LAS PROFECIAS MAYAS: EDICION ESPECIAL LIMITADA

by Adrian Geoffrey Gilbert

This thrilling book offers controversial answers revealing the ancient mysteries of the Maya and their prophecies for the year 2012.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Mythology, Ancient History, Collections, Spirituality, Science

Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Adrian Gilbert is a bestselling British author and independent publisher who lives in England. His books are centred on investigations into ancient Esoteric knowledge and religious Mysteries.Adrian was born in Beckenham, Kent, England. His primary school was Bishop Challoner School, Shortlands, Beckenham, and for secondary education he went to St Edmund's College, Ware, Hertfordshire. He read Chemistry at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Whilst at university he took up yoga and had several mystical experiences that changed the course of his life. His first job after leaving university was as a pharmaceutical representative, but he left this after less than a year on ethical grounds. After travels in Europe, to Israel and the US, he took up a post as sales and marketing manager with Turnstone Press, a publisher of esoteric books. Leaving Turnstone, he worked for a time as postal sales manager for Watkins Books, London's oldest esoteric bookstore. In 1978 he changed career entirely and retrained as a computer analyst/programmer. He returned to publishing in 1986, working as a representative for Element Books Ltd as a preparation for setting up his own publishers, Solos Press, in 1991. This specializes in the publication of books concerning Gnosticism, Christian mysticism and Hermetic Philosophy. He is mainly known for his books The Orion Mystery, which was co-authored by Robert Bauval in 1994, and The Mayan Prophecies, which was co-authored with Maurice Cotterell in 1995. Both these books were Sunday Times Top-Ten best-sellers. To date his books have been translated into some twenty languages, including German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Chinese, Korean and Japanese

Reviews

[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book should perhaps have been titled differently than The Mayan Prophesies, as I was expecting to read about...well, a lot of prophesies! However, it was incredibly interesting to read the history of the peoples of the Yucatan and South / Central America. Some parts of the book were a bit over my head, such as when the author explains the mathematics involved in calculating sunspot cycles, Mayan time periods, and other things. However, you do not need to understand how these calculations were performed to appreciate the historical data and theories that are presented. I especially enjoyed the theories centered around the lost city/continent of Atlantis! So, will the world end on 21st December of 2012? I don't believe so, but it wouldn't hurt a bit if the human race as a whole entered into a new age of enlightenment or higher consciousness.

[Ian Driscoll · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quite a stretch in a number of instances. Cotterell has gone on to postulate that Pacal, Buddha, Christ, Confucius and just about every other major religious figure of any significance was actually just another incarnation of the same enlightened being attempting to set us on the right path. I do like his theories on solar astrology, however. The lid of Pacal was also a bit of a reach. The images he claims to have discovered appear forced and even fabricated at times. On the other hand, the idea of the sunspot cycle being recognized by the ancients as the mechanism behind civilization's rise and fall is entirely viable, in my opinion.

[Andreas Schmidt · Rating 5 out of 5]

In genere, è lecito diffidare di Adrian G. Gilbert, ma non di Maurice M. Cotterell, che si rivela sempre più un autentico Indiana Jones dei tempi moderni. Questo libro illustra la teoria ( oltre a tutto ciò che ruota attorno all'antico popolo maya ) della lastra del sarcofago di Pacal, signore di Palenque. Teorie innovative, che s'infrangono contro l'accademismo.

[Nama'Dejigas · Rating 4 out of 5]

So, the end of the age turned out no more doom laden than the end of the year. Some of the ideas postulated seemed back to front and I think it would have benefited the authour to have read James Churchward. That aside, there was a good deal of interesting information in this book.

[Cynthia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this book was down to earth ( rather an anomaly in this case ). But not the end of the world- all is over - doom and forbidding. That I had expected. Rather an explanation of what had gone before and what could be going to occur in the future the date being translated from the hieroglyphs on the steps of their pyramid Maybe we can deal with whatever occurs or it might happen in a different way this tons. That the world and the climate is changing is evident to us all without any prophesies to boost our knowledge of the facts

[Lucy Siskova · Rating 1 out of 5]

Moje očekávání bylo zklamáno. toužila jsem se dozvědět něco nového, co bych nevěděla, ale nestalo se tomu tak. Název knihy hezky přiláká čtenáře, ale po začtení si uvědomíte, že se to k tématu vůbec nevztahuje a nepřibližuje. Je to jakási kniha, která popisuje to, co už víme a je známo. Takže jsem čekala nějaké novinky nebo náznkay, kterým směrem by se mohly ubírat otázky zaměřená na Maye, ale nikoli.

[Nishi Serrano · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, so some of this book could be rubbish, however, according to the fold up map on the lid of the kings tomb--one prophecy is right, the symbol for this age is the bat, the bat represents mankind--downfall by mankind? I'm not an end of the world theorist, but we are doing a pretty darn good job of destroying our planet.

[Nadima El-khalafawi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rating - 2.5. Some interesting historical information on the Mayans and some interesting theories regarding Mayan beliefs based on archaeological finds but I was surprised that there wasn't really anything in the book from Mayans themselves. I was expecting to read interviews or accounts from Mayan elders but this was really just the theories of the authors.

[Tom Walsh]

The Mayans were obsessed with time and numbers. Here's a clear explanation of what they attempted to create and re-create over and over again throughout time. They are revealed to be more complex than one can ever imagine. The book is written clearly and tackles many intriguing subjects.

[Mitchell26 McLaughlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this interpretation of Pacal's sarcophogus, and to tell the truth this book was very influential on me at the beginning of my quest, way back in some year 1997, or at least that's what they used to call it. ;)

[Jaime · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked part of this book but too much time was spent on cosmology and analytical tangents. It is well-researched but technically difficult to understand. It was a good read but not one of my favorites for the reasons I cited.

[Alice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interessantissima e ben documentata la prima parte trattata da Gilbert, che si occupa di svelare elementi della cultura maya ormai archiviati dall'archeologia ortodossa. Noiosa, invece, la parte finale trattata da Cotterell, perchè piena di calcoli e troppo specifica

[Inara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Title in German:
Die Prophezeiungen der Maya.Das geheime Wissen einer untergegangenen Zivilisation

[Healingneedle]

2012 ... no joke. the most interesting part is actually the addendum, which correlates the mayan calendar with the sunspot cycle.

[Timothy]

2012 approacheth...

[Nur · Rating 3 out of 5]

Prediction Qiyamah in November 2012 by The Mayan Prophecies?!!!!
Significant to Mel Gibson film, Apocalypse.

[Jānis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nekas mega īpašs. Ir cilvēciņi, kas pamatā meklē ciparus, bet ir cilvēciņi, kas arī attēlos atrod savas sakarības.

[Sunny · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed it at the time and perhaps age I was when I read this. Rating it on that, not my current thoughts of the piece.

[Iain McIntyre · Rating 4 out of 5]

History was interesting. The rest is pure pseudoscience.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Netflix movie "2012" seems to an adaptation of this book.

[Ernie Dawson · Rating 4 out of 5]

As I recall contains some very interesting information on Mayanology.

[Regan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not much about their prophecies but some interesting info on Cayce and the Mayan history.

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