I'm a bit confused about this whole Mayan Calendar thing...?

Question

What exactly did they predict would happen in 2012? The end of the world?

Answer 1

it is a common misconception that they believed that the world would end. life moves in cycles and around every 6480 years(i believe but this probably isn't the exact time frame) there is some sort of cataclysmic event, if you go back 6480 we are told that this is when civilisation was formed, roughly, go back another 6480 the plystacene(misspelled) era ended and 6480 years before that the preceeding era ended, this is all verifiable even tho i'm getting the numbers and names wrong. scientists can trace this bach about 25000 years and every time something happens. so 2012 is the conclusion of the current 6480 and also the conclusion of the 25000+yr cycle of the zodiacs, we will next be entering the aquarian age which is associated w/ attaining higher conciousness. the mayans seem to know a lot and if anyone says well why did they die it is b/c the belief is that we are all source energy that are eternal beings, our dna is essentially energy, and you can research that. the long and short of it is there will be a 2013 but maybe (and hopefully) we will all be better off by them. we are in the process of gaining this higher conciousness now, how often have we or others said there isn't enough time in the day or that children are growing up faster now than ever before, it's all relative


The year 2012 will also be marked by the near-Earth crossing of the Asteroid Eros, Superbowl XLVI, and the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth, just as a tidbit

Answer 2

According to what I've heard from Art Bell and George Noory on Coast to Coast AM, the world will end on Friday, December 12, 2012 because a meteor will crash into the earth. They say that the Mayans predicted this and that is why the calendar ends then.

But you should really be wary of those guys. The program is fun to listen to like a horror movie is fun to watch, but seriously... aliens? ghosts? apocolypse? It's just fiction, and part of the fun is how "serious" they are about it. If you listen to Art closely it is pretty obvious that he doesn't really believe in half of the stuff he says.

Answer 3

There are just so many stupid rumors floating around ! No destruction, no meteors no nothing. Their calendar runs out and 2012 and that was to be the start of a new era for them. However, they were so good at seeing the future that they disappeared from the face of the earth way before that. Nothing's gonna happen. I have a Barnes & Noble calendar that runs out in Feb. of 2008. Could that be the end of the world ??

Answer 4

They predicted nothing for 2012. Their calendar stops at 2012. For reasons now unknown.

Answer 5

Well, from my limited knowledge, the Mayan calender simply ends at 2012, suggesting to many that this highly evolved, extremely enlightened people forsaw that as the proverbial end of the world.

Answer 6

Don't know why they predicted it but, yes, that is the date they are supposed to have come up with for the end of the world. Of course, their world ended much sooner, didn't it.

Answer 7

Not an explosion or anything like that. People would rebell against each other. Example: all black people wold kill all white people.
Hope it helped!
Hey the mayans were very acurate: no technology and they worked out the trayectory of Venus but they were 0.003 days off!

Answer 8

Yes, the end of the world. However, the world will be renewed then and there will be much more peace.

Answer 9

the international would not might desire to end, some e book I learn the 365 days 2012 stated that the international would not might desire to end, it is going to easily be "a clean beginning up for all" in accordance to the Mayans.