When did the Aztec (or Mayan) calender say the world was going to end?

Question

Is there an exact date and time?

Answer 1

Many mistakenly believe that the Maya civilization's long count calendar ends abruptly on 21 December (or 23 December) 2012. This misconception is due to the Maya practice of abbreviating their dates to five decimal places. On monuments where the full date is shown the end of the last creation is said to happen much farther in the future. However, the Mayas did believe that there will be a baktun ending in 2012. A baktun marks the end of a 400 year period and was a significant event on the Maya calendar. In the Aztec calendar, 2012 marks the end of a 26,000 year planetary cycle. This cycle is known as the Great Year and most likely refers to the precession of the equinoxes.

No one has succesfully predicted the end of the world. And many predictions are proved false but people still believe because of a gullibility to believe.

Nostradamus alledgely predicted that the world will end in the year 3797.

The Y2K bug, was supposed to wreak havoc on computer systems - it didn't.

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), who was involved in alchemy and many other things in addition to science and mathematics, studied old texts and surmised that the end of the world would be in 2060, although he was reluctant to put an exact date on it.

Nostradamus wrote a prediction that a great catastrophe would occur in the seventh month of the year 1999. - Nothing happened.

The bible (readers of ) have been predicting the end of the world
since they first wrote such. Every so often (50 years or so) they just update their date because it passed - The world did not end.

It is certain that events in space will cause life on Earth to come to an end. The certain events, however, will happen at an extremely long timescale measured in billions of years. Projections indicate that the Andromeda Galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way. Impact is predicted in about 3 billion years, and so Andromeda will approach at an average speed of about 140 kilometres (87 miles) per second; the two galaxies will probably merge to form a giant elliptical. This merging could eject the solar system in a more eccentric orbit and an unwanted position in the merged galaxy causing our planet to become uninhabitable (an actual collision is unnecessary)[citation needed]. In about 5 billion years, stellar evolution predicts our sun will exhaust its core hydrogen and become a red giant. In so doing, it will become thousands of times more luminous] Even in its current phase of stellar evolution, the sun is increasing in luminosity (at a very slow rate). Many scientists predict that in fewer than one billion years, the runaway greenhouse effect will make Earth unsuitable for life.

Answer 2

There are a lot of misconceptions and confusions being spread about this.
The Mayan Long Count calendar goes from 12 Baktuns to 13 Baktuns on 12-21-2012. (it DOES NOT end!) --not unlike ours going from 1999 to 2000, with the same (false) hype.
Also on that day is a once in 26,000 year galactic alignment between the sun and the milky way at dawn (which is around 7:15 in New England). To the Maya, this alignment signified the birth of a new Sun and a new world age...not the end of this one.
It's an energetic thing. It's not a physical thing. Nothing's going to blow up, the poles won't shift, etc. In fact the energy has already started to change.

Answer 3

Great answer Felix, I know this because I was writing something along the same lines when my infernal ex machina did Chernobyl on me ! :-(((

Switched to back up too late and there you were, I have only one thing to add, the Long Count Mayan calender, which, btw, could well, and most probably did, derive from aculture vastly older than the Maya, or even the Olmec, the Long Count runs into literally millions of years in the ´so-called past´, and even more millions into the so-called ´future´. There is no énd´nor any ´beginning´theorised. merely lots of it.

I have friend in Peru who believes thatt the different ýears´i.e. different day counts per year refer to other manifestations of our planet, which were literally of different during due to mass, proximity of orbit to Sol etc etc. Interesting ????

With regard to ´prophecy´any wise person or entity will be happy to explain that there can be no such thing as absolute prescience, as the is no pre-determined ´futuer´, all possibilities and potentialities exist in shadow form awaiting our bringing them into perceived existence. No will, no manifestation.

Answer 4

December 21st, or 22nd, 2012 depending on whose calandar you are going by. It's the witner solstice.

There are alot of other interesting things that are supposed to happen bewteen now and then that were predicted by Chalam Balam, who was a Mayan Priest.

Answer 5

I believe it was in the year 2012.
I don't remember if there was a specific time or date, but I do believe that this was the year that they believed the world would end.