Mayan Calender

[@nt!x]

According to Mayan calculations, the current cycle of the world is due to end in December 2012. There will be an astronomical alignment that occurs only once every 13,000 years.

Did the Mayans predict a major catastrophe that would change earth as we know it? What do you think will happen in December 2012?

[davpar]

According to the guide we had when I went to Chichen Itza, the meaning of the "end" is only the end of the calendar, not the world. Of course you would expect them to say something along those lines so as not to create panic.......

[sctx]

Originally Posted by @nt!x

What do you think will happen in December 2012?

The Artist Formerly Known As Prince will release his newest song...."Party Like It's The End of The World".........and I will consume at least 3 bottles of primo tequila.....possibly 4

[Seakony]

it is the end of time. But they never made it clear what that meant. It has something to do with the alignment of certain planets. There has been other prophesies about that time too.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by @nt!x

What do you think will happen in December 2012?

Christmas, New Years Eve, and several random brithdays to name a few things.....

[Jesus]

On that date, the calendar comes to several zeroes:

They divided the time in baktuns, katuns, etc. on Dec 21, 2012 is the end of the 260th katun or The thirteenth and last baktun...

But that is only reaching a lot of zeroes, like the 2nd milenium in the Gregorian calendar, just a lot of zeros, nothing else, as there are divisions higher than the baktun.
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Long Count

Since Calendar Round dates can only distinguish within 18980 days, equivalent to around 52 solar years, the cycle repeats roughly once each lifetime, and thus, a much more refined method of dating was needed if their history was to be recorded accurately.

The Long Count employs the use of number series, roughly base 20 and is constructed by counting whole number of days alone. The Mayan name for a day was k'in; twenty of these k'ins are known as a winal (or uinal); eighteen winals make one tun; twenty tuns are known as a k'atun, twenty k'atuns make a b'ak'tun. (Four rarely-used higher-order cycles are known as Piktun, Kalabtun, K'inchiltun, and Alautun.)
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So basically, we are finishing 13 baktuns, but there are many Piktuns left to reach the next Kalabtun and so on.

[Jesus]

More on the "end" of the world:
The end of the 13th b'ak'tun is conjectured to have been of great significance to the Maya. It does not necessarily mark the end of the world, according to their beliefs, but a new beginning or time of re-birth. According to the Popol Vuh, a book compiling details of creation accounts known to the Quiché Maya of the colonial-era highlands, we are living in the fifth world. The Popol Vuh describes the first four creations that the gods failed in making and the creation of the successful fifth world where men were placed.

The last creation ended on a long count of 12.19.19.17.19. Another 12.19.19.17.19 will occur on December 20, 2012, and it has been discussed in many New Age articles and books that this will be the end of this creation, the next pole shift or something else entirely. However, the Maya abbreviated their long counts to just the last five vigesimal places. There was an infinite number of larger units that were usually not shown. When the larger units were shown (notably on a monument from Coba), the end of the last creation is expressed as 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13 .13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0, where the units are obviously supposed to be 13s twenty places larger than that b'ak'tun. In this age we are only approaching 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.13.0.0.0.0 , and the larger places would all need to similarly roll over to 13 again to match the date of the new creation.[6]

This is confirmed by a date from Palenque, which projects forward in time to 1.0.0.0.0.0, which will occur on October 13, 4772 (a Friday). The Classic Period Maya likely did not believe that the end of this age would occur in 2012. According to the Maya, there will be a baktun ending in 2012, a significant event being the end of a 13th 400 year period, but not the end of the world.

[sctx]

Jesus.....can you be a little more specific???

[eccentrictinker]

Originally Posted by Jesus

On that date, the calendar comes to several zeroes:

They divided the time in baktuns, katuns, etc. on Dec 21, 2012 is the end of the 260th katun or The thirteenth and last baktun...

But that is only reaching a lot of zeroes, like the 2nd milenium in the Gregorian calendar, just a lot of zeros, nothing else, as there are divisions higher than the baktun.
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Don't believe any of this stuff. Jesus and the Chichen-Itza guides are all part of a massive conspiracy that is hiding the real truth from the world.

On December 21st, 2012, all of the pent-up methane gas that is captured at the bottom of many high altitude lakes in Central America will be released spontaneously and simultaneously.

This gas will create a gigantic hole in the ozone that will allow incredibly intense heat to penetrate the earth's atmosphere in a swath 20 degrees on either side of the Equator.

All humans and animals in this zone will be fried to crispy critters. Plant life will be reduced to ashes in seconds.

However, up here in Minnesota, we'll still be sitting in our ice fishing shacks freezing our arses off, as usual, wishing we were in Playa.

[eccentrictinker]

Originally Posted by Jesus

On that date, the calendar comes to several zeroes:

They divided the time in baktuns, katuns, etc. on Dec 21, 2012 is the end of the 260th katun or The thirteenth and last baktun...

But that is only reaching a lot of zeroes, like the 2nd milenium in the Gregorian calendar, just a lot of zeros, nothing else, as there are divisions higher than the baktun.
.

Don't believe any of this stuff. Jesus and the Chichen-Itza guides are all part of a massive conspiracy taht is hiding the real truth from the world.

On December 21st, 2012, all of the pent-up methane gas that is captured at the bottom of many high altitude lakes in Central America will be released spontaneously and simultaneously.

This gas will create a gigantic hole in the ozone that will allow incredibly intense heat to penetrate the earth's atmosphere in a swath 20 degrees on either side of the Equator.

All humans and animals in this zone will be fried to crispy critters. Plant life will be reduced to ashes in seconds.

However, up here in Minnesota, we'll still be sitting in our ice fishing shacks freezing our arses off, as usual, wishing we were in Playa.

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[Beachnutt719]

There was an excellent special on this. Many of there "predictions" for certain periods of time have been quite accurate in my opinion. It does sound as if there may be some cataclysmic event that will change the world as we know it (rather than ending it).

That may not be such a bad thing. Maybe it just means we will get another chance to try to get it right!

[Bumper]

Armageddon tired of all this talk about the end of the world.

[Bumper]

[roni]

By that date we should be living in Mexico
Maybe a Mayan will yank our hearts out of our chests
and eat them raw.

[Jesus]

Originally Posted by Bumper

Armageddon Flowchart

There is a big mistake in the chart, it was Gandalf the white, not Bruce Willis.