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).