why does the Mayan Calendar end in 2012?
im doing a report for spanish class about the mayan calandar and i need to know why it ends in 2012. please don’t tell me "because thats when the world will end" i need to know the actual answer. thank you in advance
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It doesn’t end. There are references to dates far in the future past that date, in other Mayan writings.
It is just the end of one cycle and beginning of another.
It is like an odometer in a car. In older cars, once it got to 100,000 miles, it would turn over and begin at 0 again. That did not mean the car explodes when it reaches 100,000 miles, hahaha.
thats the actual answer unless you hold the key to the past and can travel time to ask the fn mayans.
no one knows when the world will end, only gods knows, everything else is false.
they probably ran out of space???
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Well if you don’t want ‘because that’s when the world will end’ then how about,
They ran out of paper
They got bored
They discovered alcohol
They started licking toads
Or how about they discovered the wonders of gay sex? I think that fits best considering the section you’ve posted this question in.
I think we are going to have to ask the ancient Mayan. Let’s create a time traveling machine.
We just going into a new age. eventually we will adapt more also
I know this isn’t exactly a definite response to your question, but I personally theory that that’s when the world is going to begin undergoing dramatic climate changes, and therefore, the human species too will adapt to the new era. Generally, we’ll become extinct like the dino’s, or we’ll evolve into some weird life forms.
lol. thumbs up to jamets
the mayans never finished it. they got conqwuered and almost wiped out, not surprizing that they were a degenerate culture that ate the hearts of their best and brightest in human sacrifices and , were too stupid to employ the wheel or smelt iron.
It doesn’t end. The Mayan Long Count calendar clicks over from 12.19.19.17.19 to 13.0.0.0.0 on 21st December 2012. That’s all there is to it. It’s the same as our calendar changing from 1999 to 2000. The Mayans themselves never predicted the end of the world would happen at that time.
All the doomsday predictions attached to this date are, without exception, unscientific nonsense, perpetrated by frauds and hoaxers.
When I was in Mexico I saw a copy of the calendar that ended in 2012. In that area there are a lot of Mexicans who are descended from Mayans, some of whom don’t even speak Spanish, they just speak Yucatan Mayan.
Anyways, I saw a copy of the calendar and the tour guide told our group that the Mayans had this belief that copied dates would repeat themselves. So say that you had great harvest of corn on the 12th of May. They’d copy down the 12th of May in the hopes that another wonderful harvest would happen. Now say that instead of a good harvest, you got a really crappy harvest or no harvest at all. Because they believed that things repeated, they wouldn’t copy down the dates of bad things. So, in summary, the tour guide said that it isn’t the end of the world because the Mayans wouldn’t want something like that to happen.
This was a few years ago, so I don’t remember exactly what the tour guide said, but that’s the best I remember.
Another theory is that it’s just the end of a cycle. This website explains it pretty well: http://www.greatdreams.com/2012.htm. It just says that it’s like a car odometer. Once it reaches nine, it’s not the end, it just clicks over to zero and starts a new cycle.
Our current calendar ends on December 31, 2010. What does that mean? Nothing much. There are also two year calendars that show the dates of 2009 and 2010. While longer, those calendars still end on December 31, 2010. Still doesn’t mean much. A few years ago it ended on December 31, 1999. We clicked over to 2000 and nothing really happened.
There isn’t an actual answer. There’s a lot of conjecture and theories, but who knows which one is right? For you paper you should either just pick the one that most correct to you, the one you believe to be right, and mention other theories briefly, or just talk about the different theories and not state which one you think is correct.
The world does not end.
The cycle just starts over.
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