Mayans have been revered as the ancient intellectuals whom established the modern-day calendar since the beginning of time 'til the end; as the dirt-old legend readings go, our time here is set for December 21, 2012.
WHAT IS THIS? SOME KIND OF A JOKE?
Yeah, actually, it is, insists the Mayan elder. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff." Like salt to the wound, Hollywood's cinema "2012" is set to appear in theaters November 2009.
Though this date may not signify the end of the world as we know it, it does have important significance to the ancient Mayan civilization. Excavation in Southern Mexican has revealed a stone tablet that was in rough repair. It mentioned the Mayan god of creation and war, but - shades of Indiana Jones - the bottom portion of the tablet is too worn and cracked for deciphering. Though archeologists may have managed to crack the final statement as "He will descend from the sky." Heh heh... However many other tablets are set at a date much further in time, including one that sets about 4772. The Mayans were the masters of the sky, the quintessential astronomers of the time. The ancient Mayan civilization revolved around numbers and order, and December 21, 2012 marks the end of the thirteenth Baktun, or 394-year period since the beginning of time. Also, the Mayans knew the earth was tilting, and its alignment with the universe changes ever so slightly every year. Once every 25.800 years, our sun lines up at the dead center of the Milky Way on a winter's solstice. Look for it on December 12, 2012!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091011/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_apocalypse2012
Jacob D.
Period 3
6 comments:
It's so weird how media can influence us so much. Sometimes I wonder how much people can be tricked into believing via bandwagon effect.
That is actually really interesting. It is so weird to think that someone thought that the world would end in only about three years from now. What is even more interesting is that some people still believe that it is going to happen and others waste their time making a movie on it.
Jasmeen R.
Per 5
It would be really weird if the world did end in December 2012. Think of where we would be. A lot of us would be away at college. Our lives would be cut short at a time when it would seem like they were just be beginning.
I can never really understand why so many people are set on believing that the world will end in 2012. Especially just because of one peoples' calender. But, then again, people thought the same thing around the turn of the century...
It's really sad to see how reliant we are on the media and how even they go into such lengths just to make a fictional movie. This only encourages people to continue thinking the world is going to end in three years. But it was nice to finally read the truth behind this theory.
I find it interesting to think of what would happen if the world actually ended in 2012. It is also interesting how many people have spent a countless amount of time devoted to this subject of what will actually happen. Only time will tell.
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