Why does the Mayan calender stop on 2012 ???

Answer 1

December 21, 2012 is the predicted Omega and Alpha of our planet. It is a time when our solar system, specifically the sun, will enter into a part of the Milky Way galaxy referred to as the 'Dark Rift'. Scientifically speaking, this is some 'cosmic dust' that no one seems to know what it is.

The Mayan long count, like the other counts, are cycles. Like for example the turning of the Earth is one day, the traveling time around the sun is a year (well actually two years) and the rotating of the sun around the Milky Way is another rotation. 13 baktuns (the Mayan long count) brings our solar system back to the dark rift.

My theory is that this dark rift is like a giant EMP and when we enter it, technology will be destroyed, specifically electricity. Why is this the end of the world (some of you may be asking), because imagine a world with no electricity, no running water, no usable gas (as it takes electricity to make those other utilities work). How many people would survive? Really think about how dependent people, perhaps even you and me, are to technology. Can you build a fire using only two sticks? Do you know how to hunt and farm for food? Build a shelter with no electric tools? How about find CLEAN water? And...if you answered yes to all of the above, can you fight off the people who can not?

Also, it's only the end of the world AS WE KNOW IT--and for every end there is a new beginning.

Do your research on this, you asked the question and there is a reason why you want to know. You are standing at the edge of the rabbit hole, want to find out how deep it goes?

Answer 2

Both the Tibetans and Mayans where given the responsibility as 'time keepers' for the Planet as we know it to today. Both say 2012 is the end of the current 'software package'. The Planet is not going to be destroyed but there will be an axis shift which will bring about a new face so to speak for mother Earth. Historical this has happen a number of times in our Planet's history. Rarely does the Scientific and Spiritual communities agree on something especially something like an axis shift. The scientific community stated 2 years ago the magma at the core of the Planet has already shifted and they do not understand why the axis shift has not already occurred. Are you ready for some 'Rock and Roll'?

Answer 3

The Mayans used a solar/moon calendar. Dec. 21, 2012 is the date of the iciness Solstice, that's an significant day in solar/moon calendars. Their calendar replaced into remarkably precise in evaluation to the different calendars in that they tracked the solar and moon virtually completely. by the way, if it weren't for sloppy calendars from the Romans - somewhat the Julian calendar - we would initiate and end our years on an same day the Mayans did, the day of the iciness Solstice. even with the undeniable fact that the Julian calendar replaced into off by adequate that the date "drifted" faraway from the solstice because of the gathering inaccuracies. by the time of Pope Gregory, we were off about 10 a million/2 to 11 days. Pope Gregory and his clergymen presented the Gregorian calendar, that's precise and reliable a minimum of by the 12 months 3000 plus something. even with the undeniable fact that, particularly than reset the calendar lower back to the position it were, they iced up it. So now, the end of the Mayan calendar on the solstice takes position 11 days previously than the end of our Gregorian calendar. Jan a million is 11 days after the solstice. FYI, the Gregorian calendar is depending on the actual incontrovertible reality that the 12 months is 365.2422 days lengthy. So we've leap 12 months in each and every 12 months that's calmly divisible by 4 except there isn't any leap 12 months if the 12 months is likewise calmly divisible by 100 except that it truly is a leap 12 months if the 12 months is likewise calmly divisible by 400. utilizing that rule, 1900 replaced into no longer a leap 12 months yet 2000 replaced right into a leap 12 months. The 12 months 2012 is also a leap 12 months.

Answer 4

The short and sweet: IT DOESN'T STOP.

The extended version: it's only the 12th Baktun of the Mayan Long Count calendar which ends in 2012. The 13th Baktun starts 12-21-2012 and for some reason some people think the calendar has to end on that date, which makes absolutely no sense. The calendar should go to 19 Baktuns, and then roll over into whatever comes next, I've never heard a name for it (imagine decades, centuries, millennia..same concepts, different time lengths. A baktun is about 396 of our years.)

Answer 5

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The end of the 13th b'ak'tun is conjectured to have been of great significance to the Maya, but does not necessarily mark the end of the world according to their beliefs, but a new beginning or time of re-birth. 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.... 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.... 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 October 13, 4772 (a Friday). The Classic Period Maya likely 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.

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Answer 6

Many spiritualists, astrologers, and other people involved in "New Age" religions or "spirituality" think Dec. 21, 2012 is going to be a big day. (Some emphasize December 12, 2012 instead.) They say that the ancient Mayan calendar's cycle will stop and then restart then, and that something significant will take place. Their predictions range from cataclysmic events to the world being "reborn."

Answer 7

That is when the sun is suppose to go through a dark area in our galaxy that only happens like every million years or so. It's been predicted that the planets will go through some sort of devestation due to this and it pertains to the end of a phase. either the end of the earth's existence, or a new beginning. I can't say that they were even totally sure of what exactly was going to happen. But I do know that their predictions have been amazingly right on and that we shouldn't disregard this one. It's suppose to be December 21st, 2012. If you did research online about this topic you will see the hundreds of thousands, possibly millions by now, of people who are preparing for this by building dome homes, special boats, underground rooms, stocking up on food, batteries, water, etc. Personally I wouldn't want to be stuck here after everything is gone.

Answer 8

The God knows guy has a good answer, but the simplest version is - because they stopped there.

End of the world in 2012? End of the world on 2050? Both highly unlikely.No more so than the world ended in 2000. But tell you what - I'll be holding a party at my house, January 1, 2013. The theme will be "I told you so!"

You're all invited.

Answer 9

OMG!!!! We're all going to freakin die in 2012 if cancer, car accidents, terrorists or rabid dogs dont finish us of, one by one, first.

Im so depressed thinking about the Mayan calender stopping in 2012, I could just kill myself.

Answer 10

Because that is when the mayans prophisied that the world would end. and a new would begin.