Anyone have valid info regarding the Mayan Calendar....and why it ends?

Question

I have read the "doomsday" speculation...which I am not disputing. jsut really wanted to see if there were any other authoritative info out there that is worth checking out...

Answer 1

I have lots of valid information.
The first bit is that the Mayan Long Count calendar doesn't end, at least not on 12-21-2012 (the Winter solstice).
On that day it rolls from 12 Baktuns to 13 Baktuns (like ours going from 1999 to 2000, except that a Baktun is about 400 years long). The calendar can go up to 20 Baktuns, which is about 2800 more years.
Something DOES happen on that day...but it's not "doomsday". It's a grand astronomical alignment, a once-in-26,000 year conjunction of the sun and the Milky Way at dawn. These alignments of the Sun with the Milky way at the 4 major positions (Fall/Spring Equinox, Winter/Summer Solstice) signal new world ages, and the Winter Solstice conjunction is the beginning of a new grand age.
As far as this world ending goes, it's already ended. Ending doesn't have to mean cataclysm and mass death (although look at the tsunami, the hurricanes, the earthquakes...). What's going on right now is that we're in the birth pangs of the new world being born.
I have articles and information on the calendars, including a javascript countdown and a manual countdown, on my blogs and website. You can also read the book "Maya Cosmogenesis 2012" by John Major Jenkins.

Answer 2

December 21, 2012 is not the end of the Mayan Calender.

The mayan calender dose have ages though that last several thousand years. And the age of man comes to and end in December 21, 2012 wich is why many people feel this is the end of the world.

However if you look at the world today man is not often the center of things anymore... buidlings, finace, machines, computers, religion, the inviroment, ect ect ect. There are many other things standing out as much as mankind is.....

The end of the age of man mearly means the start of a new age.... it dose not mean mankind will not be a part of it... it just means men are not the center of the new age. The new age could be the age of space exsploration/colinization for all we know.

It could be an age of inlightenment!

It's nothing to be scared of......it just means a very big change is coming..... just becose death is a change it dosn't mean the change is death.

Answer 3

I agree with most of these on here esp. the Lady G. its an astronomical event, true, but it is when we reach the center of the Milky Way ( and no not the frickin candybar). If you take a look at a Mayan Calander ( i have one on my wall) you can see a man in the center sitting in a chair and a tree on the other side. The man represents the world, the tree ( like most belief systems; i.e. Scandinavian, Judeo-Christian, Hindu, Celtic...Beliefs) represents Life. As we move towards the center in 2012, Dec. 21, we move more into a Spiritual awakening. More of a Golden age in a way. One that hasn't been for many thousand of years. This just marks the end of a cycle, not of time.

Answer 4

Scholars and academics, on account of their knowledge of the Mayan calendar, are not at all perturbed about the upcoming date.

Contrary to popular belief, the Mayan calendar does not end on December 21, 2012; rather, it marks the end of a chronological cycle but not the end of the world at large. The Mayan calendar _does_ terminate on October 13 in the year 4772 AD. As you can see, we are several millenia from that date.

I think you should refer to the Wikipedia article on the same, which gives excellent details as to why all the hype is inaccurate. A link is given as a source.

Answer 5

yes the mayan calender is set up with cycles of the sun, wich are verried there is a7 day cycle 28 day cycle, lunar cycle in some respect the 52 year cycle or sirus any how the mayan callender began in 3110 ther year count is actualy guite close to the count of the jewish year count anyhow the main answer is because the cycle begins again the callender repeate s,which cycronizes the planets and stars back to the 0 count . at this time cataclysms occor as with alantis, lemuria .pangea every thing in history has been blamed on cycles of the heavens

Answer 6

The Mayans believed there were three other "worlds" before our current one. According to their calendar, the fourth world will end on December 21, 2012. At that time, the Mayan Gods will destroy our current world (and Mankind with it) and create the fifth world. These beliefs are similar to other Central American cultures.

Answer 7

Doomday should only be for Satan. He will cause us havoc, but we will get out Lord and savior and 1Cor.15:22; As in adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Mayan will fit in the math after Christ as South, then there is central and North as the last soil before the second coming of Christ comes to be organized with world.

Christ fits into the math Dan.9:24-27; his first coming to Rome #6 of Rev.17:10-14; to be cut off or crucified and he ascended John 3:13-17; Nations rise and fall.

Nations rise from nothing to power. Every major and offspring in this world has belonged to Satan control at his will.

606 before christ + [654 after [may be Mayan foward] + 606 after + 654 =] 1914 and 1260 man days WW1
or 1260 + 1260 = 2520 after Babylon #3 and 1260 man days, 3 1/2 years or 42 months
Rev.13:1-5-10; Rev13:10-18[man is 666];

606 before Christ + [666 after + 606 + 666 =] 1938 + 7 yeas WW2 = 1945 German Nation Hitler. Holocaust most outstanding, so Adolf Hitler was the 666 man.

606 Before Christ + [684 after + 606 + 684 =] 1974 end of Vietnam or Babylon #3 and
Daniel 12:11[2x 1290 =] 2580 less 606 before christ = 1974 after Christ.

606 before Christ + [729 after + 606 + 729 =] 2064 or after Babylon #3 of Rev.17:10-14; Daniel 12:12[2x 1335 =] 2670 less 606 before Christ = 2064 after Christ and this is all the prophecy given, we are 2612 after Babylon #3 of the world that Satan is in which will end as Matt.24:3,7,14,22,36; says it will.

There will be many false prophets arise, the most important thing to learn is how to not be counted in with antiChrist Heb.2:9,14,16[Jesus came as a man to die for this purpose]; John 3:13-17[He was the son of God John 17:3,5,24]; His enemies are satan and his angels and they will be cast down to earth to wait a short time Rev.12:7-12; for Jesus reign Rev.20:1-6; Then the world of Jesus that never ends Eph.3:21; will be without Satan 1000 years, then the final cleansing and all will be perfect before the God and Father of us all.

Answer 8

Just some basics to get us started. The Maya were adept skywatchers. Their Classic Period is thought to have lasted from 200 A.D. to 900 A.D., but recent archeological findings are pushing back the dawn of Mayan civilization in Mesoamerica. Large ruin sites indicating high culture with distinctly Mayan antecedents are being found in the jungles of Guatemala dating back to before the common era. And even before this, the Olmec civilization flourished and developed the sacred count of 260 days known as the tzolkin. The early Maya adopted two different time keeping systems, the "Short Count" and the Long Count. The Short Count derives from combining the tzolkin cycle with the solar year and the Venus cycle of 584 days. In this way, "short" periods of 13, 52 and 104 years are generated. Unfortunately, we won't have occasion to dwell on the properties of the so-called Short Count system here. The Long Count system is somewhat more abstract, yet is also related to certain astronomical cycles. It is based upon nested cycles of days multiplied at each level by that key Mayan number, twenty:


Number of Days / Term
1 / Kin (day)

20 / Uinal

360 / Tun

7200 / Katun

144000 / Baktun

Notice that the only exception to multiplying by twenty is at the tun level, where the uinal period is instead multiplied by 18 to make the 360-day tun. The Maya employed this counting system to track an unbroken sequence of days from the time it was inaugurated. The Mayan scholar Munro Edmonson believes that the Long Count was put in place around 355 B.C. This may be so, but the oldest Long Count date as yet found corresponds to 32 B.C. We find Long Count dates in the archeological record beginning with the baktun place value and separated by dots. For example: 6.19.19.0.0 equals 6 baktuns, 19 katuns, 19 tuns, 0 uinals and 0 days. Each baktun has 144000 days, each katun has 7200 days, and so on. If we add up all the values we find that 6.19.19.0.0 indicates a total of 1007640 days have elapsed since the Zero Date of 0.0.0.0.0. The much discussed 13-baktun cycle is completed 1872000 days (13 baktuns) after 0.0.0.0.0. This period of time is the so called Mayan "Great Cycle" of the Long Count and equals 5125.36 years.

But how are we to relate this to a time frame we can understand? How does this Long Count relate to our Gregorian calendar? This problem of correlating Mayan time with "western" time has occupied Mayan scholars since the beginning. The standard question to answer became: what does 0.0.0.0.0 (the Long Count "beginning" point) equal in the Gregorian calendar? When this question is answered, archeological inscriptions can be put into their proper historical context and the end date of the 13-baktun cycle can be calculated. After years of considering data from varied fields such as astronomy, ethnography, archeology and iconography, J. Eric S. Thompson determined that 0.0.0.0.0 correponded to the Julian date 584283, which equals August 11th, 3114 B.C. in our Gregorian calendar. This means that the end date of 13.0.0.0.0, some 5125 years later, is December 21st, 2012 A.D.1

The relationship between the Long Count and Short Count has always been internally consistent (both were tracked alongside each other in an unbroken sequence since their conception). Now it is very interesting to note that an aspect of the "Short Count", namely, the sacred tzolkin count of 260 days, is still being followed in the highlands of Guatemala. As the Mayan scholar Munro Edmonson shows in The Book of the Year, this last surviving flicker of a calendar tradition some 3000 years old supports the Thompson correlation of 584283. Edmonson also states that the Long Count was begun by the Maya or pre-Maya around 355 B.C., but there is reason to believe that the Long Count system was being perfected for at least 200 years prior to that date.

The point of interest for these early astronomers seems to have been the projected end date in 2012 A.D., rather than the beginning date in 3114 B.C. Having determined the end date in 2012 (for reasons we will come to shortly), and calling it 13.0.0.0.0, they thus proclaimed themselves to be living in the 6th baktun of the Great Cycle. The later Maya certainly attributed much mythological significance to the beginning date, relating it to the birth of their deities, but it now seems certain that the placement of the Long Count hinges upon its calculated end point. Why did early Mesoamerican skywatchers pick a date some 2300 years into the future and, in fact, how did they pinpoint an accurate winter solstice? With all these considerations one begins to suspect that, for some reason, the ancient New World astronomers were tracking precession.

http://www.levity.com/eschaton/Why2012.html

Answer 9

2012 is date of the Great Conclave of Heaven.

It is the date at which the reconstituted great religions of humanity join as one- the end and the new beginning.

See the constitution of One Heaven for yourself:
http://one-heaven.org

Answer 10

i dont know sorry