mayan calendar end Why does the Mayan Calendar end at 12-21-2012?
Supposely the World is gonna end at that time according to them,What do you have to say about it,Being straigh Bull,Or whatever.
This Global Warming sucks tho.Say bye the Polar bears as they are in extinction watch
It's a total random question I know...lol
Because the last Mayan who updated the calendar decided that several thousand years in advance was a little overkill and stopped writing.
Global warming/climate change does suck. We just have to get used to what the world is going to be and be prepared to change.
mayan calendar end of the world Did the Mayan calendar say that the world will end in 2012 or there will be a BIG change in the world?
The Maya made no reference to an apocalyptic event in 2012. There are cycles longer than the baktun (long count), which is the cycle set to end in December of 2012.
Here is a good article concerning Monument 6 (which makes reference to 2012): http://decipherment.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/what-will-not-happen-in-2012/
Here is another article about the Mayan Calendar: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~mills/maya.html
You can also access more research at this site, written by Mark Van Stone PhD of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies:
So from what i have read about the world ending in 2012 they said that the Mayan calendar ended on that date, but what does their calendar really mean? Also why did people start to think the world was going to end?
Please give me the website or source you found it in.
The most important of these calendars is one with a period of 260 days. This 260-day calendar was prevalent across all Mesoamerican societies, and is of great antiquity (almost certainly the oldest of the calendars). It is still used in some regions of Oaxaca, and by the Maya communities of the Guatemalan highlands. The Maya version is commonly known to scholars as the Tzolkin, or Tzolk'in in the revised orthography of the Academia de las Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala.[2] The Tzolk'in is combined with another 365-day calendar (known as the Haab, or Haab' ), to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haabs, called the Calendar Round. Smaller cycles of 13 days (the trecena) and 20 days (the veintena) were important components of the Tzolk'in and Haab' cycles, respectively.
A different form of calendar was used to track longer periods of time, and for the inscription of calendar dates (i.e., identifying when one event occurred in relation to others). This form, known as the Long Count, is based upon the number of elapsed days since a mythological starting-point.[3] According to the correlation between the Long Count and Western calendars accepted by the great majority of Maya researchers (known as the GMT correlation), this starting-point is equivalent to August 11, 3114 BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar or 6 September in the Julian calendar (−3113 astronomical). The Goodman-Martinez-Thompson correlation was chosen by Thompson in 1935 based on earlier correlations by Joseph Goodman in 1905 (August 11), Juan Martínez Hernández in 1926 (August 12), and John Eric Sydney Thompson in 1927 (August 13).[4][5] By its linear nature, the Long Count was capable of being extended to refer to any date far into the future (or past). This calendar involved the use of a positional notation system, in which each position signified an increasing multiple of the number of days. The Maya numeral system was essentially vigesimal (i.e., base-20), and each unit of a given position represented 20 times the unit of the position which preceded it. An important exception was made for the second place value, which instead represented 18 × 20, or 360 days, more closely approximating the solar year than would 20 × 20 = 400 days. It should be noted however that the cycles of the Long Count are independent of the solar year.
Many Maya Long Count inscriptions are supplemented by what is known as the Lunar Series, another calendar form which provides information on the lunar phase and position of the Moon in a half-yearly cycle of lunations.
A 584-day Venus cycle was also maintained, which tracked the appearance and conjunctions of Venus as the morning and evening stars. Many events in this cycle were seen as being inauspicious and baleful, and occasionally warfare was timed to coincide with stages in this cycle.
Other, less-prevalent or poorly-understood cycles, combinations and calendar progressions were also tracked. An 819-day count is attested in a few inscriptions; repeating sets of 9- and 13-day intervals associated with different groups of deities, animals and other significant concepts are also known.
mayan calendar end of the world cycle Will December 21st 2008 REALLY BE THE END OF THE WORLD ??
Dozens of new books predict the end of the world or something just short of it on Dec. 21, 2012, now less than five years away.
The highly intelligent Ancient Mayan civilization developed an intricate calendar which anticipated the end of their Great Cycle of the Long Count-better known as the apocalypse-on Dec. 21, 2012.
Just thinking about it scares me !!
What do you think?
"The highly intelligent Ancient Mayan" Interesting where are these highly intelligent civilians now. The end of the world was January 1,2000 remember Y2k. That was it if you missed that bus the next stop is 2012.
