What about the year 2012?

Question

i've heard about the mayan prophecy and isaac newton was quoted saying he couldnt think of a reason why the earth would end before the date but im not exactly clear on the story

Answer 1

There is plenty of information in here.


THE HOW AND WHY OF THE MAYAN END DATE IN 2012 A.D.
by John Major Jenkins

¾ May 23rd, 1994



Originally published in the Dec-Jan '95 issue of Mountain Astrologer.
Why did the ancient Mayan or pre-Maya choose December 21st, 2012 A.D., as the end of their Long Count calendar? This article will cover some recent research. Scholars have known for decades that the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan "Long Count" system of timekeeping was set to end precisely on a winter solstice, and that this system was put in place some 2300 years ago. This amazing fact - that ancient Mesoameri- can skywatchers were able to pinpoint a winter solstice far off into the future - has not been dealt with by Mayanists. And why did they choose the year 2012? One immediately gets the impression that there is a very strange mystery to be confronted here. I will be building upon a clue to this mystery reported by epigrapher Linda Schele in Maya Cosmos (1994). This article is the natural culmination of the research relating to the Mayan Long Count and the precession of the equinoxes that I explored in my recent book Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies (Borderlands Science and Research Foundation, 1994).

The Mayan Long Count
Just some basics to get us started. The Maya were adept skywatchers. Their Classic Period is thought to have lasted from 200 A.D. to 900 A.D., but recent archeological findings are pushing back the dawn of Mayan civilization in Mesoamerica. Large ruin sites indicating high culture with distinctly Mayan antecedents are being found in the jungles of Guatemala dating back to before the common era. And even before this, the Olmec civilization flourished and developed the sacred count of 260 days known as the tzolkin. The early Maya adopted two different time keeping systems, the "Short Count" and the Long Count. The Short Count derives from combining the tzolkin cycle with the solar year and the Venus cycle of 584 days. In this way, "short" periods of 13, 52 and 104 years are generated. Unfortunately, we won't have occasion to dwell on the properties of the so-called Short Count system here. The Long Count system is somewhat more abstract, yet is also related to certain astronomical cycles. It is based upon nested cycles of days multiplied at each level by that key Mayan number, twenty ........ see link for rest of article.

Answer 2

Its not that the earth is going to end,, it is just the end of the Mayan calander which is 26,000 years long,, on 21 December 2012, and we are now entering the time of Aquarius,, which also means that the Pleiadians time is nearing. The closer we get to that date, the stronger is our connection to the Pleiadians, as our sun, which is one of a few spiral solar systems in this galaxy all line up in a parallel solar beam (which only happens every 26,000 years. December 21, 2012 is also the date on which a great spiritual evolution will happen.

If you would like to know more in detail about this, then I would suggest the book “THE PLEIADIAN AGENDA”,, very interesting and detailed.

Peace be within you
DRAGON

Answer 3

It's the end of the Mayan calendar. So they assumed the world would end on the day December 21, 2012.

Answer 4

this legend predates christianity even, There's a video on google called "the great year" that goes indepth on this subject, its more astrological than anything else, our planet has always been influenced by other planets and stars in some way, and in 2012, a unknown star to us will be within proximity of our solar system and the earth will be passing thru its radiant light for years, and legend has it that its like a regeneration for the earth, perhaps in a spiritual sense. I think it happens every 24,000 years according myan legend.

Answer 5

2012 is the end of the age. Planet Nibiru is supposed to return then. It is also called the world tree. Earth goes through this return and cataclysm every 3600 years. It is in recorded history from all around the world.

Answer 6

In the Mayan calendar, it is to be the end of one era and the beiginning of another.

Since all the Doomsday Dummkopfs were wrong about Y2K and every other mis-prediction (there have been thousands), they're now pinning their hopes to the oh, so "Chistian" (in the same sense that Madonna is "British") doomsday date.

Answer 7

the main idea is that the mayan calender spans thousands of years but suddenly stops on a certain date in 2012 for no apparent reason

Answer 8

don't believe the Mayan prophecy sure they could predict the future and our destruction date but they could not predict there destruction and i think what will happen in 2012 is our cycle will end and a new one will begin a cycle of love, harmony, and peace not death, destruction, and horror

Answer 9

No one know the hour of the end,not even Jesus. All we know is The Lord will come as a theif in the night.
2012? Myth!!

Answer 10

i heard the world was supposed to end December 12 2012 from that same thing i think