictions eventually came true.
Quoted: In the air men shall be seen, around the world thoughts will fly in the twinkling of an eye.
Women dressed like men in trousers-wear, and women cut off all their locks of hair. Mother Shipton
Did the hoaxer Richard Head somehow tap into some kind of oracular vision himself while writing
prophesies, or was he actually working from a book that has been lost from history?
Were Mother Shipton and Merlin foreseeing the same doomsday of 2012 of the Mayans and the I-
Ching? Some believe that this is echoed in the most famous work of all time: The Bible. From the Mayan
Calendar to the Wizard Merlin to the predictions delivered by the internet, the year 2012 looms as a
prophetic doomsday, but the threat of an apocalypse comes from a more familiar source: The Bible. The
Prophet Jeremiah predicted that Jerusalem would be conquered by Babylon and it was. Jesus
predicted Jerusalem would be destroyed by the Romans and it was. The book of Revelation predicts
apocalyptic warfare in the distant future some argue that its happening now. The author of
Revelations had a vision of doom that has shaken the world to this day: his name was John. The book of
Revelation is filled with terrifying and bizarre images: Flying creatures with screaming hair making the
noise of a thousand horses, self-propelled chariots belching flames. He sees diseases that kill one-
quarter of the earth. John foresees a period of global warfare centered in the Middle East. He sees the
rise of a terrifying demonic world leader called the Anti-Christ. The book of Revelation foresees all this
as simply a prelude to the end of the world. But some biblical scholars question the direct connection
between the Revelation and todays headlines. Many biblical scholars today believe that the book of
Revelation was a coded message, but the code referred to Johns own time. One example can be found
in the ominous number: 666. The books of Revelations call this the mark of the beast. Some have
theorized that 666 is a numerological code for the Anti-Christ a modern demonic world-leader. The
number 666 may actually be a reference to the Greek name to the Emperor Neron. Neron was a
notorious persecutor of Christians and the numerological equivalent of Neron name adds up to exactly
666. Some say that the story has to do with the Roman period and not today, but believers say the
descriptions in Revelations are for today. Armies the size of states, deadly plagues and warfare. If John
was referring to a series of catastrophes for today, he was not alone.
Centuries later, and on the other side of the world, similar oracles would countdown to doomsday. In
the 1890s a Lakota Sioux shaman named Black Elk had a series of apocalyptic dreams. Black Elk had
certain visions in which he seemed to think that his people were going to suffer some kind of defeat. His
visions brought about some kind of movement called the Ghost Dance a ritual that would bring the
Indian nation restored to its glory; instead, the Army misunderstood the dance as an Indian uprising. His
own people were destroyed. Black Elk prophesized that after his people were destroyed, another
apocalypse would eventually affect the entire world.
From the authors of the Bible, to the Native Americans, Oracles predict a looming doomsday in our own
time, centered in the year of 2012. Is it coincidence or prophecy? Will the end of the world be on
December 21
st
, 2012? Around the world, prophesies predict that something dire will happen on that
date. The Hopi tribe is possibly one of the oldest tribe that is in the US The Hopis, since the late 1940s
helped teach the prophecy. The Hopi believe that the world has been created and destroyed four times,
and were about to see it for the fourth time. The signs for the Hopi doomsday: the seas shall begin to
rise, great shakes will shake entire corners of the globe, and the sun itself will turn hotter. The glaciers
melting will surely raise the sea level, causing tsunamis. One surprising prophecy from the Hopi, near
the end of days, the world will be crisscrossed by a device they call a spider web. Could this be a
reference to the Internet that links our world like never before? The internet may be more than a
reference point on the time table of doom. Disturbing prophesies are beginning to emerge from an
Oracle called the Web-Bot project. This program scans the internet for hints about the future and
reports back with prophesies that are as ambiguous as the Oracles from the ancient world and just as
chilling. The web-bot accurately described the attack on the world trade centers, 3 months before it
happened. The web-bot also points to a global catechism in the year 2012. The web-bot suggests a
destructive phenomenon eerily similar to the Mayans planet lineup and catastrophe. Is the high-tech
oracle Web-Bot predicting the same thing as the ancient oracles I-Ching, book of Revelation? Or is it all
just coincidence A meaningless pattern of random events? Throughout history people have had
thoughts of the end is near, but they were wrong. The fact is, we cant foresee the future, but what we
can do is live in optimism for the future.
As the weeks and months tick down to the prophetic date of 2012, we can watch with a mixture of
curiosity and skepticism, and hope the oracles of doom are dead wrong.