The Mayan Calendar And The 2012 Armageddon Prophecy

Although it has been considered as a forgotten technique and reference in counting seasons and days during the ancient period, the Mayan Calendar has started to be the target of interest for doomsday conspiracy and theorists for the past decade. This is because of the mayan calendar end of the world theories that is said to take place on December, 2012, causing widespread fear, curiosity and fascination. The ancient Mayans are an native civilization from Central America and had lived thousands of years ago around Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula; a race of people that are far advanced in their studies of astronomy and mathematics as well as being highly religious. Their advanced knowledge for astronomy and their creativity are evident in the few surviving pictorial alphabet and drawings which is also proof that the Mayans existed long before the Spanish conquistadors had reached the Central Americas.

Among the civilization’s systems that scientists and experts now understand is the Mayan Calendar. The ancient calendar is a very advanced and mathematically accurate system that calculates the movements of the sun and the moon and the changes in the seasons. The Mayan calendar is very precise, more so than that of succeeding calendars had been designed and created years and years afterwards. And this mathematically precise capability of calculating days and months and years is one of the factors why people from all over the globe believe in the end of the world 2012 forecasts. So now that the astronomical and mathematical precision of the Mayan Calendar is established, the next question is how does the mayan calendar work?

The Mayan Calendar is a system that has three periods of time that is viewed as three different dials on one clock with each dial relating to a specific time scale. The three time periods in the calendar is the Long Count period that relates to time periods stretching for thousands of years; the ordinary 365 day period called the Haab and the shortest time period, covering only a fortnight is the Tzolkin. Each of these dials are finite systems that count days and months and then years so like today’s calendars, there are certain times that arrive at definite points, this system also determines the commencement and the end of a specific millennium.

The Mayans, a superstitious civilization, marks the end of each cycles which are called the Calendar Round, every 52 years, and is seen as an unlucky time. December 21st 2012 is a date that has become synonymous with Mayan and Aztec end of the world prophecies, because the longest time cycle in the Mayan Calendar, the Long Count Calendar, which is the only calendar in the history of the planet that dates back more than five thousand years, will return to zero. Mayan astrology is known globally for its mathematical accuracy, so are we really now aware of when the world as we know it, will all end?

By: Jimmy Barlow

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