Dr. Mike Baillie, a dendrochronologist at the Queen’s University in Belfast, Ireland has made a very interesting discovery. He noticed that ammonium and nitrate peaks in the ice core record, signatures of comet impacts with Earth, occur on or near baktun endings in the Mayan calendar. This discovery suggests that the ancient Maya were aware of a cycle associated with repeated impacts of comets with Earth and that they engineered their calendar to track these cycles.

Mike Baille notes, “Basically about a year ago I was playing around with ice core chemistry and I noticed that two large ammonium/nitrate spikes in the GISP2 ice record coincided remarkably with two baktun end dates in the Mayan calendar. The logic is that ancestral Mayan people in South America saw events in the sky involving incoming cosmic material and noted them as being 1577 years apart. This fact was remembered and was later used to locate the Mayan calendar in time.”

I noted in my book, Mayan Calendar Prophecies, that the long count calendar likely encoded a 5000-year cycle associated with major impact events. But this new evidence suggests such impacts may occur much more frequently and the Maya engineered their calendar as a type of early warning system.

Dr. Baille’s paper is entitled “Why the Maya calendar starts in 3114 BC: a possible explanation.” Read it here:
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My book, “Mayan Calendar Prophecies: Predictions for 2012-2052”, can be found here:
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Gary Daniels
Author, "Mayan Calendar Prophecies: Predictions for 2012-2052"
Creator, LostWorlds.org, TheRealMayanProphecies.com
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