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The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012.
- The Ancient Maya
- The Calendar Round
- The Long Count Calendar
- The End of The World?
Of course, there is no concrete evidence that the Maya–a diverse group of indigenous people who lived in parts of present-day Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador and northwestern Honduras from about 2000 B.C.–could truly predict the future. They did, however, develop one of the most sophisticated and complex civilizations in the Western Hemisphe...
The first Mayan calendar, known as the Calendar Round system, was based on two overlapping annual cycles: a 260-day sacred year and a 365-day secular year that named 18 months with 20 days each. (Five “unlucky” unnamed days were tacked on at year’s end.) Under this system, each day was assigned four pieces of identifying information: a day number a...
But because the Calendar Round measured time in an endless loop, it was a bad way to fix events in an absolute chronology or in relationship to one another over a long period. For this job, a priest working in about 236 B.C. devised another system: a calendar that he called the Long Count. The Long Count system identified each day by counting forwa...
The Mayawho developed the Long Count calendar believed the end of one cycle would simply signal the beginning of another. According to this logic, a new Grand Cycle would start on December 22, 2012. However, some people in the U.S. and Europe came to believe that the calendar would not reset itself. Instead, they said, the end of the cycle would br...
Dec 21, 2012 · What happened on December 21, 2012. Browse historical events, famous birthdays and notable deaths from Dec 21, 2012 or search by date, day or keyword.
Dec 7, 2012 · 12/21/12: Definitely Not the End of the World. If you think anything even approaching armageddon is going to occur on Dec. 21, 2012, you are wrong. Volcanologist Erik Klemetti addresses popular...
- Erik Klemetti
Jul 6, 2012 · Neither the Maya Calendar--nor the World--Ends on December 21, 2012. This year's doomsday angst owes much to public ignorance about pre-Columbian civilizations. By Erik Vance. It's a bright...
NASA scientists have thoroughly studied and analyzed the possibility of the Earth ending in 2012, and have concluded that 21st December 2012 will be nothing more than a normal December solstice. There is simply no scientific evidence to support any claims of an apocalypse on Earth on December 21, 2012.
Dec 20, 2011 · It's true that the so-called long-count calendar—which spans roughly 5,125 years starting in 3114 B.C.—reaches the end of a cycle on December 21, 2012. That day brings to a close the 13th...
