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Is it possible the world will end in December 2012?
Maya “Doomsday” Calendar Explained Monument text’s “poetic flourish” confuses modern minds, experts say. It’s remotely possible the world will end in December 2012. But don’t credit the ancient Maya calendar for predicting it, say experts on the Mesoamerican culture.
Why are people so excited about the end of the world in 2012?
Rather, Saturno said, the hype around 2012 stems from dissatisfied Westerners looking to the ancients for guidance, hoping that peoples such as the Maya knew something then that could help us through difficult times now.
When did the Maya calendar predict the end of the world?
But don’t credit the ancient Maya calendar for predicting it, say experts on the Mesoamerican culture. (Related pictures: “2012 Doomsday Myths Debunked.”) It’s true that the so-called long-count calendar—which spans roughly 5,125 years starting in 3114 B.C.—reaches the end of a cycle on December 21, 2012.
Is there a planet that didn’t end the world?
The planet in question, Niburu, doesn’t exist, so there will be no collision. As you can see from the Q&A below, the story of Niburu has been around for years (as has the “days of darkness” tale) and is periodically recycled into new apocalyptic fables. News flash: the world didn’t end on Dec. 21, 2012.
When was the end of the world predicted?
The end of the world was predicted to occur on December 21, 2012, when one of the great cycles in the Mayan calendar came to an end. In the run-up to the day, the internet abounded with predictions about an apocalypse happening on “12/21/12”. Faced with the wealth of alarmist information available on the world wide web,
When does the Mayan calendar say the world will end?
And this popularity is worth deserving too. The Mayan calendar puts forth the end of the world; for it would take place some time in winter solstice 2012. As per the Mayan calendar, a month had 20 days, a year had 360 days, a k’atun was a span of 7200 days, and a b’ak’tun was that of 144,000 days.