The Orion Prophecy : Will the World Be Destroyed in 2012? by Patrick Geryl & Gino Ratinckx prophecies from the Maya and the old Egyptians these predictions come from the Mayan Egyptians they are descendants of the legendary Atlantis which is currently buried under the South Pole the Atlanteans had highly evolved astronomical knowledge and were able to exactly predict the previous worldwide flood 9792 BC for built tens of thousands of boats and escape to South America and Egypt.