We’ve been hearing about the end of the world for quite some time, now, right? It might come by meteor; it may be the result of a nuclear war; it could be a slow but definite deterioration of our Ozone layer. Whatever the cause may (or may not) be, people are obsessed with the idea of the end of the world. What makes the Ancient Mayan predictions of doomsday any different from these other catastrophically deadly potentials? The date.
The difference with the Ancient Mayan prophecies, as opposed to other end of the world predictions, is a precise account of when life as we know it will cease to exist. No one can say exactly when or if a meteor will hit. We can only speculate as to when a nuclear war might erupt. We’re still learning about the Ozone layer and whether or not we can reverse the damage done, but we cannot say precisely if or when it will collapse. However, the Ancient Mayans pin-pointedly predicted one specific date, thousands of years into their own future, when we will face the end of the world as we know it. Furthermore, this date is frighteningly close: December 22, 2012.
How exactly did an ancient people prophesy such a future? The answer is in the codices, a collection of writings created by this past civilization, the most famous of which is the Dresden Codex.
The Dresden codex aimed its sights at the stars, the planets, the sun, the moon, and space-related phenomenon. In this hieroglyphic script, the Ancient Mayans used mathematical and astrological genius to formulate an advanced working of the calendar. Contrary to popular belief, the Ancient Mayans did not invent the calendar, but they did perfect it to such a degree that their calendar system measured time and planetary occurrences more accurately than the calendar we use today. They also are responsible for our current understanding of the zodiac, based on a 12-part division of the sky. If you wake up in the morning and read your horoscope, you can thank the Ancient Mayans. But who were these people, and why should we be concerned about their predictions for our future?
No one knows exactly when the Ancient Mayans began making their mark on history, but we do know they were most successful in Mesoamerica somewhere around 2600 BC. (4,607 years ago), and peaking at around A.D. 250 (1,757 years ago) in present day Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Western Honduras, El Salvador, and Northern Belize. Most archeological findings date the most significant productivity of the Ancient Mayans in what is known as the Classic Period, A.D. 250-900 (1,107 years ago). We also know that during their near five-thousand-year reign, the Ancient Mayans accomplished remarkable feats in the written language, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, art, architecture, agriculture, and much more.
The years between 2600 B.C. and 100 A.D. were, for the most part, the golden years for the Maya civilization. With the introduction of the Omelc civilization in 2000 B.C., Mayan culture expanded. Extensive trade routes were built, knowledge and goods exchanged, and farming was established throughout Maya regions. This is when writing was developed in Mesopotamia, when the first solar calendars were carved in stone, and when the Maya set their spiritual, religious, and political roots in a hierarchal system governed by nobles and kings. This is also the time when their greatest pyramids and observatories were created.
The Ancient Mayan structures were remarkable in their own right due to their seemingly perfect alignment, their awe-inspiring size, their attention to detail, the exquisite artwork and architecture, and the products they developed and learned to work within their buildings, such as plaster. Several of the buildings are even more mysterious in that they produce certain effects, such as the sound of a chirping bird, or the shadow of a snake slithering up their slopes during specific times of the year. But what’s even more astounding is that the Ancient Mayans created these elaborate pyramids and observatories without the use of metal tools!
Ancient Maya religions are still not completely understood, but it is clear that the Maya people honored, worshipped, and made sacrifices to many gods – gods that, unlike individual entities, are thought to have the ability to merge and morph with one another as needed or appropriate to portray differing aspects. The Mayans were also heavily founded in beliefs in the supernatural. Because the Mayans understood all things to work in cycles, good and evil were not set concepts, which could be how they justified, in part, their acts of human sacrifice.
Everything, to the Mayans, had a pattern of moving in cycles. This helped with their advancements in farming and their understanding of the movements of the heavens and the Earth. Combined, their knowledge of astrology, astronomy, mathematics, time, their spiritual and supernatural beliefs, as well as their understanding of cyclical patterns, is what led to the creation of the Dresden Codex.
The Maya didn’t just work with one calendar, but instead had a multitude of ways they dissected, analyzed, and measured time. They had two yearly cycles, one known as the Tzolkin, measuring 260 days; and the other being the Haab, of 360 days. These two calendars worked directly with the movements of Venus and Mars, and with a “special” number of 1,366,560 days, a number that is not yet fully understood by modern researchers. But then there was a third form of measuring time, and this third form is the one with which we’re most concerned. A person could easily spend ample time of their own trying to understand the complex intricacies of the Ancient Mayan calendars, but to suit the purpose of understanding the Dresden Codex in relation to doomsday predictions, we can simplify as follows, based on the third form of Ancient Mayan time measurement.
The Ancient Mayans began with a start date, known as the birth of Venus, which is understood as 3114 B.C, the beginning of time recorded. As with our calendars today, the Ancient Mayan calendars were divided into what can be identified as months and years. The months measured 20 days, and the years consisted of 360 days. The Ancient Mayan calendar then exceeded the calendars of today, grouping together even longer periods of time, the first being known as the kuton and measuring 7,200 days; and the second, called the baktun, measuring 144,000 days.
Another number relevant to the Mayans that we don’t yet fully understand is the number 13 (superstition, perhaps?). They believed that after 13 buktuns, each buktun measuring 144,000 days, would be the end of a cycle – or, as many of today’s time understand it, the end of the world. By doing the math, we are able to understand that the end of this time period translates to December 22, 2012. Some accounts suggest December 21, others pinpoint December 23, but that may depend largely on geographic location. Nonetheless, we are faced with potential drastic change in December of 2012. As of the writing of this article, according to the Dresden Codex, the end of the world is roughly five and a half years away.
No one disputes the advanced workings of the Ancient Mayan civilization. We’re all impressed with the knowledge they possessed and how they chose to apply that knowledge. However, how or where they gained such knowledge is open for debate, with theories ranging from simple and natural evolution, to involvement from alien beings. Adding to the mystery of this ancient people are findings such as the Crystal Skulls in locations close to Mayan ruins. These unexplained crystal skulls are said to possess certain metaphysical or paranormal attributes, such as psychic communications. Science is puzzled over the skulls because no one has yet been able to determine exactly how or when the skulls were created because they reflect absolutely no signs of tool markings. As with any unexplained, potentially paranormal phenomena, several theories have been laid out, including that the crystal skulls, once they’ve all been found and united, will unveil great knowledge capable of saving humankind. Naturally, it is suspected that the year 2012 may not be the end of the world, but may in fact be the end of the world as we know it, marking the beginning of a new way of life on earth.
Even though scientists and archeologists have learned a great deal about the Ancient Mayans, how and where they lived, and have been able to, in part, decipher the Dresden Codex, there are still many holes in the doomsday prediction pointing to 2012. One of the most important factors to keep in mind is that though several codices are believed to have existed, only a few of those remain – and even fewer are accessible to us. Many of the codices were lost or destroyed by time or conflict with other ancient civilizations. Others are currently protected as sacred text by the Elders in modern day Mayan cultures whom are not willing to share the extent of their knowledge. Taking this into consideration, we have to rationalize that we only have a small portion of the information on which the Ancient Mayans founded their belief systems and civilizations. We may have a list of ingredients, but we are lacking the full recipe! We cannot logically reason that we can formulate a crystal clear understanding based on a portion of ancient information taken out of context.
Will the crystal skulls found around Ancient Mayan ruins come together alas in 2012, shining upon us their wisdom and glory, paving the way to a new way of life? Is 2012 the date the alien nations will reunite on our planet to share with us their technology? Is the world itself destined to die five years from now? Or are we setting ourselves into a panic based on insubstantial evidence? Only time will tell.
By Wendi Friend
The Mayans are great. Their long count calender is genuine. We change our lives quickly. They lived as per their faith. Many believe their astronomy is scientific and more accurate. They had no cars, no modern lives and no moral degradation, no lies and no evils. They lived with purpose and dedication to their Spirit. They are pure at heart, not like the Whites who captured others land and colonized people and exploited wealth. They can’t devote time to know the TRUTH.
OMG, I can’t take all these predictions. Everyone lived in fear in 1999 when it was FORESEEN the world would end, then again in 2002, 2005 and now 2012. Has everyone thought that maybe the Mayans just died off and that’s why the CALENDER wasn’t finished? Or maybe where they were they where breathing in gases which could of caused them to have hallucinations? Since time, there’s always been people to have FORESEEN EVENTS. How do you know what has been transcribed in books is what is actually been written, when people translate it? It really gets me centuries ago people didn’t talk or read, etc. but they wrote down the end of the world? ok mind!!! so on 19th December 2010 me and my son are going to camp out on a high mountain and wait for the 20th or 21st of the end of the world. if it does not happen then we will have a terrible Christmas with a cold.
Have you thought that the constellations and the horoscope signs have seen the way. they are only from our solar system? And if they have not seen the way, they are from another galaxy. these explanations are 0
. People are paranoid of exact combination of numbers, dates and geometrical intersection of lines.
are you insane?
how do you describe that the earth will destroyed at 2012
If you are the god i will trust you!!
=)
How can you say huh?
Are you Insane?
I am sorry that you’ve got it all wrong. I am mexican, I have talked with Mayans, (yes, they didn’t disappear they only abandoned some cities. now there are about 1.5-2 million mayas in southern Mexico, and central America), I have seen this calendar. It is not a prophecy. It is a Calendar. It predicts a comet yes, but in 2011 (Hale-bopp, by the way was to be arriving here in 2011).
What the Mayan calendar states is that in dec 21, 2012 we will have the end of a cycle. Definitely.
Does that mean the world is coming to an end? When a day is over, does the world end? When a Century ends, does the world end?
Cycle, circular. One Period ends, another one starts.
Is that so difficult?
Please stop getting your information from Wikipedia and the internet. Come here and I will gladly take you to see face to face the real thing.
2 years later I read this. i was trying to understand the connection of the Mayans to my belief of the Lord and the Holy Spirit.
So after reading your informaition. I want you to know, you are on to something. and you are correct, it is not 2012, it is to be 2011, closer to October when things will happen on large scales and people will begin to see the connection. No, I don’t believe there is an end. God is to great for that, but there will be a cleaning. It will be as you said, an end of a cycle.
Why i know this, I shall tell later, contact me around October and we will see how it is turning out in this world. Disater does not always mean the end, but the disater will be great and many will suffer.
Best we can do, is place our heart in Gods hand and ask for him to help us have faith.Then no matter what, one will have peace and joy, even in the worst disater. God bless you and all that want to believe Him..
the mayan are not the only ones who predicted that. Edgar Cayce also said it. Besides the earth will not be destroyed we will be facing a new ERA!!!!!
huh?? why am i so messy…..
huh? can tell me….
i just wanna know this….
is the world ending on dec 21,2012??
huh? can you tell me??
Noooo i don’t want to die. I’m only 11! i just don’t want to die. i wanna continue living my life !
why didn’t the world end in December 12, 1212 or 1912 if the number before thirteen is supposed to be the end??
This message is for Juan E, who is Mexican and has spoken to the Mayans. Can you contact me through this website. I would like to have a private conversation with you. My email is met_59@amtelecom.net What is yours?
apparently, the Mayans were too lazy to continue and as mysticsaint said, there have been a lot of theories about it and if the Mayans had some connection with God like Adam and Eve, they might be more believable.
huuuuH….! are u sure?
It’s not end of the world!
No one can tell that because our father almighty only knows, when he should end the world.
In that prediction, it’s just a prediction it might be true or not.
If there’s a comet will hit our planet?
We should not to be afraid of it.
It’s not end of the world..
And i will say it again we will never be able to tell when the world ends..
MAYAN’S? who are they?
MAYAN’S can’t tell when the would will end.
they are human, and humans can never predict the future..no one can predict the future except god!
topacio is right…we should not believe that prediction
only god knows what’s our future..if i were you don’t believe that prediction
because it will scare you..
In my opinion if a human or a person uses scientific ideas most of them don’t believe in god…
They say that an example of a person who doesn’t believe in god is a scientist..They are using scientific beliefs.
these type of articles always mislead the innocent young minds of our children, who may not have enough experience and knowledge to decide the truth for themselves. The author should be ashamed of him/herself for being ignorant.
Oh Edward – lol – “if the Mayans had some connection with God like Adam & Eve, they might be more believable”….. I laughed so hard.
Did nobody tell you that God & Adam & Eve etc is all made up ??? There is NOTHING believable about that !!
thanks to juan e – somebody is actually talking some sense.
but my question to all the people intent on impending doom (this time in 2012) – don’t you ever get disappointed when it doesn’t happen? or do you just look for the next possible date predicted by an ancient civilization / medieval astrology / bored hack journalist?
the sad thing is you manage to scare people for your own infantile fantasies (take adam as an example).
and i’d also love to know where k s sivaramakrishnan gets his information about the ancient mayan lifestyle…
yeah………earth will be destroyed on 21st dec at 10:30pm
Yes, Nhanderu is coming, Hail Tupã, hail Nhanderu, hail Araci.
Oh oh, Ok, it’s all B.S. All prophecies are B.S., there is no one that really worked.
Not any Christian, not any native americans.
Prophecies don’t work, that’s a fact.
TO BE HONEST ..
does it even matter? if there is a comet what do you say we all do? nothing. there is nothing any of us measly humans can do other than live our lives and enjoy ourselves.
according to mayan or Nostradamus or anyones prophecy, i don’t know how something is going to happen to the earth. my instincts say that there will be a mass destruction. after that a great come back of pure world where there people are so innocent and pure, my dream says that., so please you may be hindu, christian, islam, budhist or anything please believe in god, trust him, he is only the remedy for everything.
You seem to be one of a few that have the understanding to get it right. I hope you read my comment, I may be 2 years later, but i hope your out there. God does not care of religion, he does not care of your title, or who or what name you call him. He is greater than that and he wants more of what he created. Yes, his cleansing will be strong. But to all who believe in the greater power, the Creator, and they trust in there heart and ask for Faith and ask to understand even in the middle of their blind lack of faith, he will answer. He will care, he will save. Save, means the peace that will overtake your heart and soul, and no matter what disaster strikes you will feel no worry, and that my dear friends, is what God and only God can give you. Total, peace in your heart so no matter what you will feel a sense of joy and calm, so few will have. That is the grace of God. I hope those that want to believe can just ask him and those that rather poke fun and criticize, will know fear like they have never known it before. If you can believe in cave men, dinos, and many other things in history you have never seen, then at least try to open your mind, so that your heart can recieve the Truth. God really does love everyone.
Juan E is correct. 21 Dec 2012 is the end of the calendar cycle. That’s all. The Mayans did not predict the end of the world. 22 Dec 2012 starts a new buktun (another 144,000 day cycle). Get a grip people.
it’s very interesting to know this matter………
i would be very happy if it is so……..
I believe in god. Jesus said in the bible that only god knew when the world will end. Besides, if the Mayans were able to predict the end of the world, then how come they could not predict that the Spaniards were coming to take over their land, kill their people and convert them to Christianity. That is why I do not believe in the whole Doomsday theory.
it is all about another state of mind, all about the choice living in a state of fear or living in a state of love. look around you, there is not another possibility. most of the actions nowadays are actions born out of fear: in politics, economics, personal choices. What the message about 2012 means is: there is no other choice then the path of love, all is love, act out of love, not out of fear. Or to say it another way: time has come we move from chakra 3 to chakra 4, and that is the heartchakra: a nice time is to come if only we can leave the fear behind, this includes the fear for dec 2012
Woah! Mayan’s? I get confused upon reading the subject. Especially when the ” MAYAN’S CALENDAR ” comes in. They predicted the end of the world. Well, I should ask, Could they actually predict the day they’re gonna be dead? The day the Mayan’s will end instead of the day the world would end? Can they?
Goodness gracious. Maybe the Mayan’s aren’t just popular enough, So by giving out predictions, they think they’ll have their name well-known everywhere. Ya Right. Famous of being the unwanted creatures on earth to not have believed in God.
Have faith in God. Cause only God knows the right time.
Peace((:
Uuummm excuse me people. I most likely will be chastised, hated, disliked, etc for what i am about to say. The Bible no matter in what form or grace you read it, is all fake. There is no god! Jesus was never born! The bible is most likely all lies!
It was a Get rich quick thing that some jerk, (much like these believers of this prophecy about the end of our world) thought up. This so-called ending of earth, is nothing more (and i make a reference to someone else in this thread) that it is just the end of a cycle in the Mayan’s calender. Not the end of the world. If all you people are going to fall for what you hear, then leave now.
However, i have a better suggestion. Find Factual proof (not the little tid bits that i have seen) and do a complete study on it, before you even think about saying something. Make sure the facts that you tell, can not be twisted into something that someone else will believe.
I don’t believe in this ending of planet earth, however, i do believe that when mother nature gets sick and tired of us humans, she’ll lets us know. Some body is going to get hurt real bad, when that happens and that somebody will be us. The humans, All animals, plant life….Everything.
Mother nature does not like being kicked around, and boy have we ever done that. Sure Technology is great, but it is going to come and kick us where it hurts the most!
So Is the world going to end in 2012? Maybe not, may so. We have had it coming for a damned long time.
Is the bible true? Nope, Na Da, it is totally BS.
Is mother nature going to kick our butts? Most Definitely, but only when she is good and ready! Could that be 2012? 50/50 chance here folks. Lets hope not.
Are the prophecies true? uuummm I’m not sure. I have never been keen on believing in that spiritual mumbo jumbo. But i do have an open mind.
Thanks for listening.
Do you not believe in god? I do. I believe that god will save us if you believe in him and only he knows when the world will end. Read the bible people!!
when you are coming out from your mothers womb, there is a death definitely one day, it may be today or tomorrow or 2012, why people wasting the time like this?
do the needful things to the needful person, make the life to meaning full manners.
I like what Juan said up there…lol
stormbringer, faith in GOD will surely come to you one day. If you’re open-minded, give His Word a chance to penetrate your heart and soul..-Revelations 3:15
I feel this is like our Y2K problem, the Mayans are coming to reset the Calendar.
Mayans smyans! This smacks of more gobblygook, the same as the so called prophecies from the childrens storyteller nostradamus.
It’s easy to predict the past from his so called quatrains..
Or is it typical media hype
OH!! my gosh let’s all head for the hills, the earth is coming to an end!!
OH!!puleeeeeaze…lot’s of panic merchant stuff up there,but no substance
maybe the writer of the calendar died when he finished writing up until 2012. so logically the calender only goes until 2012. or maybe the calendar after 2012 was lost or stolen.
Humans are indeed paranoid…you can see here already a huge panic, just because of a bunch of Mayan numbers. However, the Mayan calender signifies that Dec. 12 2012 is the end of the cycle. that doesn’t mean the Earth will be destroyed and everything will restart? It’s simple, logical sense…just like the Noah story
Lol…and sorry to disappoint all of you, religious people…even the Bible is decoded as to the passage clarifying that on the year of 2012, Earth will perish under the hand of God…noted that mostly because of Humans’ misleading actions. I mean…this isn’t just about the Mayan calender anymore…according to more than 3 sources (or so I heard from fellow logical people), Earth will perish in 2012…but the ways and causes remain unclear.
I might be kicked, punched, or killed for saying this, but i just have to say this,
Hence, as to summed up my continuous passages of speech, the 2012 prediction of doom may very well be true and I’m not saying that it will happen, but are you all going to say that whoever created the Bible, the Mayans, and few other religious groups are going to gather around under a cafe and plan to create a havoc of 2012 doom to freak us all out? I simply don’t think so. Plus, I don’t think it’s really responsible for us to now rely on God, when it’s us, humans, that cause global warming and many other illegal activities upon Earth. Time for us to make up our minds now, don’t you all think?
I’m not really saying that this 2012 is true, but it’s a possibility…as for the other religious sources. this is a website that shows that 2012 is a POSSIBILITY
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ends-of-the-earth-2012
oh, and the website says they’re THEORIES…that’s why I’m saying it’s a POSSIBILITY, NOT A FACT!!! As to convince some people that are really naive on this subject.
The Mayans were great. they did all of the calculations before 3114 BC with no instruments like we have now. still they got it correct. so this might be something special. maybe 2012 could be a dangerous year.
I don’t understand Why the people so worried about the world ending.
Please think if it is really worth living in this world.
The rich don’t help the poor. One side of the earth the people are starving and the other side people don’t know what to do with their earnings. One side of the earth people are fighting for their religion (which will not feed them) and other side people fight for boundaries. God has given everything humans wanted but they are still not satisfied. The Mayans must have realized that the humans on earth are not worth living and it was better to end this world.
it’s stupid…….believe in god…he knows the end…
why does it matter? we can’t do anything about the comet or the world ending so SHUT UP.
MMM they didn’t make a physic prediction… its supposed to be mathematical
please, help each other to protect this planet!!!!
pray for all and believe in God to save us!!!!
Kinda exactly what KV said….it’s so pathetic for us to now to pray for God, when our ignorance spanned for centuries and believe it or not, we caused the most problems on this planet. We always need something to rely on, just decades ago, it was technology, and now suddenly when all else failed in face of a POSSIBLE 2012….oh, we turned back to God? Pathetic! People should just undo what they’d done, we caused Global Warming, maybe it’s us who’s suppose to end it, right?
Plus, if you guys believe in God so much, why don’t we all actually heed his ‘purpose’ in allowing us to have such intelligence? Lol, and we can probably start by first quitting our pathetic ignorance in matters? It’s always our ignorance that destroys everything anyway. I hate it very much, when people bluntly joust that this doesn’t exist or this won’t happen, do we have the proof? If nature decides so, then it’ll happen…we’ll just have to face it then, not suddenly turn to God. For all I care, God could just sit back and go have a nice cup of tea, and I’m pretty sure that if 2012 is going to happen, God has plenty of reasons for it to happen. For one, look at our own actions. All I want is to have is people to accept that there might be a possibility that it’s happening…ok? I don’t want to freak anyone out anyways…
The Mayan´s never predicted the end of the world!!!
They calculated the end of a great cycle. As a matter of fact all their cycles (calendars) align and will reset to zero in Dec. 2012.
It is us, white people who interpret this event incorrectly as the end of the world.
If Mayans were as naive as most people who comment on this site, they may look at our calendar and say: “Oh my god, the world is coming to an end, the white people’s calendar is ending on December 31st this year at midnight!!!
Are you people listening to yourselves?
you are all behaving like pre-school kids during a fire alarm.
Here comes our only chance to get it right, finally and get off the track of greed, power-fetish, cruelty, disrespect for nature and hate.
When the date comes we can either use that opportunity to evolve to a higher consciousness and live in harmony with each other, nature and the rest of the universe or we will have the same fate as the dinosaurs at the end of their time and perish.
But I hope there will be enough people brave enough and full of love, hope and positive energy to get on that higher level.
As for the rest of us, if we are not prepared to make that move, there may as well be no place for us here any longer. And that should serve us right for what we have done to each other and the planet.
So it’s your choice: which side will you be on when Dec. 2012 comes?
here my email if anyone wants to comment
cogwheel0_0_0@mail.com