The Mayans were highly civilised people with extraordinary skills in astronomy and mathematics. Yet, if you ask people what do they know about them, most people would answer ‘aren’t they the ones that said the world will end in 2012?' Sadly, that’s all most people know about them and it is a shame, for these highly civilised people invented the concept of ‘zero’ and they had names for numbers so large that we today don’t even have names for them. The world will not end in 2012, only one of the cycles of time chartered by the Maya. For they took notice not only of time here on earth, but they believed we were affected by galactic seasons as well.
We all accept that the solar system has a timetable and the planets all move predictably in a certain pattern. The Maya believed that beyond that were cycles of movement involving our whole galaxy as it speeds through our universe. The count that ends in 2012, is a count that charts a galactic season over 5,000 years long. They saw the Planet Earth as being affected by this season and they believed we were going through a ‘beam’ where the centre of the universe ‘Hunab Ku’ was emitting a transmission via our sun.
The end date is not agreed by leading experts because no one is exactly sure of when the calendar began. Some say it was Aug 11. 3,114 B.C and some say it was Aug 13. 3,114 B.C. This problem arose because of trying to translate the Mayan calendar to our calendar which changed along the way from Julian to Gregorian. Therefore the great cycle of 5,125 years either ends Dec 21st 2012 or Dec 23rd 2012.
When they began this cycle of time back in August 3,114 B.C they wrote it like this : 13.0.0.0.0. In 2012, the date is again written 13.0.0.0.0 symbolising the end of the great cycle.
Furthermore leading expert Jose Arguelles suggest that the end date is more likely to be 2013. This seems logical because the Mayan Calendar is based on the numbers 20 and 13 . What the outcome will be is disputed but it is anticipated that there will be definite changes. The world will not end but our perception of the world will end and become something different. With world events being as dramatic as they are now it is not hard to imagine that in 2012 something big could happen.
The classical Maya period was between 300 A.D. and 800 A.D and during this time they built their impressive temples and pyramids and were charting solstices and calculating great numbers. Then they disappeared. No one knows for sure what happened to them. Some believe it was a natural disaster such as a drought that killed them all off. Some believe it was political upheaval and they all met a bloody end. Some believe they simply ‘beamed up’ en masse. (2012 Prophecy)
The Mayans were highly civilised people with extraordinary skills in astronomy and mathematics. Yet, if you ask people what do they know about them, most people would answer ‘aren’t they the ones that said the world will end in 2012?'