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#43556. TheAlphaWolf
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The Mayans predicted that the world was going to end because of this?
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TEOTWAWKI = 2012-DEC-21
The Mayan calendar expressed a date in the form: 6.19.18.1.5
This means:
6 Baktun, an interval of 144,000 days,
19 Katun (generations) of 7200 days,
18 Tun (years) of 360 days,
1 Uinal (month) of 20 days,
5 Kin (days)
A total of 1,007,305 days.
J. Eric Thompson determined that the first day of their calendar (0.0.0.0.0) was on 3114-AUG-11 BCE according to the Gregorian calendar.
This was when they believed that Venus was born. Another source says that this happened on AUG-13 of the same year.
Mayans also had a "Great Cycle of the Long Count" of 13 Baktuns or 5,125.36 years.
Many interpreters believe that the Mayans expected that the universe would last exactly that length of time.
That is, they anticipated the end of the world at the Winter Solstice.
2012-DEC-21 or 13.0.0.0.0 in their notation.
John Jenkins has determined that on this date, there will be "an extremely close conjunction of the winter solstice sun with the crossing point of Galactic Equator and the ecliptic." This is an event that will not be repeated for thousands of years.
Author Carl Johan Calleman disagrees that the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world. He writes that "the Mayan calendar is about the progress of evolution, not about the end of the world."
 http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl1.htm
Jan 19 04, 6:18 PM
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