On the winter solstice of December 21, 2012, the Sun will rise within the dark rift at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, an event that occurs once every 25,800 years. As John Major Jenkins describes in Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, this alignment represents the “union of the Cosmic Mother (the Milky Way) with First Father (the December solstice sun).” Mayan hieroglyphs describe the center of this dark rift as the “Hole in the Sky,” cosmic womb, or “black hole,” through which their wizard-kings entered other dimensions, accessed sacred knowledge, or toured across vast reaches of the cosmos. In September 2002, astronomers verified the existence of a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, naming it “Sagittarius B.” Jenkins writes: Something very profound and mysterious is going on here. Is it just a coincidence that lurking deep within the dark-rift “black hole” is the very real Black Hole at the center of our Galaxy? If not a coincidence, the dark-rift itself might indeed be the surface signifier of deeper cosmic mysteries, ones that the Maya were well aware of. This black hole is “the cosmic womb from which new stars are born, and from which everything in our Galaxy, including humans, came.” The dark rift through which the Sun will pass at the end of the Long Count is called, in the Quiche language, xibalba be, literally “underworld road.” p. 238
"Even though you do not measure the hours of the day as long or short, far or near, you still call it twelve hours. Because the signs of time's coming and going are obvious, people do not doubt it. Although they do not doubt it, they do not understand it. Or when sentient beings doubt what they do not understand, their doubt is not firmly fixed. Because of that, their past doubts do not necessarily coincide with their present doubt. Yet doubt itself is nothing but time. " Time and Technosphere 39