Penn & Teller invite Shannon McCabe & Paul Dale Roberts to the “Bullshit” of 2012!
It’s Columbus Day as I sit down to write this article. The funny thing about it is, as Columbus was a discoverer so am I. Paul Dale Roberts and I were just called by the
Showtime Network, and they have asked us to go down to Cancun Mexico with them for the Penn & Teller, “Bullshit” show. They want us to discover the mystery of 2012.
Now, if you have ever seen the Penn & Teller “Bullshit” show, you know that they will be ripping us a new one on just about everything we “discover”. Bring it on we say! Let
me tell you a little about the Maya people and their calendar that ends on December 21st, 2012.
The Mayans were a very intelligent society that excelled in Mathematics and Astronomy. They were also very prolific writers. The Mayans were so well versed in Astronomy
that they predicted that the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, would come into alignment with our Sun possibly causing a huge Axis shift that could send us into catastrophe.
They predicted this to happen in 2012.
On a metaphysical level, some think that 2012 will bring our planet to a higher spiritual transformation.
If you ever listen to Riley Martin on Sirius Station, Howard 101, he claims that in 2012 the world will come into a spiritual transformation, and that the Biaviian (pron. Be-Ah-Vi-
An) aliens will actually come down out of the sky and let us on to their Mother Ship.
On a more scientific level some believe that 2012 could end in an apocalypse and the end of our modern world as we know it.
My question is what should humankind expect on Dec. 21, 2012, when the Maya's "Long Count" calendar marks the end of a 5,126-year era? Did they just run out of rock to
carve and trees for their paper? God only knows…
Here Are Some Facts:
Date founded:
250 AD rise of the Maya civilization
Place founded:
Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Western Honduras, & El Salvador
Supporters & Followers:
At one time up to 2 million. Today, several million Maya practice a Roman Catholicism that retains many elements of traditional Mayan religion.
Theism:
Polytheism, they believed in more than one god.
Main gods:
Itzamná, Kukulcán (Quetzalcóatl), Bolon Tzacab, Chac
Practices:
Astronomy, divination, human sacrifice, elaborate burial for royalty, worship in stone pyramid-temples, prolific writing
Society Colapse:
The Mayan Society collapsed in 1200 AD, and the reasons are unknown.
In the late 18th Century explorers discovered pyramids, monoliths, temples, and plazas all deep in the Guatemalan Rainforest decorated in carved pictures and hieroglyphs.
The ancient Mayans had been keeping very good records of their civilization through these carvings which brings me to the wonderful man named, Diego De Landa.
De Landa was a Spanish priest, and in July 1562 he found carvings of what he found to be the “Devil’s work”. These carvings were of human sacrifice. He was so self-
righteous that he had 5000 Mayan Idols demolished, along with all but three of their papyrus books. This is probably why we don’t know much of the Mayan civilization today.
Luckily the temples and pyramids were made of stone and were not easily destroyed and we can still visit them today.
On a good note, De Landa did not destroy one very important book, the Relación de las cosas de Yucatán (1566). It was reprinted in 1864 and gave us a phonetically
accurate look at the Mayan Hieroglyphs. Another book that was very significant was the Dresden Codex. The Dresden Codex was named after the city it was found in.
In 1880 a German scholar named Ernest Forstemann cracked the code of the Mayan hieroglyphs so that many of the carvings on the existing pyramids could be translated
into what we now know as the Mayan Calendar.
As I mentioned earlier, the Mayan Calendar is called a “Long Count” calendar. It spans over 5000 years and happens to end at December 21st, 2012. There are many ways
to look at this: One, The end of our modern civilization as we know it. Two, the beginning of a spiritual awakening where the world will be peaceful and serene. Three, Nothing
will happen and the world will go on just like it did on January 1st, 2000. Remember Y2K? Funny wasn’t it?
There are many unsolved mysteries to this Mayan Calendar and the 2012 mystery. And I, Shannon McCabe, and Paul Dale Roberts plan on finding out just what they are…
Stay tuned, in the next month when I return from Chichen Itza we will recount everything we saw, felt, heard, and experienced at the Mayan Ruins. In fact, Showtime has
gotten us a really cool HD, infrared camera to record a digital diary of the trip. We will also be bringing all our other equipment so that we can possibly capture some EVP’s
and maybe even some UFO activity, remember the “Mother Ship” that Riley Martin talks of? And although Penn & Teller are probably going to rip me to shreds for my
findings, I welcome them with open arms. I have been a very big fan of their skeptical humor, and those who know me, know I am a skeptic myself. I am sure as Bullshit that
they will make me look like a complete idiot and I am lovin’ it! Chichen Itza here we come!
I’ll be reporting my findings soon… !Ariba!
Shannon McCabe
www.ShannonMcCabe.com
Showtime’s Penn & Teller Bullshit Show
http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/home.do
It’s Columbus Day as I sit down to write this article. The funny thing about it is, as Columbus was a discoverer so am I. Paul Dale Roberts and I were just called by the
Showtime Network, and they have asked us to go down to Cancun Mexico with them for the Penn & Teller, “Bullshit” show. They want us to discover the mystery of 2012.
Now, if you have ever seen the Penn & Teller “Bullshit” show, you know that they will be ripping us a new one on just about everything we “discover”. Bring it on we say! Let
me tell you a little about the Maya people and their calendar that ends on December 21st, 2012.
The Mayans were a very intelligent society that excelled in Mathematics and Astronomy. They were also very prolific writers. The Mayans were so well versed in Astronomy
that they predicted that the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, would come into alignment with our Sun possibly causing a huge Axis shift that could send us into catastrophe.
They predicted this to happen in 2012.
On a metaphysical level, some think that 2012 will bring our planet to a higher spiritual transformation.
If you ever listen to Riley Martin on Sirius Station, Howard 101, he claims that in 2012 the world will come into a spiritual transformation, and that the Biaviian (pron. Be-Ah-Vi-
An) aliens will actually come down out of the sky and let us on to their Mother Ship.
On a more scientific level some believe that 2012 could end in an apocalypse and the end of our modern world as we know it.
My question is what should humankind expect on Dec. 21, 2012, when the Maya's "Long Count" calendar marks the end of a 5,126-year era? Did they just run out of rock to
carve and trees for their paper? God only knows…
Here Are Some Facts:
Date founded:
250 AD rise of the Maya civilization
Place founded:
Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Western Honduras, & El Salvador
Supporters & Followers:
At one time up to 2 million. Today, several million Maya practice a Roman Catholicism that retains many elements of traditional Mayan religion.
Theism:
Polytheism, they believed in more than one god.
Main gods:
Itzamná, Kukulcán (Quetzalcóatl), Bolon Tzacab, Chac
Practices:
Astronomy, divination, human sacrifice, elaborate burial for royalty, worship in stone pyramid-temples, prolific writing
Society Colapse:
The Mayan Society collapsed in 1200 AD, and the reasons are unknown.
In the late 18th Century explorers discovered pyramids, monoliths, temples, and plazas all deep in the Guatemalan Rainforest decorated in carved pictures and hieroglyphs.
The ancient Mayans had been keeping very good records of their civilization through these carvings which brings me to the wonderful man named, Diego De Landa.
De Landa was a Spanish priest, and in July 1562 he found carvings of what he found to be the “Devil’s work”. These carvings were of human sacrifice. He was so self-
righteous that he had 5000 Mayan Idols demolished, along with all but three of their papyrus books. This is probably why we don’t know much of the Mayan civilization today.
Luckily the temples and pyramids were made of stone and were not easily destroyed and we can still visit them today.
On a good note, De Landa did not destroy one very important book, the Relación de las cosas de Yucatán (1566). It was reprinted in 1864 and gave us a phonetically
accurate look at the Mayan Hieroglyphs. Another book that was very significant was the Dresden Codex. The Dresden Codex was named after the city it was found in.
In 1880 a German scholar named Ernest Forstemann cracked the code of the Mayan hieroglyphs so that many of the carvings on the existing pyramids could be translated
into what we now know as the Mayan Calendar.
As I mentioned earlier, the Mayan Calendar is called a “Long Count” calendar. It spans over 5000 years and happens to end at December 21st, 2012. There are many ways
to look at this: One, The end of our modern civilization as we know it. Two, the beginning of a spiritual awakening where the world will be peaceful and serene. Three, Nothing
will happen and the world will go on just like it did on January 1st, 2000. Remember Y2K? Funny wasn’t it?
There are many unsolved mysteries to this Mayan Calendar and the 2012 mystery. And I, Shannon McCabe, and Paul Dale Roberts plan on finding out just what they are…
Stay tuned, in the next month when I return from Chichen Itza we will recount everything we saw, felt, heard, and experienced at the Mayan Ruins. In fact, Showtime has
gotten us a really cool HD, infrared camera to record a digital diary of the trip. We will also be bringing all our other equipment so that we can possibly capture some EVP’s
and maybe even some UFO activity, remember the “Mother Ship” that Riley Martin talks of? And although Penn & Teller are probably going to rip me to shreds for my
findings, I welcome them with open arms. I have been a very big fan of their skeptical humor, and those who know me, know I am a skeptic myself. I am sure as Bullshit that
they will make me look like a complete idiot and I am lovin’ it! Chichen Itza here we come!
I’ll be reporting my findings soon… !Ariba!
Shannon McCabe
www.ShannonMcCabe.com
Showtime’s Penn & Teller Bullshit Show
http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/home.do
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