Do the Mayans think the world will end in 2012?

Answer 1

the world will end as we know it, but not literally, it won't explode or anything like that.....there will be changes that's all....

Answer 2

I don't know what the modern Maya think. And we don't know for sure what the ancient Maya thought. Most of the whole 2012 debate is between people who aren't native (with few exceptions).
The point of it is this:
On 12-21-2012, the 13th Baktun (a baktun is about 396 of our years) begins in the Mayan Long Count calendar. 13 was a sacred number to the ancient Maya. Also on that day is a grand astronomical alignment between the sun and the Milky Way at dawn which to the Maya probably signified the rebirth of the sun, therefore ushering in a new world age.
However, this does NOT mean the old world age ends at that moment in catastrophe. In fact, I am quite sure it's over already. We'll just sit around for the next 6 years waiting for the new world to start.
EDIT:
There are more than 2 Mayan calendars. The Haab is a civil, solar calendar and the Tzolkin is a religious calendar. Neither of them have anything to do with 2012. It's the Long Count.

Answer 3

The mayan calander is based on the ages of the planet. Thus far there have been 6 as recorded by mayan records. We are currently living in the 6th and the 6th is scheduled to end pretty soon, by their calendar. The 6th Age may end shortly, but it has never been discussed if this was the end of the 6th age and the 7th was about to begin. I don't see the planet kickin' us off in 6 years without atleast an eviction notice. That's illyanese quick lingo for advanced warning.

Answer 4

Its unknown.
2012 is when there calender runs out. However its in a circle so it may just start over again. I guess we will have to wait and see.

The Long Count calendar used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica completes its thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle since the calendar's mythical starting point (equivalent to 3114 BCE August 11 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, according to the "GMT-correlation" JDN= 584283). The Long Count b'ak'tun date of this starting point (13.0.0.0.0.0) is repeated, for the first time in a span of approximately 5,125 solar years. The significance of this period-ending to the pre-Columbian Maya themselves is unclear, and there is an incomplete inscription (Tortuguero Stela 6) which records this date. It is also to be found carved on the walls of the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, where it functions as a base date from which other dates are computed. However, it is conjectured that this may represent in the Maya belief system a transition from the current Creation world into the next. The December solstice for 2012 also occurs on this day.
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 fifth world. The Popol Vuh describes the first four creations that the gods failed in making and the creation of the successful fifth world where men were placed. The Maya believed that the fifth world would end in catastrophe and the sixth 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, the next pole shift 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 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0, where the units are obviously supposed to be 13s twenty places larger than that b'ak'tun. 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 would all need to similarly roll over to 13 again to match the date of the new creation.[6]

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.

Answer 5

In Mayan cosmology; there are cycles that repeat roughly ebert 11,500 years. As one cycle ends; another cycle begins.

12/21/2012 is NOT the end of the world; Just the end of the present cycle and another cycle will begin where our solar system will dip below the plane of the milky way galaxy for the next 11,500 years, then at the end of the cycle; the solar system will go above the plane of the galaxy the way it has been for the past 11,495 years.

Answer 6

The Mayan calendar just changes - not ends. In 2012 the earth plane and those who are ready will rise to 4th density.

Enjoy.

Answer 7

According to the Tzolkin calendar it is the "End of an Epoch/ Age".

It is however unclear exactly what this means.....
The exact date is also under debate as well.....
Oct 2011 or Dec 2012

There are TWO Mayan Calendars; the Ha'ab and the Tzolkin.

The Toltecs before and the Aztecs afterwards used this calendar

Answer 8

No they never made such a prediction, that's just when their calender ends. Does the world end each year when our calender runs ends? They just had an incredibly long calender.

Answer 9

If any were still around. Their world ended with Mel Gibson.

Answer 10

no not literally as there will be a change in the world operation only. hopefully by mankind realizing some of his mistakes and correcting some of them

Answer 11

no jus the current way of life, the world its self isnt gonna end, its jsut a new beginin, eithe rway i dont beleive it, you cant just predict the day somethin is gonna end, it will end when it ends, and thats that