Mayan Calender Predicts End Of World."Remember the Y2K We are one year of December 21, 2012, when the old Mayan calendar Long Count would have marked the end of an era that would reset the date to zero and signal the end of humanity.
But is not it?
There have been many predictions of end times over the years. Christian radio host Harold Camping faced widespread ridicule when his predictions that the world would end twice this year - May 21 and October 21 - failed to materialize.
But in the wake of apocalyptic predictions - there have been similar dire warnings about the world coming to an end in various cultures, including Indian, Chinese, Egyptians and even the Irish - the so-called Mayan prophecy seems to have occurred more influence with believers.
The Mayan civilization, which reached its peak from 300 AD to 900 AD, had a talent for astronomy. Mathematics and astronomy thrived advanced primitive, creating what many have called the most accurate calendar in the world.
The Mayans predicted a final event that included a change in solar, a transit of Venus and violent earthquakes.
Their Long Count calendar begins in 3114 BC, marking the time about 394 years known as Baktuns periods. Thirteen was significant, sacred number for the Maya, and they wrote that the 13th Baktun ends December 21, 2012.
The apocalyptic theories stem from a stone tablet discovered in the 1960s at the archaeological site of Tortuguero in the Gulf of Mexico state of Tabasco, which describes the return of a Mayan god at the end of a period of 13.
"The Mayans are considered by many Westerners as exotic people who were supposed to have had some special, secret knowledge," said Maya researcher Sven Gronemeyer. "What happens is that our expectations and fears are projected on the Mayan calendar. "
Gronemeyer, La Trobe University in Australia, compares the Mayan prophecies of the supposed "Y2K" hype, when people feared all computer systems would crash when the new millennium began on 1 January 2000.
For some reason, Gronemeyer said, people have ignored evidence that the dates after 2012 were recorded.
The blogosphere has exploded with more speculation that the Mexican Institute of Archaeology recognized November 24 a second reference to December 21, 2012, on a brick found in other ruins.
"Human beings seem to be attracted to apocalyptic ideas and always imagine the worst," said Gronemeyer.
The believers took the end of the world fear the Internet with hundreds of thousands of websites and blogs. Yet others are capitalizing on the renewed interest. Films depicting the end of the world - including the 2009 film, "2012 -? Are contributing to the mounting hype and misinformation, experts say.
In southern Mexico, in the heart of Mayan territory, a celebration of a year is planned.
Mexican tourism agency expects to draw 52 million visitors next year only for the regions of Chiapas, Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Campeche. All lures of Mexico in general about 22 million foreigners a year.
This is the sale date, the winter solstice in the coming years as a time of renewal. Many archaeologists argue that the reference 2012 on a stone tablet 1300 years only marks the end of a cycle in the Mayan calendar.
"The world will not end. It is a time," said Yeanet Zaldo, a spokeswoman for the state of tourism in the Caribbean Quintana Roo, Cancun home. "For us it is a message of hope."
For those who are thinking about how to spend what could be their last years on earth, here is another message of hope: According to recent research, the date of the mythology of the "end of days" can be shifted from 50 to 100 years.
To convert the old Mayan calendar to the Gregorian (or modern) calendar, the researchers use a numerical value (called GMT). But Gerardo Aldana, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said that the data supporting the widely adopted conversion factor may be invalid.
Aldana is not the only critic.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration - yes that NASA - also weighed on the issue.
Scientists at the agency posted the answers to the most popular theory at the end of time associated with fear? He came and went without much moaning because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation. Impressive special effects film side, December 21, 2012, will not be the end of the world as we know, "after 2009, says the web page.
Answers questions addressed whether there were known threats to the Earth and the truth about the calendar.
One response was mailed to the question of the possible approach of Nibiru (or Planet X or Eris), a planet that is supposed capricious said could pose a threat to Earth. The answer was a definitive rejection of the idea.
"Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax," wrote the scientists. "There is no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with Earth in 2012 , astronomers have been tracking it for at least the last ten years, and it would be visible by now to the. eye Obviously, there is no Eris is real, but it is a dwarf planet similar to Pluto that will remain in the outer solar system,. the closest he can come to the Earth is about 4 billion miles. "
