Mayan calendar

And it's not even like there are no stelae which refer to time after the end of this cycle - it's just that they weren't common. There's one stone that keeps the pattern of increasing time measurements by factors of 20 until the year 1 million something. So maybe at that point Western Civilization will go through this all over again. It's all just stupid Western New Age bullshit... people are too lazy to actually dig up what actually happened.

 

If the world does end and I'm wrong, at least nobody can laugh at me :icon_mrgreen:

 

Just because the Maya didn't predict it doesn't mean it won't happen; the biggest concern for me is people looking to make this a self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

I know what you're saying, but for me, it just feels like all of the other occasions that I've mentioned all over again. Harold Camping predicted that everyone who believed in Christ would be "Raptured" last May, yet I'm pretty sure nothing even remotely similar to that happened.

I'm personally not worried at all. Maybe my mindset will have changed by the eve of December 20th, who knows

 

Maybe, but you can use it for your advantage too - a friend of mine is Maya and we had the idea to go back to one of the temples in his home country with a group of friends and sell a whole bunch of cheap, unauthentic Maya memorabilia and rip off all the New Age hippies who will be gathering there.

 

cant believe how gullible some people are, the maybe calender ends in december 2012, and then restarts and ends again in another 300 years, nothing has happened the last 9 times the mayan calender has ended and restarted but some idiots make a big deal out of this because it is happening in modern times

 

Whats size is their calander if its went for a few thousand years or is it in small writing?

 

I am going to find all the people who are heading out to live in bunkers and * and then I am going to buy all their stuff on the cheap and sell it back to them at a higher price

 

It's not written like our calendar at all, so it's not quite like you're thinking. Basically it's a cycle with revolving factors of 20 and 13 deciding what the different cycles are.

 

And people say capitalism is a bad thing... :icon_mrgreen:

 

Oh just googled looking for it, looks well complicated is it that circle shield looking thing

 

Yeah but there's two different ones that were in use which makes things more complicated. The Mexican calendar (for the Mexica people, Teotihihuacanos, etc.) was a 360-day year with 52-year cycles. This is further complicated by the fact that the Maya actually used this calendar as well at certain times... I hope I'm not confusing them. They're really similar in some aspects.

 

Oh well better not run up a big credit card bill then cause I will have to pay it off in 2013

 

The Long Count Calendar represents a cycle of time that is approximately 5,125 years, ending with the 13th cycle (Bahaou). Each cycle lasts about 394 years or 144,000 days. Currently, we are in the 12th Baktun, which will end on December 20, 2012 or the Mayan Calendar date of 13.0.0.0.0. The Bahaou can be understood in terms of our own age; when we turn 12, we are actually moving into our 13th year or cycle, having already lived 12 years. When we fulfill our 12 years (Baktun) we become 13.


The Long Count Calendar date starts on August 11, 3114 B.C. although the calendar itself was not in existence until 2,100 years ago, when it was calculated and invented. The day also coincided with a conjunction to the star Sirius. The Mayans believed that there were five great ages and we live in the last one. The combination of each great age represents approximately 26,000 years, or one precession of the equinox, starting and terminating at the winter solstice when the sun conjoins the galactic center; an event that only occurs once every 26,000 years​

 

There are several different Mayan calendars.

But as I understand it, the total period is around 26,000 years.

It begins & ends when the sun conjuncts the intersection of the Milky Way & the plane of the ecliptic (rising). Whether you believe the Mayan stuff or not, it's a very rare astronomical event: once in a thousand generations.

 

The Significance of the Mayan Calendar System

With the Correlation Problem seemingly put to rest, an entirely new set of questions immediately came to the fore:

1) Just why did the Maya establish the 0.0.0.0.0. start date when they did?

2) Why did they devise a calendar some time circa 500 BC, with a back-dated ‘start date’ in 3114 BC?

3) What is the true significance of a recurring 1872000 day cycle as a whole?

 

copy and paste is fun huh

 

I just wasted part of my life reading this *. part of my calendar * :icon_mrgreen:

 

Any naked Mayan birds on their calender and if so, does Easons sell it?

 

Is that real NASA website?

I know they're trying to accommodate texts to us simpler minds, but parts of that sound like Bill O'Reilly ramblings.