2012 mayas Who were the Mayas and how did they live?
I know that the Mayas wrote the 2012 calender; but beside from that, how did they live? I need to know their culture, civilization, methods, etc.
ANY help would be great! Thanks!
First of all, the mayans did not write the 2012 calendar prophecy. It was invented by white new agers who exploited the mayan culture.
The question is very generic. You need to be more specific.
2012 myan Do you think the world will come to an end Dec 21st,2012 like the Myan calendar predicts?
...Mayan...not Myan
Their calendar shows (according to most archealogists) a beginning of a new era in the Mayan culture....not the end of the world as some fear mongorers would like for you to believe.
2012 mayan what do you think of the mayan calander ending in the year 2012?
What do you think is the meaning of the mayan calander ending in 2012. I lend it some credence myself, only because I think we are in for one big unavoidable natural disaster soon, studies show our magnetic poles are shifting, we have holes in the ozone etc.. Do you lend any credence to the mayan calander?
The Mayan calendar doesn't mean diddly to us. This is some hype which made it on the History channel and they irresponsibly aired it because of its sensationalist appeal. There is no reason to believe anything unusual will happen in 2012. For the Mayans, that was just going to be the end of an era. There is no implication that it is the end of the world, even in their minds.
The poles are shifting, and over a few thousand years, they may decrease to nothing and then reverse poles. And even though you didn't mention it, there is nothing astronomically correct about the perdictions being made, either, except for the fact that the sun will reach maximum activity, (in 2011), as it does every 11 years.
Is it just coincidental that the mayan 2012 date comes in time with the US Presidential elections?
does that worry anyone else? kind of like whoever gets chosen this time around is our last hope... or perhaps the cause of whatever will ensue.
In addition to Charles Manson being up for parole in 2012, there are many things that people believe, rightly or wrongly, will come to pass. Here is a quote from Wikipedia’s article titled “2012”
“Metaphysical predictions
2012 is sometimes claimed to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or apocalypse). Many esoteric sources interpret the completion of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar (which occurs on December 21 by the most widely held correlation) to mean there will be a major change in world order.
Accordingly, several eclectic authors claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:
·The 1995 book The Mayan Prophecies linked the Maya calendar with long-period sunspot cycles.
·The book 2012: Mayan Year of Destiny claims the Maya may have been instructed in their wisdom by disembodied entities from Orion and the Pleiades. Contact was maintained through shamanic rituals conducted in accordance with the movements of planets and stars. However, some Mayan priests living and working in Guatemala assert that there is no legitimacy to this theory.
·The 1997 book The Bible Code claims that, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code, a meteor, asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth.
·The book The Nostradamus Code speaks of a series of natural disasters caused by a comet (possibly as above) that will allow the third Antichrist to disperse his troops around the globe under the guise of aid in preparation for a possible nuclear war, although in the strictest sense it is unspecific as to nuclear war or some other natural or man caused destruction.
·The book The Orion Prophecy claims that the Earth's magnetic field will reverse.
·The 2005 book Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Ecstasy by Geoff Stray reviews several theories, prophecies and predictions concerning 2012 and finds where authors have used faulty information or have bent the truth to fit their theories.
·The 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck discusses theories of a possible global awakening to psychic connection by the year 2012, creating a noosphere.
·The 2007 book Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End by Lawrence Joseph does not make any specific new predictions, but it reviews a number of 2012 predictions made by various sources, and presents arguments for the possible existence of dangerous positive feedback loops involving solar storms, Earth's magnetic field, cosmic rays, hurricanes, global warming, earthquakes, and supervolcanoes that may be on the verge of erupting.
Other prophecies and apocalyptic writings and hypotheses for this year include:
·Terence McKenna's numerological novelty theory suggests a point of singularity in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness.
·Some proponents of a peak oil catastrophe place major events in 2012. Richard C. Duncan's book The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road To The Olduvai Gorge claims that the Olduvai cliff will begin and permanent blackouts will occur worldwide. Several studies predict a peak in oil production in or around 2012.”
But if you ask me, 2012 will be like any other year. Although I do think that the Peak Oil theory and the Tehcnological Singularity thoey have some credibility.
