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Million Years ago... An asteroid impacts Earth, forever changing life on our planet. Only the object wasn't an asteroid... For 32 years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel has investigated the Mayan Calendar, a 2,500 year old enigma of time and space that predicts Humanity will perish on December 21st, 2012 (winter solstice). Julius believes certain unexplainable sites: The Great Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge, the giant desert drawings of the Nazca Plateau, the Temple of Angkor Wat, the Pyramid of the Sun, and the key site--the Kukulcan Pyramid in Chichen Itza in the Yucatan Peninsula (site of the ancient asteroid impact) represent pieces of a global puzzle linked to the salvation of our species. Ridiculed by his peers, Julius dies before he can solve the Doomsday prophecy. Now, only one person can prevent our annihilation--Julius's son, Michael, a patient locked up in a Miami mental asylum. Miami: 2012 Psychology major Dominique Vazquez reports to the Miami asylum to complete her graduate internship. The new director assigns her to a special patient--Mick Gabriel, a paranoid schizophrenic with a high I.Q. Mick attempts to charm her into believing his father's theories of the Apocalypse so he can escape. What Dominique doesn't realize is that she represents Mick's last hope of saving humanity. Fall Equinox: 2012 As it has done for a thousand years, a serpent's shadow appears on the northern balustrade of the Kukulcan Pyramid...as a rare galactic alignment occurs and a deep space radio transmission reaches Earth, activating the remnants of an object buried long ago in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the Beginning of the End . . . On December 21st in the year 2012, the entire Human Race will DIE! So predicts the 2,000 year old Mayan Calendar. But before you dismiss this prophecy as mere myth, consider this: * The Mayan Calendar is a more precise an instrument than all but our most modern-day calendars. * The Maya were an enigma. Here was an ancient civilization that somehow came into possession of advanced knowledge in astronomy, physics, and mathematics yet never mastered the wheel. * It is said that the great teacher, Kukulcan was the calendar's inventor. Kukulcan is described in both Mayan myth and artifacts as being a large Caucasian, with long flowing white beard and hair and deep-blue eyes. Yet the first Caucasians did not set foot in the Yucatan for 500 years after Kukulcan's departure! * In almost every advanced ancient culture, there appears a similar great wise man matching Kukulcan's appearance. The Egyptians called him Osiris, the Inca Viracocha, the Aztecs Quetzalcoatl. * The Kukulcan pyramid in Chichen Itza is a perfect ziggurat of stone. Each of its 4 sides has 91 steps. With the platform at the top it equals 365 -as in days of the year. * For over 1,000 years, on each Autumn and Spring Equinox, the afternoon sun creates the shadow of a giant serpent on the pyramid's northern balustrade. As the sun sets, the body of the serpent appears to descend the steps to meet with its stone head. What does it mean? Is it a warning? * When Kukulcan abandoned the Maya, his people began barbaric human sacrifices, all in an effort to forestall the end of the world. Tens of thousands of men, women, and children joined a procession atop to Kukulcan pyramid-only to have their hearts cut out by priests! It is said human blood ran down the stone steps like a red river. * The Spanish conquistador, Cortez, invaded the Yucatan hundreds of years after Kukulcan departed Chichen Itza. Both the Maya and Aztecs surrendered, even though they greatly outnumbered the Spanish. Why? Because they confused Cortez as their bearded white wise man returning to save them. * The Great Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge, the Nazca Drawings, the Pyramid of the Sun and the temple of Angkor Wat. How are they related to Humanity's prophesied Doom? Steve Alten, the New York Times Best-Selling Author of MEG; A Novel of Deep Terror & The TRENCH presents DOMAIN his most exciting novel yet, set to hit stores in January 2001. © 2000 Steve Alten. All rights reserved. |