The Mayans' calender?

Question

it was the Mayans' that the 2012 end of the world thign came from right?

what the h**l did the calender actually say?

did it jsut end on dec 21 2012 and thats it?

if so, ppl r just stupid

oh and btw, how did they die out?

Answer 1

the Mayans were probably conquered by another group of peoples, so that's how they died out.

And as for the "end of the world", the mayans believed in different phases of the world, and dec 21, 2012 was the end of one of the phases.

The mayans didn't make another calender because dec 21, 2012 hadn't come yet. They assumed they would still be around to make another calender.

People are blowing this way out of proportion.

Answer 2

I have watched a special documentary about this on the History Channel before. Reguarding the Mayan calendar, I do not think anybody can possibly know for sure if it is true or not, considering there really aren't any Mayans alive today. Also, if it has to do with the sun going out or something that day, it is certainly not true reguarding the lifespan of our sun is only halfway through. Hope I helped.

Answer 3

The Mayans never predicted the world would end.  It just is that is when their calendar ends.  The Mayans actually had encriptions that alluded to future times after 2012, so they did not think it would be the end of the world.  (I recently saw a video on Yahoo news) People are just being crazy for worrying over nothing...just like Y2K.

Answer 4

apparently since the calander ends in 2012..they say either the world will come to an end or the world is going to restart itself..as well as the calander...personally i think this is all a load of conspiracy bull.

Answer 5

Beginning with Jeanette and going down the line, every respondent that has said it was an end to an era is absolutely correct.

The Maya calculated time very differently than we do, with our calendar. Their calendar ran for an entire era....the era that begins after December 2012 is an era that they foresaw as bringing change...an end to the way things are now, a new beginning.

As far as I have studied it, the Mayan civilization disappeared, but not the people. There are a fairly large amount of Maya descendants living today. The civilization, according to archaeologists/anthropologists/historian... ceased to be from a number of different causes, internal failing, disease and persecution from Spanish explorers, widespread and continued drought which forced them to move from their great city centers in order to survive. I'm sure that other factors we don't know about added to these.

Answer 6

i dont think its true...who knows??

Answer 7

I would skip the insult if I couldn't spell and write properly.  Anyways, the Mayan calendar is ending its cycle.  Their calendar is very long and it happens to end on 2012.  

They died out like all the natives in the Americas.  Because of the diseases which the Spanish, Portuguese, and English brought they were never immune and died out.  95% of all Native Americans, North and South.  

Check out this documentary.  The Mayans are not the only ones to predict doom in 2012.

Answer 8

no, actually their calendar was a architectural wonder and it accurately predicted a lot of celestial movements and some events that happened by coordinating the calendar in certain ways to a certain date... i forgot how it exactly worked and i dunno how they died out.. i think another tribe like the aztecs killed them and took over? something like that

Answer 9

OK - Actually the Mayan Calendar actually doesn't say "it's the end of the world" - it simply states "a new beginning".  The Mayans studied the night sky so well that it has marveled modern astronomers.  The December 21, 2012 date in the night sky simply ended a long cycle of planets alignment.  I believe this is the day in which all the planets align all on the same plane with sun.  I don't know the actually alignment (if all the planets are on the same plane, or on the same plane along the same side of the sun).  The thing that has gotten so many people believing in this date is there are some Chinese folk tales to go along with it - something called a Pillar Count and there is another book - I forget the name.

All I know - there have been a lot of "end of the world" calenders and obviously none of them are correct.  Even the Jews had a year of something like 2022 (of course Jewish Calender - not the calender we use, I think 2008 is like 5970 or something like that in the Jewish Calender), which would help explain Jesus being a "messiah" by Jews during his time on earth - but that's a totally different question.

Answer 10

Everything is full of symbolism.

The end of the era in both gregorian and mayan calendars is exactly december 21 2012,

reason for this: watching the sky, we reach "new constellations" we are currently at the end of the age of pisces,

written in the bible:

moses gets mad when he sees his people worshipping a bull "the age of the bull" then he says a new age is coming "the age of aries"

Jesus was born at the beginning of the age of pisces (jesus fish anyone?)

Bringing a new era of peace and understanding (attributes of pisces) also, jesus is full of symbolism, his ministry having lasted a year, having 12 disciples (months) 3"kings" (stars) following the brightest star in the sky (sirius) and forming a straight line, the sun (jesus) everything describes forms a cross (difision of seasons)

Mayans had a calendar better than our own (26 seconds away from being perfect)

no need for a leap year... mayans also took note of the division of our ages and called that date the end of time, age of pisces..

Answer 11

why are we jumping to the conclusion that the world will end at a specific time and that someone knows when?that is ridiculous,if they could predict that why are they gone way before that time?

Answer 12

This was my answer to a question about this same topic yesterday:

Nope. It's just a calendar -- an arbitrary way of measuring time that was accepted by the Mayans. There are very few correlations between the Georgian Calendar that is currently in use by most of the world these days, and the Mayan Calendar. The best explanation I've heard is that it is like an odometer on a car -- it's clicking over and over, and in 2012, it reaches a point where different solar measurements come together. They measured long time periods by means of a Long Count, in which one 360-day year (a "Tun"), consists of 18 x 20-day "months" ("Uinals"). Twenty of these Tuns is a Katun; 20 Katuns is a Baktun (nearly 400 years); and 13 Baktuns adds up to a "Great Cycle" of 1,872,000 days, (5,200 Tuns, or about 5,125 years).

Presumably, on the winter solstice of 2012, the noonday Sun exactly conjuncts the crossing point of the sun's ecliptic with the galactic plane, while also closely conjuncting the exact the center of the galaxy. Which is kinda cool -- but hardly life-ending.

Not to worry. I mean, if you want to go by a calendar, it might make you feel better to purchase a perpetual calendar :-)

And, they didn't really die out -- there are still some Mayans around these days, in various parts of Central and South America, and they still maintain some of the old Mayan customs and rituals.  However, the main body of Mayans that most people recognize as "the Mayan Civilization" died out around 800 or 900 AD.  It's a mystery as to exactly WHY the main body of the civilization died out -- one popular theory is that they simply exhausted the resources of their area after a prolonged drought and scattered.

Answer 13

all i can tell you is, you're smart for not seeming to be too concerned about it.  i think it's a bunch of hocus-pocus bs.

Answer 14

Dont buy into that nonsene. Please dont.

Even if their calender did say that it doesnt mean diddly p**p. How on earth could they know when the world is going to end?

Ask any of these people who claim the world is going to end on a certain date-ask any of them to sign their life savings, their cars, their houses over to you the day before they say the world is scheduled to end. None of them will because deep down inside they dont believe it themselves.

Answer 15

I think that the Mayans thought there were sccessive ages of humans who died or transformed into animals and so forth. 2012 is when this age, the 5th age is supposed to die out. But in this extinction, 2 people will survive, starting the 6th age of humans.

Some people, forgot the last sentence and decided to interpret this as the world's going to end.

Answer 16

There must have been some sort of evidence that they believed it would end then, otherwise it might just look like they got lazy and decided to stop writing the calendar...

Answer 17

they say that the calendar stops at that date....some speculate that yes it stops but it means a new order in the world....new world order...so to speak