you know, the mayan calendar was premade, up to the year 2012, like the world just stops being. Or maybe just changes drastically. Btw, who were the mayans, and why do we think they're so smart they know when the world ends (as we know it)?
2006-12-02 21:21:56 · 16 answers · asked by C.R. Finn 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
The Technological Singularity.
December 12, 2012
2006-12-02 21:24:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your question contains a lot of assumptions based on falsehoods.
The Mayan Long Count calendar does not end in 2012. The 12th Baktun ends in 2012. That's like our calendar going from 1999 to 2000, except that a Baktun is about 396 years long. Since 13 was one of the Maya's sacred numbers, they believed there would be a change of consciousness. Also on the same day the 13th Baktun begins (12-21-2012), there is a grand astronomical alignment that happens only once every 26,000 years, and the Maya believed that alignment signaled the birth of a new sun (new world age) but that DOESN'T mean the old age ends that minute in a cataclysm. Metaphysically/energetically the old world is already dead.
The Maya (the people are called Maya, things they produced are labeled Mayan) were an indigenous people who lived in what is now southern Mexico and Guatemala. (There are still many of them alive, btw, they did not "vanish" as others might tell you.) During the height of their culture, they had better astronomical and mathematical knowledge (including zero) than the Europeans of the same time period.
2006-12-03 01:40:15 · answer #2 · answered by Gevera Bert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mayan Tzolkin Calendar has it as Oct 28th 2011.
The Mayan Ha'ab Calendar has it as Dec 21st 2012
Still some debate over those dates (Mayans had 2 calendars).
The Tzolin was their 'spiritual calendar' , the Ha'ab their more practical calendar for planting and taxes and such.
According to one source "The End of the Universal Cycle".
That source also says the "First Night" of the previous Cycle was Sept, 11th 1001.
According to another course is it the end of the "fifth epoch" which would end in a catastrophe and the final "sixth world" would be reborn from this.
Catastrophe and Rebirth........
Maybe we'll get it right this time?
Maybe there wont be enough of us left to fight over anything but food for the day, and shelter for the night?
Maybe the line to Burger King won't be as bad afterwards....
2006-12-03 01:44:44 · answer #3 · answered by wolf560 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many ancient cultures had paradigms of the cyclical nature of the planet. The Mayan calendar was originally based on the ancient Olmec calendar. Most "experts" think that December 2012 will produce a catastrophic event that will be an extinction level event. That is to say, less than 1% of the earth's population (animals, plants, and humans) will survive. We will literally be thrown back into the Stone Age. Graham Hancock has interesting theories about all this in 3 different books. "Message of the Sphinx", "Fingerprints of the Gods", and "The Mars Mystery".
Do I buy it? Not really. Kind of. Hmmm....
2006-12-02 21:39:06 · answer #4 · answered by KO 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to their calendary the precise day of the end of the world is actually Dec 21, 2012; Mayans were one of the greatest civilizations that ever existed, you can still see their architectural wonders in Central America. If this can help: know that Nostradamus' prophecies about 2012 too are as bad as those of the Mayans, according to him, in facts, WW III will begin in 2007 and end in 2012, but after its end not many will survive.
2006-12-02 21:37:31 · answer #5 · answered by Love_my_Cornish_Knight❤️ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They had a calendar that was accurate over a period of a couple thousand years. Without computers, books, telescopes, or electricity. Could you do that? They were an ancient tribe similar to the aztecs. I think it is a start over of everyting they were capable of measuring. A day 24 hours after 24 hours a new day. Same for a year. 365.25 days, new year. 2012 is some sort of galactic rotation, that they were aware of, come full circle so to speak. They never said it was the end of the world. The calendar just ends. Apparently this galactic, rotation, alignment was as far as they could predict.
2006-12-02 21:29:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep by the Mayan calender, the Toran, and the bible the world ends in 2012. The earth will open and "Hell" will rise and "Heaven" will fall and the war of the worlds begin. While the dead rise from their graves to be judged with all the rest. but the world was supposed to end when the "Birth place of Jesus" or Jerusalem, whih is the country he was born in by the bible. they are at war now so the world is ENDING!!!! OH GOD THE HUMANITY!! *runs thru street screaming; "The end is coming! can't you feeelll it!!?!?!*
2006-12-02 22:57:13 · answer #7 · answered by reagan_prrs 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nothing will happen except I have to get my Drivers License renewed. We put to much thought into stuff like that. it doesn't mean the world will end, which has been predicted and came about to be false for generations. That may be as far out as they calculated it.
2006-12-04 15:33:37 · answer #8 · answered by kitkat1640 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2012 is approx. mid-point for The Harvest, the split between 3rd and 4th density on earth. One of the main reasons why the Master Jesus's birth (off by 17 years) was so important, is it marked the last 2000 years of a 200,000 year period. Every 25,000 years a Harvest occurres on earth ( the most illuminated can choose to graduate to 4th density or continue to reincarnate on earth to teach the Law of One). Jesus's true Galactic name is Sananda. Go to www.luisprada.com for much, much more.
2006-12-02 21:43:11 · answer #9 · answered by Amorifus 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The worls is to come to an end, though some apocalyptic extermination.
It was how their calendar worked. A cycle of light, a cycle of dark and then it ends
2006-12-03 02:21:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋