Carlos Barrios is a Mayan Ajq'ij (priest) from Guatemala with the mission, given by his elders, to begin sharing the prophecies and teachings of the Mayan peoples with the rest of the world. Carlos travels internationally to share these teachings and to generate awareness and support for the rescue and preservation of the ancient Mayan tradition in his homeland. Carlos is also the author of "Ch'umalil Wuj: El Libro del Destino", a book on the astrology and prophecies of the Mayan peoples, an english version is promised soon. Carlos is supported by Saq' Be' (pronounced Sock Bay), an organization for Mayan and Indigenous Spiritual Studies is a non profit organization based in New Mexico, US. More information can be found at: www.SacredRoad.org. The Saq Be logo can be found twice in this page header. Click the picture to listen to Carlos Barrios on a radio webcast.

Carlos Barrios writings Version 2, (easier to read)

Here are some important quotes from Carlos:

“What's going to happen on this famous date of the 21st of December 2012 is not the end of humanity. It is the beginning of the Fifth Sun and that means also the fifth element[aether]. It's going to happen that there is a fusion of polarities. The people of darkness are not interested in losing the power that they have at this time, and they would prefer to destroy humanity or even the entire planet like a being. They prefer to destroy this than go to the fusion created by aether, the new element arriving to this reality. The change won't happen exactly on this day because it's not changed like a flash of light. It will take years, but this is the awareness, this is the moment of peace, of real understanding, of comprehension, and tolerance, and all humanity can live really in harmony. That's what the elders are saying, especially to the people who are at the forefront of the different religions and traditions or all these new age people who are working. They call to all these people to go into the real traditions, the deeper traditions, the oldest tradition which has not just a part of the knowledge, but all the knowledge to transform into wisdom.“

The Mayan Calendar is Correct!

“There are 20 different Mayan calendars. One of these is cosmic. Another is galactic. Another has the faces of Venus, but in essence there is a calendar which is called the Long Count. This calendar is for 5,200 years, with 360 days each year. This calendar doesn't have a mistake because the Mayan people never lost count of the days. What happened is the Gregorian calendar needed to make a lot of corrections, and this happened with the Pope Gregorio in 1200 A.D. something. He understood that it was not correct and it affected agriculture, and he ordered some people to make the corrections. Before this calendar was the Julian calendar. This calendar came from Roman times, and of course, this also had many mistakes. What happened with the Gregorian and Julian is not our problem. We know our dates. We know we are in the exact count and Mayans have the most perfect calendar of all the races, of all the civilizations, because we just need to add one day each 260,000 years. That's the most amazing and incredible calendar, and we don't have a mistake. The mistake is in the other calendars. And the story someone told about this time (that the date is incorrect) is because they aren't using the real Mayan calendar. They are based in the Gregorian and the Julian. For us there is not a problem. We just take the base of the day exactly when the Long Count is finished for these times- the date of 21st of December of 2012- and there is not a mistake for us. The mistake is for the people who relate it to the Gregorian, but we are clear. We never lost our count. Ok?“ For the rest of this Q&A session with Carlos Barrios click here

An important Mayan calendar called the Tzolkin, or sacred count. The Maya believe that each day of the Tzol’kin has an energy that influences events. In general, the Tzolkin is a perpetual 260 day calendar created by the permutations of 20 symbols and 13 numbers. This calendar can be traced back three thousand years to an earlier civilsation called the Olmecs and it is still in use today by modern Maya living in the Guatemalan highlands. The cycle that this calendar represents is not based on the movement of our Sun, the Earth, or any other planet in the solar system. The Tzolkin is synchronized with the movement of energy and consciousness within our galaxy, and can be referred to as the galactic spin. All the other cycles of stars and planets are built into, and follow from the Tzolkin. The Tzolkin reflects the Hunab Ku, the conscious center of the galaxy. Hunab Ku can be translated as “One Giver of Movement and Measure,” and is conceptually equivalent to God, Great Spirit, or Absolute Being. The Maya believed it was necessary to align oneself with this energy to attain spiritual harmony in life and with nature. The Tzolkin is a powerful tool which can be utilized for retrieval of galactic information. It can also be used to synchronize your self, through resonance, with the galactic whole. Click the image to obtain more information about Mayan civilization, beliefs, and how calendars are constructed.

The symbol of Hunab Ku, which represents the center of the galaxy, or the heart of galactic consciousness.

The 2012 Galactic Alignment occurred in 1998?

It is apparent that many people believe there is going to be a ‘2012’ Galactic alignment of the Sun, Earth with the centre of our galaxy that will take place on the winter solstice, 21^st December 2012. The only problem is that according to 'official sources' this alignment took place in 1998/1999! It now seems that the genuine Mayan message of the birth of a New World Age that will last 5200 years that will be dominated by ether or space has been largely overlooked.

An article on the website Ancient World Mysteries provides a good basic explanation of the 2012 Galactic alignment that is being associated with the Mayan calendar End-date. We are informed that;

… there will be an alignment of the earth, the sun, and the galactic equator twice every year. In one instance, the earth will be between the sun and the galactic equator, and in another (exactly 6 months later) the sun will be between the earth and the galactic equator. The 2012 AD alignment as is said to be associated with the Long Count calendar is of exactly this type, being of the latter stated order: Earth > Sun > Galactic Equator, but critically, with one very important additional factor, which indeed makes the entire arrangement far more complex and infrequent: The 2012 AD conjunction is one that involves the earth, sun, and the galactic equator, specifically at a time when the earth is at the winter solstice (northern hemisphere) point of its orbit, at a seasonal extreme. Now, an event of this sort certainly does not occur every year, but rather once only every 25800 years. And this is due to a very subtle celestial motion: precession.

JOB AJAW—The Fifth Sun The fifth cycle of 5,200 years will be governed by both masculine and feminine energy (balance) and the element Ether. December 21, 2012 is the pivotal date that everyone has heard of. [Pg 120]
The Book of Destiny, Carlos Barrios

The article 2012 Galactic Cosmology, & A New World Age: Beware the 2012 Bandwagonistas! provides a critical assessement of how the understanding of a period of major world transformation and a new future for mankind is now being promoted as a special one-day event or end of the world doomsday scenario.

The article 2012: What's really happening explains Mayan prophecy in terms of major atmospheric and geophysical Earth changes, integrated with information that suggests that a dimensional shift is now occuring. This validates the Mayan prediction that the B'alameb' will return for this period. The evidence would suggest that these mythical beings, who are considered the cosmic guardians of the four corners of the universe are returning in the sense that we can now much more easily see multi-dimensional magnetic plasma entities, known by many different names within the scientific and metaphysical community.