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What exactly is the mayan prophecy?

I understand something about the world ending but how did this prophecy come about.. and is there anything more to it? or is it simply a prediction that the world will end?

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1. The Myans had a calendar that was supposed to predict the future. The calendar has dates on it up until December 21st 2012. and that's why people think that they predicted the end of time.

2. The Mayans have no prophecy. Their calendar just ends, like how you have to go buy a new calendar every year. The Mayans made a calendar that was pretty accurate and extended thousands of years into the future. They ended the cycle in 2012 because they believed that the Sun blocking access to the center of the milky way was a "sign." They were actually off on the year that the Sun perfectly eclipses the center of the milky way galaxy by a few years as it already happened.

This calendar is one of many that the mayans had and it follows a cycle just like all the others. When this cycle ends in 2012 a new one would have begun had the mayans been around to need one.

3. Its nothing of a prediction or anything actually.
You see, the mayans had a calendar which happened to end at 2012. This has led to many theories whose main point is that the mayans knew that the world was going to end 2012 and that they said something like "Heck, why on earth should we count something that doesn't exist?"
And that's it! The mayans never said that the world was going to end and they never will (due to understandable reasons). So yes, you can go watch 2012 without feeling scared.
At least that's my point of view.

4. did anyone ever think that maybe they just ran out of room to write? lol.

5. The world will not end on 12-21-2012, at least not according to the Maya, who knew about as much about our planet's future demise as Gordon-Michael Scallion, St. Malachy, Edgar Cayce, Zecharia Sitchin,or Nostradamus, namely, nothing. The Maya had zero, zilch, nada, mix bá'al to say about the hoax planet Nibiru or the end of the world.

Mayan urban culture, known as the Classic Period, flourished from about 300 A.D. until around 900 A.D. in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and parts of Central America. During this period the Maya built temples and monuments, created numerous works of art and writings, continued their astronomical observations, and built a network of cities. These cities lay buried under jungle growth for centuries. One of the important discoveries from these ruins is that the Maya had several calendars. One is known as the Long Count calendar, which is reset to day 0 every 1,872,000 days, a period known as The Great Circle (Diamond 2005: 167). The next reset date, by some calculations, is December 21, 2012. Obviously, this calendar is of no interest to the Maya any longer, since their civilization collapsed over a thousand years ago. (Though there are people today who are the descendants of the Maya and the culture lives on through them.*) Nevertheless, this date is of enormous interest to certain doomsday prophets and New Age astrologers, such as John Calleman, who are spreading the good news either that the Maya knew the date when the world would end or they knew the date when a New Age of Transformation would begin.* (The Mayan glyphs and hieroglyphs aren't crystal clear about what the calendar means.) Too bad they couldn't predict their own collapse. The famous Maya Long Count calendar begins on August 11, 3114 B.C.--just as our own calendar begins on January 1 of the first year of the Christian era....Presumably, the Maya...attached some significance to their own day zero, but we don't know what it was. (Diamond 2005: 167) There was no writing in the New World until 2,500 years after the Mayan year zero but there is evidence of agriculture in Mesoamerica from about the time of day zero on the Mayan calendar. This could be just a coincidence, since the areas where agriculture first emerged were not the areas where the Maya would eventually build their cities.

The Mayan Long Count calendar is based on a complex system of units ranging from days (kin) to 144,000 days (baktun).

Whatever virtues the Classic Mayan culture might have had, predicting the future seems an unlikely one. This fact has not stopped some very bizarre speculation about Mayan astronomy. The speculators should ask themselves: what is the likelihood that a civilization that couldn't use its vast knowledge to save itself from self-destruction was concerned with predicting what would happen in a future millennium? The Mayan leaders couldn't see far enough into the future to plan for and solve the human problems they faced: too many people on too little land, destruction of their own environment, farming techniques and deforestation that depleted soil nutrients, droughts (partly brought on by their deforestation programs), and so on. Why should we think the Mayan prophets would be any better at seeing the distant future than the Hebrew prophets or Nostradamus?

6. There is no "prophecy" as such, it is simply a calender ending.

7. The Maya calenders ran in cycles. This cycle will end on 12/21/12. Nothing will happen. This also coincides with a rare planetary alignment. (happens once every 26000 years) Nothing happened 26000 years ago or before that.

The Maya cycle says the world " as we know it" will end. That could mean lots of things.

8. No such prophecy exists, it's all just a lot of hype by the doomsayers who had nothing to do once their Y2K doomsday scenario proved to be such a bust.

9. First there is no Mayan prophecy about the world ending on any given date it's just a lie. The calender many speak of is just one of many the Mayans used in every day life, i'll explain the calender a little if i may. The Long Count calendar identifies a date by counting the number of days from a starting date that is generally calculated to be August 11, 3114 BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar or September 6 in the Julian calendar,

Rather than using a base-10 scheme, like Western numbering, the Long Count days were tallied in a base-20 and base-18 scheme. Thus 0.0.0.1.5 is equal to 25, and 0.0.0.2.0 is equal to 40. The Long Count is not consistently base-20, however, since the second digit from the right rolls over to zero when it reaches 18. Thus 0.0.1.0.0 does not represent 400 days, but rather only 360 days. The previous creation ended on a long count of 12.19.19.17.19. Another 12.19.19.17.19 will occur on December 20, 2012, followed by the start of the fourteenth b'ak'tun, 13.0.0.0.0, on December 21, 2012. There is only one reference to the current creation's 13th b'ak'tun in the fragmentary Mayan corpus: Tortuguero Monument 6, part of a ruler's inscription.

Despite the publicity generated by the 2012 date, There is no record or knowledge that the Maya would think the world would come to an end in 2012. to the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle.So to render December 21, 2012, as a doomsday event or moment of cosmic shifting, is a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in on it,


If anyone that does claim that the Mayans did make such a prophecy, please i would like to know, on, in, or around which Temple or Structure would this be found. i know as fact that it is not on the calender, or in any of the four codex that are in existence, and would be very interested to know where this information came from.