Jan
15
How does the Mayan Calendar end?
I’ll be honest, I don’t really understand much about the Mayan Calendar. How does it end if it’s a circle that keeps moving? I thought a circle was endless, but that’s just me. So what does it mean when it ends? That a new “cycle” is starting or something? I don’t believe the world is ending, but I’m interested in what the Mayans believed, and I guess still do today. Could someone please explain this? Thanks.
Answer by Shana
It just stops.Yes,a circle is endless but for them it just stops on December 21,2012 .Nobody really knows why but it just does .If you want to learn more the history channel does a pretty good job of explaining
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I think it ends by spiraling inward to the center. Technically it could do that forever but considering the tools the mayans had access to, it is finite.
The problem with the mayan calander is that it does not end in the way that most people assume it does. You see, Their language was not fully understood, or at least in the same way that we came to understand the Egyptians. Thanks to the archealogical wonder that is the Rosetta Stone, historians were able to put together very acurate translations, as the Rosetta stone provided direct translations in at least 2 or 3 other languages. We did not have any such luck with the Mayans.
Furthermore, The 2012 date is not exactly spelled out on the calander. Mathematicians and other archeologists came up with that date; Though their estimations are not invalid, they are not as gauranteed as some people have been led to believe. It is also thought there may be no particular significance to the 2012 date, as it is just another cycle, like many that have come before it.