Jun
14
i am doing reaserch, on the mayan 2012 prophecy, what are the facts about it?
helpme out… i am doing reaserch about the mayan 2012 prophecy… ineed help… what are the facts?
Answer by Alyssa Staheli
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The world will not end on 12-21-2012, at least not according to the Maya. Maya urban culture, known as the Classic Period, flourished from about 250 CE until around 900 CE in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and parts of Central America. During this period the Maya built temples and monuments, created numerous works of art and writings, continued their astronomical observations, and built a network of cities. These cities lay buried under jungle growth for centuries. Excavation in Guatemala indicates Maya culture was quite advanced as early as 200 to 150 BCE.
One of the important discoveries from the Yucatan ruins is that the Maya had several calendars. One is known as the Long Count calendar, which is reset to day 0 every 1,872,000 days, a period known as The Great Circle (Diamond 2005: 167). The next reset date, by some calculations, is December 21, 2012. Obviously, this calendar is of no interest to the Maya any longer, since their civilization collapsed over a thousand years ago. (Though there are people today who are the descendants of the Maya and the culture lives on through them.) Nevertheless, this date is of enormous interest to certain doomsday prophets and New Age astrologers, such as John Calleman, who are spreading the good news either that the Maya knew the date when the world would end or they knew the date when a New Age of Transformation would begin. (The Mayan glyphs and hieroglyphs aren’t crystal clear about what the calendar means.)
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