>>My pet theory about the Mayan calendar ... the calendar maker was busy making up the calendar, and when he got to the year 2012 (our time, A.D.) the Spanish conquistadores came in, said to the calendar maker “It’s time to roll” and put the calendar maker in a Catholic mission.<<
The Mayan calendar is an extremely complex mechanism made up of “wheels within wheels” gears that accurately marked time — much more than the one we use.
The 2012 date is when all the gears hit the end of the mechanism.
Too much time wasted on this theory that was thought up by westerners when the really interesting part is the amazing calendar the Mayans came up with.
If I were Mayan I’d be rather irritated with the whole thing.