With the Y2K non-event well behind us, there are many these days that have effectively zeroed-in on yet another upcoming date as the focus of their fear and fascination - December 21, 2012. In case you are a part of the minority who are unfamiliar with that date, it marks the end of the 13th B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the ancient Mayan calendar and, more ominously, it is the date on which the calendar itself abruptly ends. Coupled with the facts that the Mayans exhibited knowledge of astronomy and mathematics far beyond that which we had previously believed them capable and that some interpreters claim to have deciphered accurate predictions of future events described within the calendar, many believe this abrupt ending is itself a foretelling - that December 21, 2012 is the date of the Apocalypse.
One can only wonder why it is that throughout history mankind has repeatedly chosen this date or that as the coming end, only to see those dates come and go uneventfully time after time. That is a question best left to others more qualified than I to examine the psychology of the phenomenon. Instead, it is my intention through this series of articles to examine a few of the more prevalent and widely-espoused theories of just what it is people expect to happen in 2012.
Perhaps the most widely-known and yet also the strangest theory is the belief in the upcoming return to our solar system of a large planet or perhaps a very small star commonly referred to as Planet X.
Planet X is supposedly in an elongated, elliptical orbit in the earth's own solar system; this is the theory proposed by author Zecharia Sitchin. It is his belief that the human race was visited by a group of aliens in ancient times. He claims to have discovered this through affecting his own re-translations of ancient Sumerian texts, but these claims are universally derided by established professional scientists, historians, and archaeologists.
Sitchin proposed that the Asteroid Belt, our moon, and in fact Earth itself was formed as a result of a catastrophic collision of Nibiru (which, by many accounts, supposedly orbits Planet X as a moon) and a thriving world that once existed between Mars and Jupiter called Tiamat sometime between 65 million and 4 billion years ago. Likewise, he asserts that the body we know as Pluto began its existence as a moon of Saturn known as Gaga before being flung out to its current location by the gravitational disruptions caused by all this. Further, the author attributes the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the "Annunaki" (or "Nephilim"), a race of aliens who live on Nibiru.
The bones of the theory is that it is the impending approach of these celestial bodies that is the culprit behind all the weirdness we're seeing in the solar system recently, and that as they get closer things will get even worse before climaxing in some terrible calamity around 2012.
But, like most other outlandish theories, the more independent research you do the less likely they seem. First off, the information I described above is actually a melding of two separate claims by two separate individuals that occurred over time via websites and internet bulletin boards.
Zecharia Sitchin is responsible for the creation of Nibiru, but it was years later that the concept of Planet X was presented. Planet X was "invented" by a woman named Nancy Leider who is a self-proclaimed "contactee" who says she channels messages from extra-terrestrials called Zetas via an implant in her brain. She claims she was chosen to deliver a warning to mankind that Planet X would sweep through the solar system in May 2003, resulting in a magnetic pole shift that would cause great destruction. Her vehicle to deliver this message was through her website ZetaTalk that she started in the mid-1990s (source). And then, as I said, the two theories were nitpicked and melded together by the internet community to form this hybrid amalgamation of amateur doomsday drivel. In fact, Sitchin himself vehemently disagreed with Lieder's claims of impending global cataclysm.
In my opinion, Nancy Leider is at best an odd duck and not someone I would personally put any faith in; and, at worst, she may very well be suffering from some form of paranoid schizophrenia complete with delusions of persecution and voices in her head. Her explanation, by the way, for why the end did not come in 2003? The aliens deliberately gave her a false date in order to confuse the "elites." She then claimed they would give her more information after the 2008 election but quickly backtracked on that as well.
What a nut bag!
So, if you've been sitting up on the internet at night worrying about the approach of the dreaded Planet X or Nibiru or whatever it's called, take a deep breath and let the crazy out. They do not exist.
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