So if you haven’t heard it yet, you probably will soon. The Mayan calendar ends on Dec, 21, 2012. So of course that means the end of the world as we know it will take place that day.
Well sorry folks, it ain’t gonna’ happen that way. The very short explanation is that on Dec 21, 2012, the Mayan calendar will simply restart. If the Mayan civilization was still around they’d have a big party, flip the calendar over and start the next cycle. Sort of like us starting the next millennium in the year 2000. Their calendar is based on many difference cycles. One is the B'ak'tun which is approximately 394.3 years. On December 21, 2012 it will simply mark the end of the 13th b'ak'tun and the beginning of the 14th b'ak'tun
The Mayan calendar has some werid ways for measuring time. For instance is has a nine day week, 584 day year (based on movement of Venus) and some other time measurements that we would think of as very odd, but that made perfect sense to the Mayans.
Sandra Noble, executive director of the Mesoamerican research organization FAMSI, notes that "for the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle". However, she considers the portrayal of December 21, 2012 as a doomsday or cosmic-shift event to be, "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."
So I’m sure that just like the turning from 1999 to 2000 there will be people stocking up on MREs, selling everything they own and even worse. But I think I’ll handle this like the Mayans would have, and just throw a big party and have fun.
Well sorry folks, it ain’t gonna’ happen that way. The very short explanation is that on Dec 21, 2012, the Mayan calendar will simply restart. If the Mayan civilization was still around they’d have a big party, flip the calendar over and start the next cycle. Sort of like us starting the next millennium in the year 2000. Their calendar is based on many difference cycles. One is the B'ak'tun which is approximately 394.3 years. On December 21, 2012 it will simply mark the end of the 13th b'ak'tun and the beginning of the 14th b'ak'tun
The Mayan calendar has some werid ways for measuring time. For instance is has a nine day week, 584 day year (based on movement of Venus) and some other time measurements that we would think of as very odd, but that made perfect sense to the Mayans.
Sandra Noble, executive director of the Mesoamerican research organization FAMSI, notes that "for the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle". However, she considers the portrayal of December 21, 2012 as a doomsday or cosmic-shift event to be, "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."
So I’m sure that just like the turning from 1999 to 2000 there will be people stocking up on MREs, selling everything they own and even worse. But I think I’ll handle this like the Mayans would have, and just throw a big party and have fun.
Ken
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