Do you hear about year 2012, the End Times??

Answer 1

THE HOW AND WHY OF THE MAYAN END DATE IN 2012 A.D.
by John Major Jenkins

¾ May 23rd, 1994



Originally published in the Dec-Jan '95 issue of Mountain Astrologer.
Why did the ancient Mayan or pre-Maya choose December 21st, 2012 A.D., as the end of their Long Count calendar? This article will cover some recent research. Scholars have known for decades that the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan "Long Count" system of timekeeping was set to end precisely on a winter solstice, and that this system was put in place some 2300 years ago. This amazing fact - that ancient Mesoameri- can skywatchers were able to pinpoint a winter solstice far off into the future - has not been dealt with by Mayanists. And why did they choose the year 2012? One immediately gets the impression that there is a very strange mystery to be confronted here. I will be building upon a clue to this mystery reported by epigrapher Linda Schele in Maya Cosmos (1994). This article is the natural culmination of the research relating to the Mayan Long Count and the precession of the equinoxes that I explored in my recent book Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies (Borderlands Science and Research Foundation, 1994).

The Mayan Long Count
Just some basics to get us started. The Maya were adept skywatchers. Their Classic Period is thought to have lasted from 200 A.D. to 900 A.D., but recent archeological findings are pushing back the dawn of Mayan civilization in Mesoamerica. Large ruin sites indicating high culture with distinctly Mayan antecedents are being found in the jungles of Guatemala dating back to before the common era. And even before this, the Olmec civilization flourished and developed the sacred count of 260 days known as the tzolkin. The early Maya adopted two different time keeping systems, the "Short Count" and the Long Count. The Short Count derives from combining the tzolkin cycle with the solar year and the Venus cycle of 584 days. In this way, "short" periods of 13, 52 and 104 years are generated. Unfortunately, we won't have occasion to dwell on the properties of the so-called Short Count system here. The Long Count system is somewhat more abstract, yet is also related to certain astronomical cycles. It is based upon nested cycles of days multiplied at each level by that key Mayan number, twenty:

For more information go to the website below it is a very indepth article about the significance of the year 2012.

Answer 2

It's not the end times, the Mayan calendar isn't ending, only the 12th Baktun is ending, it's no different from the fake drama and hysteria over our calendar going from 1999 to 2000. The 13th Baktun begins 12-21-2012 and will go for 396 years just like the 12th one did.

Answer 3

i individually choose human beings could enable this go. the full 2012 element got here approximately whilst New Agers and doomsday followers caught directly to the Mayan calender. The calender does bring about 2012, it is been ordinary for over a decade now, yet that doesn't propose the international will end. the only way i visit purchase into it is that if I awaken one morning in December 2012, and their a great jaguar attempting to consume my house construction.

Answer 4

Yes I also heard about 2000 being the end 1980 being the end June 6 2006 being the end 1990 being then end.

Ya know there are so many people, predicting the end of the world, the end of the world could be tomorrow. There is always a new theory.

You know what though, the Mayan club in LA is amazing!

*rollseyes* it's all bullshit about the end of the world

Answer 5

It´s more an energy effect, by that I mean that the male energy era is about yo finish and the female energy era is about to born with more consciousness in our daily living, and total awareness of everything that surround us such as other dimension beings, and is just the end of the fifth sun or the male sun not the end of times that just cant be predicted

Answer 6

people have been predicting the "THE END OF TIMES" since the beginning of times. the book of Matthew states specifically that "no man not even the angels in heaven know the end time only the father himself. the bottom line is that we all face our own end of time anyway so live a good decent life and dont worry about it because death is our destiny anyway!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

Mayan philosophy?
Hmm, well, scientist project that an asteroid will 'come within our satellites' on April 13th, 2029.
Ironic, this happens to fall on a Friday.

Answer 8

Nobody knows when the End will be... your End might be tomorrow and you don't know...

Wait for this sign... there is going to be fighting in Saudi Arabia, tribal war and this man will become famous...
if you're alive then a lot of things will happen from there on...
remember my words...
Ponder about God and ask for His guidance before your last breath

Answer 9

Yep. I also think it's odd that some non-Mayans see a Mayan prophesy as truth.

Answer 10

Yes
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