Will the World End December 21-23 - 2012? (Bookmark this post)!
The Maya calendar doesn't end in 2012, as some have said, and the ancients never viewed that year as the time of the end of the world, archaeologists say.
But December 21, 2012, (give or take a day) was nonetheless momentous to the Maya.
"It's the time when the largest grand cycle in the Mayan calendar-1,872,000 days or 5,125.37 years-overturns and a new cycle begins," said Anthony Aveni, a Maya expert and astronomer at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
The Maya kept time on a scale few other cultures have considered.
During the empire's heyday, the Maya invented the Long Count-a lengthy circular calendar that "transplanted the roots of Maya culture all the way back to creation itself," Aveni said.
During the 2012 winter solstice, time runs out on the current era of the Long Count calendar, which began at what the Maya saw as the dawn of the last creation period: August 11, 3114 B.C. The Maya wrote that date, which preceded their civilization by thousands of years, as Day Zero, or 13.0.0.0.0.
In December 2012 the lengthy era ends and the complicated, cyclical calendar will roll over again to Day Zero, beginning another enormous cycle.
"The idea is that time gets renewed, that the world gets renewed all over again-often after a period of stress-the same way we renew time on New Year's Day or even on Monday morning."
The end of the World scare at the end of 2012 is nothing different than the scare of the computers crashing at the end of 1999.
Companies around the world made millions & millions of dollars off the fear of people before Y2K and they will try and do it again in 2012.
It's all a bunch of garbage and there are huge groups of Asians (Chinese) that are not traveling by air because they are afraid, please! If the worlds going to end than it's going to end, do you think you can stop the end by being scared and frightened?
If a huge Meteor was to hit the Earth right now as I was writing this post life on Earth might be destroyed!
So what would this do to the Theory of 2012, gone right out the window!
People, when are you going to stop being scared of everything you hear and read?
And please don't listen to "Chicken Little" when he keeps saying "The Sky is Falling"
(There will be another life after this life on Earth and it will be a better one)!
I believe the end of the World will come from a Virus or Plaque with no cure, not the end of a Calender or Planets lining a certain way!
Robert Swetz (Vegas Bob) 12-16-2009
And if the World is going to end I am going to "Party like it's 1999"
Prince 1999 Video by Delightully Insane - MySpace Video
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