Mayan Calender? can anyone tell me how they translated it and what it says?

Question

I understand that the calender keeps track of time, but it does so using the stars?

how accurate is it?

how could it stay accurate, unless they knew about the declining orbits of planetary objects and other very complex sciences?

what kind of events does it depict?
does it predict "The galactic shift" in 2012 and could such a thing really happen?

I guess I have a lot of questions about this, maybe someone could point me towards a good site?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I don't know how they figured out what the hieroglyphics meant. I wasn't there.
The Long Count calendar, which is the one which supposedly "ends" in 2012 (IT DOESN'T) is basically like an odometer. For instance, today's date is written as 12.19.14.2.3. (12-21-2012 is 13.00.00.00.00) It's just straight math, counting the number of days since the beginning of this age (in 3114 BCE)
The placeholder names, from RIGHT TO LEFT (in reverse) and their values are:
1 kin = 1 day,
1 uinal = 20 kins = 20 days
1 tun = 18 uinals = 360 days
1 katun = 20 tuns = 7,200 days
1 baktun = 20 katuns = 144,000 days
So basically the long count is just math.
12x144,000=1,728,000 days
19x7,200=136,800 days
14x360=5,040 days
2x20=40 days
3x1=3 days
total: 1,728,000 + 136,800 + 5,040 + 40 +3 = 1,869,883 days since the beginning of time, or roughly 5123 of our years.
That's all it is. Nothing magical. It doesn't "predict" anything or make any claims to be anything other than an "odometer" for time.
It doesn't "depict" "events". It just counts. That's it.