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In keeping with the season here are some recent faves that feature the color white in one way or another. Hope you enjoy!
So apparently 12/21/2012 is off to a good start so far. I've just had my first cup of tea and am looking forward to a nice and boring day of software testing. It's sunny and cold and there's absolutely no sign of any kind of apocalypse, which means I will have to tackle my taxes for this year after all - dang it!
It's also the solstice and Yule, and therefore the day I personally pay most attention to over the holidays, so it's a good time to look back and thank all of my friends and customers for the commissions and art trades for this year. Quite a few of my pieces found good homes to go to in the past 12 months!
Thank you everyone for trading with me or commissioning me!
Wishing you all Happy Holidays and a successful New Year!
* If you ask me to make artwork available as a print, please check if it uses copyrighted material. DA will not take print submissions that are based on such materials. This means, no prints of drawings based on movies or TV shows like the Harry Potter Movies, Brokeback Mountain, CSI etc. If you want a drawing as a print please note me instead.
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According to the Popol Vuh, a book compiling details of creation accounts known to the K'iche' Maya of the Colonial-era highlands, we are living in the fourth world. The Popol Vuh describes the first three creations that the gods failed in making and the creation of the successful fourth world where men were placed. In the Maya Long Count, the previous creation ended at the start of a 14th b'ak'tun.
The previous creation ended on a long count of 12.19.19.17.19. Another 12.19.19.17.19 occurred on December 20, 2012 (Gregorian Calendar), followed by the start of the 14th b'ak'tun, 13.0.0.0.0, on December 21 (December 8, Julian), 2012. There are only two references to the current creation's 13th b'ak'tun in the fragmentary Mayan corpus: Tortuguero Monument 6, part of a ruler's inscription and the recently discovered La Corona Hieroglyphic Stairway 2, Block V.
Maya inscriptions occasionally reference future predicted events or commemorations that would occur on dates that lie beyond 2012 (that is, beyond the completion of the 13th b'ak'tun of the current era). Most of these are in the form of "distance dates" where some Long Count date is given, together with a Distance Number that is to be added to the Long Count date to arrive at this future date.
For example, on the west panel at the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, a section of the text projects into the future to the 80th Calendar Round (CR) 'anniversary' of the famous Palenque ruler K'inich Janaab' Pakal's accession to the throne (Pakal's accession occurred on a Calendar Round date 5 Lamat 1 Mol, at Long Count 9.9.2.4.8 equivalent to 27 July 615 CE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar). It does this by commencing with Pakal's birthdate 9.8.9.13.0 8 Ajaw 13 Pop (24 March 603 CE Gregorian) and adding to it the Distance Number 10.11.10.5.8. This calculation arrives at the 80th Calendar Round since his accession, a day that also has a CR date of 5 Lamat 1 Mol, but which lies over 4,000 years in the future from Pakal's time—the day 21 October in the year 4772. The inscription notes that this day would fall eight days after the completion of the 1st piktun [since the creation or zero date of the Long Count system], where the piktun is the next-highest order above the b'ak'tun in the Long Count. If the completion date of that piktun—13 October 4772—were to be written out in Long Count notation, it could be represented as 1.0.0.0.0.0. The 80th CR anniversary date, eight days later, would be 1.0.0.0.0.8 5 Lamat 1 Mol.
Despite the publicity generated by the 2012 date, Susan Milbrath, curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, stated that "We have no record or knowledge that [the Maya] would think the world would come to an end" in 2012. "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, Florida. To render December 21, 2012, as a doomsday event or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in." "There will be another cycle," says E. Wyllys Andrews V, director of the Tulane University Middle American Research Institute (MARI). "We know the Maya thought there was one before this, and that implies they were comfortable with the idea of another one after this."
Maybe some humans just need the thrill of impending catastrophe to give some meaning to otherwise dull lives - oh and to have an excuse to buy distilled water and duct tape, lotsa duct tape! For that any date or excuse will serve. I am sure we'll soon have a new end of the world to look forward to, whether it's based on Nostradamus or the passing of an obscure comet...
LOL Who knows anymore. XD I'm still snickering over that one doomsday thing that one Church was trying to push onto every one some months ago. **chuckles and shakes head** Some people just never learn. But then that's nothing new. As for a reason to buy duct tape and stock up on supplies, I have three perfectly logical and scientifically valid ones for ya: winter storms, river flooding, and power outages. XD Happens every bloody year and people still don't get it, nor do they bother preparing for it in advance. People are really stupid sometimes...