Much attention is currently on the Myan people who created the basis of our calendar. Their calendar stops on 12-21-2012. The calendar predicts at sunrise on December 21, 2012 for the first time in 26,000 years the Sun rises to conjunct the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. This cosmic cross is considered to be an embodiment of the Sacred Tree, The Tree of Life, a tree remembered in all the world's spiritual traditions. Some observers say this alignment with the heart of the galaxy in 2012 will open a channel for cosmic energy to flow through the earth, cleansing it and all that dwells upon it, raising all to a higher level of vibration. Some say it is the end of humanity. Others say if we change our environmentally unfriendly ways, this can be a new beginning for humanity. What do you think?
2007-04-22 13:29:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Well, the mayan calendar is like a big wheel that keeps spinning every year, it so happens that in year 2012 it will beging a new cycle, but they never talk about the end of the world.
However, look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes
Saint Malachy predicted 112 popes after pope Celestine II. Pope Benedict XVI(current pope) is number 111 from that list, and we are only 5 years from 2012.
Who is Saint Malachy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Malachy
He was attributed several miracles, and various prophecies, he even predicted the exact date of his death, and he was right.
2007-04-22 14:13:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I profoundly disagree with your opening sentence. Incredibly little attention is on the Mayan people. I doubt most people could name a Mayan god. mention any achievements of their civilisation or know which modern day country it was located in.
And the idea that their calendar would be the gripping subject that would entice our interest in them is laughable. In any case the Babylonians and Sumerians had somewhat more influence on our concepts of time and its measurement.
New-Agers may not like it but the Tigris-Euphrates rivers, China, India and the Arab world were all of more significance to the birth of scientific understanding and civilisation than the Mayans ever were.
So what are the New Age mystics so keen to place before us as the crowning glory of Mayan civilsation? The end of the world and the fact they foresaw it?
This is pernicious superstitious deterministic nonsense which is a throwback to the days when Greek Tragedy proclaimed that Man's Fate was in the hands of the Gods on Mount Olympus and there was nothing you could do to escape your destiny.
People really should learn to get more control over their own lives then they would not fall for this kind of guff and be such gullible and easy prey for its propaganda.
What is supposed to actually happen in 2012?
There is no specific astronomical event on the horizon that I am aware of (apart from a newly discovered comet that was at perihelion 2 weeks ago that pops back again on June 26th 2012 to open the Olympic Games in London).
Merely New Age superstitions about the Mayan Calendar but no specific celestial body is predicted to be undertaking specific actions, let alone of a life-threatening kind.
A year or so ago a Mayan Calendar fatalist argued that the Mayans had predicted an asteroid would strike earth in 2012. That was jolly clever of them, I suggested, well done! Considering there was no such concept as asteroids till 1802 when 2 Pallas was discovered and Sir William Herschel invented the term.
Plainly, I argued, the Mayans did not know of any asteroids and they didnt even know there were such things. Nobody did till 1801 and 1 Ceres being found.
Plainly that was an embellishment added by a latter day New Age hippy and not part of any Mayan prediction of the time, I noticed that this being the particular form in which the 2012 disaster was alleged to take place tended to be quietly dropped after that. Once exposed to ridicule and scrutiny ! ...
So they are forced to be suitably vague about the details because obviously if they get specific it would be obvious that the Mayans could not have known about the details.
So they have to forego credibility if they are to retain any semblance of credibility, which is kind of contradictory wouldn't you say?
2007-04-22 17:14:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The Mayan people who live today don't see that date as the day the world is going to end. The Mayan calendar was based on cycles, all that date signifies is that the current cycle is going to end on that date and a new cycle begins. Keep in mind their cycles were hundreds of years long. THis is no different that the world ending on Jan. 1 2000 or any of the other thousands of end of world predictions that the human race has seen through its existence On the 22nd of December, 2012 we will all be sitting there wondering what all the fuss was about. If for some reason we do all die, then it doesn't really make a difference anyway does it?
2016-05-21 03:37:18 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mayans were really into cycles, so with this in mind, it is thought by self and others that I have talked to on this subject, that this is the start of a new cycle. However, this does not mean that it is a good or a bad cycle, just a new one. As for cosmic waves or energy is concerned, we have that now and forever(or as long as we and our planet last) more.
2007-04-22 17:27:04 · answer #4 · answered by Dan N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you really believe the world will end on that day please mail me a bank check for the full balance of your savings account which you can drop in the mailbox late on the day before. If you are correct you have lost nothing. If, as I believe, that story about the Mayans is nonsensical then I will have a new bucket of money that day (and will of course reimburse your postage.)
If you have any friends of the same persuasion they could also mail me their certified checks. If there is room in the envelopes they can include a signed-over title to their car and any house deeds they might not be needing after that date.
2007-04-22 13:45:48 · answer #5 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
wonder were u born before 1999....
coz when 1999 was drawing near...
many said 1999 will be the "LAST" year...
well.. no dooms day after 1999..
but there was a great havoc is computer sys on Y2K glitches... may possibly hv been dooms day if those nuclear warheads were to malfunc bcoz of Y2K...
so base on ur arguement...
again a great disaster may happen...
many many suffer or even die...
but will that be doomsday (as in judgemnet day???)
no one can sure know...
for god said... that day will come like a thief....
maybe our very death is our doomsday???
remember with god, time is different...
maybe every one have a different domsday... but in god's eye that is THE doomsday???
so just live a good happy life...
before it is too late...
2007-04-22 13:41:37 · answer #6 · answered by efurong 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Another doomsday prediction................ None of these ever come true.
Our calendar is not based on the Mayan calendar so your basic premises is wrong.
2007-04-22 13:39:25 · answer #7 · answered by Joan H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who cares about the Mayan calendar? Why should have they known something that we don't know now?
All this tree of life is just new age mumbo jumbo that is just fodder for gullible people.
So, I do not believe any of that garbage.
Cosmic energy... yeah sure. Someone show me some.
2007-04-22 13:38:42 · answer #8 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
nio it 06 16 2016
2007-04-22 13:35:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
If that were to happen, the Earth would be in chaos by now. Apparantly there's nothing to worry about.
I firmly believe its a lie.
2007-04-22 13:33:55 · answer #10 · answered by Sp!ffy. 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋