The Mayan Calendar has lately been the focus of a lot of attention for the past decade. The main reason for the public’s fascination, interest, curiosity and fear is the mayan calendar end of the world prophecy, which is said to transpire less than two years from now, in 2012. The Mayans are an ancient civilization from Central America that had lived around the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico; they are a race of people that are very scientifically and mathematically advanced for their time as well as being religious and highly spiritual. Their highly developed 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.
The Mayan Calendar is among the several systems that today’s archaeologists, experts and scientists study ancient civilization with. The ancient calendar is a very highly developed and mathematically accurate system that calculates the movements of the sun and the moon and the shifts in the seasons. The Mayan calendar is very accurate, more so than that of succeeding calendars had been designed and created many 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 world believe in the end of the world 2012 predictions. So now that we are all conscious of just how exact the ancient Mayan Calendar is, the next question we should be asking is how does the mayan calendar work?
The Mayan Calendar is a system that has three periods of time that is viewed as 3 different dials on one clock with each dial connecting to a specific time scale. The first time period or dial, is the Long Count which equates to thousands of years; the Haab which covers a standard 365 day period; and the Tzolkin which is the shortest time period and only covers a fortnight. 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 specific points, this system also determines the start and the finish of a specific millennium.
The end of these cycles, which the Mayans referred to as Calendar Round, takes place every 52 years and is thought to be by the highly superstitious race to be unlucky. 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 world that dates back more than 5,000 years, will return to 0. Mayan astrology is known universally for its mathematical accuracy, so are we really now aware of when the Earth as we know it, will all end?
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