My friend told me that something about the mayans meant that the world was going to end in 2012?

Question

can someone please explain this to me i dont believe it but i want to know what its about.her world history teacher told her class about it and it makes no sense to either of us. Thank you!

Answer 1

you really need to understand Myan culture to understand the way that they told time and made their predictions.

the Myan people believed that everything ran in cycles, even time itself. this meant that the end of one cycle was simply the beginning of a new one.

they believed that there was a cycle of destruction and creation and that the earth had been destroyed and created 4 times before and that this was the final cycle of this earth (the fifth one)

the myan calendar ends on dec 21 2012. many take this to be a prediction of doom.  however this in incorrect.

it is actually the return of the Myan Feathered god ( i say this because i cannot begin to spell the name of that paticular god)

this was a very bloodthirsty god that demanded many human sacrifices of his people. his return marks the end of a cycle of time that has been marked by relative peace and the beginning of a cycle that wil be very uncertain at best.

it may well be the end for many.  but for the people that have learned to live with the earth and can survive it will be the beginning of and age of restoration for our wounded planet.

Answer 2

my mum believes in that stuff. Lol but when you read there rules or facts why they think and what they think will change is so lame. It's like, people will be going through emotional changes, the days will seem to go by faster...like what the..that is already happening now? I don't need to wait 4 years for that to change.

Answer 3

Good luck then and make the most of your next 4 years!

Answer 4

It's in the Mayan calander.

They read the stars, and it doesn't neccisarily mean teh world will end. It means an era is going to end.

Answer 5

The Mayans organized an advanced system of recording dates, called the Long Count calendar. It started in August 11, BCE by the Gregorian Calendar. The Long Count is based on a vigesimal (base-20) system of numbering. Therefore, twenty kins equals a so and so, twenty of those equal year, etc., etc.

All these add up to bak'tuns, which are periods of many years. We are currently in the 12th bak'tun. On December 21, 2012, the 12th bak'tun will end and the 13th bak'tun will start. This means a Great Cycle will complete, resulting in, which Sirius Lord of Khem has stated and what the Mayans believe, will be a coming of a new era of peace and enlightenment called the Age of Ether.

It's not the Mayan version of the Armageddon, it just means a new era or stage. It's like how everyone was so hyped-up about Y2k. Well, this is just the Mayan version. No sweat.

Answer 6

Actually the Mayan shamans never said that that world was going to end what they said is that it will be a new age that major cataclysms will change the earth's rotation causing global cataclysm and they believed that their gods, Quetzalcoatl and many others were going to return to them reigning over them and teaching them Enlightenment.

Answer 7

I'm glad to hear you have taken interest in the subject.  We could use more people educated on the subject.

The Mayan Calendars end at the completion of their cycle; much like our calendar ends at the end of the solar year cycle.  There is no "End of the World" Maya prophecy; Rather, they predict an "End of the World as we know it". Great changes are expected to happen, including more natural disasters followed by a change in consciousness and a time of peace for those who survive.

  

Here is a summary of my research into the Mayan Calendars and their predictions for the time leading to Dec. 21, 2012.

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The following cycles are most relevant to what may occur in 2012. There is the 25,625 year "Galactic Day" and the 5,125 year "Long Count"(Great Cycle). Both of these are set to END and RESTART on the Winter Solstice of 2012 (11:00 UST Dec. 21, 2012):



Let's start with the "Galactic Day". As we travel around the Milky Way galaxy, it is my understanding that we do not remain at a constant distance nor at the same orientation in relation to the black hole at its center;  a black hole the Maya refer to as the supreme creator, "HUNAB KU". Instead, we move closer and further from this black hole.  As we move in closer, we simultaneously become aligned  with the Milky Way's equator or "The Tree of Life" as the Maya call it.  Upon doing so, we may become exposed to "HUNAB KU's" opposing magnetic forces which would cause our Sun to eject intense solar flares and Earth to experience a magnetic pole reversal (Pole Shift).  In the years that we have been furthest away from ,"HUNAB KU", we have been dense low vibrating energy and have been experiencing our dark spiritual years: These years have been part of the "Galactic Night".  As we move closer, we become higher vibrating energy and spiritually enlightened beings: These years pertain to the "Galactic Day". We are currently in transition from Night to Day. The complete cycle takes 25,625 years; approximately the same as what modern science has calculated and named "The Precession Of The Equinox Cycle".



Mayan Prophecy 2012: Entering Our Galactic Day

http://www.december212012.com/articles/m...



The Precession Of The Equinox Explanation (Galactic Day)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gLO4f2lD...



The "Long Count" evenly divides the "Galactic Day" into five equal parts (25,625 years / 5 = 5,125 years). It is my understanding that this cycle also coincides with a natural rhythmic beat that is derived from the black hole at the center of the galaxy in the form of an energy pulse. This energy pulse presumably has multiple effects on us and our surroundings. It not only helps us to become enlightened beings for twenty years, but can reek havoc on Earth by creating larger solar flares which can bring drought, famine, earthquakes, volcanic activity, and tsunamis. Twenty years prior to this event, in a period the Maya refer to as "The Time of No-Time",  mild energy spurts, from "HUNAB KU",  create a shift in consciousness; from left-brain thinking to right-brain thinking (from logical to intuitive). This shift can be experienced all at once or gradually at first moving exponentially as we approach the end of the cycle.



Mayan Long Count (Great Cycle)

http://www.hanksville.org/yucatan/longco...



Long Count Calendar (The  Aztec Calendar Stone / Mayan Sunstone)

http://www.geocities.com/wwwtimto/gfx/su...



There is one more Mayan Calendar I could share with you called "The Nine Underworlds". It is one of the more recently rediscovered calendars and may be the most important one, in so far as the 2012 prophecies are concerned.  It is a calendar that has recorded the state of consciousness from the beginning of time (The Big Bang) to Dec. 21, 2012.  At which time, we will have supposedly consciously evolved to completeness to become co-creators with "HUNAB-KU":  It maps out "creation" if you will.   Humans will be exposed to a cosmic energy that will facilitate enlightenment. In this state of higher consciousness, we will recognize that all matter, plant, animal, mineral are bound as one. This realization will mark the end of wars.



The Nine Underworlds of Creation

http://www.mayanmajix.com/lab_F1.html



Secrets of the Mayan Calendar Unveiled (part 1 of 3)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...



Additional Sources



"The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness" by Carl Johan Calleman, Ph.D.



"Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our time : The Mayan Calendar"

by Carl Johan Calleman, Ph.D.

Answer 8

The Mayan Calendars for the different ages.the end of this age is in 2012.

so it's just the end of an age not the world

Answer 9

It's very uncertain for everyone. However, the belief that the world was created /destroyed and we are today living on the fifth "circle" its not a MAYAN belief, its an AZTEC belief, the world before us was destroyed by a godess in what it is to believe the biblical flood about 5000 years ago..(more or less) The aztec calendar and the mayan calendar are very different and have nothing in common.

Mayans predicted every single astronomical event with an amazing accuracy but when the spanish came and invade, they left the predictions till that year. In my opinions they just didnt finish the calendar. You need to bare in mind that they had a different calendar (not the Christian one) and there are miscalculations, so the exact date its unknown.

Nevertheless I can tell you that a dear friend of mine has been studying the mayan calendar and has told me that something will happen, electronically speaking and appareantly it occurs every few thousands of years (and its due) the magnetic fiels on the planet will change, nothing electronical will work, including credit cars, (Im far away from being a physics) but the explanation was that the north pole and the south pole will "swap". I dont really understand how this can happen and why but you can ask a physics or math teacher.

The mayans were extremely wise and their knowledge in math and astronomy was amazing, so in my opinion something will change but exactly dont know what, I have always believed that interpretation of the facts depens a lot on the culture, so to them it may be a great deal of changes for the world they knew, but maybe for us, its just another day "in paradise".

Answer 10

the mayans went all the way to december 21 2012, why did they stop there. End of the world?

Answer 11

put it this way...

not saying the mayans were dumb

but if they can predict when ouuuur world will end,how come they didnt predict their world ending?

i wouldnt worry about it.

Answer 12

The world's not ending in 2012--that's just a New Age doom-and-gloom thing. The Mayan calendar ended in 2012, that's it. There was no prophecy! Just try googling 'mayan prophecy 2012.' Wikipedia has a little on it.

Answer 13

The year 2012 is rumored to be the end of the world.  But do not worry.  Do not be scared.  I assure you that the world will not end on 2012 December 21 but it will end one day.  Remember that if there is a beginning, there is an end.  

Nostradamus’ prophecy of when the world will end is far into the future, past about 3700.  This is in agreement with what I heard and learned from the Holy Spirit—that there will only be about 144,000 around AD 2200, peace reigns for a thousand years till around AD 3200, and then Satan will be released to test the descendants of the elect for about 500 years.  After that, the end will come.

The Mayan’s Mesoamerican Long Count calendar forms the basis for a New Age belief, first forecast by Jose Arguelles, that a cataclysm will take place on or about 2012 December 21 (Wikipedia).  Mainstream Mayan scholars consider “cataclysm” or “apocalypse” as a misinterpretation for to the Mayan scribes, it literally means uncovering or revealing.

The Long Count has 360 days in a year called “Tun”.  A “Tun” has 18 months or “unials” and each “unial” has 20 days.  Twenty (20) Tuns is a Katun and 20 Katuns is a Baktun (144,000 days or about 400 solar years).  Thirteen (13) Baktuns is a “Great Cycle” of 1,872,000 days (5,200 Tuns or about 5,125 solar years).  The Great Cycle in the proleptic Gregorian calendar started on 3114 BC August 11 (day 0.0.0.0.0) and ends on 2012 December 21 (day 13.0.0.0.0) – winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.  The Great Cycle restarts the next day (day 0.0.0.0.0).  The representation of the Great Cycle of the Mayan Long Count calendar is as follows: (13 Baktuns.20 Katuns.20 Tuns.18 Uinals.20 days).

In the book of Revelation, it tells us about a period of a thousand years of peace. Has this occurred already since the time of Jesus?  Not yet. That will still come. Those that give predictions of the world’s end, such as 2012 and numerous times during the past, are pseudo-preachers. Have they talked to God directly? If so, give proofs.

But there is something that will certainly happen—and that is our physical death. This is what we should prepare for. It may come when least expected. We do not know the day and the hour. It will come like a thief in the night. So we just have to be prepared all the time. Search for the true God and when we find Him, follow His commandments and remain in Him until our last dying breath.

This is all that we have to do. It is faith in the true God that we can take with us when we depart from this world. If we denied Him, He will deny us also before the Father in Heaven and send us to h**l. This is very scary – to live in h**l forever.  If we knew Him and loved Him and followed His commandments, then He may reward us to live with Him eternally in His kingdom in Heaven. This is the survival kit that we should have.

Did you know that in his or her boredom, “Thanks for reading this” theorized in Yahoo Answers, Religion & Spirituality section, that 2012 is 20 + 12 = 32, the approximate age of Jesus when He was crucified and died?  I answered that when Jesus died, He was actually 32 solar years old, equivalent to 33 lunar years.  Details are in http://www.geocities.com/peacecrusader88...  Is this a sign that God is warning us of the impending calamity around 2012, like the end of the Mayan’s calendar cycle?  But I repeat, 2012 is not the end of the world yet.

The Holy Spirit also told us that beings from another planet will take only the marked good people out of this world.  I asked Him if it’s a million.  He said much less than that.  Then I asked if the number is the one mentioned in Revelation and He affirmed it.  A few weeks ago this year, 2008, as I was reading Revelation, I came across Revelation 14:3 to wit (King James Version):  ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚€ÂœAnd they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.”  ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚€ÂœRedeemed from the earth” means saved from the earth.  And there were 144,000 of them.  This must be what the Holy Spirit was referring to several years ago.  His advice to all: leave their wicked way of life and change their way of thinking.  We should come back to the true God before it’s too late.  (I read in Isaiah 55:7 this message, to wit (KJV): “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.”)  Be good then so that we may be considered to be among the 144,000 who will be saved, and later will restart and repopulate this world.  The Holy Spirit told us to tell people about this prophecy even though they accuse us as being out of our minds.  He assured us that this will happen, similar to Noah’s prophecy of the Great Flood which took a hundred years before it was fulfilled.  The vessel that Noah used to be saved was an ark.  This time, another kind of vesssel will be used to save the elect.

  

What is also certain to happen very soon (in about 2012 or earlier) is World War III and this is a nuclear war.  This “calamitous war” (as Nostradamus called it) will start from the Philippines, at Spratly Islands in particular.  The Spratly Islands lie on the southeast part of the South China Sea mostly near the coast of the Philippines.  The Holy Spirit told us that the Philippines is the wick of a gas lamp.  Once the wick is lit, it will be on and aglow.  He told us about this prophecy about two decades ago.  He said that the troubles in the Philippines will spread to the whole world until mankind is almost annihilated and a few will remain.  Spratly Islands are being claimed wholly by China, Taiwan and Vietnam; and partly by Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines.  The area is considered a tinderbox, a flash point.  It is very rich in oil and gas resources, estimated to be more than the reserve of Kuwait.  The high price of oil may trigger the grabbing of these islands and start the war.

Four independent prophecies point to the certainty that this will happen.  These are Nostradamus’ prophecies to happen around this time (quatrains 6:24 and 2:62) , the 56th Chinese prophecy of Tui Bei Tu (the past 55 prophecies have already been fulfilled) found at http://www.alexchiu.com/philosophy/corp3... and Wikipedia, Revelation 9:18 of the Holy Bible, and those that the Holy Spirit revealed to us.  If you are interested in the details about these prophecies, please send me your request via email.

After the calamitous war, we will have a new age, a spiritual awakening or enlightenment, and peace will reign for a long time.  The population would have been reduced by a third and there will be much arable land that will be available.  People will be living in planned cities and communities.  Would you like to live in a city where the land is free and you are guaranteed possession of the land for 50 years, renewable, and which you can bequeath to an heir?

The Holy Spirit has given His prophecies and these are what will happen.  Be rest assured then that the world will not end yet.  But please, heed what He advises us to do—to change our wicked way of life and change our wrong beliefs.  Come back to the true God.

I am just sharing with you what I heard and learned from the Holy Spirit.  The decision to believe Him or not depends upon yourself.  I am not forcing anyone to believe in what I share.  It is not my responsibility to save you or anyone, but the person’s.

Isaiah 35:4 (KJV) states: “Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.”

Answer 14

Definitely some E T are coming to our planet in the near future Year 2012 , according to the Mayans and their calendar.

So prepare yourselves to meet these advanced beings from outer-space, by thinking speaking and doing good-deeds to others.