what is the mayan calendar? what does it prophesise?

Answer 1

The Mayan Calendar is something profoundly different than just a system to mark off the passage of time. The Mayan Calendar is above all a prophetic calendar that may help us understand the past and foresee the future. It is a calendar of the Ages that describes how the progression of Heavens and Underworlds condition the human consciousness and thus the frames for our thoughts and actions within a given Age.

The Mayan Calendar is not predicting the end of the world 2012, but the start of a new era; the golden age.

About the Mayas
The Mayas were Central American Indians whose great civilisation was destroyed by the Spanish. They lived in an area which includes parts of modern-day Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras and southern Mexico. The Mayan civilisation was far advanced in some fields, notably astronomy, architecture, sculpture and heiroglyphic writing. They also had a sophisticated calendar that is called the Mayan Calendar.


What is so special about the Mayan Calendar?

The person with no previous exposure to the Mayan Calendar will usually initially be surprised by the fact that some people today take such an interest in an ancient calendar. After all, human history has seen a high number of different calendars. Is not then the Mayan calendar just a very specialized subject of interest only to specialists or history buffs? Why would the world today need another calendar than the Gregorian or Muslim that are currently in use, and why should this be the Mayan calendar? some may ask.

Well, to begin with most people probably have a much too limited view of the importance of the Mayan civilization, and Native American traditions generally. In fact, at their height in the 5th to 9th centuries AD, the Mayan cities would be among the largest in the world and developed the most advanced mathematics and astronomy of their day. And so, even if the Native American civilizations hardly survived the later contact with the Europeans they were and are the carriers of a significant and irreplaceable part of the global human consciousness.

When we talk about the Mayan Calendar something profoundly different is also meant than just a system to mark off the passage of time. The Mayan Calendar is above all a prophetic calendar that may help us understand the past and foresee the future. It is a calendar of the Ages that describes how the progression of Heavens and Underworlds condition the human consciousness and thus the frames for our thoughts and actions within a given Age. The Mayan Calendar provides an exact schedule for the Cosmic Plan and the unfolding of all things that come into existence. There is now ample empirical evidence for this, something that shines new light on the age old questions of mankind. Things do exist for a reason. The reason is that they fit into the divine cosmic plan. For those that seriously engage in a study of the Mayan Calendar this soon becomes evident and the former materialist world view loses all relevance. The Mayan Calendar is a gateway to the worlds of consciousness which the majority of humanity has been blinded to through the use of false or delusory calendars.

Since everything that exists is an aspect of consciousness, and the Mayan Calendar describes the evolution of consciousness in all of its aspects, no stone is left unturned for the serious student of the Mayan Calendar. All of science is affected, all of religion is affected, all of life is affected. We are here for a reason. Time is no longer equated with money, but with spirit. Time is inspiration!

Answer 2

There are many Mayan calendars. I am guessing you're talking about the Long Count. It is just a calendar like any other, but it's based on a different type of numbering system--base 20 instead of base 10. The days are numbered 0-19. It's got a bio-rhythm of 20, 18 and 13 and all it "prophesies" is that one day will follow the next as it always has and always will.
On the so-called "end date", which is actually just the first day of the 13th Baktun (a Baktun is 396 years), which is 12-21-2012 in our calendar, there will be a grand astronomical alignment at dawn between the sun and the Milky Way which to the Maya signified a new world age. The dawning of a new age doesn't mean that the old age ends at the same moment, btw, in fact our world ended about 15 years ago.
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.

Answer 3

The Maya calendar is actually a system of distinct calendars and almanacs used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

These calendars could be synchronised and interlocked in complex ways, their combinations giving rise to further, more extensive cycles.

Neither the Tzolk'in nor the Haab' system numbered the years. The combination of a Tzolk'in date and a Haab' date was enough to identify a date to most people's satisfaction, as such a combination did not occur again for another 52 years, above general life expectancy.

Because the two calendars were based on 260 days and 365 days respectively, the whole cycle would repeat itself every 52 Haab' years exactly. This period was known as a Calendar Round. The end of the Calendar Round was a period of unrest and bad luck among the Maya, as they waited in expectation to see if the gods would grant them another cycle of 52 years


The essentials of the Maya calendric system are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout the region, dating back to at least the 6th century BCE. It shares many aspects with calendars employed by other earlier Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Zapotec and Olmec, and contemporary or later ones such as the Mixtec and Aztec calendars. Although the Mesoamerican calendar did not originate with the Maya, their subsequent extensions and refinements to it were the most sophisticated. Along with those of the Aztecs, the Maya calendars are the best-documented and most completely understood.

By the Maya mythological tradition, as documented in Colonial Yucatec accounts and reconstructed from Late Classic and Postclassic inscriptions, the deity Itzamna is frequently credited with bringing the knowledge of the calendar system to the ancestral Maya, along with writing in general and other foundational aspects of Maya culture

Answer 4

The Mayan long count selection Calendar is genuine. It exists, it marks, time, and it rolls over to a clean cycle on December 21, 2012. there have been no predictions concerning to the worldwide ending. For the Mayans, achieving the top of a protracted count selection cycle became into the reason for a brilliant occasion.

Answer 5

the mayan calendar is the calendar used by the mayan people of south america

in terms of "prophesy", the calendar stops dead on december 21, 2012. some people (myself partially included) believe this means the world will end or change drastically at that time

Answer 6

Accordint to some crop circles made by ufo's world will end in 1012, mayan calendar says so too, but it must be just a new age start, not the end of world.

Answer 7

mayan calender ends in 2012, and this prophecy means end times is at hand!! mayans have got excellent prediction capabilities and they were also advanced in Science (Astronomy, astrology (if you count as Science :) and mining process.. then why they have disappeared is a question..