is the mayan end date of any significance?

Question

is it worth getting worked up about?

the 12-21-12 date?

Answer 1

Yes and No.

A celestial formation, which only happens once every 25,630 years, will happen on the December 21, 2012 at the winter solstice. At around 6:01 am, Eastern Standard Time, the Sun, Earth, and center of the Milky Way galaxy will be in conjunction or alignment. Since the horizontal plane of the Milky Way galaxy will be only 27 degrees shy of being perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, which is the plane made by the earth’s revolution around the Sun, a cross will form between these two planes. The intersection of these two planes has been named the Holy Cross by researchers.

The Maya perceived the Milky Way galaxy as the Great Mother or Cosmic Womb of creation from which all life, form, and matter proceeded. There is a dark cleft in the Milky Way, which was for the Maya, the literal Womb of the Great Mother. At the solstice in 2012, one can envision the birth of the new Sun from the dark Womb of creation.

No, the World will not end. Instead, a more spiritual, openness age will begin.

Just the fact that we here are going to experience something that happens once every 25,630 years, is enough to get me hyped!!!

Answer 2

This is very interesting subject to me. I actually watched this video about the Mayan Calendar, the fact that the Mayan's were such great mathmeticians I think that there could be truth to the date. It is supposed to on that date in December that there is a planetary alignment with a black hole in the milky way. Scientist have no idea what may happen. Also the fact that the Mayan Calendar corresponds with other prophosies makes the story seem a little more true. However, they have been saying the end of the world is coming soon for thousands of years.

Answer 3

No. The end for the Mayans came long before 12-21-12

Answer 4

No, and no. There was a question posted on YA a couple of weeks ago (not sure if it was here or a different category) asking if the world would end on 7/7/07. Nearly everyone gave the same answer, no.

Every predicted date for the end times has been wrong, and absent some objective evidence showing why the world would end on a certain date -- such as a large asteroid on a collision course with Earth -- all future predictions of a certain date will also be wrong.

Answer 5

Actually, it is only the last date of this cycle of their calendar. The Mayans believed life kept repeating in certain cycles. We merely end one cycle and begin a new one (actually, repeat an old one) in 2012.

However, the cycle we are supposed to begin in 2012 is not the best. If we really do repeat cycles, we might be in for some trouble based on the last go round through this cycle. But this is one belief system out of thousands. I can't put stock in any particular one of them.

Answer 6

I'm a little worried, I'm not going to lie. But its not just the Mayans, its the I Ching from ancient China, the Hopi Indians, Nostrodamus, and a few others. If you google 12/21/12, there's all sorts of stuff.

Answer 7

not by itself, but several other people have made the same prediction about the world ending in 2112. People that had not even known about the Mayan civilization. Web-bot, our own man made program made this prediction, so did a mathematician that used the Iching. An ancient Greek oracle made this prediction. A woman by the name of mother shipera made this prediction, and scientist have also made this prediction, or at least implied it by saying a meteor is due to pass dangerously close to the earth around this time.

The other major predictions that have been made that are approaching soon is nuclear war in 2009, and a massive earthquake in California in 2010.

Answer 8

Yes, it means that an AMAZING BUNCH OF FARMERS, PRIESTS AND others stopped adding up their calendars on that date in the future and went back to work doing what they usually do. THAT'S ALL IT MEANS. Even we today do not have Calendars laying around that go that far into the future, so why should they? As far as the end of the world goes, it means no such thing, its simply the end of the Mayan's LONG Calendar count. There is also the short calendar count, look it up on Wikipedia.

Answer 9

That isn't a Mayan end date.

They made prophecies for what was supposed to happen after that. They wouldn't have done so if they thought the world was going to end then.

Their calendar rolls over just like ours does.

Answer 10

Yes. The significance is that it will be the end of the Mayan calendar system, and the beginning of a new cycle. thats about it.