Any Other Mayan Predictions?

Question

Ok, so I have been looking into this Mayan prediction that the world will end or be changed forever on 12/21/12 and I am not really sure what to believe. Has anyone ever heard of any other Mayan prediction that has come true?

I swear in my short lifetime there has been hundreds of false predictions of the earths demise I really just want to know why this is any different. The Mayans were very advanced for there time yet they where not even prepared for there own demise, so I find it strange that they are calling ours.

Could this just be the day they decided to stop witting or is there any type of scientific proof? I have heard the pole reversal theory and I geuss it is plausable.

I have not said I am buying into any of this I am just wanting to know if there has been any previous predictions by the Mayans that have come true. I am sure once this passes another will take its place.

I just find this prediction interesting, I did not buy into any of the 1-1-2001 or the dreaded 6-6-06 because there was not any scientific proof.

Answer 1

The present Long Count in the Mayan Calendar ends on 21 Dec., 2012. A long count is very long (over 5000 years), so I guess they did not see the need to print calendars in advance for the next one, back a thousand years ago.

They did not predict the end of the world. However some people have used this special date to "predict" all kinds of things, to which they add other things, some of them partly true, most of them very false, and all of them probably unknown to the Mayans.

The Earth magnetic field is flipping. It has flipped quite a few times in the past (over hundreds of thousands of years) and a flip takes a few hundred years to occur. The rpesent flip has begun.

Back in the 1980's, I was writing a book on Earth magnetism so I researched (and even tried some calculations); at the time, the flip was predicted to occur in the 24th century (twenty three hundred and something).

In the last few years, the North magnetic pole has been moving around a bit faster than we thought. Does that mean the flip will occur faster than we thought? Difficult to say, we were not here for the last one.

However, the flip will not destroy the world. For a while, we thought that the magnetic field would drop to zero (leaving us without protection against cosmic rays and other charged particles from space) then reappear with the reverse polarity; now, we think that it may simply move around, with the poles wandering around until they find their new spot in the other hemisphere. In other words, there will always be a magnetic filed around Earth protecting us, it will just be difficult to calculate it (magnetic compasses might be unreliable or useless for a century or so).

As for the "alignment" of the Sun with the Black Hole at the centre of the Galaxy, the sun will still be 6 degrees away. It is far from being "in line". Plus, the alignment is very close to the same value for dozens of years before and after (every December solstice). This appulse (quasi-alignment) occurs every 25,800 years. The cycle is caused by precession of Earth's axis and was known to the Ancient Greek astronomers and, obviously, to the Mayan.

And that's it. Everything else that I have heard in relation to this "Mayan prediction" is bunk.

Answer 2

--"Mayan predictions for 2012?" There are none. --"Do you think the mayan predictions for 2012 are accurate?" An identification question addressing an empty set is always ambiguous. ----- The association of "Sacred Mayan predictions" to 2012 was created during the summer of 2003 by the creators of the Big 2012 Hoax (the same people who had just finished running the Planet-X hoax -- we all died on May 13, 2003). Mayan because one of the lies used in choosing a date came from José Arguelles's claim (known to be false) that the Mayan calendar ends. Sacred because José had also claimed (in 1972) to be a reincarnated Mayan god. José was born in Minnesota and, unusual for a god, died recently. José was NOT involved in the creation of the Big 2012 Hoax (the only "prediction" made by José was that there would be a "New Age" associated with the end of the calendar) ALL (capitalized on purpose) the "Mayan" predictions associated with 2012 are recent inventions.

Answer 3

>>I swear in my short lifetime there has been hundreds of false predictions of the earths demise I really just want to know why this is any different.

It isn't any different. The Mayans didn't do any predicting about any ends of the world. Our calendar ends in 4099, and no one has suggested that the world will explode then for some reason.

The only people who make any Mayan predictions about the end of the world are modern mystics and frauds who want to scare you into buying their books, magic charms, etc.

Pseudo-Mayan pole reversal "theories" are not plausible.

Answer 4

Well for one we are going through a very large solar maximum at that time, biggest on record and the last one knocked out satellites and ground power in cali back in the mid to late 90's. We are globally travelling through the center of our galaxy and going through the galactic equator, which is a highly radioactive, and energetic partr of the universe. Also we are having a current poles shift that won't be complete for some time, and we are also going through a "wobble" on our axis. All of this can be confirmed by a quick search on any official science, and astronomy sites as well as space.com and NASA. Yes it's strange that people 1000 yrs ago told of this in their writtings, but the real problem is the dogon tribe. They knew of sirius a and b before our modern day space telescopes did. How can a tribe in western africa now about this ages before modern technology, especially when sirius b is invisible to the naked eye.

Answer 5

A calender date is a number like any other.

The Maya had a good calender. They were
not astrophysicists. They believed in the
jaguar as a deity. They took hallucinogens.
They believed human sacrifice controlled
the crops and weather.
You want to believe their predictions?

You remember the big "millennium" noise?
What happened then?

Put on your 'Fertilizer Filter` before venturing
forth upon the net.