Yes­ter­day saw the death of Jose Arguelles. Jose was the man who first brought the idea of 2012 and the Mayan Cal­en­dar to pub­lic atten­tion through his 1987 book The Mayan Fac­tor.
For insid­ers: he departed this Planet on Solar Moon 17 (March 23), Red Spec­tral Moon, at 6:10 a.m (the exact same time that he was born in 1939 in the Red Spec­tral Moon year).