The third link (Credo Mutwa) caught my eye:
http://www.2012.com.au/Credo.html I had read the Martin interview a while back (reptile aliens, abductions, sexual misconduct by the "aliens"!) and just had to roll my eyes. Now here is a little article on a talk old Credo gave in the late '90's. It seems that not just the Mayans, but also certain African tribes (if this story is to be believed) are into the 2012 thing also:
http://www.livinglakes.org/stlucia/credomutwa.htm I will quote the relevant part here:
Let me tell you two last things please. One, it is this, that I am told by the great storytellers of our tribes, that fresh water is not native to our earth. That at one time, many thousands of years ago a terrible star, or the kind called Mu-sho-sho-no-no, the star with a very long tail, descended very close upon our skies. It came so close that the earth turned upside down and what had become the sky became down, and what was the heavens became up. The whole world was turned upside down. The sun rose in the south and set in the north. Then came drops of burning black stuff, like molten tar, which burned every living thing on earth that could not escape. After that came a terrible deluge of water accompanied by winds so great that they blew whole mountaintops away. And after that came huge chunks of ice bigger than any mountain and the whole world was covered with ice for many generations. After that the surviving people saw an amazing sight. They saw rivers and streams of water that they could drink, and they saw that some of the fishes that escaped from the sea were now living in these rivers. That is the great story of our forefathers. And we are told that this thing is going to happen again very soon. Because the great star, which is the lava of our sun, is going to return on the day of the year of the red bull, which is the year 2012.....Sigh :roll: