World will not end in 2012, according to 9th-century Mayan calendar

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I don't see what the big deal is about forewarnings of the end of the world/life from ancient civilizations. They didn't demonstrate any real understanding of how our universe works which modern science currently does. dead.

THAT'S the joke; they did no such thing. The Mayan calendar system is NOT predictive. Ignormamuses misunderstood the Mayan long count and the credulous believed them. Actual scholars knew all along and said so.


Try Googling it:

The Prediction

The Maya actually never made a single prediction related to an apocalypse, but it is claimed by 2012 proponents that the Maya could predict future events. The accuracy of this claim appears to hinge on the type of prediction that is claimed. One problem with proponents is that they generally fail to cite references, so that the claims of various predictions being made are difficult to impossible to reference and check.

Rohaan Solare1 stakes out a definitive position, stating:

Contrary to popular understanding, the ancient Meso-Americans, be they Aztec or Maya or any other group, left no oral or written “prophecy” record about what would or could happen on or about the year 2012 other than a great age of 5125 years would end and another commence.2

http://www.2012hoax.org/maya-prediction

The link below gives a pretty good explanation of the Meso-American calendar used by the Mayans.

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating, vigesimal (base-20) and base-18 calendar used by several Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya. For this reason, it is sometimes known as the Maya (or Mayan) Long Count calendar. Using a modified vigesimal tally, the Long Count calendar identifies a day by counting the number of days passed since a mythical creation date that corresponds to August 11, 3114 BCE in the Gregorian calendar.[n 1] The Long Count calendar was widely used on monuments.

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