For any of you who are really interested in the Mayan calendar, the
best book I've ever read on the subject is Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 by
John Major Jenkins. Jenkins is an Archeo astronomer, not some new age
channeler. He lays out the history of the Maya and how they calculated
and recalculated the calendar to make it one of the most accurate.
It's a very dense book but a great read especially for those of you
who go caving in Central America regularly and want to have a deeper
appreciation of the Maya culture.
Mike Burrell
On May 23, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Brian Riordan wrote:
The current Gregorian calendar ends December 31st 2011... But we'll
just print a new one for 2012. I presume the Aztecs got tired of
carving new stone calendars every solar cycle, so they made an
arbitrarily long one.
I think historians could argue that the 'end times' came for the
Aztecs long before 2012...
-B
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:53 AM, John.Schneider <jsschneid...@smithsys.net
> wrote:
I believe you are right that it is the Mayan calendar that ends Dec
21, 2012. It DOES NOT however predict the "end of the world", but
simply the end of a time or era.
That calendar has 13,000 year cycle or times and the above date is
simply the end of the most recent era. Since this was either cycle
4 or 5 there is nothing in the calendar that excludes that 22 Dec
2012 is just being the beginning of a new era.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Rod Goke
To: Texas Cavers
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 9:34 PM
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future
I'm not very familiar with the Aztec calendar, but if it ever
contained an "end of the world" prediction, it probably had to be
revised to record that happening August 13, 1521 (from their
viewpoint, anyway, since that's when their capital, Tenochtitlan,
finally fell to Cortes). I believe that it is the Mayan calendar
that many people claim will end December 21, 2012, leading some to
interpret this as a predicted "end of the world" date. Now, however,
some people are claiming that this interpretation of the Mayan
calendar is off by several weeks and that the real "end of the
world" date will be November 6, 2012.
. . .
(election day) ;-)
Rod
-----Original Message-----
From: Louise Power
Sent: May 22, 2011 7:28 PM
To: Texas Cavers
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] A warning from the future
But wait, doesn't the end of the world come in 2012 (according to
the Aztec calendar)? My friend Jo says yesterday was just supposed
to be the rapture. She says the EOW comes in October. Who should I
believe...the crazy old guy who got it wrong the first time; a
defunct native group; or my best friend? OMG, it's just too much for
my poor old brain to comprehend!
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