Scientists have found artifacts which they believe to be from........?

Question

The Mayan civilisation.
Does anyone know anything about the Mayan callendar and the year "2012"?

Answer 1

I just completed days of research on this topic. This question is asked several times a week and nobody seems to have a clear answer. Those who know are either dead or have been in hiding up until a few years ago. This is what I found.

The Mayan Indians regard their beliefs as both a science and a religion. Their discoveries are not done in a lab but rather by tapping into the cosmos via the mind. Through the extensive use of meditation, they are able to discover and track planetary movements as well as space anomalies such as black holes. They used this information to construct a calendar so accurate that no present day calendar can rival its accuracy. They also use this information to predict future events.

According to some Mayans, this date marks the end of the long count of their calendar; Set to end on a winter solstice (12-21-12). On this date, our Solar system will be center aligned , in the Milky Way, ninety degrees relative to the black hole, at its center. Our sun will be centered in a position called "The Tree of Life", as it does every 25,800 years. We exit the age of Pisces and enter the age of Aquarius.

In this position, unusually violent sun spot activity will cause a pole shift. Earthquakes, tsunamis, and floods will run ramped. Significant loss of life will occur. Earths magnetic field will temporarily collapse. Humans will be exposed to a cosmic energy that will facilitate enlightenment. In this state of higher consciousness, we will recognize that all matter, plant, animal, mineral are bound as one. This realization will mark the end of wars for a time. People will be able to connect to the essence of god (vibrating energy) like only the most enlightened can. We will have exited the forth dimension and entered the fifth dimension.

The date marks a goal to be reached. Evil forces will make every effort to keep humanity from reaching the date. These evil forces are those entrenched in the third dimension, in the Material world. They have no desire to leave this age and wish to continue exploiting and endangering all life for material gain.

Wars just prior to this date could be most devastating, with a loss of as much as 2/3 of our population anticipated. The resulting man made environmental damage could make life inhospitable for those who survive.

Humans have freewill, Man's future is not set yet, nor predictable:
STRIVE FOR PEACE

Music / Video:

Age of Aquarius by The 5th Dimension
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omij_EUL4W8&mode=related&search

Sources:

Tick Tock: Countdown to what ?
http://www.exitmundi.nl/Maya.htm

Steep Uphill Climb to 2012: Messages from the Mayan Milieu
http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%207-10.html

Mayan Prophecies and Calendar
http://www.crystalinks.com/mayanprophecies.html

The Real Doomsday? Dec. 21, 2012
http://www.mondovista.com/endtime.html

Don Alehandro, Mayan Elder
http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1011

Answer 2

Yes i do... what do you want to know?

2012 and the Maya Calendar
Complete 13-baktun Cycle
Long Count Proleptic Gregorian Calendar Date
0.0.0.0.0 August 11, 3114 BCE
1.0.0.0.0 November 13, 2720 BCE
2.0.0.0.0 February 16, 2325 BCE
3.0.0.0.0 May 21, 1931 BCE
4.0.0.0.0 August 23, 1537 BCE
5.0.0.0.0 November 26, 1143 BCE
6.0.0.0.0 February 28, 748 BCE
7.0.0.0.0 June 3, 354 BCE
8.0.0.0.0 September 5, 41 CE
9.0.0.0.0 December 9, 435 CE
10.0.0.0.0 March 13, 830 CE
11.0.0.0.0 June 15, 1224 CE
12.0.0.0.0 September 18, 1618 CE
13.0.0.0.0 December 21, 2012 CE
The end of the 13th b'ak'tun is conjectured to have been of great significance to the Maya. It 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 last creation ended on a long count of 12.19.19.17.19. Another 12.19.19.17.19 will occur on December 20, 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 was 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 3

The Mayans believed that the world is going to end on December 23, 2012.

Answer 4

It's suppose that December 2012 will be the end of the current age/cycle and the beginning of the next, not the end of the world. It could be just a conscious shift or also a cosmic/environment/physical shift where things physically change, as well as the conscious. The Mayan calendar was developed to measure and count down this change.

Answer 5

What garbage. The Mayans did not forecast the demise of their own civilisation about 500 years ago, did they? So how would they know about 2012?

The Mayan civilisation ended back then but the people still exist. I have met some in Mexico - wonderful people, very small, strong and compact.

But they had no ability to forecast the future, otherwise they would have upped and hid from the Spanish invaders, wouldn't they?

Answer 6

The Mayan Calander say that the world ends in 2012

Answer 7

Yes, the Mayan calendar's last year is 2012. This might be because they did not want to calculate anything beyond 2012.

Answer 8

2012 is when the highly accurate Mayan calendar ends. Some people interpret this as the end of the world. Others interpret it as thats only as far as they could be bothered calculating it for. Others interpret it as the start of a new cycle around the galaxy.

Answer 9

The part that most people don't understand is that the Mayans never believed that the "end" of their calendar meant the end of the world. It simply starts over again.

Does our world come to an end every December 31st? No, we just start the calendar over again.

Answer 10

December 23 2012 is the day on which the current calendar ends. What happens after that, who knows.