Comments on: : Who was the first person to misinterpret the Mayan Long Count as a doomsday prophecy? http://www.ufo-watch.com/doomsday-2/who-was-the-first-person-to-misinterpret-the-mayan-long-count-as-a-doomsday-prophecy.html UFO videos, images and reports from all over the world. Thu, 24 May 2012 23:38:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Caoilte http://www.ufo-watch.com/doomsday-2/who-was-the-first-person-to-misinterpret-the-mayan-long-count-as-a-doomsday-prophecy.html#comment-31933 Caoilte Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:45:11 +0000 http://www.ufo-watch.com/doomsday-2/who-was-the-first-person-to-misinterpret-the-mayan-long-count-as-a-doomsday-prophecy.html#comment-31933 Michael D. Coe, I think. In 1966, he wrote: "...there is a suggestion...that Armageddon would overtake the degenerate peoples of the world and all creation on the final day of the thirteenth [b'ak'tun]. Thus...our present universe [would] be annihilated [in December 2012] when the Great Cycle of the Long Count reaches completion." ("The Maya," 149) Michael D. Coe, I think. In 1966, he wrote:

“…there is a suggestion…that Armageddon would overtake the degenerate peoples of the world and all creation on the final day of the thirteenth [b'ak'tun]. Thus…our present universe [would] be annihilated [in December 2012] when the Great Cycle of the Long Count reaches completion.”

(“The Maya,” 149)

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