Is December 21, 2012 the beginning of a new life?
2007-01-09 10:04:51 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Who knows? The arrogant Christians killed them off or forced their conversion, so all we can do is speculate on a thing that is relatively incomplete and MERELY THEORIZED to be a prediction of an "apocalypse".
2007-01-09 10:12:27 · answer #1 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
None whatsoever. The "religious views" are quasi-religious, New Age - type beliefs. Because no one actually fully understands ancient Mayan petroglyphs, we don't know how THEY considered the Long Count Calendar, which is where we all get the 2012 apocalypse from. In order to understand how the Mayans considered their Long Count calendar, we have to look into Mayan culture contextually, not easy to do from the mere fragments that remain of their civilization. Think about a future sociologist looking at the remanants of our current civilization one thousand years from now, when no remembers much of the United States. Say she finds a building with many seats, assumes it to be a religious building, and a plastic panel that says very simply "Armageddon 12 05 95 The World Ends" with the picture of an asteroid heading to earth. She surmises that we had some sort of advanced knowledge and predicted an asteroid collision for the 12th day of the 5th month of 3095 and begins touring the lecture circuit to talk of our secret knowledge. In reality, she happened upon a movie theater with a plastic backlit panel for the 1995 movie Armageddon. We don't really understand Mayan culture because we don't really understand Mayan petroglyphs all that well. The sole knowledge we have comes from a few books penned by a Jesuit missionary in the 16th century, which were rescued in 1945 by a Russian soldier from a burning library in Berlin. Point is, you have to look in context, and the context of the Mayan civilization has writings that reflect dates far into the future (16 million years at the latest point).
2016-05-23 00:03:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mayans never actually stated.. "The end of the world is on (this) day"...as far as I know, at least. People just assume that's what they meant when they decided to just end their calender on the winter solstice of 2012.
2007-01-09 10:08:18 · answer #3 · answered by myself 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't say it'll be the the apocalypse necessarily. It only says that it will be a time of great change.
2007-01-09 10:08:25 · answer #4 · answered by Zhukov 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was actually the Aztecs
2007-01-09 10:09:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋