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What Did the Mayans Really No About December 21, 2012?

iLOVE

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Did the Mayans know something we don't know?

First of all, we know from the Bible, that the world is not going to end in 2012, because the Bible says very clearly, in Revelation 20, that there is yet another one thousand years of human existence upon the earth. But, does the Bible have anything else to say about 2012?

The prophecies of the Bible never fail. And the Bible does predict disasters, such as a time, just before the Second Coming of Christ, when the waves will roar and the sun will heat the earth and scorch mankind. The Bible also says, for example, that the heaven will be rolled up like a scroll and every mountain and island will be moved.
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Dec 20, 2012 is not the last day of the Mayan Calendar.
Instead it is the last day of 12 baktun, so it is probably not the end of the universe. The last day of the Mayan Calendar is at the end of 19 baktun, which is October 12, 4772. But that is only because they based their long count on the number 20.

Today (November 13th, 2012) is called 12 Baktun, 19 Katun, 19 Tun, 16 Winal, 2 Kin

Dec 21, 2012 just means their Long Count increments one more day into the next cycle.
Similar to our yearly increment and reset on January 1st, but theirs is a loooooong count. :rolling

Oh, the above assumes that there is a known correlation figure (based on the Venus cycle) but there is some doubt about the GMT conversion (correlation method) also. See LiveScience: End of the Earth Postponed

More information about the Mayan Calendar -----> WebExhibit's Mayan Calendar <----- Check out the section called "The Long Count" especially.
Although there were only 365 days in the Haab year, the Mayas were aware that a year is slightly longer than 365 days, and in fact, many of the month-names are associated with the seasons; Yaxkin, for example, means "new or strong sun" and, at the beginning of the Long Count, 1 Yaxkin was the day after the winter solstice, when the sun starts to shine for a longer period of time and higher in the sky. When the Long Count was put into motion, it was started at 7.13.0.0.0, and 0 Yaxkin corresponded with Midwinter Day, as it did at 13.0.0.0.0 back in 3114 B.C.E. The available evidence indicates that the Mayas estimated that a 365-day year precessed through all the seasons twice in 7.13.0.0.0 or 1,101,600 days.

We can therefore derive a value for the Mayan estimate of the year by dividing 1,101,600 by 365, subtracting 2, and taking that number and dividing 1,101,600 by the result, which gives us an answer of 365.242036 days, which is slightly more accurate than the 365.2425 days of the Gregorian calendar. (This apparent accuracy could, however, be a simple coincidence. The Mayas estimated that a 365-day year precessed through all the seasons twice in 7.13.0.0.0 days. These numbers are only accurate to 2-3 digits. Suppose the 7.13.0.0.0 days had corresponded to 2.001 cycles rather than 2 cycles of the 365-day year, would the Mayas have noticed?)

In ancient times, the Mayans had a tradition of a 360-day year. But by the 4th century B.C.E. they took a different approach than either Europeans or Asians. They maintained three different calendars at the same time. In one of them, they divided a 365-day year into eighteen 20-day months followed by a five-day period that was part of no month. The five-day period was considered to be unlucky.
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NASA Debunks Apocalyptic Theorists who say the Maya predicted the end of the world.
CLICK for ----> Doomsday Theories: NASA interview

Jet-seti-2012-02.jpg

A movie still from the film “2012” depicting the end of the world.
CREDIT: Columbia Pictures
 
What about the leap year thing? I've been seeing some posts explaining that whoever came up with the dec 12 2012 figure never did account for the leap year and thus, this mayan 'doomday' have passed quite a few months ago?
 
The interpretation could actually be hundreds of years off, which it means it either already happened a long time ago, or we have a while to go.
 
I am old enough that I still like to reminisce about the December 24, 2011 date. That was the original Mayan "alien return" date. :lol

It was one summer, I believe around 1975 when I was 16 years old my father and I watched "The Chariots of the Gods" movie and for years and years we knew that December 24th was the (supposed) end--- that was the dates us older folks remembered for quite some time now. Somewhere along the line the younger generation came along and said December 21st and confused the heck out of me because I KNEW it was December 24th. :toofunny

Well, BOTH dates passed now. Here it is December 22 and both the 21st and 24th passed and we're still here yet. Although nothing happened, since these dates used to be so far into the future I can't help but to think that we still entered some sort of new age. :lol i.e the old age is passed, so that even the past's future is past.
 
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