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Understand the Power Janet Kuypers 12/17/19, on the anniversary of the Aztec Calendar/Sun Stone Discovery Humankind has a penchant for thinking the end is near. Whether it be from a Bible telling of the Book of Revelations, to mankind’s fault with our technology for the calendar change to 2000, or the unimaginably different Aztec apocalyptic cataclysms... — We visited New York City when the millennium changed, and saw that nothing fell apart. We went to a members-only sportsman’s “club” for beers on December 12, 2012, to toast to the Mayan prophecies that never happened. However, we all have something in common with every civilization — some of us believe that the end is near — whether it be from climate change, ice ages to droughts or floods, or a crater smash, maybe a comet, with an explosion raining ash down over civilization, nearly extinguishing all life — or whether we think our own mistakes will be our downfall, from computers not understanding calendar changes that make our technological world go black... or else it’s just the right leaders making just the wrong decisions and starting mass nuclear annihilation, destroying mankind, planet-wide. So yeah, all of us have thought about it, and all of us have tried to understand... — The disconcerting, the frightening things are that the Aztec culture — whose history is patchy, because Spanish conquests destroyed them — but the Aztec apocalypse story is so different from all the others because they believed all that destruction... already happened. — This world is not the first, take it from the Aztecs, and their Calendar Sun Stone discovery, centuries-old, a calendar used for astrology, chronology, or even for the religious worship of their Sun God. This discovery is one of the few things we revere from a civilization that never passed the Stone Age, but still knew of four “Suns”, eras, movements in history. — We may never have all the pieces to fully understand the power the Aztec civilization possessed in truly understanding our world. Now this Sun Stone, which was first found laying horizontally, is revered as “artwork” when viewed on a wall, for aesthetic beauty only. In doing this, we continue to fail to understand what one society understood, revered and feared. So with only parts of the pieces, shown incorrectly, to help us fail to understand, we continue to worry about the end, how it may come, and, without all the pieces together, we still wonder if we can truly be at peace at our end.