what exactly is the mayan calendar?

Question

i hear people saying that the calendar ends in 2012, what does that mean? the world comes to its very end? what makes the mayan calendar so important to believe that what it is saying is true?

Answer 1

There was a program on about this just last night.

All I can tell you (from the program) is that it is a 365 day calendar, like ours, however it's considered to be the most accurate calendar ever created (even more accurate than the one we live by now).

I don't know if I'll recount this correctly or not so if someone knows, please do correct me... but I believe it is the mayans who had this story. In a much earlier year ending in 12, the mayans were attacked and destroyed by the very technology they had created for themselves. So the prediction is that in 2012, our technology will attack and destroy us like it did the mayans.

So if the predictions were correct, (I remember this image very clearly from the show I watched) our blenders will choke us with their cords and our microwaves will try and cook us to death.

I'm not being 'funny,' this is what the stories fortell.

www.paranormal-society.com

Answer 2

The Mayan Calendar is not a prophecy. The Mayan calendar does not say that in a certain time period this or that will happen in concrete terms. What we have in order to help us predict the future are Underworlds – predetermined sequences of energies that play out according to exact schedules. This is no different in its works than what is also termed Biblical Prophecy except the time lines are not equal. At best, not revealed on any level of Man’s understandings.

However, with either the Mayan Calendar or the Bible the predictions are conditioned by the intuition and background of the person who makes them. Thus, I recommend that you evaluate the reliability of predictions said to be based on the Mayan calendar by seeing how accurate the person making them has been in the past. There are several of these sites on the internet. Those who claim that the Mayan calendar ends December 21, 2012, however usually do not even put themselves to the test and usually have a very haphazard form of knowledge about the subject. What so called prophetic value could or does the Mayan Calendar then have?

What the Mayan calendar tells us however, is that the cosmic plan is NOT for the world to come to an end. Besides, even if its energies will favor certain general trends and alterations of relationships, human beings have a choice as to how to respond to these, which may influence the course of events for the better or for the worse. In fact, even if we have reasons to believe that the majority in the Middle East engages in a battle along the old front lines defined by the dualist religions or the Biblical scriptures, there will also emerge expressions of the unification of the left and right brain mentalities that would be truly messianic as it provides a path towards oneness. This particular theme is outlined in the Bible through its passages.

The reason we may expect this is that the Galactic Underworld or laws of the universe favors the right brain half (right hemisphere) and this change in the global field helps to make the minds of people whole. Although, such a spiritual wholeness, unfettered by scriptures of supremacy, may already exist in a minority in the world’s region it will also grow throughout the time period ruled by the energy of Quetzalcoatl and become especially visible in its second half.

It will not be favoring any of the existing patriarchal religions in the area, but will be one that seeks to transcend the influence of scriptures that call for supremacy. It will be a movement that see all human beings as equal in the eyes of God and recognizes that the separation between them is generated by the religions created by human beings alone. It is an expression of people who realize that to God all of humanity is His /Her children and does not favor any particular religion over the others. It can therefore be truly classified as an awakening of humanity to its current position within the laws of the universe and not of Man’s making.

Answer 3

there are tons of books about this subject.. it's not really the end of the world, but the end of a particular cycle in evolution of the human race.. as to the second part of your question, what makes anything so important that people are convinced into assigning validity to it?? possibly none other that individual anticipation

Answer 4

Good info here....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar#2012

Answer 5

A failed system in that they left off Halloween and black history month.

Answer 6

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

Interesting stuff about how and why it will end according to the Mayans....