Apocalypse No: Hermosa Mayanist helps scholars refute warnings of a worldwide cataclysm
Reproduction of 2012-related ‘Monument 6’ — based in part on Donald Hales’ photography — from the cover of Mark Van Stone’s ‘2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya.” If you are reading this after Dec. 21, Donald Hales was right. A potential doomsday, supposedly prophesied by the pre-Columbian Maya people of Mexico and Guatemala, has come and gone without the end of the world as we know it. A number of authors, bloggers and small filmmakers predicted a cataclysm or other massive upheaval, and the major motion picture “2012” further boosted the profile of the supposed apocalypse. Public concern has grown enough to prompt NASA scientists to go online and answer nervous questions about perceived threats from invisible planets or black holes. But Hermosa native Hales, 58 — whose photos of an elusive and fragmentary Maya artifact provided a key piece of the Dec. 21 puzzle — stands with serious scholars and scientists who naysay the doomsayers. “We’re not talking about the end of the world,” Hales nay-said. The Maya artifact photographed by Hales as a boy in 1965 is a man-high stone monument, covered with bold Maya hieroglyphs dating from the seventh century. “Monument 6,”…
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