Is 2012 the end times the ancient mayan people where talking about
2012 is the end of times on the Mayan Calendar in the same manner that December 31st is the end of times on the calendar you have hanging on your wall.
What do you do when you hit that last day on your calendar? do you prepare to die because there are no more days listed? No, you put up a new calendar. Same thing with the Mayan calendar. Its about to come to the point where there are no more listed days. That means if you happen to be mayan and still using the classic mayan calendar, you will need to get a new one.
Wow – talk about conflation of different doomsday prophecies….
First, there is absolutely nothing true about _any_ of the end-of-the-world things you have heard about – nothing. They are all false. Every. Single. one.
Second, the "end Times" are a Christian fundamentalist/religious/conservative myth. it has nothing at all to do with the much maligned Mayans. That is false, too. There are frequently claims by various groups that the <end time> is almost upon us, despite the fact that the Bible clearly says that no one will ever know when that time has arrived. so, those who claim the end times are here are contradicting the very words in that Bible they value so highly.
Third, the Mayan calendar does _not_ end. it simply turns over to another age – very much like our calendars change at the end of every year/decade/century. the Mayans measured long time periods quite differently than we do now, and their long calendar cycles are thousands of years in length.
Please see this web site for all of the scientific facts that totally disprove any 2012 doomsday claim ever made. http://www.2012hoax.org
Don't worry. the world has been here for many billions of years. it is not going to just come to an end in an instant.
The Mayans never claimed the world would end at any time. It's just some recent lunatics who used the Mayan calendar for a silly end of the world hoax that has no basis in reality. Only lying lunatics claim the Mayans said a word about 2012, and there's no sensible reason to believe such deluded liars.
No.
There is no "end time" in the Mayan calendar. the whole concept is a lie invented by José, for a book he wrote in the late 1980s. it was then taken by charlatans who wanted to recycle their own Planet-X hoax, after the end of the world of may 13, 2003. These charlatans are the ones who turned it into the end of the world.
The calendar that everyone "misuses" for the big 2012 Hoax is known to real experts as the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar (it was used by many cultures). it is a day count calendar that… counts days.
Today's date = 1 + yesterday's date.
That is all it does. it makes no predictions.
The Mayan people did use it for astronomy and to mark dates over very long periods. for example, there are real inscriptions, done by real Mayans around a thousand years ago, that use the calendar for dates that are still two thousand years in our future.
Obviously, real Mayans did not expect their calendar to end so soon.
José himself was weird. In another book (in 1972), he had claimed to be a reincarnated Mayan god (he is not – he was born in Minnesota). That is why his "predictions" became "Ancient Sacred Prophecies".
Real Mayans (because there are still some) were just as surprised as we were.
The only thing that the Long Count calendar does is come up to a round figure, as it does every 394 years and a quarter. what makes it "mysterious" is that Mayan mathematics did not use base-10 digits as we do – when we write a number, we use digits from 0 to 9.
The Mayans used a mixed base: days are counted in 20s, with 18 groups of 20 making a "sacred year" (our translation, not theirs) of 360 days. the rest of the calendar uses base-20
What was thought, at the time José's lie was used for the big 2012 Hoax, was that the next round figure would fall in 2012 in our calendar:
Mayan Long Count = our calendar
12.19.19.17.18 = 2012.12.19
12.19.19.17.19 = 2012.12.20
13.00.00.00.00 = 2012.12.21
13.00.00.00.01 = 2012.12.22
and so on… forever.
What we do know is that our correspondence dates don't match. this "translation" may be off by many years (up to a century) and the round figure date may have already passed. In fact, this is the 13th such round figure and the world has not ended on the previous 12th.
The whole idea that the Mayans themselves had any predictions for this date are recent inventions, most of them were invented specifically for the big 2012 Hoax.
Therefore, they CANNOT be "the end times the ancient mayan people where talking about"… because the ancient Mayans were NOT talking about end time at all.
The world didn't end when the Gregorian calendar cycled from B.C. to A.C..
So why would you expect the world to end when the Mayan calendar cycles as well?
Here, read this: http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astr…
+Unfortuantely, the 2012 hoax has shaken up a lot of people unnecessarily. the driving force behind this hoax is primairly people who are looking to make a profit, looking to make themselves well-known or both. There is no scientific (or theological) evidence that points to a great catastrophe in 2012. Don't be a victim of the hype. Hit the link below and hear an answer from an astrophysicist.
Source(s):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJjQMwEjC…
Actually, the ancient Mayans had no concept of an "end of times" or apocalypse, so far as anyone can tell. They certainly recorded no legends about such a thing, nor passed down any oral history to the modern Mayans.
Actually the Mayans NEVER predicted the world would end in 2012. They NEVER claimed humanity would cease to exist.
No. Read up on the long list of prior predictions (and how successful they were) that go back some 4800 years -
http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm
They NEVER say that the world is going to end – only that were moving to a "change" and that a new era will start – nothing about "the end"
I can't believe that people are still asking this… NO IT WON'T END! Wheres my 10 points for wasting my time on this answer?
NO!!!! how the **** would the mayans know the world was going to end any ways?
is dec 31 the end of tmes or do you just move on to the next calendar?
It's claptrap.
See 2012hoax.org
2012 The End Times Mayan Calender?