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Chances are you have heard that the Maya predicted the end of the world on December 21, 2012. This is the day when the Maya Long Count calendar cycle comes to completion. You may have also heard that the world will supposedly be destroyed by an earthly or cosmic catastrophe. Find out about these predictions – are they fact or fiction?
Dec 20, 2011 · It's remotely possible the world will end in December 2012. But don't credit the ancient Maya calendar for predicting it, say experts on the Mesoamerican culture.
Dec 28, 2011 · The 2012 phenomenon is alive and kicking, and will doubtless remain so until 22 December next year, when we wake up to find Earth hasn’t been knocked off its axis or suffered any other ill ...
Dec 21, 2012 · Summarize this article for a 10 year old. SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012. This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, and festivities took place on 21 ...
Dec 20, 2012 · The 2012 doomsday phenomenon tells us that people are uncertain about their futures. The world as we know it is changing – global warming is changing our ecology, the economy seems more...
In his article on the 2012 phenomenon, Robert Sitler summarizes the relevance of 2012 in the time keeping systems of the Maya of the Classic Period as follows: …the December 21, 2012 date simply marks the last day of the current cycle, a period of 144.000 days roughly equivalent to 394 years.
The 2012 phenomenon: Maya calendar, astronomy, and apocalypticism in the worlds of scholarship and global popular culture. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 July 2011. John B. Carlson and. Mark Van Stone.
