Actually, "Armageddon" is the Christian name of the particular place where the final battle between good and evil will occur.

In The Craft, we have no "final battle". Instead the fight between what the Christians call "good" and "evil" is a daily event. There are, however, conflicts between the Gods (Mother, Daughter, Father, and Son) commensurate with the changing of the Eras.

Generally these conflicts are minor. Perhaps we are humanizing the Gods when we say that most of the Gods bow to the inevitable "change of leadership" that occurs every 2000 years. However, it has been documented over the millennia that every 8000 years a major "fight" develops.

It seems that each time the era of the Son comes to an end, there is some sort of cataclysmic event that kills many people and destroys virtually all civilizations.

It is believed that the Son, when called upon to surrender His authority, behaves as a spoiled child and would rather see it destroyed than handed to someone else. While it does fit the observed phenomenon and timetable, it may be egocentric to assign such human reactions to such a deity.

As in a common variety of jokes; I have some good news and some bad news. First the good news. We may be in an excellent position to verify this believed opinion first hand. Now the bad news. We will probably not be able to do a damned thing about it except grin and bear it. Pagan theologians estimate the final end of the era of the Son to be anywhere between the year 2000 and 2020.

The confusion comes from the conversions from one calendar to the next. Many people throughout history used different calendars. The Jews used one calendar to denote the birth of Yeshua, the Romans used another. The Chinese dated the appearance of the nova called the "star of Bethlehem" with still a third.

These dates were translated into the Julian calendar sometime after the first century A.D. (modern calendar). It wasn't until after North America was colonized (I forget the exact date) that the Catholic church switched to the Gregorian calendar used today, during which everyone lost 11 days.

Compounding this confusion is the lack of mathematical ability on the part of some early Christian monks. Some how, in their calculations, they misdated the birth of their own Messiah by 5 years! (Yeshua was born in 5 BCE.)

However, no less accurate than the modified Gregorian calendar we use today, was that devised by the Mayans of Central and South America. Bear in mind that the Mayan calendar was inscribed in rock more than 1000 years BCE, Nonetheless, even today it accurately designates the solar solstices and equinoxes.

The Mayan calendar has one major difference from our own. Our calendar can continue forever. The Mayan calendar ends abruptly in the year 2012.

It's not that the author ran out of space when scribing the Mayan calendar, but rather that the Mayans believed that civilization as we now know it would/will end in 2012. A depressing thought, isn't it?

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