What is the truth about the legend of the crystal skulls?

Question

iv herd that there are 13 crystal skulls and we have only found 8 of them, 1 of them was found in the ocean, i have also herd that it has something to do with the world ending in 2012 because of the myan calender or something, can anyone summerize this up for me?

Answer 1

There's no truth behind the crystal skulls, or the "end of the world." The latter idea (of 2012 as you mentioned) is an interpretation of a supposed K'iche' (Maya) calendar "prediction." And supposedly other K'iche' predictions have being fairly accurate. The major problem is that people with Christian backgrounds hear this and they think that every worldview parallels their own. Those cultures with a non-biblical worldview (typically cyclical) do not have "an" end of the world concept, they have "ends" of "ages" cocepts. If the K'iche' were to speak on their own behalf they would inform us all that as Nature is cyclical this prediction refers only to an end of an age, not "the" end of the world.

Answer 2

The Mayan calendar starts on August 13, 3114 BC, and they say that the end is destined to come on December 21, 2012.

There is a legend that the ancient Maya possessed 13 crystal skulls which, when united, hold the power to save the Earth. There is no link between them that is mentioned in ancient times - it has been the New-agers (this generation) that has linked the skulls and the end of the world - together.

The crystal skulls are a number of human skull models fashioned from blocks of clear or milky quartz crystal rock, claimed to be pre-Columbian Mesoamerican artifacts by their alleged finders. Contemporary mainstream scientific opinion is that the skulls are instead of 19th century or later European manufacture. None of the specimens made available for scientific study have been authenticated as pre-Columbian in origin.[1] Despite some claims presented in an assortment of popularising literature, legends of crystal skulls with mystical powers do not figure in genuine Mesoamerican or other Native American mythologies and spiritual accounts.[2]

The skulls are often claimed to exhibit paranormal phenomena by some members of the New Age movement, and have often been portrayed as such in fiction. Perhaps the most widely known of such portrayals occurs in the Indiana Jones franchise, and in particular the fourth film of the series, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.[3] Crystal skulls have been a popular meme appearing in numerous sci-fi television series,[4] novels and video games.

Claims of the healing and supernatural powers of crystal skulls have no support in the mainstream scientific community. The scientific community at large has found no evidence of any unusual phenomena associated with the skulls nor any reason for further investigation

Answer 3

The word "Legend" pretty much sums up the total knowledge that exists regarding these artifacts.

The implied credibility of the legend is that no one "knows" how they were made.

Today, we could whip up a hundred thousand of these a day, and no one would say a thing.  The mystery is how did ancient cultures create these?

End of the world? This is the one concept that has held mankind in a grip of fear for centuries.  The end of the world concept is little more than a religous "better get right with God" before the end - bunch of c**p, that insults the logical mind.

Might be a better idea to focus on solutions to pollution, global warming, energy for the next century, worrying about mythic stories, well that is just hype and drama, the world isn't ending this week, next week or in 2012.

Answer 4

See this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_sku...

Answer 5

This is just the stuff of TV shows.  That is the truth.  There is nothing of substance in it at all.