Crystal Skulls

The crystal skulls have been subject to many legends and fantastic stories that lie on the paranormal. Just recently, the fifth (?) installment of the Indiana Jones saga featured them (I haven't seen it so...) but one story caught my eye. Since their "discovery", people have alluded on to these solid crystal quartz skulls special powers such as divination. Even games like Ninja Gaiden 2 have included them into the game.

Anyway, one legend says that King Phillip II saw the defeat of his army on the planed attack on England using "a death's head made from a single piece of rock crystal," lit by "a ray of the setting sun." Okay, this really is a play but nonetheless they have been widely known for their out-of-place artifact status as their manufacture could have been very difficult assuming their pre-Colombian origin.

Now to the legend: It is believed in the existence of twelve skulls of this nature, varying in size and quartz composition. It is believed that if these skulls are reunited at some location just before the end of the Mayan calendar (December 21, 2012) along with a supposedly thirteen skull, they hold enough power to prevent the end of Man.

How will man fall at 2012's Winter Solstice is unknown. No one knows what will happen this precise day and no one will until that day. I think it's BS what is posted in many so-called paranormal sites displaying legends and myths as truth. I might, as well, be a scientologist if I believed this crap. The fact is that I don't think the Mayans were trying to deceive the future generations with such an elaborate calendar, the deceivers are those who try to instill fear into those ignorant of the truth for control's sake. Pretty much like what the church (pick one you like) did and to my opinion, still does. Anyway, that path is one I will take shortly but this is about the skulls.

Just yesterday I read an article at the Discovery News website that it was found that many of the skulls were being studied after the first ones we're discovered to be manufactured with modern tools not available in the pre-Columbian era. They were examined with electron microscopes and the likes of which leave no margin of doubt. Now you don't jump ahead to conclusions that these tools were of alien origin, no, the marks found on these skulls are of terrestrial origin circa 1800.

These frauds were demystified, but I must admit that it was a very romantic idea that these skulls were made by such advanced civilization and possessed an unknown task/purpose that marveled every one who knew of their existence.