Why do you think the Mayan Calender ends in 2012?

Question

In december 2012 the Mayan calender suddenly ends, it is said to be the end of the great astronmical cycle, what do you think will happen at this date, if anything?

Answer 1

I just found a site that will translate dates into the mayan calendar, funny then that you can enter dates way after 2012 and it comes up.

Where are you getting your information from?

check out the link below from wilkpedia.
it says,

'End of the world?
The end of the 13th b'ak'tun is conjectured to have been of great significance to the Maya, but does not mark the end of the world. According to the Popol Vuh, a book compiling details of creation accounts known to the Quiché Maya of the colonial-era highlands, we are living in the fourth world. The Popol Vuh describes the first three creations that the gods failed in making and the creation of the successful fourth world where men were placed. The Maya believed that the fourth world would end in catastrophe and the fifth and final world would be created that would signal the end of mankind.

The last creation ended on a long count of 13.0.0.0.0. Another 13.0.0.0.0 will occur on December 21, 2012, and it has been discussed in many New Age articles and books that this will be the end of this creation or something else entirely. However, the Maya abbreviated their long counts to just the last five vigesimal places. There were an infinite number of larger units that were usually not shown. When the larger units were shown (notably on a monument from Coba), the end of the last creation is expressed as 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0, where the units are obviously supposed to be 13s in all larger places. In this age we are only approaching 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.13.0.0.0.0, and the larger places are nowhere near the 13s that would match the end of the last creation. (Schele and Friedel 1990: 430)

This is confirmed by a date from Palenque, which projects forward in time to 1.0.0.0.0.0, which will occur on 13 October, 4772. The Classic Period Maya obviously did not believe that the end of this age would occur in 2012. According to the Maya, there will be a baktun ending in 2012, a significant event being the end of a 13th 400 year period, but NOT THE END OF THE WORLD.

Answer 2

Well yes 2012 has always been given as the date for the end of the world but then ... I remember being a wee girl, told that come the year 2000 we'd all live on a daily pill (Food) and have robots serve us as at home! So if 2012 is anything to go by that ... There's still hope for us however having said that ... At the rate we're going, a few missiles here, there and everywhere and we might well prove the mayan calendar false by not making it to 2012!

Answer 3

I agree with most of the people who have answered this question. I doubt that it will be the end of the world. It might be the end of an era. I think that all the changes in the weather,world politics, socioeconomic issues that we are going through now reflect that we are going through some changes. I don' t take from granted all changes that we have suffered since 2000. I know that a big part of these issues is just mankind, but there's been happening so many things at the same time that I think we should take into consideration when an era ends and another begins. Not only the Maya's predicted the end of a cycle,I think that other cultures and religions know the same fact.

Answer 4

Nothing except the very use full astronomical calender, that which is off by only a second or two from our current calender. It had to end sometime and it looks as if they left in a hurry. There's no indication why the city was eradicated of its populous so fast, with nothing to indicate why. Famine, Disease, war ? We just know the Mayans left about five hundred years ago. So the calender ending in. 2012 is anybodies guess.

Answer 5

Their calendar ends in 2012 because their seers could not see beyond the transition that takes place around this time.

There is a Spiritual awareness dawning on the world where ALL the measures of the past shall become as dust and ashes.

Quite simply, the Mayans could not see 'through' this window of time.

Now, an interesting fact is that the Christian era actually began 6 years before we have been told it did... thus, this next few months sees the year 2012 unfold according to the Mayan time line.

Answer 6

The Mayans divided time into different great ages. As one age ended so did the current calender and a new one would begin. The current Mayan calendar ending in 2012 just imples a new epoch for humanity.

Answer 7

I don't think about why it ends because it doesn't. The 12th Baktun ends. A Baktun is a Mayan unit of time measurement which is 396 years long. 12-21-2012 is day one of the 13th Baktun.
On that day there is an astrological alignment at dawn between the Milky Way and the sun which only happens every 26,000 years. It signals a new world age.

Answer 8

No, it's true. I think they did this at the X-Files series finale. They said that aliens will enslave the earth then. I seriously doubt that, because I do'nt even want anything to do with this planet.

But I have also heard that it's going to be the end of the world. However, Nostrodamus' predicted that after the third anti-christ (his predictions nailed napoleon was the first, and then hitler right on the head) and a war bigger than WWII, the world will be at peace. So perhaps this is the war he predicted and then after that, there will be world peace after December 21st, 2012. If that's not worth dying for, I do'nt know what is.

Answer 9

It is a misnomer to say the Mayan calander ends in 2012. The Mayan calander is circular (have you ever seen an eternal calander) at the end of 2012 the calendar rolls over and starts fresh. Within the Mayan society (similar to the greeks) they had what historians call 'ages" the gold age the silver age etc. Each one of these ages is just another representation of their calendar once again rolling ove to start again.

Answer 10

It recycles, though--I think it's just the end of an era. Or maybe the X-Files was right and the aliens are coming back in 2012. Or it might just be the movie. Is there another movie coming out? Is that what's at the end of the world--an X-Files movie? It'll make it more interesting for those of us Left Behind.