Comments on: Why does the Mayan calender end in 2012?

By: Rex Barker

Rex Barker — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:33:59 +0000

I hate to admit that a cat avatar is right, but the Mayans were people who thought they could save their empire by cutting peoples’ hearts out.

They couldn’t have been too wise.

If they ran their calendar to 2012, they must have expected to be around to use it. To bad they missed that prediction, they could have used a smaller calendar.
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By: AstroGeek

AstroGeek — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:25:59 +0000

It doesn’t. There is a specific cycle that ends on 12/21/2012.

From Wikipedia:

As mentioned in the Syntax section, there are also four rarely-used higher-order periods above the b’ak’tun: piktun, kalabtun, k’inchiltun, and alautun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar#Piktuns_and_higher_orders
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By: tick tock

tick tock — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:06:59 +0000

so what if it did?

if you dug up a note by the ancient and noble citizens of Ur, telling you that the world will end on July 9th 2010… WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT AT ALL? Isn’t it a little DUMB to say, well, hey, they musta known, cause they ALMOST mastered counting and they had an alphabet that looked like every letter was a MySpace Icon… Yeah, sure, you sold me.

If some stone-age guys believe ANYTHING, its likely they were wrong.

The Sun goes around the Earth? Nope.
Babies come from good spirits? Nope.
Diseases come from bad air? Nope.
The lights in the sky are ghosts? Nope.
There is a God? Nope.

face it, if you want an authority in being WRONG, just check out the Mayans… only don’t ask them if they want to play ball.
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By: lindajune

lindajune — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:20:59 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar
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By: kogntio420

kogntio420 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:32:59 +0000

no actually the mayan calender does not predict the end of time it just marks a new beginning of time, also it is said that the planet nibiru or planet x works its way back from its 3600 year old orbit back into our solar system which is suppose to be the great change the mayan predict in there calender……………LOOK UP NIBIRU,SUMERIAN ASTROLOGY,MAYAN ASTROLOGY AND ANNUNAKI ON GOOGLE
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By: oklatonola

oklatonola — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:14:59 +0000

The Mayan Aztec sun-stone calendar is circular. It doesn’t end, and the Mayans did not run out of stone. Please, I’ve been asking for months, show me how and where a circular calendar ends.

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4RNWE_enUS309US309&q=Mayan+Aztec+sunstone+calendar+images&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=zN_rScvwLYrIM5KcmNQF&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
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http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4RNWE_enUS309US309&q=Mayan+Aztec+sunstone+calendar+images&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=zN_rScvwLYrIM5KcmNQF&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title

By: Silent

Silent — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:27:59 +0000

The Mayan calendar ends in 2012 the way the calendar on your wall ends on December 31, 2009.

It’s not an end to the calendar; it’s just an end to this particular cycle. A new one will begin the next day, just like a new year on our calendar will begin on January 1, 2010.
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By: Curivity

Curivity — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:43:59 +0000

The Mayan Calender doesn't end on 2012. It enters a new cycle, just like we enter a new year.
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By: Juanita

Juanita — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:25:59 +0000

they ran out of huge stones
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trust me, im an archeologist

By: ?

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:57:59 +0000

it ended because the mayans think/predicted that the world will end in 2012, or the world is starting a new era/beginning
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