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Prophecies of South America
Part Three: Mayan Prophecies
by Robert A. Nelson Anthropologist
Christian Ratsch translated the following sad prophecy of the end of
the world according to the religious tradition of the peaceful
Lacandone Maya of southern Mexico:
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“The
End of the World will come, so it is said, so it was told. Our end
will come when there are no more trees. Then, when all are cut down,
when people are everywhere, when there is no more forest. So it is
said, so it was told by the ancient habo-people. They said this:
‘Kaxon bake xen,’ well, if it is true, if the forest is
overcrowded by people, if there are settlements all over, built up by
the kah-people, which are settling close together, when all the trees
are cut down, when there are no more mahogany trees, when all trees
are destroyed, when only the hills remain, then the end of the world
will come. Not now, but very soon. The end will reach us. This is
said. Our end will come. Nothing will be left of us.
“It
is said, but who really knows, if it will be a storm or if it will be
the sun, which will burn us, which will destroy us. Fast, very fast
the end will reach us. It is said, it will only last as long as dawn
lasts, as long as the sun needs to reach the treetops. Fast it will
be. And nothing will be left of us. One hour and we are all gone.
“Perhaps
a great coldness will come or something else. Hachykum, Our True
Lord, will get our blood. He will gather all of us there in Yaxchilan
(at the center of the universe)... The gods will bring us to
Yaxchilan. All the people with good blood will be gathered. When they
arrive there, their necks will be cut. So it is said.
“Then
when the world’s end is coming nothing will remain. Everything
will find its end. There will be no thorns and spines, no flies, no
bloodsucking bugs --- nothing. But then the souls will come, the
souls of the ancients, the souls of the deceased. They will inhabit
the earth. They will stay together with the gods.”
Another
eschatological Mayan vision proclaims: “Eat, eat, so long as
there is bread; Drink, drink, so long as there is water; A day will
come, when dust will darken the sky, when a stench of pestilence will
cause the land to wither, when a cloud will rise, when a mountain
will be raised, when a strong man will seize the city, when all
things will fall into ruin, when the tender leaf will be destroyed,
when eyes will close in death.”
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