Why does the Mayan Calendar end in 2012?

Question

It is not an indication of the end of the world, that is a misunderstanding made by some people.

Reference : Psalm 35:8

If it is not about the end of the world, then what?

Answer 1

becouse of their counting system

Answer 2

I'm not exactly sure why you have a Bible reference to explain the Mayan calendar. I don't own a Bible to look it up.
The Mayan Long Count calendar doesn't end in 2012. The 12th Baktun of the calendar ends then. It's like when our calendar rolled over from 1999 to 2000--the end of the 20th century, beginning of the 21st, except that their Baktun is 396 years long. Theoretically the Long Count could go to 20 baktuns which is almost 3,000 more years.
Dec 20 2012 the date on the Mayan Long Count is 12.19.19.17.19 (the next to the last place only goes to 17, not 19)and on 12-21-2012 it's 13.00.00.00.00.
Read "Maya Cosmogenesis 2012" by John Major Jenkins for a lot more on this subject. Read my 2012 article on my Jaguar Nights blog or my regular website for other information on that day.
There's also a grand astronomical alignment that day which signifies the birth of the new sun and a new world age---again, it's about beginnings, not ending.

Answer 3

Like Gevera Bert said, the Mayan 2012 is not an "end of the world" date but an "end of an era" date. Culturally and religiously, at least of the Mayans, numbers came to represent important elemental and cosmic powers and 2012 is a number that contains or is divisable by some of the more powerful numbers (and I used to know what they were, but the last South American Archaeology class I took was three years ago and my field of expertise is Rome) but is also is supposed to be a coming-together of universal energies to that will purge away the bad and replenish the good.

In the scientific realm of reason, the 2012 is actually one of the predicted years that the North and South Poles will switch. Geological evidence has shown that through out the history of Earth the North and South poles will flip and recharge. This flipping of the poles changes animal migrations, affects weather patterns, oceanic currents as well as volcanic activity and earth quakes. This occured once before during pre-history times (where the poles flipped to where they are now) and knowledge of the event survived as legends and folklore into historic times when scholars were able to use mathematics to predict when it would happen again. Of course, because it happens so rarely (once every few millenia) what really happens gets exaggerated by storytellers and thrown out of proportion by fanatics until we get Dooms-Day mythology.

~~ Abaddon

Answer 4

People are doomsdayist. Especailly bible thumpers. People thought the world would come to an end in 1900, 1945 and 2000. Occording to many predictionists we will be around in some form, until 2050. The world as been at war, and natrual disaters have been around since man.....theres just more of us, and communication takes an instant.

Answer 5

If some of those crazy Islamist fundamentalists get their hands on nuclear weapons, they won't just be blowing up buses and trains around the world any more. Yup. The way things are going, 2012 may be just about the right time for this age of man to end.

Answer 6

I don`t know but the Mayan predict that the world will end in 2020

Answer 7

Actually the bible, in cryted codes, indicates that a meteor will strike Earth in 2012....The fact that you are telling me the Mayan civilization predicts it is really damn scarry.

Answer 8

because they won't have paper anymore to write the dates on....