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  4th millennium BC - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
3000 BC – Menes unifies Upper and Lower Egypt, and a new capital is erected at Memphis.
The Maya calendar dates the Creation of the Earth to August 11 or August 13, 3114 BC (establishing that date as day zero of the Long Count 13.0.0.0.0).
According to Hindu mythology, the Epoch of the Kali Yuga occurred at midnight (00:00) on 18 February 3102 BC, the traditional death of Krishna.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/4th_millennium_BC   (758 words)

  
 Mayan Prophecies on MAAR
This is early Stone Age and the ice age.
This is still Stone Age man. Fire from the sky (meteorites) and lava (volcanoes) destroyed the Earth.
This Sun was destroyed by torrential rain and flood.
www.maar.us /mayan.html   (554 words)

  
 World History Timeline
485 BC Protagoras of Abdera (485-415) is born.
October 1, 331 BC Alexander's 35,000 troops fight Darius's 200,000 in the battle of Gaugamela.
Summer 326 BC At the Hyphasis river, Alexander's army refuses to march further into India and he is forced to turn back.
www.fincher.org /History/WorldBC.shtml   (1712 words)

  
 Saturnian Cosmology - Mechanics
Thus the planets loosened from Saturn in 3114 BC would have orbits which closed in on the Sun at perihelion, but at aphelion were at the distance from the Sun where Saturn and Jupiter met in 3114 BC.
In 3114 BC there were three or four large planets in a virtual conjunction at a location from the Sun which I would estimate to be about 1.5 AU.
The gravitational interaction in 3114 BC must have slowed the whole group, as there is no other reason for their relocation to the outer limits of the Solar System.
saturniancosmology.org /mech.php   (10663 words)

  
 Saturnian Cosmology - Gilgamesh
The multiplicity of Gods of later Egyptian history is the result of the dispersal after 3114 BC of the clutch of the original Gods which had all been located in the home in the northern sky and a very early religious democracy in Egypt adopted for practical political purposes.
The year 3114 BC marks 'The Flood,' to be written about 800 years later in the "Epic of Gilgamesh." It is the flood which generates stories all over the world of survivors in arks or boats or canoes.
The universal lack of an elite before 3100 BC is an outstanding and inexplicable difference between the culture before and after the flood of 3114 BC.
saturniancosmology.org /gil.php   (21149 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
3102 BC – Astrological evidence places this date to be the death of Krishna at the age of 125.
Enoch, son of Jared, (3138 BC - 2873 BC) according to the Hebrew Calendar.
August 13, 3114 BC — Starting date of current Long Count in the Maya calendar.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=3114_BC   (174 words)

  
 Astronomy, History of - MSN Encarta
Some of the stones are aligned with the directions in which the Sun rises and sets at critical times of the year, such as when it reaches its most northerly and southerly points in the sky (the summer and winter solstices).
It was only in 1838 that astronomers’ equipment could make measurements with the accuracy required to measure the very small shift of the stars, which turn out to be much, much farther away than the Greeks could imagine.
Perhaps the greatest of the ancient astronomers was Hipparchus, who lived around 150 bc and did most of his work at an observatory he built in Rhodes.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572208/Astronomy_History_of.html   (1914 words)

  
 Mayan Prophecy
According to Mayan chronology, the present age started on 12 August 3114 BC and is to end on 22 December 2012.
Around 3,000 BC humanity enters the Bronze Age, the sun-dail is invented, the wheel and plow make their debut.
In Sumeria 3,000 BC was not the end of time, but the beginning of history thanks to the invention of the Sumerian alphabet.
www.texfiles.com /ERAFeb02/mayanprophecy.htm   (1814 words)

  
 What happened in 3114BC? The turning-point in human history about 3100 BC: The Beginning of the First Great ...
2200 BC and 2345 BC there are other events during the Holocene that are so widely global and difficult to explain by only the Earth's own mechanisms that a cosmic explanation must evidently be taken into account.
Aftermath of this may be the 2807 BC ocean impact described by Bruce Masse in Peiser et al.: Natural Catastrophes (Oxford, 1998).
What the sudden change indicates is a mystery, but a rise by 15 degrees C in at most some decades, a rise that has remained permanent within some degrees during the last 11,700 years, indicates a catastrophe literally of cosmic dimensions.
personal.eunet.fi /pp/tilmari/tilmari3.htm   (2389 words)

  
 An Interdisciplinary Timeline
The discovery in SE Brazil of the oldest skull in the new world, may help to rewrite the theory of how the Americas were settled because the skull and teeth had characteristics similar to people from the South Pacific.
The late-Triassic crisis is notorious as one of the five biggest extinction events in the fossil record, wiping out the dominant reptiles of the time and spurring the rise of a hitherto minor group called dinosaurs, which went on to dominate Earth for 150 million years.
The earth's equator was once a glacial winter wonderland 600-700 million years ago, possibly due to a significant increase in the earth's tilt, at the time, by as much as 50 degrees relative to its spin axis (current tilt is 23.5 degrees).
www.alley29.com /Timeline/timeline.html   (4452 words)

  
 CAI - Good News and Bad News Regarding Scriptural Chronologies ~ Robert Sungenis
The number 215 is obtained by subtracting the entrance of Jacob and his 70 family members in 1706 BC from the departure of Israel in 1491.
Now, if the Flood, according to this author, took place in 2348 BC, that means we have 176 years to fit in the Flood and all the generations between Noah and Abraham, which is quite impossible.
The Maya calendar begins on August 11, 3114 BC (George E. Stuart, “The Maya Riddle of the Glyphs, National Geographic, 1975, p.
www.catholicintl.com /epologetics/articles/bible/scriptural-chronologies2.htm   (3738 words)

  
 Bulova Watches - History of Time
Based on this knowledge, they devised a 365 day calendar that seems to have begun in 4236 BC, which thus seems to be one of the earliest years recorded in history.
The hemicycle, said to have been invented about 300 BC, removed the useless half of the hemisphere to give an appearance of a half-bowl cut into the edge of a squared block.
Later named clepsydras ("water thieves") by the Greeks, who began using them about 325 BC, these were stone vessels with sloping sides that allowed water to drip at a nearly constant rate from a small hole near the bottom.
www.allamericanwatches.com /site/626101/page/182619   (4508 words)

  
 How old is the Earth?
The net difference between the two genealogies was 1466 years (ignoring the "second year after the flood" ambiguity), which is virtually all of the 1500-year difference between the two years of creation.
The Mayan calendar dates the creation of the Earth to August 11 or August 13, 3114 BC (establishing that date as the zeroth day of the Long Count 13.0.0.0.0).
This uses the date of 2800 BC for a massive flood which covered the plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
www.mendhak.com /paranormal/mythology/show.php?id=23   (2152 words)

  
 What happened in 3114BC? The turning-point in human history about 3100 BC: The Beginning of the First Great ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
About 3100 BC there was suddenly a change to more primitive ages compared to the preceding Uruk period.
The great city-states Ur and Uruk were built, and around 2600 BC they had began to be part of a larger political union.
At least the period from 3000 BC to 2350 BC seems to have been much wetter in Mesopotamia, and the Nile more generous, than the extremely dry period beginning in 2200 BC.
www.kolumbus.fi /tilmari/yr3100bc.htm   (1961 words)

  
 Meaning of the 5th Sun in Mayan Mythology
The remainder of 0.3619 years is 132.18 days before December 21, which leads to August 11, 3114 BC as the day for 0 Baktun in the Gregorian calculations.
Thus, the astronomer's date of September 6, 3114 BC and the Gregorian date of August 11, 3114 BC are both 13 Baktun, or 1,872,000 days before December 21, 2012.
The vernal equinox location in Taurus in 3114 BC was at 04h 35m 35s right ascension from the present vernal equinox.
www.siloam.net /jenkins/5thsun1.html   (7369 words)

  
 Was This Atlantis, Timing, when did it happen
Around 1'500 BC the island Thera is distroyed by a volcanic disaster, from which traces have been found up to in ancient Egypt, and possibly put an end to the Minoan civilization.
The Guizeh constructions are beleeved to have been build fromm around 3'500 BC until 2'500 BC, than even when the Egyptian Pharaons did leave correct dating, there are still a lot of scientists how put an other date to the events.
The maya calendar starts at a date around 3114 BC to 3112 BC, this depending how you count the dates and the days, then our calendar is not correct.
www.was-this-atlantis.info /timing.html   (1587 words)

  
 Addendum
The Mayan "Great Cycle", or 13-Baktun cycle, which is part of the Long Count, is 1,872,000 days long, and the start date is given as August 11th 3114 BC or August 13th 3114 BC according to the 2 most popular correlations, (known as the GMT 584283 and GMT 585285 respectively).
The exception is 1 BC which is a leap year - plus the BC years have to converted to "astronomical years" by subtracting one year, to make up for the missing year zero, before calculation.
The result is 584283, the Julian Day number of the Long Count's zero day back in 3114 BC, thus confirming the end-date as December 21, 2012.
www.diagnosis2012.co.uk /add.htm   (676 words)

  
 Mayan Calendar
There was also a Long Count calendar which started at [0.0.0.0.0] (with Maya record) on August 11, 3114 BC according to the "Goodman, Martinez-Hernandez, and Thompson" correlation (nicknamed "GMT"), the most widely accepted correlation between the Maya and Gregorian calendar.
Another widely-used correlation, that of Lounsbury, correlates the start-day to August 13, 3114 BC and the terminal date to December 23, 2012 CE.
The turn of the great cycle is conjectured to have been of great significance to the Maya, but does not necessarily mark the end of the world.
www.art-poster-online.com /mayan_calendar.htm   (206 words)

  
 The History of Research at El Pilar
Around 2,000 bc farmers are evident but, archaeologically-speaking, they were nearly invisible until around 1,000 bc.
The earliest evidence for burning and the cultivation of maize dates before 2000 bc in the Peten of Guatemala.
From 300 bc to ad 250 the lowland Maya population continued to grow and expand, resulting in greater competition for land.
marc.ucsb.edu /elpilar/mesaredoda/mesaredonda97/history.html   (3809 words)

  
 The events that took place about 6,000 years ago during the alleged time of Creation. - EvoWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
4860 BC - Mount Mazama in Oregon collapses, forming a caldera that later fills with water and becomes Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States.
4004 BC – The universe is allegedly created at nightfall preceding October 23 according to the Ussher-Lightfoot chronology of Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh.
Sumerian city of Ur in Mesopotamia (40th century BC); Sumerian hegemony in Mesopotamia, with the invention of writing, base-60 mathematics, astronomy and astrology, civil law, complex hydrology, the sailboat, the wheel, and the potter's wheel, 4000–2000 BCE.
wiki.cotch.net /index.php/The_events_that_took_place_about_6,000_years_ago_during_the_alleged_time_of_Creation.   (1031 words)

  
 The Mayan Calendar -Introduction
Today this area is occupied by the descendants of the ancient Maya, the vast majority of whom have to some extent preserved their cultural heritage and still speak the Mayan language.
By 2000 BC the Maya had also moved inland and adopted agriculture for their subsistence.
One of them called the "long count", is a continuous record of days from a zero date that correlates to Aug. 13, 3114 BC, and is more precise than the Julian calendar revised in Europe in 1582.
www.mayacalendar.com /introduccion.html   (1256 words)

  
 art07p
There is no reason to believe that the Maya, who commonly aligned their buildings with the heliacal rising of stars, would be an exception to this awareness of the precession of the earth.
This describes that the First Father raised the World Tree in 3114 BC, and I have shown empirical evidence from human history that its holographic projection on earth (which has 90° angles) becomes evident in the even-numbered baktuns of the Great Cycle, one of which began in 3115 BC.
On the level of the earth, we may note that the oldest undisputed date for inhabitants in the Americas (on the Los Angeles river) is dated to 23-24,000 BC, meaning in practice that we have reasons to believe that from this time and onwards the whole earth was inhabited by carriers of a human consciousness.
www.mayanmajix.com /art07p.html   (5420 words)

  
 Definition of 3114 BC
Definition of 3114 BC Definition of 3114 BC
3114 BC — Starting date of current Long Count in the Maya calendar
3102 BC — Year 0 of the Kali Yuga.
www.wordiq.com /definition/3114_BC   (151 words)

  
 Concentrations in the English Major
One of the courses substituted for either Colloquium counts towards fulfillment of the "before 1900" requirements, so that the minimum number of courses required to complete the major is unaffected and remains at 10.
TWO courses, at least one from among the following: BC 3173, 3174 (or W4301), 3179; the other may be selected from these course or from the courses listed under 2.a above.
In certain cases, Independent Study ENG BC 3999 may be substituted.
www.barnard.edu /english/concentrations.html   (1337 words)

  
 Maya Calendar
This date converter is written in Java Script, and uses the 13 Aug 3114 BC version of the GMT correlation.
It is valid for dates AD and BC, but dates before AD are reported as negative numbers, using the astronomer's convention 3114 BC = - 3113 (This is required because there is no "0" BC/AD).
Whether there is also astronomical significance in the choice of 3114 BC as the base date is more debatable.
members.shaw.ca /mjfinley/calnote.htm   (3496 words)

  
 Rebuilding Creation
This date should not be taken literally – like the 4004 BC that people calculated as the date for Creation based on the Bible.
Many scholars now believe that August 12, 3114 BC marked a significant celestial event, with one author, John Major Jenkins, arguing that the Mayan careful stellar observations resulted in their knowledge of what is known as the “galactic centre”.
This hearth was set up on August 12, 3114 BC – the day of creation.
www.philipcoppens.com /rebuildingcreation.html   (2214 words)

  
 Maya Links and Calculators
BC dates are all in Gregorian Astronomical - i.e.
NB Use this format: day/month/year; BC years are negative, or they would be if they were correct.
0.0.0.0.0 correlated to 13 August 3114 BC and 13.0.0.0.0 correlates to 23 December 2012.
www.diagnosis2012.co.uk /mlink.htm   (3417 words)

  
 World History Timeline : 500 000 BC - 0 - Explore the world history from prehistory to today. - History Timelines and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
World History Timeline : 500 000 BC - 0 - Explore the world history from prehistory to today.
3300 BC ×tzi the Iceman, discovered in 1991, dies near the present-day border between Austria and Italy
722 BC Sargon II: the defeat of the Kingdom of Israel
www.historyexplorer.net /world_history_timeline/world_history_timeline_500_000_bc_-_0   (431 words)

  
 MarketForum - The Latest Opinions on Futures and Options
In 3114 BC at the beginning of the 13 baktun cycle, human beings were emerging from the Stone Age and entering the Bronze Age.
The Mayan texts concerning 2012 have been translated as meaning "the end of the world." From what Calleman and others have found in studies of Mayan astrology and economic cycles, I think we can safely assume the Maya did not mean the literal end of the physical world.
Mayan astrologers were students of perspective, so what is more likely to end is the perspective humanity developed since 3114 BC.
www.marketforum.com /?id=881770   (1494 words)

  
 Peter Mathews - Who's Who in the Classic Maya World
In 45 BC this advisor, Sosigenes, suggested a correction to the previous Roman calendar, by adding one extra day every four years (this involved the year 46 BC-the "Year of Confusion"-having 445 days!).
In other words, 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ajaw 8 Kumk'u, 8 September, 3114 BC (Julian) and 13 August, 3114 BC (Gregorian), is 584,285 days into the Julian era, JD 1 having been 1 January, 4713 BC, over half a million days earlier.
Concerning the Maya calendar, this means that the beginning of the current Maya era, 3114 BC, equals -3113 in astronomers' years.
research.famsi.org /whos_who/christian_dates.htm   (890 words)

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