The Mayans didn't even invent the Long Count. Variations were in use by the Olmecs and Zapotecs long before the Mayan civilization emerged around 300 A.D. The Mayans were excellent astronomers and mathematicians and they simply refined the system to their own religious beliefs and conventions.
Your Irwin Allen comment made me smile too! It's too bad he's no longer around to produce disaster flicks. Between the 2012 and the Gorebull Warming nonsense he'd be able to rake in millions.
Very true....there are many variations on the Long Count used by all the Mesoamerican cultures.
Irwin Allen was one-of-a-kind that’s for sure....I think of Roland Emmerich as his spiritual successor, and I believe Emmerich once said that Irwin Allen was a major influence for his own disaster films. “Independence Day”, “The Day After Tomorrow”, “2012”; in each and every one, human civilization comes to an end in grand style!
Coincidentally, I’m planning on spending next Christmas with some Ugandan friends of mine.....in Kampala. I’ve known them for years, and they invited me to spend the Christmas and New Year’s season there, so why not? It’s certainly warmer there in December than it is in Europe. And the way I look at it, if Roland Emmerich’s “2012” turns out to be a tad more prophetic than what could be assumed at first glance, then I’ll be sitting pretty; if you recall, the only land mass left above water at the end of that film......
was Africa. Bwahahahahahaha!