About the so-called prediction by the Mayas…
We were explained, by a Maya descendant herself, that actually what it means is the end of a cycle in the Maya calendar (the 5,125 year “Great Cycle of the Ancient Maya Long Count Calendar” – in other words the current Maya calendar runs out!); not “the end of the world” – what it has become to be interpreted as! Passed that fatidic date, the Maya pronouncement means, there will be an adjustment – within the 5 following days when the calendar will adjust itself to the state of the cosmos at the time (5 days that won’t exist – or be recorded!) – and then a new calendar cycle will start. The Maya twist: the Maya will then become again respectable!
A note from an entry in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon) : “December 2012 marks the conclusion of a b'ak'tun—a time period in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar which was used in Central America prior to the arrival of Europeans. Although the Long Count was most likely invented by the Olmec, it has become closely associated with the Maya civilization, whose classic period lasted from 250 to 900 AD. The writing system of the classic Maya has been substantially deciphered, meaning that a corpus of their written and inscribed material has survived from before the European conquest.
“Unlike the 52-year Calendar Round still used today among the Maya, the Long Count was linear rather than cyclical, and kept time roughly in units of 20: 20 days made a uinal, 18 uinals (360 days) made a tun, 20 tuns made a k'atun, and 20 k'atuns (144,000 days or roughly 394 years) made up a b'ak'tun. Thus, the Mayan date of 8.3.2.10.15 represents 8 b'ak'tuns, 3 k'atuns, 2 tuns, 10 uinals and 15 days.” (More details:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar)
Suchitoto, February 18, 2012
