All that changed this week.  A discovery in Xultan in Northern Guatemala revealed a new calendar.  Not only does it go another 7000 years into the future, but it also reveals a new longer count cycle than the previous calendar.   So much for the end of the world.  What will the History Channel do for programming for 2013?  Time to come up with some new evidence for Atlantis to keep them on the air.

read more:

http://www.livescience.com/20217-maya-murals-astronomical-calendar.html

http://www.megalithomania.co.uk/

Jim Allen has maintained that Bolivia is the location of Atlantis for years.  He has some intriguing evidence, but few others have endorsed the idea.  I happen to think he is onto something.  I have always maintained that finding Atlantis is more about finding a culture, than finding a single location.  Also, if you know where some things are can be a basis for finding other things.  Puma Punka is perhaps as good a place as any to start the search for Atlantis.  I believe that it may give some clues as to what to look for.

On a recent episode of Ancient Aliens, there is unique look at Puma Punka.  I wish I had been able to go with the group when this episodes was filmed, but for now I’ll settle for the youtube version.

There are many interpretations about what 2012 actually means.  Having talked to John Major Jenkins, who started the whole interest in 2012, I think we’re all in for a surprise.   I do see it as a catalyzing event.  The thought that something is going to happen, is likely to make things happen.   Perhaps this search for meaning around the 2012 date will actually create meaning in the process.  I’m hoping that all this searching will actually make for an even more interesting 2013.   And with any luck, the events of this year will result in some discoveries that might not have happened otherwise.   Perhaps this is the right timeline after-all.

Finding Green Castle is the easy part.  Getting there is it’s own set of challenges.  Access to the site is through a quarry which is on private land.  Assuming there is no blasting going on that day, and you can get permission, it’s about an hour hike over jagged rock and sharp grass.  There’s also the blasting wires that are hidden amongst the rock and grass.  I ended up with more than a few cuts and bruises.  But once you reach the top, it’s worth the trip.

The site would have probably been destroyed long ago by the encroaching quarry if one of the island’s past officials asked to be buried there some years ago.  So along side this grave marker are a series of standing stones in two levels.  The top level has the classic circle and apparent alignment stones.  I was not able to take measurements on my one trip but it was very similar to other stone circles I have seen – with one exception.  If you start looking at the obvious site lines, you will see that landscape has been modified to conform to this stone circle in the center of the island.  Points of alignment on the horizon have been notched into mountains miles away.  Technologically this is not a huge deal, but logistically this would have taken quite a bit of effort.  Next is the question of why do you need to be that precise?  For me the simple answer is reinforces the use of the stone circle if something were to happen.  If a stone became unaligned, by knowing where to look, you could reset things.

So what does this have to do with Atlantis?  That is still up in the air.  This is a unique site in the Caribbean and if Atlantis does have a connection in this part of the world it is worth a look.  My original assumption was that it was a calendar circle but I didn’t have the time measure it.  There’s also the possibility that it is an alignment tool like a map.  Following the alignments may take you to related places.  I hope to look into it more the next time I get back there.

Photo above is linked from 365antigua.com

Thankfully there are people like Jack Churchward keeping the knowledge alive.  If the name sounds familiar it’s because his great grandfather James churchward wrote the definitive work on the subject.  The original books were released in the 20s and 30s at a time when exploration and lost civilizations were front page news.   Jack has taken the original Lost Continent of Mu, updated it for today, and continued with his great grandfather’s work.

I haven’t read the book but I applaud the effort to keep both the knowledge and a family legacy alive and well.  Check out his books and several podcasts at his site.

http://www.my-mu.com

When I first started looking at the data, I started looking for equalator triangular connections.  I ended up with gobs of data that I probably would need a 72 inch monitor to sort out.  There were lots of overlapping shapes and it was difficult to see any real connection.   So I took a different look at straight lines to try and find a pattern.  I still have several hundred to go through, but I did find an interesting connection with two sets.  These two groups of three sites are parallel (each at an angle of 209.66 degrees) and twelve miles apart.  The combination seemed more than chance.

One of the nice things about Google Earth is that you can change your view of what you are looking at.   I started extending a line south from Markville mound and kept going.  877 miles later it comes very close to the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan.   The actual angle of the 4 sites is off by about 5 degrees, but over almost 900 miles it probably is not significant.  Considering there are several different models of the shape of the earth, and I don’t know where the original measurement points might have been, I have to accept some degree of inaccuracy.  That said, I think this represents a significant connection between these two cultures.  I don’t know if there is an Atlantis connection, but part of this search is a process of elimination.  I will hopefully be adding to the pattern as I go through the data that I have.  We’ll see where it goes.

MEGALITHOMANIA comes to the US of A.

Join a motley bunch of Megalithomaniacs at the other Glastonbury, this time in New England. In Collaboration with NEARA and The Earth Spirit Initiative, it promises to open up the debate on the Megalithic Arts & Sciences and leave no stone unturned.

The line-up is shaping up – Confirmed so far::

JOHN MAJOR JENKINS – Author of ‘Maya Cosmogenesis 2012′ & ‘Galactic Alignment’
FREDDY SILVA – Author of ‘Common Wealth’ & ‘Secrets in the Fields’
GLENN & CAMERON BROUGHTON – Crop Circle & Ancient Sites Experts
BETHE HAGENS – Planetary Grids and Ancient Civilizations
BRIEN FOERSTER – Ancient Peru & Bolivia, plus expert on the elongated skulls
ROSS HAMILTON – Author of ‘A Tradition Of Giants’
HUGH NEWMAN – Author of ‘Earth Grids’ & researcher of the Olmecs
GLENN KREISBERG – New England Megaliths & author of “lost Knowledge of the Ancients: A Graham Hancock Reader’
JEFFREY WILSON – US Crop Circle researcher and Expert on the Ohio Serpent Mound

Speakers who have been invited but not yet confirmed:

DAVID HATCHER CHILDRESS (tbc) – Author of ‘Lost Cities’ Series
SEMIR SAM OSMANAGICH (tbc) – Author of ‘Pyramids around the World’ & discoverer of the Bosnian Pyramids
KLAUS DONA – (tbc) ‘Out of place Artifacts’ expert and Researcher on Ancient Mysteries

We’ll be doing two days of tours visiting Balanced Rock in North Salem, NY, Megalithic Chambers in Patterson NY, Gungywamp Complex and numerous other fascinating sites that simply should not be there according to official academia! These will be on the Monday & Tuesday after the conference.

More info coming soon…

http://www.megalithamerica.com/

As it’s name implies, America’s Stonehenge is a stone complex with a central observation point that allows visitors to witness a variety of solar and lunar alignments.  I suspect that at one time, there were hundreds of these things all over the North East U.S.  Having grown up on a farm, we had an abundance of stone walls.  I’m sure some of the early settlers encountered these rocks all over the place and decided to organize them for farming purposes.  As such a lot of these structures were probably recycled back into the landscape.

I don’t know if this site was just lucky or if it had some special significance.  I do hope to do some analysis on the site, but I haven’t gotten that far yet.  Either way it is worth a visit if you are in the area. It is one of the more accessible pre-columbian sites in New England.  http://www.stonehengeusa.com/

As much as I would love to see Atlantis found, there are times that I wish that Plato had never planted the idea in our collective conscious.  Archeological discoveries could be made without the pressure of meeting the expectations of countless generations.

Let’s assume there was no original story to taint the pure search for discovery.  How would we react to circular cities in Bolivia, Mexico, Spain, Africa, and North America?  Wouldn’t people start to wonder if there was a connection?  or maybe that there might be more that still needed finding?  I really should get back to work!