22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Highly Recommend, September 4, 2006
This review is from: The Ark of Millions of Years Volume Two: 2012 and the Harvest of the End Times (Paperback)
I have to chime in. It is quite obvious to me that Mr. McNaughton has reviewed the wrong book. This book, The Ark of Millions of Years, Volume TWO, which I own, is all about the 2012 Mayan End Time date. Because the authors are the first to "crack" the 2012 Mayan calendar code meaning in a very unique way, I rate this book highly.
Now, I believe that Mr. McNaughton is referring to the Volume One of The Ark of Millions of Years. He mentions several books that are not even in the authors reference list. Regardless, the questions that he raises were indeed answered in that book, in fact every one of them.
The authors bring to the table a new version of the creation as told through many ancient reliable texts, including the Bible, that answers the questions about the flood of Noah, origin of the Jews, whether man was created or evolved, the true age of the earth, the role of the fallen angels, and much more in a new light from ancient Jewish texts recently translated.
The authors make the claim that it is the most comprehensive book on the creation; and they did it admirably, in a most remarkable way. They also claim the book restores a key piece of knowledge that was lost about 6,000 years ago pertaining to the understanding of the creation; this loss caused the chasm between creationists and evolutionists. Additionally, the book actually fulfills an ancient Jewish prophecy found in the Zohar and its publishing was heralded by a Grand Sextile (Star of David) alignment of heavenly bodies announcing the return of the lost "key." I love this book, have read it twice, and highly recommend it to others.
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40 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
DiaGnosis2012 review, February 17, 2007
This review is from: The Ark of Millions of Years Volume Two: 2012 and the Harvest of the End Times (Paperback)
The recent publication of The Ark of Millions of Years Volume Two sounded interesting, since the subtitle is 2012 and the Harvest of the End Times. The 331-page book has very poor quality graphics, many of which are blurred and pixelated images downloaded from the net with no acknowledgement to their origin. There is an acknowledgement of the author's cat, however - the book is dedicated to it! The authors, E.J. Clark and B. Alexander Agnew, Ph.D seem to see themselves as archaeologist-explorers in the vein of Indiana Jones, but their book shows that they have simply read a few New Age authors such as Arguelles, Yaxkin-Joy and/or Hunbatz Men, (or more likely, got the information second hand, off the internet), have misunderstood them, not done any proper research or checking and have mixed in the Nephilim of Sitchin and a large dose of biblical material. They even attribute the Tzolkin to Abraham or Shem (p.142). In fact it seems that the whole book is an attempt to prove and justify the bible (p.147-148). Their list of errors is huge. Here are a few:
1. Talking of Dreamspell's "galactic tones" and other concepts as if they are genuine artefacts of the Maya calendars (p.117-131)
2. Announce that Arguelles is deceased (p.120)
3. Show 2 Dreamspell Tzolkin grids and say one is the original design, while the other is modern (just because the former includes Maya numerals) p.121`-122.
4. Wrongly state that the Maya used wheels to measure time, since many people use interlocking wheels to help explain Maya calendars. (p.129-131).
5. They call the 52-year Calendar Round and 104-year Venus Round the "short count". The Short Count is actually a 13-katun cycle of just under 260 solar years (260 tuns). (p.132)
6. They state that the Maya had a 28-day lunar cycle. (p.132). The cycle was in fact alternately 29 and 30 days, with extra interpolated 30-day months.
7. They state that "The Tzolk'in (pronounced Zol Keen) is the divine or religious long count calendar of the Maya used to measure the cycles of the Pleiades, a cycle being 26,000 years." (p.132 and also p.141). The Tzolkin is NOT the Long Count, and the rest is an over-simplification - the movement of the Pleiades was used to check the precessional movement towards the alignment in 2012, (by the Maya of Chichen Itza), which only happens every 26,000 years.
8. Another misunderstanding: "The Tzolk'in calendar ends on December 21, 2012, at precisely 11.11.am GMT". (p.143). No, it is the 13-baktun cycle of the Long Count calendar that ends on 21 December 2012, but not at 11.11. That is when the Winter Solstice occurs. It is debateable amongst Mayanists as to when the date rolls over - either dusk, dawn, or midnight.
8. They state that the Haab is the Calendar Round. (p.135)
9. Mixed start and end-dates: start date: Aug 13 3114 BC (p.136) end-date: 23 December 2012 (p.139), buit also talks of Galactic Alignment, (p.136), which is applicable only if the other correlation is used - start date 11 August 3114 BC; end-date 21 December 2012. On p.153, both dates are given, "December 21-23") showing the authors' confusion.
10. "The Aztecs used a sacred calendar called the Tonalpohualli, a long count calendar borrowed from the Mayan Tzolk'in system with some modifications added." The Tzolkin (and Tonalpohualli) ARE NOT the same as the Long Count!
11. The central panel of the Aztec Sunstone is presented as the entire Sunstone. The reason is that it was copied from the internet, and only the central panel of the colour rendition by Roberto Sieck Flandes can be found online. If you want to see the whole painting, see Beyond 2012 colour plates.
12. Galactic Alignment is stated to be "the winding down of precession". Galactic Alignment is a 36-year time window in the 26,000-year cycle of precession - not the end of it.
There are many more errors, but I'm sure you get the gist of this. This book is actually an insult to the intelligence!
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14 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointed, August 2, 2006
This review is from: The Ark of Millions of Years Volume Two: 2012 and the Harvest of the End Times (Paperback)
*** SPOILER *** This book is based upon the simple idea that our current Earth is a combination of a "temporal" earth that has been here for quite a long time and a "spiritual" earth that was created in a different universe and moved here during an event described in the Bible as the flood (of Noah). Evidence for this idea is nothing more than the words of various writings, including the Bible (including the Apocrypha), the Talmud, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Mormon, and lots of other books both ancient and modern. Whether quoting from the Bible, from Joseph Smith, or from Ragni and Rado, all writings are taken as equally authoritative. Since many of these writings have been interpreted, reinterpreted, and misinterpreted over and over, I found the lack of any real evidence very disappointing.
At the end, Mr. Clark relates, "My daughter Eve asked, 'Can you prove that such an event actually occurred?' I replied, ' Does it answer all your questions?' She slowly said, 'yes.' 'Then it must have happened' was my reply.
With apologies to Eve, this book fails to answer any of my questions. How can there be people and civilizations without spirit? How can there be people and civilizations in a spiritual world without bodies? What kind of a God creates non-spiritual beings and subjects them to catastrophic cataclysms? What kind of God creates spiritual beings, most of whom become incredibly evil, then destroys the evil ones and banishes those who have remained good and pure?
I'm glad I was able to borrow a copy of this book to read. I would not have been happy if I'd spent good money for it.
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