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Get ready for a full solar eclipse coming to your planet on November 13, 2012. This will be the final full eclipse of the current 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan Long Count,and that is just the beginning. The significance of this event transcends even Mayan cosmology, in which, as we will see, it is deeply integrated, speaking to a unified planetary vision of natural cycles, harmonic mathemagics, and the opportunity for aradical cultural renewal. Evidence for human interest in recording natural cycles goes back 35,000 years or more. The earliest known artifact to express a substantial mathematical awareness,with the potential to be used in a properly “calendrical” fashion, is The Ishango Bone. This baboon fibula was incised with 168 tally marks, and inset with a crystal,around 25,000 years ago in equatorial Africa, near the headwaters of the Nile river.