mayan Equinox
mayan Equinox
The 2012 Myth and Equinox?
This whole thing is just story after story, is there really an equinox wobble every 26,000 years? Has NASA confirmed this? or whatever it is? If so, then how come all the other forms such as homo sapiens and home erectus' survived this 26,000 years ago?!
Are all these things such as a galactical alignment, pole shift, asteroid, nostradamous(which some say he don't mention anything about it and predicts the end in 3447 and that history channel hyped it up), are reasons people are throwing in there on "WHY" the mayan calendar ends that year?! And why doesn't some scientist or NASA official just come out and disprove these people?
It's pretty much just story after story. The specific 2012 "End of the World" senario comes from the "end" of the Maya calendar.. or more specifically, the end of a 5125 year "long loop" in the Maya calendar. This isn't an end-of-the-world thing for the Mayans, but basically just a roll over... end of one cycle, beginning of another. However, the mathematics behind the Maya calendar are pretty cool, and basically, people just love a good Doomsday story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar
http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-mayan.html
So naturally, everyone's working feverishly to link their favorite old Doomsday scenario to the end of December in 2012. Some of these folks are just trying to sell books, others are simply those people you know who fall for any of the latest crazy fads.
NASA is not involved... this isn't science. You can do a web search on "NASA" and "2012" and find a bunch of kooks posting articles claiming NASA has confirmed destruction by asteroids, polar shift, solar wind, magnetic knot, and various other things... some are real phenomena, some wouldn't pass muster in a Freshman level Science Fiction class (though maybe a SciFi Channel movie-of-the-week). But there is no scientific basis for any of this. Zero. Nada. None. And once again, the Maya do not believe the world is ending on December 21, 2012.. that's not what this means to them.
Nostradamus never predicted anything, so there's no reason to think it would be any different this time around. He claimed to use astrology to make the predictions he published in "The Prophecies" (sometimes called "The Centuries" today) and a few other books (all in French, he being a Frenchman). Basically, there are vast numbers of quatrains (four line verses), so meaningless that modern readers with enough imagination can relate these to past events, and think there's something significant. Unfortunately, there's not a single instance of this working to reveal any future event.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/nostradamus.htm
People are fooled by Nostradamus (when it's really him... as in the articles, many of the supposed predictions aren't his, but forgeries written after-the-fact) in much the same way they're fooled by "cold readers" like self-proclaimed psychics. Basically, if a performer tosses out a bunch of very general statements as a claim of psychic powers, at least some of these will have you thinking, "hey, that's me"... because they're constructed for just that effect. And because you tend to reinforce the "hits" and totally ignore the misses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading
http://www.randi.org/library/coldreading/
I guess what you're shooting for here, specifically, may be "polar magnetic shift". The fossil record shows that, every so often, the magnetic poles of the earth shift.. North becomes South, South North. That's real, and expected sometime in the next 1000 years. There's fairly recent evidence that it may be underway already, and that it's not an event but actually a process that may take 100 or more years. No one believes this is a sudden thing, at least in human terms, or on-schedule for December of 2012. Nova did a show on this, there are more resources there:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/magnetic/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
This might cause some additional exposure to radiation, trouble for birds and sea turtles and other animals believed to use magnetism for navigation, but it's not expected to be a big deal. One generation might get used to seeing dramatic aurora borealis type displays worldwide, radio communications won't work as well (some frequencies less than others), but yeah, Early Man went through this plenty of times in the past, as well as most other life.
There have been huge die-offs in the past, but generally due to the sun being blocked out and plunging the earth into a fairly sudden and long-lasting winter. That's the likely outcome from a large asteriod impact or the euruption of a SuperVolcano. None of these are scheduled for 2012, far as we know.
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When exactly do we switch to the age of Aquarius?
I can't find any common ground on this
Some say we did in 1447ce (Terry MacKinnell) or we will in 3621ce (John Addey). Or a million thousand hundred dozen dates in between.
I heard an opinion from a source who certainly knows his mythology that it will be 21 Dec 2012.
Did Mayans have the same basis of Astrological Ages which we have which derived separately thousands of miles apart?
From Wiki:
Astrological ages exist as a result of precession of the equinoxes. The stars and constellations appear to slowly rotate around the Earth independent of the diurnal and annual movements of the Earth on its own axis and around the Sun. This slow movement takes slightly less than 26,000 years to complete one cycle.
Is this true?
I asked this in Horoscopes, I got one answer quoting zeitgeist as 2150 as the date
Nice thinking Jerry, best answer so far
Are you from London by any chance i'm thinking in the realm of 3629 ce if you subtract 67vu from conjugate 1447 ce the emancipation of the promotion variable chicken Galaziytoin you might get 3m squares
just a thought
The end of an age is not necessarily the end of the world. Stop confusing one with the other. Things change on this planet whether we like it or not. Does any of this mean that we as people have the power to change it?
The best thing you can do is be a little more tolerant of your fellow man. Otherwise, he might do stupid things out of the lack of rationale and fear. The whole time, believing he's right.
No religion preaches the stupidity that's going on now, I assure you. Does that mean right or wrong? Not certain, but I think I know BS when I see it, and it isn't most of the major religions that are full of it, it's the things that are anti them. Let people believe what they want. They''ll feel better, and so will you, in the long run.
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