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‘This is a really exciting book about the visions and prophecies of the tribal peoples in North and South America. Patricia Mercier has done impeccable research and is also a shaman-seer in her own right. She sifts out the doom and gloom interpretations and reveals a prophetic worldview that is profoundly realistic, insightful and practical. These visions are immediately relevant to our contemporary social and environmental crises, and, if acknowledged and acted on, provide solutions.’

William Bloom, author of The Endorphin Effect and founder of the Foundation for Holistic Spirituality http://www.williambloom.com

‘A powerful journey of the heart and a tale for our times. Patricia journeys as deeply into her self as she does the rainforests and the mysteries of the Mayan people.’

Nicholas Breeze Wood, Sacred Hoop Magazine Sacred Hoop Magazine: www.sacredhoop.org Nicholas Breeze Wood: www.nicholaswood.net

‘The ancient prophecies of the Maya, Hopi, Kogi, Lakota and Inca speak directly to these days and this time!

Weave a new way of life through the hidden depths of this intriguing and enjoyable journey into the sacred teaching of many indigenous cultures. Deepen your perspective and grasp the “Threads of Time” that build a path through the morass of conflicts and dilemmas of your modern life, into a brilliant, light-filled future, guided by compassion and balance. Many layers of teachings are revealed by the multiple facets of the author’s crystal skull.

Timely, powerful and important, the journey of The Maya End Times offers an intriguing vision of Maya teachings, myths and legends, clarifying and illuminating our future.’

LionFire, Master Shaman, and author of Secrets of the Maya Chakra Temples http://thelighthows.com/lionfire/bio_david.htm

‘From now through 2012 we are walking what the Maya call “The Road of Awe” – Xi Balba bih. The unique feminine perspective on the wisdom of the many indigenous sources Patricia has touched in her spiritual journey is very illuminating to our own journeys and can help prepare us to walk the Maya’s Road of Awe with more grace! Reading this book makes one grateful to be alive during this astoundingly transformative time on Earth!

This book is uplifting and inspiring as to how we can participate in the creation of the higher octave of reality that we are both receiving as a new template and synergistically creating during this next few years on Earth. I wholeheartedly recommend this book!’

Ariel Spilsbury, co-author of The Mayan Oracle: Return Path to the Stars and The 13 Moon Oracle: A Journey Through the Archetypal Faces of the Divine Feminine www.holographicgoddess.com

‘An exciting literary gem that embraces the looming and inevitable rapid evolution of human presence on the earth. The great cycle is closing, another is being birthed. Where will you be in 2012? What will be your offerings to the Power that returns to evolve us?’

Chief Sonne Reyna, Yaqui-Carrizo-Coahuilteka Nations, North America – Turtle Island
http://www.lightstreamers.com/Chief_Sonne_Reyna.htm

Patricia Mercier (Alloa), author and artist, is co-director of The Sun & Serpent Maya Mysteries School, a focal point for healing and shamanic training in the UK and Spain. She has studied and travelled widely throughout Central America. In 1995 and 2000 she was initiated at the great pyramid of Ku-kuul-kaan in Chichén Itzá at the invitation of Maya elders, shamans and wisdom teachers.

You can contact Patricia at www.mayasunserpent.com or www.myspace.com/alloapatriciamaya, or email her at mayasunserpent@hotmail.com.

By the same author

Maya Shamans – Travellers in Time

Secretos de los Chamanes Mayas (to be published 2008)

Chakras

The Chakra Bible

Foreword

We now live in extraordinary end times. Prophetic signs and portents are everywhere. In the swirl of confusion and denial, ancient native wisdom shares precious values and insights. Native wisdom is natural wisdom relevant toward divining our present challenges upon the heart of the earth. We now behold modern science and native science converging on undeniable natural truths.

Upon the heart of the earth, the four seasons of nature teach us about our humble, sacred and conscious presence here now. In the heart of heaven, the vast and profound galactic seasons of nature periodically teach us absolute humility and undeniable reverence. We then remember that a greater power of love and compassion rules all of divine creation.

This unique book is Patricia Mercier’s emotional personal sojourn with enchanted native peoples and native wisdom. It recounts her personal journey, seeking and finding some of the wisdom from the heart of the earth and the heart of heaven, that eternal wisdom that claims all humans as native.

We are now inside an emerging galactic season of obvious change. Like the divine snake, the living earth and the living sun are changing their skins. We the humans are their living skin. We are also changing. A wealth of natural wisdom and resources is out there now to help guide us. This exciting book shares some of these insights.

Climatic natural cycles are the beacons of profound reconciliation for the human race. My people, the Yaqui, say there are only two personalities in the human race: Yoeme (our tribal name), those with enchantment and love in their heart; Yori, those with confusion and fear in their heart. Together we hold hands and reclaim enchantment and love in the heart of humankind. And liberate the fear in the heart of humankind. We do so for the children, for they will inherit a better life from us.

So, thoroughly enjoy Patricia (Alloa) Mercier’s global spiritual adventure. And celebrate the cosmic birthing of Homo Spiritus.

Yahete, with enchanted love from my heart,
Chief Sonne Reyna, Yaqui-Carrizo-Coahuilteka Nations,
North America – Turtle Island

Chief Sonne Reyna: hereditary eagle nawal, traditional sun dancer, sun dance society peace chief, ambassador for natural-supernatural worlds, global advisor: reconciliation and healing with nature, Vietnam war veteran, ceremonial singer, artist, film-maker, writer. Books in progress: The Great Awakening and Healing and Blessing the Storms, to be published in 2008.

Chief Reyna can be contacted at tayekonake@hotmail.com.

Preface

The Maya civilization was born in the memory of time. It was born when the Maya people started worshipping our Great Father Sun as part of the universe.

Many prophecies have been told in the Maya culture – as for instance, those of the Brother Tree, the Arrival of White Men in America and the Return of the Maya gods. These days, all human beings have an obligation to understand the Maya prophecies. As humans, we hope all the good prophecies get fulfilled, but at the same time we hope the harmful ones that might hurt our Mother Earth and humankind never get fulfilled.

Humankind is being led toward self-destruction by modern society. Wars in the name of democracy are held to benefit the personal interests of a few people who want to exploit natural resources. The Maya prophecy about our Brother Tree says: ‘When the last tree dies, then the animals that live on and in it will die, too. This will cause an ecological imbalance and, consequently, human beings will also die.’

This is because our Brother Tree provides food to all the animals and plants and to human beings, too. Once we have killed all the trees, there will be no food or other benefits for the animals and human beings. Therefore, our breathless hearts will expire.

The crystal skulls are very important, but modern human beings do not care about them. This modern Western culture has spoiled humankind and led it to a world of ignorance. So the need for people to understand the importance of the crystal skulls has become urgent.

We can get many benefits from the crystal skulls. They can awaken our ancestral memory and our mental and corporeal powers. Many ancient peoples around the world used to worship these crystal skulls, which let them have a more advanced knowledge than any modern society now.

The ancient Mayas were one of these wise peoples. The most perfect crystal skull in the world was found in the Maya temples of Lubaantún, Belize, in Central America by Anna, the daughter of F A Mitchell-Hedges, in 1924. When someone makes a meditation with this skull, it gives off a halo around itself.

How much mystery surrounds the crystal skulls? When all the crystal skulls around the world work together, it will be the right time for the beginning of a new age, which will be an era of wisdom.

This book by Patricia Mercier unveils some of the secrets and responds to some of the questions many initiates and ordinary people usually have. The most important thing in these modern times is to be open-minded in order to understand. This is the only way to acquire cosmic wisdom.

Hunbatz Men
Itzá Maya Tradition

Hunbatz Men: day-keeper, Itzá Maya Tradition. Ceremonial and initiatic journey leader. Author of several books, founder of the world-wide Maya Mysteries Schools and Mayan Ceremonial Centre Lol Be.

Hunbatz Men can be contacted on mayan20@prodigy.net.mx and website www.themayas.com.

Introduction

Amaruka is a very old name given to the western hemisphere by some of its indigenous inhabitants long before Amerigo Vespucci sailed across the Atlantic to its shores. Amaru in Inca means snake or serpent and Ka signifies location or place.

This book is an adventure into dimensions of time – the messages and wisdom of Central American indigenous peoples, who still live close to nature. It poses choices that fundamentally affect you and me. It mentions crystal singing skulls, prophecies, cosmic beings, time and hidden, mysterious cities.

Prophecy has long been associated with the peoples of the Americas, and the crystal skulls are fundamental to the prophecies of the Maya. Mystics and visionaries who have held the crystal skulls have accessed information that can only be explained as coming from other dimensions – the skulls have something to sing about!

Alive and well today are some six million people of pure Maya descent. Add to this the millions of other indigenous peoples living across the Americas – Turtle Island – and we have a rich cultural ‘choir’ of voices, including those of the Cherokee, Seneca, Anishnabe, Inca, Hopi, Kogi, Zuni and Sioux.

As you read this book you will be introduced to knowledge and wisdom from these indigenous peoples. You will hear about their ancient cultures that produced outstanding achievements well before Columbus or indeed even the Chinese ever set foot in the Americas. But the point of this knowledge and wisdom is of no value unless we use it in our lives today. It is a living knowledge coloured with wisdom of the ages and the tears of Mother Earth, recounted for us in the prophecies of the indigenous peoples.

As we listen around their fires of knowledge we shall begin to understand a particular Maya prophecy concerning the date of 21 December 2012. This is the completion point of a 5,125-year calendar count of time called the Long Count. It marks a change from one age or Maya Creation to another. Maya wisdom teachers, along with other indigenous peoples of the Americas, give urgent warnings to humanity concerning the critical times in which we now live, and the possible demise of the human race.

In a search for the truth behind these prophecies and predictions I undertook a quest across the Americas over a period of years. I am fortunate to have studied with Hunbatz Men from the Yucatán, Mexico, a day-keeper of the Itzá Maya Tradition. Hunbatz Men has studied Maya teachings and been instrumental in inviting outsiders to take part in numerous ceremonies. In 1995 he brought many hundreds of people to the Yucatán to ceremonially reopen a number of sacred places in ancient Maya cities.

Subsequently scores of people were initiated as Solar Initiates, remembering their starry origins. In 1996 Hunbatz Men founded the worldwide Maya Mysteries Schools, autonomous groups studying the mysteries of the cosmos, universal truths, Maya teachings and mysteries from their own lands. Thus my husband Mikhail and I started the Sun and Serpent Maya Mysteries School in UK, and now we carry out holistic shamanic training and spiritual healing where we live in Spain.

Hunbatz Men was influential in organizing the fifth annual Gathering of Indigenous Elders and Priests of the Americas in 2003. I attended as an observer and met some of the participants. From these colourful and inspiring people I was inspired to collect prophecies from indigenous Americans and present them as a story from the mouths of the singing crystal skulls.

On my path I gained insights and guidance from invisible beings from whom I believe the prophecies originate. These beings are not attached to any one nation, race, time, place or dimension. Some elders and shamans access subtle dimensions through ceremony, visions and sacred shamanic tools such as the ‘singing skulls’. They have preserved powerful esoteric knowledge throughout the ages by passing it down through family lineages. A Maya saying goes, ‘We are the Lords, the Travellers in Time’.

The Maya peoples carry with them a long history reaching through aeons of time. The present-day Maya are widespread throughout parts of Mexico, (principally the states of Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco and Chiapas) and Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Belize. They speak 30 different languages. Archaeologists say they have an identifiable history spanning 3,000 years. Others say they are adept at tuning in to nature, to the starry cosmos and to the pulse of life – the beat of the indigenous heart, the Web of Life.

The ancient Maya are best known for their achievements between the years 300 and 843 CE, the Classic Period, when they built large and impressive cities containing temples, flat-topped stepped pyramids, observatories, palaces and living quarters. But they long pre-existed that time. Their cities included architecture that enhanced and amplified sound and light, using scientific, mathematical and astronomical knowledge. These cities, today mostly located deep in semi-tropical rain-forests or on dry scrubland, defy present-day logic. How were they able to organize complex building works when they lived in such apparently harsh climatic situations?

Theirs is a living, evolving tradition and many of today’s Maya still live deep in the rainforests or in remote locations, continuing to enact ceremonies to keep them in close contact with nature. Others live in villages or towns, but they nevertheless carry a serene dignity linking with their ancestral heritage, with the halach uinic, Mayan for ‘true people’.

The Maya have a tradition of prophecy, memories of extraterrestrial contact and an unrivalled understanding of time cycles. The ‘true people’ foresaw the Spanish conquest and the horrors that would come with it. Even today the rights of the indigenous of the Americas are still over-shadowed by the doctrine of discovery and a papal bull dating back to 1452 in which Pope Nicholas directed King Alfonso of Portugal to ‘capture, vanquish, and subdue the Saracens, pagans, and other enemies of Christ’, ‘to put them into perpetual slavery’ and ‘to take all their possessions and property’. This papal bull and another dated 1493, directly subjugating the Maya, have never been rescinded despite repeated requests to the Vatican.

Maya calendrical prophets named an important date called One Reed, when an ancestor god was prophesied to return, ‘coming like a butterfly from the east’. In our Western Gregorian calendar, One Reed was Easter Sunday, 21 April 1519. It happened to be the day that Hernándo Cortés and his fleet of 11 Spanish galleons arrived off the coast of what is now Vera Cruz, Mexico. When these ships came towards the shore the Maya people were waiting. The billowing sails of the ships reminded them of butterflies skimming above the ocean – they didn’t use sailing ships themselves.

Their prophecy was fulfilled and Cortés, after fighting his first battle at Tabasco, founded the town of Vera Cruz, marched to Tlaxcala, and made allies of some of the indigenous people. During subsequent incursions into Mexico he was generally not resisted. His small force of soldiers, many on horses, overcame thousands of indigenous inhabitants – not least with fatal diseases. He marched on the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán, in central Mexico, capturing and tricking the king, Montezuma. But the Aztecs rose against him, and Cortés was forced to flee. Later he launched a bloody and successful siege of the capital, defeating the Aztecs. He was formally appointed governor and captain-general of New Spain in 1522 by the Spanish king. In this way the enormous change and ensuing carnage equivalent to an indigenous holocaust, in what Europeans called the New World, was anticipated by a single prophecy.

Often priests or simple individuals received prophecies. Some of them have been recorded, such as in the books of Chilam Balaam and the prophecies of a woman called Xnuc K’in of Mani. There are many prophecies from diverse parts of Turtle Island that confirm we are now living in the ‘end times’. When taken together these indigenous predictions and prophecies have crucial messages of the risk of impending destruction and yet, conversely, many of them contain hopeful, illuminating messages. Destruction is not inevitable.

We may well question the validity of such predictions. However, indigenous peoples who have received such prophecies, predictions and revelations have found themselves in a particular time and place coordinate that enables them to connect into a greater whole. An intuitive part of their mind, a higher consciousness, can ‘read’ signs which come as feelings, visions, voices, words or pictures. These signs are part of a record of all that is, has been and is to come, called the Web of Life – in Western traditions, the Akashic Record. I prefer to call it the WorldWideWeb of Light.

Clearly there is not just one possibility for the future. Maya time-keepers say that lines of time are bundled together into strands that become part of a woven ‘Mat of Time’. It is the task of skilled shamans and recipients of prophecy to pull out a time strand from the mat and interpret it.

There is a formula available to resist what appears to be an awesomely bleak future. Through environmental actions and self-empowerment we may connect into the WorldWideWeb of Light, which continuously streams around, bathing our planet from the centre of the cosmos. The Maya describe this centre as the House of Hunab K’u, the One Giver of Movement and Measure – in our terms, the one God. When we feel our connection into the WorldWideWeb of Light there is the possibility that we can avert even the direst of predictions. For example, the Hopi Prophecies talk of a critical mass of 144,000 people being needed to ‘awaken’ before the nexus point of 21 December 2012.

I contrast the potentially fearful statements implied in some prophecies with positive steps that may be taken to prepare us for coming times, drawn from mythic stories and signs such as those of White Calf Woman, The Returning White Brother and other predictive messages from the Hopi, Sioux and Kogi peoples.

Throughout this book I place the prophecies before you as powerful statements that have influenced generations of indigenous peoples. I ask you to listen to the positive elements in them, deep within yourself. You then become the one to make the necessary life choices. In the deepest part of your soul and spirit, develop a burning desire to understand how you could spin yourself a different thread of life in the years leading up to, and beyond, the critical date of 21 December 2012.

The reason for taking control of your choices becomes apparent as you begin an exploration into the worlds of elders and shamans. As you read the prophecies, be aware that they represent our possible futures. They are not yet written in stone.

The recipients of prophecy have, in the main, opened themselves up through ritual or ceremony to other dimensions that normally are closed. For example, a group of Guatemalan elders received a particular prophecy. They were meditating in a room with raindrops playing musically on the roof when apparently they drew a particular time thread towards themselves. The elders, all at the same time, saw and ‘read’ the prophecy as if they were pictures projected one after another onto a wall. They did not doubt the validity of what they saw, for they came from an ancient culture where such prophetic tidings were commonplace for wise ones and shamans.

This is an important lesson – we too must believe that, even in our modern culture, we can affect the threads of future time. The outcome depends on every one of us making choices from moment to moment, moving gracefully in and out of different states of awareness.

Our minds risk being lulled into a state of inertia by a type of ‘cultural hypnosis’ induced by our Western materialistic worldview. But by exercising our full human potential, its strangling grip will be loosened. The more we release ourselves from this cultural hypnosis, awakening to our soul purpose and taking guardianship of our planet, the more we will come into a harmonic resonance with the true inner spirit of life. When every decision we take enhances life, then our own little lives will become one with the greater life of Spirit.

Patricia Mercier (Alloa)
Andalucia, Spain, 2007

Notes

I have used the modern Western dating system. Thus BCE (before the Common Era) and CE (Common Era) replace the more familiar BC and AD.

As with all prophecies there are confusions and some differences of opinion as to the veracity of future dates. I have chosen to use the 2012 date because its popularity has the advantage of focusing our minds upon the great need for positive change – then our hearts will follow.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CONTENTS

LIST OF PLATES

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Notes

Part One

The Earth’s Lament