What do you think about the Mayans (Knowladge and Calender). .?

Question

In modern society, the existence of Pluto was not confirmed until the early 1930's, making nine planets. The Mayans always called earth the seventh planet. Earth is the seventh planet if you are coming from outside of our solar system and count Pluto on the way. The Mayan calender predicted to the day (Aug 27 07) when Mars will be as close to Earth as it ever gets. It speaks of two moons, and a gate that is brought along with the "two moons" (our Moon and Mars) that will take us to the end of the sixth sun (Dec 21, 2012) AT A TIME WHEN THE EARTH IS COVERED BY A WEB!!! WWW=World Wide Web. Very insightful and amazing. Please share your thoughts with me and any links that might be of pertinence to this topic. Thanks.

Answer 1

Interesting information. Didn't they predict the last day of civilization- they said that the sun would swallow the earth. I may be wrong, please correct me, was it the Incas, or the Aztecs.

Answer 2

Sorry, I'm a skeptic. No offense, but the web thing does seem a bit far-fetched. I've never really heard of it, the 7th planet idea, or the others. All I can really relate to that you're saying is that I've heard the theory of something happening during 12/21/12 . And to be honest, that also seems a little off. I don't know alot about the whole theory, but the thing is that no calendar is limitless. They had to pick somewhere, and December 21, 2012 could just be an arbitrarily picked date. Maybe for dramatic effect, since it's all 1's and 2's, alternating in order at the turn of a millenium, or maybe it was just like pinning the tail on a donkey.

I do agree with you in that they were extremely advanced and probably able to do these calculations about Mars, and possibly Pluto. But I just get the feeling that since they also had traditions that were made up(i.e. the quetzecoatal being a god who needed sacrifices of blood) . So it's possible that they predicted the date as a sort of tie-in to their beliefs, probably to reinforce belief that they would need to do something or be totally destroyed. After all, they didn't know their culture would be changed and lost for the most part. They probably thought they would live on forever, and if that date wasn't just random, then it was most likely made to continue the belief for future generations, just like what we're ironically doing today.

Answer 3

I actually haven't read about many of the Mayan prophecies...7 was used frequently by Egyptian and Greeks. The Mayans and Egyptians have a lot of similarities, it seems.
I'm reading a book called 'Apocalypse 2012' and it tells about the different scientific theories as to what could go wrong by, or on, that date. (Global Warming's' effects are too slow)
There's a predicted Yellowstone volcanic eruption and something about the North & South Pole switching (which would upset the migratory animals sense of direction, they'd get lost and probably die, which would 'trickle down' the food chain to upset human civilization. There's also an unexplained crack in the magnetic sphere (not the same as, but maybe related to, the hole in the ozone layer) and the sun is having some solar 'issues' that are warming the whole universe. On top of that, the Earth, the Sun and the Milky Way are to be in direct alignment on that date, which is not a normal thing.
BTW, the Mayans are not extinct, they are very small in number but there are a few in Mexico.
I as aware of the Conquistador thing-my interpretation is that they got the date right, but the religious prophecy part was wrong.

Answer 4

The Mayans were, especially given their time and isolation from other cultures, notably good at mathematics, astronomy, and particularly calendar making.

However, it's quite naive to assume that they knew of the existence of Pluto (there could have been other reasons for thinking earth was the 7th of something; 7 shows up in a lot of mythology), and especially naive to assume that their calendars must mark the apocalypse.

Answer 5

It is clear that the Mayans had an advanced knowledge of the Cosmos and time. We'll have to wait and see what happens on 12/21/12.

Answer 6

terrence mckenna predicted it
before he knew about the mayan calendar

[edit] Novelty theory and "Time Wave: Zero Point"
Main article: Novelty theory
One of McKenna's most widely-promulgated ideas is known as Novelty theory. It predicts the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. McKenna developed the theory in the mid-1970s after his experiences in the Amazon at La Chorrera led him to closely study the King Wen sequence of the I-Ching. Novelty theory involves ontology, extropy, and eschatology.

The theory proposes that the universe is an engine designed for the production and conservation of novelty. Novelty, in this context, can be thought of as newness, or extropy (a term coined by Max More meaning the opposite of entropy). According to McKenna, when novelty is graphed over time, a fractal waveform known as "timewave zero" or simply the "timewave" results. The graph shows at what time periods, but never at what locations, novelty increases or decreases.

Considered by some to represent a model of history's most important events, the universal algorithm has also been extrapolated to be a model for future events. McKenna admitted to the expectation of a "singularity of novelty", and that he and his colleagues projected many hundreds of years into the future to find when this singularity (runaway "newness" or extropy) could occur. The graph of extropy had many enormous fluctuations over the last 25,000 years, but amazingly, it hit an asymptote at exactly December 22, 2012.[16] In other words, entropy (or habituation) no longer exists after that date. It is impossible to define that state. The technological singularity concept parallels this, only at a date roughly three decades later. According to leading expert Ray Kurzweil), another concept called cultural singularity (essentially cultural dissolution, or language dissolution), parallels this as well. Terrence claimed to have no knowledge of the Mayan calendar, which ends one day before the Timewave graph does: December 21, 2012, this is likely to be true as Mckennas timewave theory was published in The Invisible Landscape 12 years before the book which brought the Mayan calendar into public consciousness; José Argüelle's The Mayan Factor[16]

Answer 7

the spanish conquistadors destroyed all/most of the mayans
records. i'm not sure where these people are getting their
data. read some history on the conquest of the americas.
but i have to agree on one thing, the mayan peolple still
exist in the yucatan penisula. i wonder what they really think
about all this?

Answer 8

The Maya could not even predict their own demise.

Answer 9

the Mayans are extinct.


there is a reason for that.