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Ancient calendars forecasting
a deadly countdown.

ED BARNHART: The Maya have
this opinion that what's

happened in the past
will happen again.

NARRATOR: A galactic alignment,

triggering a wave of natural disasters.

MICHAEL DENNIN: It's like
having a whole bunch of massive

earthquakes at the same time.

NARRATOR: Could our planet
really be headed for extinction?

LOGAN HAWKES: These changes
could be life-changing or they

could be life-ending.

NARRATOR: Or is there another
agenda, one even more profound?

PHILIP COPPENS: Each age for the
Mayans was clearly defined.

And it was defined by
the gods returning.

NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world believe we have

been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And if so, might evidence of
alien contact help to unlock the

mystery behind the Mayan
prophecies of doom?

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NARRATOR: Mexico, the
Yucatan Peninsula.

For over 2,000 years,
rain-drenched jungles and

fertile plains served as the
home of one of the ancient

world's greatest civilizations.

The Maya.

Scholars estimate that between
250 and 900 A.D., the Mayan

population consisted of between
15 to 20 million people,

and extended as far south as
Costa Rica and Guatemala.

Archeological evidence suggests
the Maya were one of the first

ancient people to develop a
written language, use modern

mathematical methods, and build
massive, multi-story celestial

observatories.

All at a time when Europeans
were struggling through the

so-called Dark Ages.

SEAN-DAVID MORTON: The Maya
are considered one of the great

advanced civilizations with
hyper-advanced astronomy,

astronomy, trigonometry,
architecture, all of these

things while the Europeans were at
the time rolling around in the mud.

NARRATOR: But perhaps the most
amazing Mayan achievement

was their system of charting the
stars and planets in the form of

a calendar.

HAWKES: The Mayans were timekeepers
above and beyond all other things.

Keeping up with time was magic,
it was power to the Mayans.

MARK VAN STONE: They were
tracking, in particular, Venus,

the phases of the moon,
eclipses, but they also tracked

precession, which is an
extraordinarily long cycle.

What it means is that every year
on, say, March 15, the Pleiades

rise for the first time in the sky.

If you wait 72 years, the day of
the rising of the Pleiades will

be one day earlier.

If you wait another 72 years,
it'll be a day earlier still.

And if you wait 26,000 years,
the Pleiades will move back to

that same day.

NARRATOR: According to scholars,
the Maya believed that

time, like the stars, moved
in repeating patterns called

calendar cycles and that these cycles
could be used to predict future events.

One of these calendar cycles,
the Mayan Long Count, lasts for

5,125 years and will end
on December 21, 2012.

But why?

Why did the Maya choose this date?

And what did they believe
would happen to our world?

Perhaps a clue can be found
in an astronomical phenomenon

located at the center of the
Milky Way Galaxy, an area where

there are no stars.

MORTON: The Mayans knew.

Not only did they know where the
center of the galaxy was, but

they understood that it was a
light-year-across black hole

that they called the Great Rift.

HAWKES: The Maya believed this
was the birth canal of the

universe, and that all things came
from the birth canal of the universe.

And on December 21, 2012, the
Earth, the sun, and this birth

canal, the Dark Rift, are
all in perfect alignment.

And this only happens
every 26,000 years.

NARRATOR: Could the fact that
the Maya Long Count calendar

ends on the same day as this
rare alignment in the Milky Way

Galaxy be a mere coincidence?

And did this advanced
understanding of celestial

cycles really come from ancient
Mayan astronomers observing the

stars with only their naked eyes?

HAWKES: The Mayans believed that
this knowledge came to them

from their gods, and their gods
then existed in the stars.

So, is it possible that these gods
could have been extraterrestrials?

The answer to that question
is yes, it's possible.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
According to the Maya

themselves, this knowledge was

not something that they came up
with, but it was given to them

as a gift from the gods.

The gift back then was
not material stuff.

It was knowledge.

Knowledge is the currency
of the universe.

NARRATOR: But even if the
information pertaining to the

Long Count calendar comes
from an otherworldly or

extraterrestrial source,
why 2012?

What is it about this date that
has a special significance?

Researchers believe a clue may
recently have been found among

the ruins of the ancient
Mayan city of Tortuguero.

One that was pieced together
from broken fragments of a panel

of hieroglyphs known as
Monument Number Six.

BARNHART: In my opinion,
the one and only clear

reference to the date in the
Long Count that arrives in 2012

is on Tortuguero Monument Six.

COPPENS: Basically, the
inscription in Tortuguero

was half destroyed, and
everybody assumed that what it

was saying was that the nine
gods would return on December

21, 2012, but because there
was some destruction on that

inscription, certain
things were implied.

NARRATOR: For years, scholars
dismissed the evidence

found at the Tortuguero monument
as a solitary anomaly without

any special significance.

But on November 24, 2011, the
Mexican National Institute of

Archeology and History revealed to the
world the existence of a

second artifact.

A sun-dried mud brick that was
discovered at the ancient Mayan

city of Comalcalco with an
inscription many believe refers

to an exact date, December 21, 2012.

BARNHART: It's one of
thousands of mud bricks that

we've found at Comalcalco.

A very few of them have
hieroglyphs on them.

One of them has a date inscribed
on it, which is very rare, and

it says Four Ahau, Three Konkin,
which is the calendar round date

that's gonna occur in 2012.

COPPENS: Well, the Comalcalco
brick is important because it is

verification of an
inscription in Tortuguero.

The brick has shown that the
people who thought that it meant

the nine gods were going
to return were right.

NARRATOR: An
extraterrestrial visitation?

One which signals the
end of the world?

For most archeologists and
researchers, the concept is not

just a little far-fetched,
they consider it to be more a

curiosity than a prophecy.

But one feature of the brick
hieroglyph is not so easy to dismiss.

The inscriptions on the brick
were apparently carved on the

inner-facing side,
hidden from view.

HAWKES: Why would they write a
date on a brick and then turn

it around so no one could see
it and put it into the wall?

We can only speculate as to why,
but we believe it's because the

ruling king or the priest
or whoever commissioned the

building site at Comalcalco didn't
want that to be public knowledge.

NARRATOR: Why would the Maya
conspire to keep this date secret?

Was it to avoid global panic?

DAVID CHILDRESS: If there is some
kind of... (loud boom)

doomsday at the end of the
Mayan calendar, it could be a

combination of...
of pole shifts... (rumbling)

of volcanoes and earthquakes...

and super tidal waves
all over the Earth.

It would be a catastrophic
event for the planet.

NARRATOR: Is it really
possible, as ancient astronaut

theorists believe, that the
Maya actually received detailed

astronomical knowledge from
ancient alien visitors?

And could this help explain why
their calendar, which accurately

predicts an extraordinary
galactic alignment, apparently

ends on December 21, 2012?

Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the doomsday

prophecies of other
ancient cultures.

For if the Maya were attempting
to warn us of a future

cataclysm, could there be other
evidence that they were not alone?

NARRATOR: December 21, 2012.

According to some researchers
and scholars, this is the day

when the Mayan calendar suggests
the world will come to an end.

(loud boom)

But there is another equally
curious aspect to the Mayan

calendar...not when it ends,
but when it begins:

More than 3,000 years before the
Mayan civilization even existed.

BARNHART: The origin of the
Long Count Calendar... why they

created day one to be August 13,
3114 BC, is still a mystery.

It's obviously back-dated.

There were no Maya back then, so
why did they backward project

3,000 years into the past?

Based on the things we have
learned about the Maya, it

should be something astronomical.

HUGH NEWMAN: One of the ideas
about why they back-dated it to

3114 BC is because some kind
of cataclysm happened then.

Recent research has discovered
an asteroid or multiple

asteroids did hit an area
around Austria in Europe.

(loud booming)

And that could have caused a
blackout of the sky for several

years, and this is, then,
when the calendar began.

MORTON: Scientists at Harvard
and Princeton have said that

this massive global worldwide catastrophe...
a mass glaciation

of the planet, occurred when this
age of the Mayan calendar begins.

This happened not within tens of
thousands of years or hundreds

of years, but within weeks,
within days, literally.

This took everyone by surprise.

CHILDRESS: According to the
Mayans, we are coming to the end

of the fifth age.

There have been four
catastrophes before us.

Each one ended up with a
destruction of the Earth.

And now we are just coming to
the end of the fifth age of the

Mayans, which will end
now in December of 2012.

According to the Mayan
predictions, this will also end

in a giant catastrophe.

(loud booming)

BARNHART: The Western view
of time is very linear.

When we think about... life...

we see it as this linear projection
heading out into the future.

For the Maya, they viewed
life very cyclically.

NARRATOR: Is it possible the
Mayan calendar ends on December

21, 2012 because they expected
that the fifth age of man will

end much in the same
way as it began?

Were they privy to some ancient
knowledge that has been lost in time?

And if so, can proof be found
by examining similar doomsday

predictions from other
ancient cultures?

MORTON: Egyptian time-coding in
the Great Pyramid of Giza is

telling us that there will
be a series of water-based

catastrophes between late 2004
through about 2006, and look

what happened.

We have the Asian tsunami, which
kills about 250,000 people.

We have Hurricane Katrina.

(thunder crashes)

And then there's actually this
trough called the "River of

Fire" which is warning us of
some massive cosmic event, maybe

a solar flare or what have you, that
then washes humanity back

into this pit.

NARRATOR: In addition to the
eerie similarity between the

Mayan and Egyptian prophecies,

researchers have also noticed
a connection in the doomsday

predictions of the Hopi Indians
of the American Southwest.

YOUNG: The Hopi people of the
Native American nations believe

that we are in the fifth age of
man and that this is an age of

purification and that it
is near the end time.

MORTON: The Hopi believe that
unless all the people of the

Earth can come down and live
more in harmony with themselves

and with the planet, that
there's going to be a great

destruction coming.

(rumbling)

NARRATOR: In India, the
ancient Buddhist and Hindu

astronomical manuscript, Surya...
Siddhanta, predicts that

mankind will soon reach the end of
the Kali Yuga, the final age of man.

YOUNG: The male divinity, Kali,
that is referred to in the

End of Days of the Mahabharata,
refers to a time of great chaos

and discord, and, depending on
how you read the dating in the

script, we are well into it.

NARRATOR: Even the Christian
Bible predicts, in great detail,

a horrific, fiery apocalypse.

YOUNG: The Christian writers
on the end of time focus on

certain things: that the Jewish
people return to the Holy Land

and reclaim it, which happened
some years ago; that the nation

thereby established would
finally claim Jerusalem, which

has happened some years ago;

That there would be a great
expansion of the territory until

it was a very large nation.

Finally, it is the claiming of
the temple, which is on Temple

Mount, which is holy in Islam.

But it must be taken and restored
to its original condition.

It is that place that the
Messiah will actually come to

rule the Earth before the End of Days.

COPPENS: The idea that we are
living in end times, not

necessarily the end of the world

but the end of a world,
is quite global.

NARRATOR: While most ancient
doomsday prophecies only broadly

suggest the timing of the
so-called End of Days...

the Maya prediction boldly
points to an exact date.

Their Long Count Calendar comes
to a decisive end on Friday,

December 21, 2012, a date that
many scientists and astronomers

agree will coincide with an
extremely rare alignment of

celestial bodies in
the Milky Way Galaxy.

But how could the Mayan
calendar be so accurate?

BARNHART: It is a true thing to
say about the Maya that they

created the most elaborate calendar
system of any culture in the world.

They had a solar calendar, but
before that, they had the

sacred calendar.

When you look at the ratio
between those two, you get

365.2422 days for an actual year.

The atomic clock says that it's
365.2420, but they admit that

at the fourth decimal point,
they could be plus or minus

five wrong.

So we're not sure
who's more accurate.

Is it the Maya, or is
it the atomic clock?

NEWMAN: The sophisticated way
the Maya track time is...

is incredible, even
by today's standards.

It's almost like they had
sophisticated computer technologies

or programs that could
somehow run it.

And even today, we're just
catching up and trying to

understand how they managed to
do such an amazing job way back

in prehistory.

NARRATOR: The third Maya
calendar, known as the Long

Count, measured time in cycles
of 394 years or 144,000 days.

GERARDO ALDANA: The Long
Count is really just like an

odometer in your car.

It just ticks off days.

It counts one, two, three, all
the way up to 144,000, which we

call bak'tuns.

NARRATOR: The Maya Long Count
calendar also measured time in a

series of 13 bak'tun cycles,
totaling 5,125 years.

According to scholars, the dates
stretch from August 11, 3114 BC

to December 21, 2012.

And there, inexplicably, it stops.

Why were the Maya tracking
celestial events in cycles of

over thousands of years?

Was it simply, as some scholars
suggest, because they could?

Or did they, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,

create the calendar as a way of
marking time until the return of

otherworldly visitors,

beings that were believed
by them to be gods?

COPPENS: Some calendar systems
from the Mayans, today,

science has no idea about what
they are based on, but we just

know that they exist
for a specific reason.

So it is clear that they were
given to them by an intelligence

who knew what these calendar
rounds represented.

And so, what we are seeing is
that the Mayans are working with

tools, technology, calendar
systems, which were specifically

engineered because they had
been told that when certain

things in the skies looked a
certain way, then the gods

would return.

GEORGE NOORY: The Mayans were
incredible at what they did.

The big question is: how
did they know this?

You have to say to yourself,
perhaps civilizations might be

much older than we think and
they passed down knowledge

for hundreds and hundreds of
thousands of years, or somebody

came down and taught them.

NARRATOR: Did the Maya create
the Long Count Calendar to warn

us of a deadly cataclysm?

Or were they simply intending to
inform us of the day which will

signal the return of their gods?

But who... or what...
were these gods?

And what is their agenda?

According to ancient astronaut
theorists, the answer can be

found in the stars.

NARRATOR: Tikal.

Northern Guatemala.

Located within the dense
tropical jungles of Central

America, this archaeological
site was once one of the great

urban centers of the
Mayan civilization.

Here, along the Grand Plaza, the
Maya built seven pyramid-shaped

temples aligned to mimic the
constellation Pleiades.

HAWKES: They called it the
Seven Sisters because it

consisted of seven bright stars.

They also believed that the
Pleiades was at the center of

all fixed stars, so when they
looked at the Pleiades, they

believed that that may have been
the center of all creation, and

they believed that they came
from the center of that

creation, or, simply put,
they came from Pleiades.

CHILDRESS: Why would the
Mayans go through such a

tremendous effort to recreate a mirror
image of the stars on the ground?

Why would they do that unless
they wanted to contact the

extraterrestrial gods who had
originally given them the information?

HAWKES: Pleiades was not
only important to the Maya;

It was also important
to Native Americans.

The Cherokee, for example,
the Hopi, believe that they

descended from star beings that came
from the Pleiades star cluster.

NARRATOR: According to
scholars, the Maya believed

that powerful gods descended to
Earth from the stars, including

a feathered serpent
known as Kukulkan.

CHILDRESS: According to Mayan
legend, Kukulkan was the winged

serpent, some serpent
god who could fly.

COPPENS: Kukulkan, by the Maya,
is depicted in a number of ways.

Sometimes he is human.

Sometimes he is a serpent.

Sometimes we see him emanating
from a serpent's head.

We know that there is no way
that a human being can emerge

from a physical serpent, so the
serpent must stand for something

else... either a
construction or a device.

Now, because we know Kukulkan is
a deity, we also definitely need

to consider that this device
is somehow a ship and Kukulkan

emerges from within the confines
of the ship to the outside world

and reveals himself as
a deity to the people.

HAWKES: Kukulkan was the
creator of all life who led the

Maya into an age of scientific
advancement, and advancement

of art and architecture.

According to ancient Maya
mythology, Kukulkan left the

people and said he would return
one day, and many scholars

believe that the ending of the
Maya calendar, on December 21

this year, will mark the
return of Kukulkan.

NARRATOR: 400 miles north of
Tikal, in the ancient Maya city

of Chichen Itza, stands a
uniquely designed pyramid, built

by the Maya to honor Kukulkan.

TSOUKALOS: Unlike most of the
pyramids all around the world,

the platform pyramid we can find
at Chichen Itza is not directed

in a north-south or east-west

direction, but it's a little bit off.

There is a specific reason for
that, and that is, during the

spring and fall equinox, a
shadow play is cast upon the

side of the pyramid signifying
the descent of Kukulkan, the

extraterrestrial descending from
the sky, staying a while on

Earth, and then ascending
towards the heavens.

What we have here is an
example of living mythology.

So my question is: what did
they mean when they talked

about this deity that
descended from the sky?

NARRATOR: Why was it so
important to the Maya to build

such an elaborate temple
to honor Kukulkan?

Did they really expect this
serpent god to ascend to the

heavens and then
descend to Earth?

Or could Kukulkan be something
even more incredible?

Something not of this world?

TSOUKALOS: If you look up in
the air today, and you watch

a plane, it leaves behind this
plume of smoke as it travels

across the sky and you've got the
snake's tail wiggling at its backside.

So if you look at it from
that perspective, that can be

described as a flying snake.

And in my opinion, that was
nothing else but a description

of some type of an
extraterrestrial craft that

descended from the sky out of
which the gods, lower case "g,"

emerged and taught them
in various disciplines.

VON DANIKEN:
The message is clear.

God Kukulkan descended
to the humans.

He was a certain time
among the humans.

He was the teacher of the humans
and then he disappeared again,

but with the promise to
return one day to the humans.

NARRATOR: Is it really
possible, as some ancient

astronaut theorists suggest,
that Kukulkan was, in fact,

a flying spacecraft,
engineered and piloted by

otherworldly visitors?

And, if so, could this explain
the frequent depictions of this

ancient Mayan god as having
a face appearing out of a

serpent's head, similar to that
of a pilot operating a vehicle?

According to researchers, clues
to the connection between the

Maya and otherworldly beings
can also be found in the Mayan

manuscript known as the Popul Vuh,

meaning "The Book of the People."

It is a collection of the only

known Maya oral histories
still surviving.

Translated and written in the
mid-16th century, this book

encompasses a range of subjects,
including Mayan creation myths.

ED BARNHART: The Popul
Vuh begins with nothing.

There's nothing there.

There's a watery surface,
but there's no sky.

There's no land.

The gods emerge out of this water.

They begin with nothing.

And the gods decide to make people.

Coming right out of one of the
most seemingly inhospitable

places for civilization to
sprout, comes this culture,

the Maya, who create this
collection of independent

city states and build pyramids.

They develop a written language
and a mathematical system.

They grow up into this forest
there, reaching populations into

the multimillions.

TSOUKALOS: In the Popol Vuh, it
clearly states that life was

brought here by the gods and

that those gods came
from outer space.

It doesn't say that they
came from inner Earth.

It also doesn't say that they
came from another continent or

another land.

But it states specifically that
they descended from the sky

and essentially brought
knowledge to planet Earth.

PHILIP COPPENS: What you have
in the Popol Vuh is very much

like a manual.

It is something that you want to
give to the people and say, this

is what we, our ancestors, have
decided together with the gods,

and this is really what you
should keep in mind for the next

few centuries up until the moment
in time when the gods return.

NARRATOR: Is it really possible...

as ancient astronaut
theorists believe...

that the Maya god Kukulkan was
an extraterrestrial entity?

One that is destined to return
one day from the stars?

And, if so, does it suggest that
there may be truth to another

Mayan legend, one that predicts
that our time on Earth may be

running out?

NARRATOR:
Monument Number Six.

On this stone tablet,
are carved a series of

ancient Mayan hieroglyphs,

that according to scholars
ominously predict a cataclysmic

event on December 21, 2012.

BARNHART: This is a long
monument that talks about the

lifetime of a particular king.

But at the end of it, it goes
forward into the future, takes

this big leap from the
600s AD up to 2012.

It definitely says Four Ahau,
Eight Konkin arriving the 13th

bak'tun or 400-year period.

But then there are only three
more glyphs and they are eroded

and broken partially.

NARRATOR: Some scholars believe
that the eroded glyphs

on Monument Six suggest Bolon Yokte...
a god similar to

Kukulkan... will return at the
end of the Mayan calendar.

VON DANIKEN: The Mayan
specialists can read it

"will descend from heaven
god Bolon Yokte."

Bolon Yokte was one of the Maya
gods who was present with the

creation of man.

So they say, "Will descend,
god Bolon Yokte."

So some gods, some extraterrestrials,
were expected to return.

And definitely, some of
the gods will return.

There is absolutely no doubt.

TSOUKALOS: Who was
this Bolon Yokte?

According to the documents that
have survived, and they're only

fragmentary, he was always
described as someone with great

powers, who had the capacity of
flight and who had incredible

knowledge about the universe.

BARNHART: The God Bolon Yokte is
not a very well understood god.

Sometimes he's associated with
texts that talk about the

beginning of creation
back in 3114 BC.

And we see him in some context

that seemed to be connected with war.

TSOUKALOS: Bolon Yokte was
also described as being very

tall and very shiny, glowing.

Is it possible that what we have here
is a description of an ancient alien?

And the answer is yes.

NARRATOR: But while there is
much mystery surrounding the

legend of Bolon Yokte,
researchers say the ancient

Maya believed this entity
had visited their ancestors

before thousands of years in the past.

TSOUKALOS: There is another
reference to Bolon Yokte

at Palenque in Temple 14, where
it is clearly stated that

Bolon Yokte appeared on Earth
over 900,000 years ago.

Why would anyone in their right
mind record a date that goes

back over 900,000 years ago?

Well, something happened.

Something very significant.

And according to the ancient
texts, that is when Bolon Yokte

descended to Earth from the sky.

NARRATOR: Similar stories
suggesting that the Maya were,

in some way, connected to
otherworldly beings can be

found in an ancient Maya text
known as the Chilam Balam...

a collection of oral histories
passed down through the ages.

VON DANIKEN: The Chilam Balam
books were written between

the 16th and the 18th centuries,

when the Spanish conquerors
were already there.

First, the Spanish arrived.

They found hundreds of Maya writings.

They destroyed them all.

But then some of the priests
escaped and they start to write

up their old knowledge.

That's the reason how the Chilam
Balam books came to existence.

BARNHART: The name Chilam Balam
is actually the name for

a priesthood who were kind of
the historians of communities

in the Yucatan.

But we have this collection of books
that we call the Chilam Balams.

These are the books in which we
find this information about how

the Maya believe that what's
happened before will happen again.

In the opinion of the people
that write the Chilam Balams,

they believe them to be very accurate.

The Chilam Balam talks about
these 20-year periods.

"In this 20-year period, you"

could see it was a bad time for us.

We can expect negative
things "to befall us."

And of course, one of the most
negative and bad-luck times they

have is the arrival of the Spanish.

And they point to that as, "See?

Clearly in the cycles of time,
we could almost predict that

this calamity was bound to
"happen to us at this time."

NARRATOR: In the Chilam Bilam
it states that the god Bolon

Yokte will someday return and
battle the deities of heaven in

an epic war of good versus evil.

COPPENS: Each age for the
Mayans was clearly defined, and

it was defined by the gods returning.

And so what we have today, or in
the near future, is the imminent

arrival according to the Mayan
tradition of these deities.

NARRATOR: This prediction of
a final apocalyptic battle

between good and evil as
described in the Chilam Bilam,

can also be found in the Christian
Bible's book of Revelation.

MORTON: It is interesting
that if you look at the last

book of the Bible, it talks
about some great war in heaven

between the Archangel Michael
and the great dragon.

Is there some last great war
in heaven that occurs at

this final age?

NARRATOR: If the Maya
prophecy about the return of

Bolon Yokte is true, might there
really be a so-called battle

between good and evil?

One that will result in the
annihilation of all mankind?

But how?

NARRATOR: Planet Earth.

Although there are many theories
about its age and origin, one

fact is certain: our planet
is billions of years old.

And mankind's existence on its
surface is relatively recent...

and fragile.

Throughout history, the
biggest threat to mankind has

come in the form of natural disasters.

But does that mean the world
will end on December 21, 2012?

Recent evidence has shown that
the ancient Mayans possessed

knowledge about the universe
and its fate that we are only

just beginning to understand.

CHILDRESS: According to the
Mayans, the world has already

ended four times before
this coming cataclysm.

It ended before in, in fire
and in ice and in water.

This next cataclysm could be
a combination of all that or

even something
completely different.

MORTON: Not only did the
Mayans know our place in the

universe, but they also knew
how old the universe was.

The Mayans put the date of the
universe at 16.4 billion years.

Modern science today puts it at
about 14 and a half, maybe 15.

And yet the better our
technology gets the more we

begin to realize that the
Mayans were correct.

NARRATOR: Is it possible then,
as the Mayans predicted,

that the Earth and sun will
align with a black hole on

December 21, 2012?

And if so, will such a cosmic event
have dire consequences

for our world?

MORTON: The Tibetans believe
that the sun is a lens...

that it activates and amplifies
things behind it or things

coming in front of it.

If that's the case, on December
21, you have an energy that's

coming from the center of
the galaxy that comes from

the dark rift that comes
comes from the womb of the

galaxy, if you will, that is now
gonna be amplified by the sun,

that is going to have some
kind of effect on humanity.

NOORY: I think the Mayans
had an understanding of

celestial mechanics.

They understood that the sun
was going through change.

And so my belief is that something
will happen with the sun.

HAWKES: Well, we know from
past experience that solar

flares can interfere with
electronic equipment.

We could see the power
grid go down, for example.

We could see major things
change in modern society that

pretty much would cripple us.

But if we're talking about
losing that ability for an

extended period of time, I
daresay we'd be talking about a

scenario that would result
in major changes, and quite

possibly some very ill effects.

NARRATOR: Some researchers
speculate that the galactic

alignment might change or even
reverse how the Earth spins on

its axis by altering
its magnetic field.

MICHAEL DENNIN: A sign of the
magnetic field changing quickly

would mean something has to
happen dramatically to the

angular momentum of the stuff
inside the Earth, which might

also mean something happens
drastically to the spin of the

Earth itself.

And once you change the rotation
of the Earth, you do have a

chance of causing huge effects.

It's like having a whole bunch

of massive earthquakes at the same time.

HAWKES: We talk about a
magnitude seven or a magnitude

eight or a magnitude nine
earthquake as being destructive

beyond imagination.

But what would a magnitude 12 or
a magnitude 20 earthquake do?

Could it replace the land with the
sea and the sea with the land?

We're talking about events that
we've never experienced before.

So some of these changes that
people are talking about that

could occur could be life
changing or they could be

life-ending.

NARRATOR: Will the Earth
really be affected by some

strange, powerful
astronomical alignment?

One that will have profound
consequences for all of us?

And if so, might those
consequences come in the form of

death and destruction?

Or might there be another,
perhaps more positive outcome?

CHILDRESS: The end of the Mayan
Long Count could mean some

doomsday for planet Earth.

Or on the other hand, perhaps
it is the return of the

extraterrestrial gods
as the Mayans believed.

It's hard to know the future,
what's gonna happen at

the end of 2012.

But it seems that perhaps the
Mayans had some glimpse into the

future that we have yet to find out.

COPPENS: We are living in a
time, specifically a culture,

which really doesn't address the
ancient alien theory that we

are not alone.

It is indeed gonna come for a
global village as a complete

revelation that we are not alone.

And that is really, I think, a
gift from the Mayans when it

comes to 2012.

TSOUKALOS: It is absolutely
correct that a calendar round

is about to end, but that does not
signify the end of the world.

In fact, the only thing it
signifies is the beginning of

another calendar round of
another period in time.

NARRATOR: Could the Mayan doomsday
prophesies really come true?

Will December 21, 2012 signal
the end of civilization

as we know it?

Or are the dire predictions
nothing more than a myth?

A misinterpretation of
an even greater truth?

Perhaps what awaits us is
not the end of our world,

but a new beginning.

One that will reveal the
celestial origins of man.

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