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and the exodus from Egypt. Until recently, historians favoured a date of around 1200 BC for this, but my new Ryrie Study Bible says the favoured date is now 1450 BC!
The main passage down levels off around 1521 AD and then enters a room with an uneven (and difficult to measure precisely) floor at around 1914. This room is the low point of the whole passage system, except for the deep pit in the middle of the floor. The pit begins around 2004 AD, plus or minus three years.
This pit is an irregular shape and so has no measurable details. However, Peter observes that the passages, viewed from lengthways on, look rather like a cartoon of a naked man, wearing a crown, who is crushing something under his heel. That something is the pit.
The passageway exits the room on the other side of the pit, emphasizing that the path leads through it. Peter was able to deduce some meaning from the details of the chamber containing the pit, and from details elsewhere in the passage system. It may just be coincidence, but the Mayan calendar was drawn up in such a way that it ends completely in 2012 and, as we have seen, this is also the year of the third comet in the Bible Code.
We have few surviving relics of the Mayans, but there are many impressive stone constructions in South America, and these suggest that there was some relationship with the Egyptian cultures in ancient times. There are reed boats being used in South America today that look like those of ancient Egypt.
The main details of the Mayan calendar were worked out nearly a hundred years ago. They believed that human history has distinct epochs of about 4,000 years, after which there is a catastrophic event that completely ends all existing civilisations.
According to the Mayans the present era began 13th August 3114 BC and ends on 21st December 2012 AD. An interesting book, containing details of the Mayan system; The Mayan Prophecies by Adrian G. Gilbert and Maurice M. Cotterell.
The start date of our era (13th August 3114 BC according to the Mayans) is similar to the start date for the Egyptian civilisation, according to modern archaeologists.
It is not possible to say how the Maya developed their calendar; they may have acquired it from an earlier civilisation. The calendar was complex and used to calculate astronomical tables of eclipses and other events, but there is no evidence that the Maya had any special theoretical knowledge.
Maurice Cotterell presents a theory in the above-mentioned book, as to the nature of the Mayan forecast. I did not give it much credence originally, but some new scientific research may provide some support for it
Prior to his South American researches, Maurice had been interested in the effects of the Sun's magnetic field on the Earth. The Sun has a complex quadripole magnetic field and it also rotates significantly faster at the equator than at the poles. The material in the Sun behaves as an electrically conducting liquid, constrained by gravity and magnetism but stirred by rotation and convection.
Maurice modelled this mathematically and found that the configuration of the field should vary in a cyclical way with a predictable period. One of the shorter cycles within this was 11.4 years, only a few months longer than the observed 11.1-year sunspot cycle.
Sunspots are like giant twisters that are relatively cooler in the centre. We see a sunspot when it is aligned so that we look down its centre; this peaks every eleven years because they are aligned magnetically. At the sunspot maximum, the fields align the sunspots vertically so they become visible, one pole uppermost on one cycle and the other pole uppermost during the next peak, eleven years later.
This much is known to science from observation, but Maurice claims he can derive it mathematically. The Mayan Prophecies book does not include the
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