December 21, 2012 is the end of the long count on the Mayan calendar. Actually, if you have something planned for that day and want to really zero in on this, it occurs at exactly 11:11 GMT. Purportedly you can expect everything from solar flares to volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes and a devastating polar shift. The end of the long count could well mean that we are all down for the count. But before you start feeling too special, lets take a quick look at some Mayan "Mythology". (I put the word mythology in quotes because most people don't believe these things happened. In my opinion, if you want to believe their prediction for the future, you better believe their rendition of the past.)
In the beginning the Sky People created the oceans, mountains, and forests. It was all good with the exception that they didn't have anyone to worship them. So they created the Mud People. The only problem with the Mud People was that every time it rained they melted. So the Sky Gods sent a flood that washed away the Mud People. So ended the first of the Mayan eras.
The Sky Gods then created the Rock People. These guys held up really well to the rain, but they weren't very smart. (you've heard the old Mayan saying "dumb as a box of rocks"?) Also, they couldn't move very fast. The Sky Gods wiped them out too. End of the second era.
Next came the Wood People. This was much better. They didn't melt, moved pretty fast and were relatively smart. The only problem was, as far as worshipers go, they had no emotion. They were... well... heartless wood people. The Sky Gods burned them out and so ended the third era.
Then the Sky Gods made the corn people. Warm, passionate, mobile, intelligent people made out of corn. That's where we are today. According to Mayan mythology, we are the people of the corn. We stand here wondering if we have lived up to the expectations of the Sky Gods. If not, we most certainly will go the way of the mud people, the rock people and the wood folks.
The Mayans developed the agriculture and made their living by growing and selling corn. In a sense, they really were corn people. In an even greater sense today we are the corn people. Half of what we feed our people today is corn. We even make our cows and chickens eat corn. We genetically modify our corn to resist weed killers and insecticides with little regard to our own health. If the Sky Gods don't wipe us out the corn probably will.
So what is the 2012 Caveman's survival strategy? Simple. Don't eat corn. Maintain your Paleo diet. Eat grass fed organic beef. Folks, it's not too late. We don't have to be the corn people. We are better than that. We don't have to go the way of the mud people.
