does any one believe in the Aztecs belief that the world will end in 2012?

Question

i read so much literature about this theory and i still don't understand the reasoning behind this. i don't think i'm stupid, but i just don't understand what the sun has to do with it. would someone care to explain this to me without using all the science mumbo jumbo

Answer 1

According to the ancient Mayans, in 2012, the sun and earth will align with the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. They believe this will usher in a new period of life. However, they left this incomplete, leading some to believe this would be the world's end.

However, given the accuracy of people predicting the world's end, I think the Mayans will be wrong, too.

Answer 2

I hope not because I heard it will happen on my birthday, May 5th, 2012. That would be a little depressing, for not just me but everyone who celebrates cinco de mayo. There must be some kind of mysticism surrounding the year 2012 because this date was not only prophecised by the Aztecs, but by others like Nostradamus and Edward Casey. So, I remain unimpressed. And as far as what the sun has to do with it, the Aztecs used a sun calendar that was very accurate and this prediction had something to do with the end of time according to the calendar, which I think was their inability to interpret their own calendar, or some other miscalculation. Either way, I don't really believe that the world will end on 2012, but it makes a good subject for the history channel to make a show out of. You remember the "prophets" claiming the world was going to end in 2000, right? Well, 2000 came and went and we're still here, 2012 is just far enough to seem not related to the millennium scare, but close enough to panic people into becoming saved or born again. These predictions are open to interpretation, as with Nostradamus quatrains, basically gibberish unless you can find something to compare it to, usually something that has already happened.

Anyway, that's my opinion.

Answer 3

Oh dear. So much ignorance, and so little 'time'.

As many have already pointed out, the Mayan's adopted a calendrical system handed down to them by the Olmecs' who, as far as anyone knows, were not the originators of it either. This system is old beyond our official 'history's' ability to comprehend.

However, the main point of misunderstanding over the now infamous 'Date' is this idiotic idea that 'Mayan Time' stops. It doesn't, not by a long shot. There are texts that record events millions of years in our 'past', and millions of years in our 'future'. The only thing that happens, according to the system, is that the 'Age' shifts on that date. Which mostly will herald a new, and more positive era.

We might well have known much more if 'Bishop' Diego de Landa had not burned virtually all of the codices, of which there were dozens, in Merida in July of 1562, leaving us with only four !

The Aztecs, poor, benighted people that they were, thought that their world was about to end imminently, which is why they were 'sacrificing' up to about 80,000 captives a year when the equally benighted and ghastly Pizarro and his not very merry men descended on them. They were slaughtering at that level because they thought their 'Age was coming to an end, and that only blood sacrifice could avert it.

They were demonstrably wrong, their age was, indeed, coming to an end, it was the Spanish Conquistadores who ended it for them.

Answer 4

Mayan.

To the Mayans, time was not linear, like it is to a western mind. Things happen, and repeat, over, and over. In 2012, the Sun will cross a point which resembles it's placement in the Mayan creation myth [look it up]. This marks a very new age for the world.

We think it's an apocalypse, because the calendar ends, but the scribes may have decided to go no further, or our records are incomplete [as most artifacts were destroyed].

The only thing that might happen, is that our Equinoxes will go in different order. To a cyclical time idea, an end of the universe makes no sense.

Answer 5

there are various opportunities. The Aztec Calender and the chinese language I Ching (calender of activities) anticipate that the Earth will bypass between the solar and the middle of the Milky way, the place the huge black hollow is. this happens each 26,800 years. The magnetic pull of the solar and the black hollow ought to alter the Earth's poles. technology has got here upon this has occurred a minimum of as quickly as earlier. the place Alaska substitute into as quickly as on the Equator. If it happens back, the Earth might have extreme international catastrophes. those predictions have come from many different aspects, alongside with Revelations in the Bible. December 21, 2012. in accordance to technology, the Earth will certainly be aligned with the solar and the Black hollow that holds our Galaxy into place on that date. what is going to take place in the time of that ingredient is any physique's wager.

Answer 6

The think that not being presented in your literature is not that the Mayans thought the world would end, but that the world would be changed at the end of that calendar cycle. The only thing ending is the calendar cycle. As for the change -well, look at it - it's a much different world than the Mayans could have imagined!

It's already come true, hasn't it?

Answer 7

your refering to the mayans not the aztecs and there is much speculation on the calendar but from what i've read it's suppose to be more of a transformation of consiousness than a apocalipse. and they were very good keepers of time but the calendar that runs out in 2012 is the long count calendar.
you might like this website

http://www.edgarcayce.org/2012.asp

Scholars have figured out how the Long Count Calendar correlates with our own Gregorian calendar (using a lot of arithmetic), so we know that the legendary time of the beginning of our present World Age – when all the values were set to zero – occurred on August 11, 3114 BC. And using a complex system of Mayan Baktuns (measurements of time), we can calculate when their calendar reaches a new zero point – basically, every 13 Baktuns (5,125 years), the Long Count resets to zero – the calculated time when our present World Age ends and a new cycle of time commences.

Answer 8

There are 42 signs or events till the end of times prophecy is fulfilled. Number 41 happened three years ago in the middle east. Number 42 is being worked on as we speak, and it is estimated that it will be completed in approximately 4/1/2 to
5 years.
So 2012 sounds within reason to me..........

Answer 9

There is not one shred of evidence that the Aztecs believed the world would end. What you've been exposed to is conjecture and theory. Somebodys pipe dream.
2012 is where they stopped counting the future years. It's hard enough to know what will happen tomorrow and who knows if we will be here 50 years from now. I conject on the theory that they knew they could pick it up again later.
Who knew there would not be the great Aztec Empire in 2012. Maybe they're coming back...?

Answer 10

It wasn't the Aztecs, it was the Mayans. They disappeared after the Spanish Conquistadors colonized the region for Spain. The Mayans were known for being scientifically ahead of their time, not in weapons tech, but in astronomy. Their calendar ended in the year 2012. Simple as that.