I'm sure you all have heard the Mayan calendar "ends" in 2012 and supposedly the world will end too. Well, to save you the time, here's the real truth.
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MEXICO–If there's a word in Mayan for "malarkey" that's what shaman Gerardo Carrera thinks of Hollywood's end-of-days spin on Dec. 21, 2012.
With Roland Emmerich's big-budget disaster movie 2012 riding a wave of studio publicity into theatres Nov. 13, people are talking about what seems to be the date the sophisticated Maya calendar runs out, perhaps triggering the downfall of civilization.
Trailers for the blockbuster, rumoured to cost some $260 million, show John Cusack and Amanda Peet desperately fleeing a crumbling Los Angeles that literally hives off and slides into the ocean as they make their airborne escape.
The trailer ends with the solemn words: "Find out the truth: Google 2012."
But Carrera, a traditional spiritual healer, ceremonial leader and go-between for this world and the next, says Dec. 21, 2012 isn't the end of the world as far as the Maya are concerned.
"It's not true. It is not the end," says the soft-spoken Carrera, resident shaman at a luxury eco-resort about 60 kilometres from Cancun on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, an area rich in the Maya culture and belief system that predates European settlement.
In fact, Carrera sees this as a very beneficial period in human history, a time of rebirth as the calendar clicks over and starts again.
"There will be change. All the signs are there, with the economy, the world weather, the Earth," Carrera says.
"It will be a time of rebirth. Newness. Not destruction."
Gyles Iannone, Mayanist and associate professor of anthropology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., explains the Maya calendar doesn't end on Dec. 21, 2012 – not even close.
"The calendar is much more complex than the calendar system we use today," Iannone says.
Based on 20-day months and 18-month years, the Maya Long Count calendar is only in the 13th phase – the 13th baktun – of a 20-baktun system, Iannone explains.
"In a purely calendric aspect, 2012 doesn't mean a thing," Iannone says.
The cycle doesn't wind up for another 2,700 years.
Which isn't to say Dec. 21, 2012, holds no significance. It marks 13.0.0.0.0 – the beginning of the 14th baktun under the Mayan calendar that starts at the Gregorian equivalent of Aug. 11, 3114 BC, the date Maya people credit as the birth of the world.
"There's nothing to suggest anything about the end of the world. It's really a celebration of a day in the past tied to creation," says Iannone.
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/article/717755--why-the-world-won-t-end-in-2012
Originally posted by uzlessif the Mayans thought the world was born in 3114 BC, why would anybody worry about when they thought it would end?
Which isn't to say Dec. 21, 2012, holds no significance. It marks 13.0.0.0.0 – the beginning of the 14th baktun under the Mayan calendar that starts at the Gregorian equivalent of Aug. 11, 3114 BC, the date Maya people credit as the birth of the world.
Originally posted by uzlessTrue change requires destruction.
I'm sure you all have heard the Mayan calendar "ends" in 2012 and supposedly the world will end too. Well, to save you the time, here's the real truth.
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Originally posted by Traveling AgainAre you saying it a "hoax"?
People are funny. (ha ha ha ha ha)
But it's kinda sad, too. NASA has added a section about the 2012 scare because of all the
panicked emails they keep receiving from people who really do think it's the end.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html
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Originally posted by Traveling AgainWhy those little "devils". Who'd have thunk? Now how do I get all the stuff I sold off, really cheap, back and can I expect to pay only what I sold it for? I had a feeling.....aw forget it.ðŸ˜
Yes, don't you see?? The Mayans have been planning this giant hoax for thousands of years!
Isn't the significance of 2012 linked the supposed approach of 'Nibiru'? The giant planet that's allegedly been out of sight until its close pass with Earth in a couple of years time. Foretold by Mayans, the end of the world as we know it comes when this massive rock pulls all of our tides and weather systems apart, with its gravitational pull. Conspiracy theorists will have us believe that this is really happening and that the only reason Nibiru has never been discovered, is because it has always been on the opposite side of the sun than the Earth. How so when its orbit is supposed to take 3600 years? This is not geometrically possible when our own planet's orbit of the sun is one year.
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Originally posted by jimslyp69I'm getting a headache...I hate math.
Isn't the significance of 2012 linked the supposed approach of 'Nibiru'? The giant planet that's allegedly been out of sight until its close pass with Earth in a couple of years time. Foretold by Mayans, the end of the world as we know it comes when this massive rock pulls all of our tides and weather systems apart, with its gravitational pull. Conspiracy ...[text shortened]... ars? This is not geometrically possible when our own planet's orbit of the sun is one year.