[singing] two thousand uno du'os party over says the lights of heaven /
tonight i'm gonna party like it's two thousand eleven
Posted on 10/11/2009 8:11:59 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.
Or is it?
Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff."
It can only get worse for him. Next month Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.
At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the "Curious? Ask an Astronomer" Web site, says people are scared.
"It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die," Martin said. "We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up."
Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.
A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.
But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes "predictions" from Nostradamus and the Mayas and asks: "Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?"
It may sound all too much like other doomsday scenarios of recent decades - the 1987 Harmonic Convergence, the Jupiter Effect or "Planet X." But this one has some grains of archaeological basis.
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Its Long Count calendar begins in 3,114 B.C., marking time in roughly 394-year periods known as Baktuns. Thirteen was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas, and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012.
"It's a special anniversary of creation," said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin. "The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they're just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six."
Bernal suggests that apocalypse is "a very Western, Christian" concept projected onto the Maya, perhaps because Western myths are "exhausted."
ping
It is if O is reelected...
“Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?”
Zero change?
We're DOOMED!
We're all gonna DIE in 2012!
I can't get away from it.
It makes pine for the nonstop around the clock shows about Hitler and the Nazis.
I think it’s closer to the end of America than anything else ... thanks to zero and his cronies.
Art Bell told me the world would end in 2000, so why should I doubt him about 2012.
The world will end
This I know
For Art Bell has
Told me so
No no no no,,, i want the mayans to SCREAM that its the end of the world. The week or so before that december night in 2012, im gonna wear out this cool pick-up line ive figured out,,,, “hey baby, in a few days it’s the end of the world”.
It’s gonna be an amazing time.
Ah-HAH!! Mayan historical revisionism!!
Exactly.
Just like the hype over Y2K (all our computers are going to explode!!), this 12/21/2012 thing will be another spectacular non-event. See you all on the 22nd.
it’s not? shucks
I can’t believe that (all of) you haven’t figured this whole 2012 thing out yet.
So here it is.....THE CALENDAR MAKER DIED !!!
Like I’d consider the ravings of a bunch of cannibals.
Would not that be just the rulers?
Ordinary folks including calender carvers probably did not get to partake.
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