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What is your views on 12-21-12 ? The Mayan prediction of time ending?

@Big deal, you might say. Still, there's a couple of very interesting (and disturbing) facts about the Maya calendar's end. Most intriguing, 21-12-2012 is not a day like any other. Up in the sky, an extraordinary and incredibly rare event will take place. The Sun will move to a unique spot in the sky -- and hold still for a while, since it is solstice day. The Sun will sit precisely on the heavenly crossroads between the Milky Way and the galactic equinox, forming a perfect alignment with the center of the galaxy.
You can say a lot about the Maya, but you've got to hand it to them: they knew a hell of a lot about stars. For instance, they calculated the exact duration of a year to a thousandth of a decimal point, much more precise than any Greek or enlightened philosopher ever did. Also, they were able to predict every solar and lunar eclipse until this day. And obviously, they knew where the galactic equinox and the exact middle of the Milky Way lay: they called this crossing `the Sacred Tree'.

If they had the knowledge to make the other calculations, they may be right about the prophecy also. What do you think?

Taken off that great fountain of wisdom, the internet
@ Just interested in what others think of this.
@ faesson-Your reading and comprehension skills leave a lot to be desired. I clearly stated the information was taken off the internet.I also clearly stated I was merely interested in what others thought.

Public Comments

1. The mayans also believed the sun was carried by a giant monkey god.

I don't buy it.

2. The Mayans calender does not predict the end of time. It ends on on what we believe to be Dec 12, 2011 and that is about it. People have continually predicted the end of the world for centuries, but all dates have come and gone with no end to civilization. People love to cause panic or just stir up people emotions. We all remember Y2K when planes were going to fall from the sky.

3. It is NOT a Mayan prediction.

It is a recent "prediction", invented to improve the Big 2012 Hoax.

It began with José claiming, in 1972, to be a reincarnated Mayan god (he is not - he was born in Minnesota).

The same José then invented the lie (in the late 1980s) about the end of the Mayan calendar. This greatly surprised the real Mayans who had already used their calendar to talk about dates that come well after our year 4000. Obviously, real Mayans expected neither the world nor their calendar to end so soon.

The Sun will NOT align with the Galactic centre. That is simply impossible. At best, the Sun passes roughly 5.5 degrees from the Galactic centre EVER YEAR, around December 21. Because of the precession, there is a year where the approach is the closest (still more than 5.5 degrees)... and that was a little over ten years ago.

The Mayans did calculate the year to some great precision, but NOT with more precision than the Greek or even the Egyptians (who were the masters in that respect).

Plus the Greeks and the Egyptians did it more than a thousand years BEFORE the Mayans did it.

If you use the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar (the one that supposedly ends according to the lie by José), then you will find that they counted the precession cycle as 25,626.8 years (compared to the real cycle of 25,800 years), which is just about as accurate as the Greek had found a thousand years before them. Mind you, that is still quite a good figure for people practicing astronomy without telescopes.

--"...they may be right about the prophecy also."

Since they did NOT make the prophecy, then the rest of your discussion becomes moot.

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The claims about the superior accuracy of the Mayan calendar is itself a lie, invented to support the other lies, invented to support the Big 2012 Hoax.

Also, there is no such thing as a "Galactic equinox"... except in hoaxes, of course.

4. the solar alignment with the galaxies is nonsense

we are always someplace and everything moves according to gravitation and the laws of motion no mater what coincidence is occurring

they were great mathematicians as were most cultures that had nothing to do but study the sky to "appease the gods" and use the information for seasonal needs
Stone henge and other stone age formations were similar calenders

why is it so exact. it is like asking why do the hands of a clock point to 12 at Noon. that is the way they are built

5. Your so called perfect alignment is 5.9 to 6.1 degrees off of true alignment. That's the width of 9 to 12 full Moons. That is not a mathematical alignment. Furthermore, it happens at every single winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, so it is not a unique event at all. The Mayan calendar is circular; it does not end. Here's a picture of one:

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/thisdayintech/2010/12/aztec_sun_stone_500x.jpg

6. its all bs,the calender just ends...there is no prediction.
the only thing that has come from this hoax is the 2012 movie which was terrible.

so many doomsday predictions have come and gone so i wouldn't believe this one either and the most legitimate doomsday prediction i have heard is how our sun will exhaust itself and expand to wipe us all out...now that i can believe but that wont be for billions of years.

7. The Mayan DID NOT predict Time Ending. Just that their Long Count Calender ends on that date.

It stars over the next day.


Read this: http://www.2012hoax.org/

8. +Unfortuantely, the 2012 hoax has shaken up a lot of people unnecessarily. The driving force behind this hoax is primairly people who are looking to make a profit, looking to make themselves well-known or both. There is no scientific (or theological) evidence that points to a great catastrophe in 2012. Don't be a victim of the hype. Hit the link below and hear an answer from an astrophysicist.
Source(s):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJjQMwEjC1I&NR=1

9. I am Christian so I believe there will be an end and the end will not be able to be predicted. I just have to be ready. That aside the mathematics are interesting. I heard we could get hit by an exploding star and by the time we discover it; it will be too late. Also I heard that we have a fire brewing inside our earth ready to cause our demise. I was never really good at the pattern sequence problems on IQ tests. I only like the mathematics of quantum physics. I just like to balance the equation. I used to hang with a rocket scientist. He took offense when I told him the phallic projectiles were never getting into deep space. I know I am right.

10. Trouble is...

The Mayans didn't say anything like that.

They never predicted the "end of the world".

Their calendar doesn't "end".

There is nothing unique about the Sun crossing the galactic plane during Solstice.

The point that the Sun crosses in 2012 is FARTHER AWAY from the center of the Milky Way than the crossing point in 2011 and farther still from 2010, 2009, etc, back to 1998.

Predicting a Lunar eclipse only seems "magical" to bumpkins.

"If they had the knowledge to make the other calculations, they may be right about the prophecy also."

Yes, and maybe they could fly, too. Seeing the future is impossible, while predicting an eclipse is not.

http://www.2012hoax.org

Just who are you trying to scare?

11. Total hoax. There is no Maya prediction of time ending, at least not contained in any archaeological find or within their oral history. It's a whole cloth modern invention perpetrated by an American who claims to be a reincarnated Mayan god. Their Haab calendar was a flat 365 days with no leap year; that is notably less precise than 'the thousandth decimal place'. They thought the world was flat. There is no evidence that they used the Milky Way as any kind of reference point or held it to be significant.

The event you describe is ALSO a total hoax, as the 'point in the sky' is ENTIRELY arbitrary. There is no readily definable 'galactic equinox' because there's no single point readily definable as an equator (and if you'll settle for a FUZZY one, the "alignment" was a damned sight closer in 1998 than it will be in 2012).

Whoever you got this from is just spouting pseudoscience bafflegab and hoping everyone is too stupid to understand it.