hey did you know the Mayans said the world will be destroyed in 2012 AD?

Question

I wonder what they will say when they find out it still trives. End of that religion...what ever god they serve....if they serve a god...

I just heard it on the movie 23.......don't know if it is true or not, but it sounded like it was facts of thier culter

Answer 1

I thought it was AL GORE who said that the world was going to end by 2012 ;);););)

Considering there aren't a whole lot of Mayans left around to give is a DEFINITIVE answer - guess we'll have to wait and find out ;)

Answer 2

Actually, that's not true, the Mayans had several calendars, and the one you're referring to was not a doom calendar - it continues on for at least 3500 more years. The December 23, 2012 event - the Winter Solstice of that yea,r is the end of a major cycle, in which an odd thing will occur - the sky at that time will correspond to the sky of the beginning of the 5th Age of Man.

The Mayan religion (there are several variations) was a left hand path shamanistic religion, where the temple cities existed soley to engineer the Illumination and Transfiguration of the Shaman-Kings.

The primal god "L", or Itzama the psychedelic cigar smoker, was the Chief god, who commisioned the artisan gods to paint the world, and his wife, a Kali-like figure "helped".

Most of the Mayan gods are nasty creatures, because the Mayans had a very dark view of the World. Magick ruled, and they used every dark magick art known to Europe, and invented alot more! They didn't deny their dark side, but attempted to balance the light and the dark.

According to the 'Popol Vuh", the Good God went to Xibalba - the Underworld - to confront the Death Lords and his darker aspect (much like the Myth of Innanna). Because he was an innocent the Death Lords, who had fanciful names corresponding to awful ways of dying, tricked the Good God, because He didn't understand the wiles of Xibalba, nor Death's illusions and imitations of Life. He couldn't distinguish the illusions and imitations of life the Death Lords put him through from LIFE - so the challanged him to a game of death-ball and he lost his head, which was then hung on a calabash tree.

But one of the denizens of Xibalba, Blood Woman, was fascinated by the Head, and took some Itz (mana), which bore fruit, and the Two Twins, 1st Jaguar and 1st Hunapu, were born ("Seven of Nine" ;->). When they were challanged by the Death Lords, they were more world wise - more practical than the 'Father' - and they confused Them with tricks, and seeing the imitaions of Life for what they were. Eventually, after several trials, they enter the Ball Court and cheated to win ( they had to cheat to win, the game was rigged!), where upon one was sacrificed on a firey grill or hot oven, and the other was cast in the river to drown - but they had conquered Death and came back through various Transformations to destroy the potent Death Lords, leaving a weakened generation of Death Lords to rule.

So, the Ball Game was an enactment of Cosmic Events that would bring the Shaman King to Infinity.

In the early Flower Wars, the only people who were sacrificed were the defeated warriors and Shaman KIings, which is alot like the movie "Highlander" - there were no victims - each played in the Venus wars and knew the consequences of losing - in fact their religion sadid tht both sides won - eventuallly.

But, one city, possibly Chichen Itza, started sending everyone in the conquered city to the Ball Court (after many rigorous rounds of torture and flaying) - a rigged game in which the losers died. The belief was that whether they were sacrificed, or "won" both teams would enter paradise, and sometimes the "winners" were sacrificed as well!. Often the loser participant was simply thrown down a symbolic staircase after having his throat slit - they didn't "play fair".

Because the city-state civilization depended on the absolute knowledge and occult powers of its Shaman Kings, any major setbacks like drought, or hurricanes, or any amount of major misfortunes would cause the commoners to lose their fear and their believe in the Divinity of their Shaman, and then they either rebelled or decided to leave the cities behind for the jungle.

The commoners didn't share in the knowledge of their god/Shaman/Kings, so they simply forgot most of what that civilization discovered. The modern Mayans still have shamans, but much of their beliefs are syncretic - mixed in with Xtianity.

Answer 3

it had to do with a very accurate calendar
that they made thousands of years ago

2012 is sometimes claimed to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or apocalypse). Many esoteric sources interpret the completion of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar (which occurs on December 21 by the most widely held correlation) to mean there will be a major change in world order.

Answer 4

December 23 2012 is when their calander ends. Because of how detailed and extensive their calander was, it has been speculated that it ended on that date because that is when the world will end. Interestingly, it isn't the only place that the same year is predicted as the ending of the world. I guess we just wait and see.

Answer 5

the mayan civilisation fell hundreds of years ago. they had a cyclic calendar, the last cycle of which happens to end in 2012. apparently they didn't believe in linear time - it's nothing like the christian apocalypse belief for instance. if their civilisation was still around i think they might have drawn up another cycle on the calendar by now.

Answer 6

No. They did not say that. That's when their calendar ends. People have since speculated that the Mayans MAY HAVE believed that, but it's not factual. 2012 is actually when a planetary alignment will happen -- that is a fact.

Answer 7

u saw that date in the channels according to the people who study this area. it's a new era will start at that year... but I dont know much about the the end of the world.. just I know the begin of a new era

Answer 8

That's not about the world ending. It's about going into the next 'phase' . (I don't remember the term)

To me, that's coinciding with the Great Tribulation. 2012? Okay. If it's 2012, that's okay with me.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I'm ready anyway.

Answer 9

ya its true, they dont believe the destruction will take place in 2012 its just when the calendar ends, they served the serpent god Kukulcan, i climbed his pyramid at Chichen Itza a few years back, it was beautiful

Answer 10

Yes!!! there culture said it, it was in Discovery Channel once, it said that their calendar said that they predicted a comet or something like that that would crush the Earth in 2012. Experts say they Bible has clues in it that it "will" happen, I'm really not sure if any of that will happen.