The Orion Prophecy

The Orion ProphecyPart 1 : The upsideAfter months of waiting, The Orion Prophecy by Patrick Geryl and Gino Ratinckxwas finally published in December 2001, by Adventures Unlimited. Patrick hadkindly sent me the manuscript to read, about 3 months before publication, and wecorresponded regarding certain aspects of the book. I decided to wait until thefinal version was published before reviewing the book, and I'm glad I did,because in the final version, the translation from Belgian to English had beentidied up. Also the inclusion of pictures made the text much easier tounderstand.Patrick Geryl had been following a fruit and vegetable diet, to improvelongevity, and had several pension plans, that were to mature in 2015, and couldnot be cashed before that year. Then he read The Mayan Prophecies, by Gilbertand Cotterell, (see item 3), which concluded that the Maya had based their LongCount calendar around long-term magnetic cycles of the Sun, and that the worldfaced a catastrophe in the year 2012. Geryl was so convinced by the book that hecancelled his pension plans, after 20 years of subscriptions, and started hisown investigation into the matter, to look for more evidence. Part 2: The down-sideGeryl and Ratinckx go on to conclude that Maurice Cotterell (in The MayanProphecies) was right, and that the cataclysm will be caused by a major magneticreversal on the Sun, that reverses the earth's magnetic poles, and they also(p.152) repeat from The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls (Morton & Thomas p.206);"just before sunset, Central American time, 21-22* December 2012", that "Venussinks below the western horizon, and at the same time, the Pleiades will riseabove the horizon in the east. Symbolically speaking, we will see the death ofVenus and the birth of the Pleiades" This, they say, means a new precessionalcycle. Morton & Thomas got the whole idea from Adrian Gilbert, (Cotterell'sco-author of The Mayan Prophecies,) who based it around his discovery that theBirth of Venus occurred in the same symbolic way, on 12 August 3114 BC, at thestart of the current 13-Baktun cycle (see item 35 ). However, John Major Jenkinschecked and double-checked Gilbert's claims and found Gilbert had made amistake. He then interviewed him, but Gilbert had no explanation (click here forthe interview). In the same interview, regarding the observation that thecomplex mathematics and graphs in The Mayan Prophecies do not actually explainthe end of the 13-Baktun cycle in 2012, Gilbert's answers were not convincing(see item 3 ) *Morton & Thomas have "21 December 2012"Apart from the authors' endorsement of The Mayan Prophecies, there are severalother points that did not quite add up.The first is the authors' identificationof the Amenhemet III pyramid at Hawara with the star Aldebaran. As you can seein this map of the Nile area (from The Complete Pyramids by Mark Lehner, Orionadded), when Orion is drawn to scale, with the belt stars aligned to the 3 Gizapyramids, Aldebaran's position ( in the constellation of Taurus), is nowherenear the Hawara area - not even in the same direction.This means that the identification of the Labyrinth building with the Hyades(the astronomical Labyrinth) is also wrong. I haven't got a map showing Denderaand Esna's positions in relation to Giza, so I can't comment on those.