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The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the Maya civilization among others of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, completes its thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle since the calendar's mythical starting point on 12/21/12. The Long Count b'ak'tun date of this starting point is repeated, for the first time in a span of approximately 5,125 solar years. The significance of this period-ending to the pre-Columbian Maya themselves is unclear, and there is an incomplete inscription (Tortuguero Stela 6) that records this date. It is also to be found carved on the walls of the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, where it functions as a base date from which other dates are computed. However, it is conjectured that this may represent in the Maya belief system a transition from the current Creation world into the next.

What do you think will happen? If it's nothing will you be disappointed?

2007-10-04 06:58:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

BTW- I don't think anything will happen either but that doesn't mean I don't think we can't learn from the Maya, how they lived, and how they eventually died out.

History isn't facts and figures, its analysis of events and cultures in order to learn from their mistakes and utilize their advantages.

2007-10-04 07:19:18 · update #1

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There is no next creation. It is period ending.

2007-10-04 07:23:33 · answer #1 · answered by Phone E 3 · 0 0

It's all BS; apocalyptic Christians still disappointed over Y2K have ironically latched their hope-wagon to a pagan calendar. By 2013, they'll have a new unfailable prophesy to be wrong about.

The Mayan calendar signifies an end of one age and the beginning of another; there's no evidence to suggest anything about anything.

2007-10-04 14:03:44 · answer #2 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 1 0

I think the chances of a civilisation which didn't even have the wheel correctly predicting the end of the world are about nil.

What is happening in 2012 is the London Olympics, which is going to be well exciting.

2007-10-04 14:01:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Well lets see... a bunch of goat herders and blood-thirsty savages that worshiped sticks thousands of years ago say the world is going to end.

Sounds reasonable to me.

2007-10-04 14:04:13 · answer #4 · answered by hottie 2 · 0 1

I expect nothing to happen, so no I will not be disappointed.

2007-10-04 14:10:45 · answer #5 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0 0

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