2006-07-05 14:37:06 · 10 answers · asked by jallan1951 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
They ran out of rock and no one has yet to translate the "continued on Page 2" inscription carefully hidden on the original calendar.
2006-07-05 14:47:44 · answer #1 · answered by Mama Otter 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't. That date marks the end and beginning of a calendar cycle, but it isn't the end of the calendar or the world.
Today's date in the Mayan calendar is 12.19.13.8.0. December 21, 2012 is 13.0.0.0.0. The world will really end on 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.
13.13.13.13.13.13.13.
13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0. I don't know the real-life date for that, but it isn't for millions and millions of years.
2006-07-05 21:48:32 · answer #2 · answered by Spartacus007 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My best guess is: That is as far as they got with their calendar making when some cataclysmic event occurred which caused them to stop working on the Mayan Calendar. It could have been war, famine, plague, the arrival of the White man or some other natural disaster that interrupted their calendar making.
Remember, they were chiseling in stone without the aid of modern tools or computers.
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2006-07-06 21:06:51 · answer #3 · answered by H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought the Mayan calendar actually ended in 2025
2006-07-05 23:48:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well all my books are packed away for moving
so all i can say is that the Mayan Calendar is a
5000 year calendar,
and that's the end date for the
5000 year cycle of how they see the end of their history ..
or something like that .....
2006-07-05 21:48:44 · answer #5 · answered by ♪σρսϟ яэχ♪ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are actually 3 Mayan calenders, the one about to end is called the 'Long Count.' To know what will happen at the end, ask what happened at the beginning: August, 3114 BC is when the current Long Count began. The world obviously did not 'end.' This is simply the period for which they calculated based upon their knowledge of astronomy.
2006-07-06 13:13:51 · answer #6 · answered by wehwalt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In some legends relating to the Mayan culture and their calender, people believe that very day is when the world will come to an end.
Personally, I don't. I believe we will recieve some sort of warning from the Lord before anything like that happens. Jesus would definately have his second coming before the world ends.
2006-07-05 23:04:52 · answer #7 · answered by Bryan W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2012 is just the end of a cycle
2006-07-11 12:13:20 · answer #8 · answered by michael s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe they knew they werent going any further than that LOL and they still missed for 500 years LOL
2006-07-05 23:44:43 · answer #9 · answered by Francisco T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is so interesting.
2006-07-06 22:08:12 · answer #10 · answered by apple 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋