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The 2012 phenomenon was a range of beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012, based on the end of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. The article examines the Mayan, astronomical, and New Age interpretations of the date, as well as the scholarly and astronomical rejections of the doomsday scenarios.
Dec 20, 2011 · The Maya long-count calendar reaches the end of a cycle on December 21, 2012, but this does not mean the end of the world, experts say. Learn about the Maya culture, their prophecies, and the misinterpretations of their calendar.
- The Ancient Maya
- The Calendar Round
- The Long Count Calendar
- The End of The World?
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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...
Learn about the Maya Long Count calendar and how some people believed it predicted the end of the world on December 21, 2012. Find out why the Maya themselves did not share this apocalyptic view and how scientists debunked the doomsday theories.
Dec 18, 2012 · That the world will end in 2012 is the most widely-disseminated doomsday tale in human history, thanks to the internet, Hollywood and an ever-eager press corps. Recent hurricanes, unrest in...
December 21, 2012 has arrived, and the world has not come to an end, despite the feverish expectations of millions worldwide believe the Mayan calendar foretells our collective doom.
Learn about the Maya Long Count calendar and the end of a 13-baktun cycle on December 21, 2012. Find out why there is no evidence of any catastrophic events predicted by the Maya or other sources.
Jul 6, 2012 · If you have not been paying attention to doomsayers or John Cusack movies, December 21, 2012, is the day that many say the Maya predicted the world would end.
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