WHAT DATE DOES THE MAYAN CALENDER END,COMPARED TO THE nostrodamus predictions?

Answer 1

The Mayan calendar ends a CYCLE on Dec 21 2012. All calendars have cycles. It doesn't matter if you call them weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millenia, or baktuns.

Since the calendar is so widely misunderstood, it is being sold as the end of the world to a gullable and uneducated public who is buying it up. Anything and everything that can be imagined to end the world is being dumped onto the 2012 date even though there is no scientific evidence whatsoever to support the claims. It's no surprise that Nostradamus is also one of those things. It makes for good TV entertainment.

What Nostradamus predictions are you speaking of?

If you are inferring an end of the world, I can assure you that the Mayans NEVER spoke of an end of the world. Only the end of cycles. You may hear of references of 2012 as the end of times by pseudowebsites trying to make some money off of the misunderstood topic. You may hear A&E and the History channel and the Discovery channel try to cash in on it by making the calendar seem mysterious and esoteric. But this is an unjust way to twist the calendar into something it was never intended to be just to entertain the viewers.

Nostradamus fanatics will do anything to resurrect the dead man from his grave. Nostradamus never wrote about 2012. But persons who have little knowledge of Nostradamus' quatrains don't seem to care about this fine point. It's fun to be scared by something mysterious. Otherwise daily life tends to get boring.

These same people forget that Nostradamus predicted the end for 1999. That was also fun for a while. Books were sold. Videos were made. The History channel made some money. Then in 2000, it was just forgotten about. The History channel stopped showing it's 1999 programs predicting the end. TV evangelists bought property and private jets. And looked for their next opportunity to make some more cash... 2012.

http://www.amazon.com/Nostradamus-1999-Stefan-Paulus/dp/1567185150

http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/1999.htm

http://www.nostradamus-repository.org/nycfaq.html

and I include this last url as evidence that it takes a scholarly effort to attempt to interpret the vaguely written quatrains. Let us not forget that the quatrains are not pure. They have been found to be corrupted by others who have changed the quatrains and added to them after the death of Nostradamus.

http://mars-news.de/Nostradamus_1999-eclipse.txt

Answer 2

The Mayan Long Count calendar will complete its first great cycle of approximately 5,200 years on December 21, 2012. Although there is no substantial evidence that the ancient Mayans considered the date significant, many people have postulated that this is the "end of the Universe" from the Mayan perspective, and others believe that the Mayans meant this to symbolize the "coming of a great change."
What that "great change" is could be any number of things - the discovery of life on another planet, a new energy source, a change towards a more peaceful and tolerant global society. Or something else altogether.

As for Nostradamus, there is no evidence in academic literature to suggest that any Nostradamus "prophesy" has ever predicted a specific event before it occurred, other than in vague, general terms that could equally apply to any number of other events.

Answer 3

I'm not aware of any Nostadamus predictions mentioning the 'end of time', but the Mayan calender ends 12/21/12.

Answer 4

Neither of these sources has any relevance to astronomy.