New Mayan calendar found.

does that mean we have to my christmas gifts this year?

But the bad thing is, people will subconciously still rush the grocery stores. And the people who use every excuse to party will fill the grocery stores.

(Reuters) - If you are worried the world will end next year based on the Mayan calendar, relax: the end of time is still far off.

So say Mayan experts who want to dispel any belief that the ancient Mayans predicted a world apocalypse next year.

The Mayan calendar marks the end of a 5,126 year old cycle around December 21, 2012, which should bring the return of Bolon Yokte, a Mayan god associated with war and creation.

Author Jose Arguelles called the date "the ending of time as we know it" in a 1987 book that spawned an army of Mayan theorists, whose speculations on a cataclysmic end abound online. But specialists meeting at this ancient Mayan city in southern Mexico say it merely marks the termination of one period of creation and the beginning of another.

"We have to be clear about this. There is no prophecy for 2012," said Erik Velasquez, an etchings specialist at the the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). "It's a marketing fallacy."

The National Institute of Anthropological History in Mexico has been trying to quell the barrage of forecasters predicting the apocalypse. "The West's messianic thinking has distorted the world view of ancient civilizations like the Mayans," the institute said in a statement.

In the Mayan calendar, the long calendar count begins in 3,114 BC and is divided into roughly 394-year periods called Baktuns. Mayans held the number 13 sacred and the 13th Baktun ends next year.

Sven Gronemeyer, a researcher of Mayan codes from La Trobe University in Australia, who has been trying to decode the calendar, said the so-called end day reflects a transition from one era to the next in which Bolon Yokte returns.

"Because Bolon Yokte was already present at the day of creation ... it just seemed natural for the Mayan that Bolon Yokte will again be present," he said.

Of the the approximately 15,000 registered glyphic texts found in different parts of what was then the Mayan empire, only two mention 2012, the Institute said.

"The Maya did not think about humanity, global warming or predict the poles would fuse together," said Alfonso Ladena, a professor from the Complutense University of Madrid. "We project our worries on them."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/0...1T20111208

Hmmm... this all seems very convenient. Fortuitous timing for our leaders who wouldn't want the sheep to get any more agitated.

If I had any concerns about the world ending I would have more now.

I would be more concerned about CME`s which are on the increase by the end of the year into next year

I have often wondered whether, when a massive CME strikes, the part of the world that is in darkness at the time would survive.

It will probably knock out the power grids world wide.

That will result in mass deaths, from rioting, lack of food and water

Our sun gives off CME's all the time, it's not a catastrophic event unless you're a satellite or sometimes a power grid.  Which means a lot of old people will die, depressing and sad but about par for seasonal flu epidemics.

It sounds far more dramatic than it is.  Even the TV programs that hype the living bejeezus out of these things readily admit that the hype is just for ratings.

This post was last modified: 05-12-2012 08:52 AM by Lang.

I can't tell you how many "end of the world" dates I've seen come and go over the past 51 years!  I'm confident that we'll still be here when this current one ticks over, as well.
Alison

Interesting thought on another forum: This newly found calendar is actually older then the (shorter) calendars foud earlier. Why would the Mayans make newer calendars end earlier? Did they see something coming?

My take: The calendars found earlier stopped at the point where a certain celestial aligment occured. They simply stopped there because it was a convienent moment. The moment of januari 1st, 0 AD was also chosen arbitrarily, after all.

All I can say is that my calendar says the world will end on December 31, 2012. That's ten extra days.

Massive CME`s (which we havent seen lately) will completetly destroy the US antiquated power grids. As well as most of the worlds power grids.

This is what I say will happen, perhaps within the next year

Massive CME`s can also completely blow away our atmosphere, look at Mars.

As far as the Mayan calender goes, all they have said will happen at that time is that the gods will return. And believe me that is something you dont wish to see in your lifetime either.

People have been predicting the end of days, since the start of days. And have not been right once yet.

Load of bollocks if you ask me.

Well, the dinosaurs had their end of days

It doesnt have to be the end of Homo Sapiens, for there to be a worldwide calamity.

Then again with over 7 billion people alive, the herd could do with a little thinning