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| Posted By: confused Posted On: November 1st Views: 29 | 2012 I am confused by all this 2012 stuff. I keep reading that the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world in 2012. Does it or doesn´t it? |
| Posted By: Keith Mayes Posted On: November 2nd Views: 26 | RE: 2012 No, the Mayan calendar does not make any predictions for 2012, it just happens to be the end of a "Long Count" period in their calendar and is when a new long count would start, nothing more than that. The Mayan Calendar This is just the summary from the above Wikipedia link which gives full details. "Misinterpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is the basis for a New Age belief that a cataclysm will take place on December 21, 2012. December 20, 2012 is simply the last day of the 13th b'ak'tun. But that is not the end of the Long Count because the 14th through 20th b'ak'tuns are still to come. Sandra Noble, executive director of the Mesoamerican research organization FAMSI, notes that "for the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle". However, she considers the portrayal of December 2012 as a doomsday or cosmic-shift event to be "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in." Enough said. |