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Dive into the whirlwind of December 21, 2012, when the world buzzed with fears of an apocalypse tied to the end of the Maya Long Count calendar’s thirteenth baktun. In this video, we unravel...
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But what did the ancient Maya themselves believe? In 2012: The Beginning, we travel the world to examine what the Sacred Maya texts really say. December 21, 2012. This date, identified...
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Take a look at how the complex cycles of the Mayan calendar work and how December 21, 2012, may mark the end. | For more Apocalypse 2012 Revelations, visit...
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- Legends of Transformation
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- Time as Energy
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Maya legends routinely concern themselves with regeneration and transformation. The myth of The Xtabay recounts the lives of Xkeban, the sinner, and Utz-Colel, the virtuous, who transform in death. Xkeban, though considered a sinner for having sex outside of marriage, was more virtuous than the self-righteous and cold Utz-Colel and, when she died, ...
To the Maya, time did not travel in a linear movement from the past into the future but was cyclical, as were the lives of their gods. In the same way that the gods of the Maya were born, developed and sustained themselves and human life, and then died to be re-born, so the years followed the same course. The Maya Calendar contains two separately w...
No reputable scholar on Mayan Culturesupports the claim that the world will end on 21 December 2012 CE. On 10 May 2012 CE it was reported that Boston University archaeologist William Saturno and Boston University student Maxwell Chamberlain, excavating at the Maya site of Xultun in Guatemala, discovered a 6x6 foot room dating to 800 CE which seems ...
There were four deities in particular, known as The Bearers of the Years (the Bacab) who held the four cardinal points of the sky and imbued a particular year with certain energy. Muluc was the Bacab of the east and his years were always positive in energy. He was associated with the color red. Kan was the Bacab of the south, associated with yellow...
Western interpretations of the Maya Calendar are just that: western. In such an interpretation time is viewed as linear, not cyclical, and, whether a particular writer adheres to Judaism or Christianity or Islam, they are still prone to view time as it has been understood in the scriptures of those religions. In monotheistic western religions God i...
Interviews conducted by this writer with Maya daykeepers (shamans) at the sites of Chichen Itza and Uxmalrevealed that the Maya calendar does not, in any way, predict an `end to the world' but, rather, a new age, a new cycle, in precisely the same way that people in the modern age hope for change and renewal in the new year and make new year's reso...
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Jul 6, 2012 · Neither the Maya Calendar--nor the World--Ends on December 21, 2012. This year's doomsday angst owes much to public ignorance about pre-Columbian civilizations. By Erik Vance. It's a...
PREDICTION: On December 21, 2012, when the Long Count calendar ends, a rare Galactic alignment of the Sun and the Milky Way will take place. This only happens once every 26,000 years. Fact: On the solstice of December 21, 2012, the Sun, as seen from the Earth, will be crossing the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy near its center.
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The Maya calendar completed its 13th baktun cycle on December 21, 2012. Some interpreted this date as the end of the world. In reality, the Maya calendar sim...
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