Why do The mayan indians think the earth will come to an end on december23,2012???

Answer 1

Their calendar had cycles of creation and destruction:

1. Replaces current Gregorian calendar (Pope Gregory XII, 1582). Originally from Babylon.
2. The Dreamspell is a modern version of the main Mayan calendar. It has 13 months (moons), each month has 28 days.
3. It is a natural cycle calendar. It is the same as menstrual cycles and moon cycles. It stimulates synchronicity and telepathy.
4. The current year is YELLOW SOLAR SEED. It commenced on 26th July 2001.
5. The Dreamspell 13 moon Calendar is based on the Mayan calendar of wave harmonics and resonant fields - and the liberation of the mind.
6. The current Mayan calendar cycle covers the period 3113 BC to 2012 AD, 5125 years. Unlike other ancient calendars it has never been in error. All its predictions have been accurate.
7. The Mayans of Mexico were master mathematicians and time worshippers. They understood time and space more accurately than us. They knew that Planet Earth would come into synchronisation with the Universe by 2012 AD.
8. By 2012 we will have reached a total collapse of time as we know it and an entry of humanity into post history.
9. Part of the Mayan prophecy was the Harmonic Convergence Prophecy which said the Age of Materialism must end at this time and we must return to Nature to save ourselves and the planet, our biosphere.
10. Under the Gregorian calendar we are living a fundamental dog matic "error in time"
11. Use of the calendar in everyday life will help heal Planet Earth, break the vicious link
between time and money and bring oneness and understanding to humanity.
12. The Mayan prophecy says that we will soon not need money and about the same time we will have universal telepathy.

But it doesn't mean the end of the world, just the end of the world as we know it:

"Yes, this is the end of time. It is also the end of the world as we know it. But, that does not mean destruction. It simply means that we are preparing to birth a new world in which we can live and love in peace, harmony and goodwill for all. "

On the other hand,

"It might just be coincidence, but the Mayan calendar was drawn up in such a way that it ends completely in 2012.

We have few surviving relics of the Mayans, but there are many impressive stone constructions in South America, and these suggest that there was some relationship with the Egyptian cultures in ancient times. There are reed boats being used in South America today that look like those of ancient Egypt.

The main details of the Mayan calendar were worked out nearly a hundred years ago. They believed that human history has distinct epochs (or "suns") of 3,000 - 5,000 years, after which there is a catastrophic event that completely ends all existing civilisations.

According to the Mayans the present era began 13th August 3114 BC and ends on 21st December 2012 AD.

The Mayan start date of our era is similar to the start date for the Egyptian civilisation, according to modern archaeologists.

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_3.htm

The Sun and the Maya

Maurice Cotterell presents a theory, in an interesting book containing details of the Mayan system; (The Mayan Prophecies by Adrian G. Gilbert and Maurice M. Cotterell), as to the nature of the Mayan forecast. I did not give it much credence originally, but some new scientific research may provide some support for it and the Sun does seem to be behaving oddly in the past few years.

Prior to his South American researches, Maurice had been interested in the effects of the Sun's magnetic field on the Earth. The Sun has a complex quadripole magnetic field and it also rotates significantly faster at the equator than at the poles. The material in the Sun behaves as an electrically conducting liquid, constrained by gravity and magnetism but stirred by rotation and convection.

Maurice modelled this mathematically and found that the configuration of the field should vary in a cyclical way with a predictable period. One of the shorter cycles within this was 11.4 years, only a few months longer than the observed 11.1-year sunspot cycle.

Sunspots are like giant twisters that are relatively cooler in the centre. We see a sunspot when it is aligned so that we look down its centre; this peaks every eleven years because they are aligned magnetically. At the sunspot maximum, the fields align the sunspots vertically so they become visible, one pole uppermost on one cycle and the other pole uppermost during the next peak, eleven years later.

This much is known to science from observation, but Maurice claims he can derive it mathematically. The Mayan Prophecies book does not include the actual mathematics, however, so it is not possible for me to judge its validity.

When Maurice came to study the Mayan calendar he noticed that there was a great similarity between the time cycles predicted for solar magnetism and the cycles inherent to the Mayan calendar system. In his theory the Sun's magnetic field reverses at the end of a complete cycle, after 1,366,040 days. In the Mayan calendar, a complete cycle of time is 1,366,560 days.

Stars like the Sun can suddenly become much brighter

The magazine New Scientist, 9 Jan 99, carried an article covering a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. A team of astronomers studying Sun-like stars discovered that most of them seem to produce a superflare about once a century.

They studied observational records and found that stars similar to the Sun occasionally become as much as ten times brighter, for periods of hours or days. The astronomers are reported to be baffled as to why the Sun is so stable. Perhaps it does flare, but only every five thousand years, when the magnetic field reverses; causing so much destruction that no eye witness accounts have survived.

Interestingly, every eleven years, at the peak of the sunspot cycle, Coronal Mass Ejections occur. During these events material from the Sun is ejected into space. The last one caused a lengthy power blackout in Quebec, Canada, beginning 31st March 1989, after magnetic disturbances caused severe voltage fluctuations.

The next such event is predicted for the year 2012. (see cover-story 'Bolts of Fire,' New Scientist magazine 27th Feb 99). Normally these events provide spectacular displays of the Northern Lights (aurora borealis), but are not bright compared to the Sun.

Since I first wrote this page in 1999 the Sun has been unusually active. Since the year 2000 maximum there have been frequent large flares and far more sunspots than usual in what should be the quiet period."

and

"In 1986 Maurice Cotterell put forward a revolutionary theory concerning astrology and sun cycles. He had for some years suspected that the sun's variable magnetic field had consequences for life on earth. The sun has a complex field which loops and twists itself into knots. It has long been suspected that these loops give rise to sunspots, which are dark blemishes on the sun's skin. The number, size and location of sunspots are constantly changing and as a former Radio Officer, Cotterell was well aware that they have profound effects upon the earth's magnetic envelope, the magnetosphere. Whilst working as Head of Electrical and Communications Engineering (Estates) at Cranfield Institute of Technology, he devised a program that would compute the relationship between the sun's magnetic field and the Earth. As expected his model predicted that there should be a sunspot cycle of roughly eleven and a half years, closely corresponding to what has been observed over several centuries. However, he also found graphic evidence for longer cycles including a period of 1,366,040 days. His work took a new turn when he read about the Mayan super number from the Dresden Codex: 1,366,560 days. This was exactly two 260 day cycles larger than his theoretical sunspot period. He therefore proposed that the two were related. As his earlier work on what he called Astrogenetics indicated that human fertility was dependent on the presence of sunspots, he now had evidence that the Mayan calendar was not arbitrary but was based on a knowledge of the effects of sunspots. This explained the near obsession they had for long cycles of time and their belief in the rise and fall of four previous ages of man.

Travelling in Mexico, Cotterell extended his ideas and gave them a public airing on television. After giving a lecture at the Voluntary Cultural society, he was awarded a medal by the wife of the President. By now his work included some very esoteric investigations into the 'Lid of Palenque', a mysterious sarcophagus cover made famous in the 1960s by Eric von Däniken, who believed it showed the picture of an ancient astronaut. Cotterell now identified the lid as a graphic representation of Mayan philosophy and as containing many hidden messages and codes.

In 1994 he met up with Adrian Gilbert, who had recently co-authored a book on the Egyptian pyramids called The Orion Mystery. Gilbert too went to Mexico and was fascinated to discover the extent to which the ancient Mexicans venerated the rattlesnake. He discovered some curious cultural similarities between the early Maya and the ancient Egyptians, even though their civilizations are separated by millennia. Whereas the Egyptians studied the movements of the Hyades, Orion and its companion star Sirius, the Maya were more interested in the nearby Pleiades star-cluster. They viewed it as the warning rattle of a great cosmic serpent, which seems to have corresponded to the ecliptic. The head of this serpent was the sun and they believed that it was the source of all life on earth.

The Maya, like the Aztecs, believed there had been four ages prior to our own. Gilbert was able to relate the first of these to Atlantis and investigated certain prophecies relating to this fabled civilization. It seems that the serpent religion, which the early Spanish conquistadors attempted to eradicate, may well owe its origins to survivors of this lost race, some of whom went to Egypt and some to Central America. The original Quetzalcoatl, whose name means 'plumed serpent' and who was identified with the planet Venus, probably lived at the start of the fourth age, around 3114 BC and initiated a highly ethical religion of penance. This later degenerated into human sacrifice: physical hearts instead of emotions being offered to the sun. Other prophets of the same name lived later and Cortes was mistaken for his reincarnation. The Mayan calendar points to 22 December 2012 as being the end of our present age. Changes around that time to the sun's magnetic field could have consequences for us all. Perhaps we are already witnessing the beginnings of this change with the desertification of more and more land. This seems to have happened in a more localised way at the time of another sun spot minima, leading to the collapse of the Mayan civilization. Their ruined, jungle cities are a warning to us all."

So maybe we'be got only about 5 more years to enjoy ourselves.
Guess it depends on whether you're an optimist or a pessimist.

Answer 2

NO, on many levels.
First off, the date in question that you're referring to (which the uninformed call "the end of the Mayan Calendar") is 12-21-2012.
The calendar doesn't end on that day, it simply rolls from the 12th Baktun to the 13th, no different than ours going from 1999 to 2000 (except that a Baktun is 396 years long). The calendar's not ending, the world's not ending, stop worrying. All that's happening is an energetic shift which has already begun.

Answer 3

We are the ones that say that the world we end in 2012: The Mayas never thought that, the only reason we think that is because that is the date their calender ends. Keep in mind that the reason the Mayas ceased to work on their calendar is because they began to spread throught the countries in MesoAmerica.

By the way: The POPOL VUH is NOT the name of the Mayan calendar! That is the name of the book that contains the Maya's creation story, like their Bible.

Answer 4

properly they didnt are expecting it may end unavoidably. that they had a fashion to calculate time that ended more advantageous or a lot less round 2010. curiously sufficient, in case you examine the bible code (large e book btw), that's encoded contained in the bible that the global will end round 2010. also, there must be a global warfare 3 (isreal and lebanon?) interesting stuff. no longer certain how genuine maximum of that's tho. human beings were predicting the end of time for a lengthy time period now and no individual has been correct yet

Answer 5

1. There is some disagreement about the dates. It could be Dec. 21.
2. There is also disagreement whether it's the end. Some authorities say it's not a big crunch, but a big bounce.
3. As for why, I think it's some particular star crossing the meridian at that time.

Answer 6

like others said, the mayans' calendar ended on the specific day, though it doesn't mean that they think the world will end on this day. some theorize the belief of a cyclic life or whatever and that if the date in fact has meaning, it may not mean the end of the world, just a rebirth or whatever.

Answer 7

It's based on their astronomy and mythology. Basically the sun magnetic field will stop the Earth the from spinning. Which scientist concern is unbelieveable storms that will be the cause of it. Have you seen the movie "The Core", that's what the movie is about. You should see it.

Here is a web site I found

Mayan myth
http://www.levity.com/eschaton/Why2012.html

Behind the science:
http://exodus2006.com/6maya.htm

Answer 8

The war on terrorism will still be going on, they will traffick in identities at the 2012 London Olympics, and by December will have used the identities of the rich people at the games to enter the culture and destroy and confiscate everything. It is doubtful if there is anything to confiscate in England (except to reclaim all the Excedrin and Panadol) but they will have got it ALL!

Answer 9

It doesnt say that, the calendar just ends. Most think that with the spanish conquests the mayan priests just didnt have time to continue working on it. No tinfoil hat here, they just got killed and there was noone to work on it.

Answer 10

Its not that they think that, its a recent theory because the Aztec calendars goes from their century, to our day, but it misteriously ends on 2012.

Answer 11

The Popol Vuh (the Myans calender) ends on that day. It isn't that they thought that the world was going to end on that day, that is just when the stoped making their calendar.