what is the Mayan Calendar?
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The Maya calendar is actually a system of distinct calendars and almanacs used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. These different calendars tracked observable phenomena such as the solar year, the lunar year, and the synodic period of the planet Venus; others had a divinatory or ritualistic purpose without any known association to natural cycles.\n\nThese calendars could be synchronised and interlocked in complex ways, their combinations giving rise to further, more extensive cycles.\n\nThe essentials of the Maya calendric system are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout the region, dating back to at least the 6th century BCE. It shares many aspects with calendars employed by other earlier Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Zapotec and Olmec, and contemporary or later ones such as the Mixtec and Aztec. Although the Mesoamerican calendar did not originate with the Maya, their subsequent extensions and refinements to it were the most sophisticated. Along with those of the Aztecs, the Maya calendars are the best-documented and most completely understood.\n\nBy the Maya mythological tradition, as documented in Colonial Yucatec accounts and reconstructed from Late Classic and Postclassic inscriptions, the deity Itzamna is frequently credited with bringing the knowledge of the calendar system to the ancestral Maya, along with writing in general and other foundational aspects of Maya culture.
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The Mayan Long Count calendar doesn't end in 2012. The 12th Baktun of the LC ends on 12-20-2012, making the first day of the 13th Baktun (13.00.00.00.00) 12-21-2012.  (A baktun is 396 years long).\nOn 12-21-2012, there is a grand astronomical alignment that only happens once every 26,000 years.  The sun comes up against the Milky Way, in the area the Mayan thought was the birth canal of the universe (and actually it's quite close to the center of the galaxy).  When the sun comes out the birth canal...it's being reborn.   It is reborn about every  6500 years but this one is the grand rebirth which starts the whole 26,000 year cycle anew.\nEveryone misunderstands and thinks that the world ENDS when the new age begins.  That is the exact opposite of what is going on. Energetically, this world already ended.  I have heard that it ended as long ago as 1987 or as recently as 1999, but it's definitely over.  We're living in an in-between time, waiting to see what will happen.\nRead "Maya Cosmogenesis 2012" by John Major Jenkins for a lot more on this subject. Read my 2012 article on my Jaguar Nights blog or my regular website for other information on that day.
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Here you go:):)\n\n* Canadian Museum of Civilization: Mystery of the Maya  Open this result in new window\n      Information about the Mayan civilization, culture, and the IMAX film, from a 1995 exhibit at the museum.\n      www.civilization.ca/civil/maya/mminteng.html\n    * Maya Astronomy Page, The Open this result in new window\n      Covers Mayan beliefs and their contributions to mathematics, calendar system, and writing, as well as astronomy.\n      www.michielb.nl/maya/astro.html\n    * Mundo Maya Open this result in new window\n      Online magazine presents articles about Mayan culture and arts.\n      www.mayadiscovery.com\n    * Maya Adventure - Science Museum of Minnesota Open this result in new window\n      Interactive exhibit that highlights science activities and information related to ancient and modern Maya culture.\n      www.smm.org/sln/ma\n    * Maya Civilization - Past and Present Open this result in new window\n      Covers culture, language and numbers; also has maps, links to other related sites, and suggestions on Maya-related curriculum for middle-school students.\n      www.kstrom.net/isk/maya/maya.html\n    * Ancient Mayan Directory by History Link 101 Open this result in new window\n      Categorized in five areas: art, daily life, maps, pictures, and research.\n      www.historylink101.com/1/mayan/ancient_mayan.htm\n    * Crystalinks.com: Mayan Indians Open this result in new window\n      Describes Mayan art and architecture, calendar, mythology, writing, and other cultural aspects.\n      www.crystalinks.com/mayan.html\n    * Mayan Mathematical System Open this result in new window\n      Describes how the Mayan mathematical system worked with pictures and examples.\n      www.cancunsteve.com/mayan.htm\n    * Civilizations in America: The Mayas Open this result in new window\n      History, economy, society, and religion of the Mayan civilization.\n      www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTM\n    * Maya Indian Open this result in new window\n      Information and resources on the Mayan Civilization.\n      www.mayaindian.com\n    * Mayas, The Open this result in new window\n      Includes folklore and history.\n      www.indians.org/welker/mayamenu.htm\n    * Mayan Epigraphic Database Project Open this result in new window\n      Consists of a relational database of glyphs ("gnumbers"), images, phonetic values ("pvalues"), and semantic values ("svalues"), and the beginning of an archive of digitally transcribed Mayan texts.\n      www.jefferson.village.virginia.edu/med\n    * Catholic Encyclopedia: Maya Indians Open this result in new window\n      Details the history and culture of the Maya civilization.\n      www.newadvent.org/cathen/10082b.htm\n    * Mayan Temple, The Open this result in new window\n      Links and information on the Mayan culture.\n      www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/maya.html\n    * Significance of Cuff Design of Mayan Lords Open this result in new window\n      www.fluffycat.com/maya/maya.html
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some of those civilizatrions sounded rather sophisticated yet brutal...  kinda like having two ball players play and killing the losers?  The Incas Aztecs and Mayans were descendents of people who spead out from Babel after the flood\n\ninterestingly the Mayan Calender goes back to roughly 56 years shorter than the 4004BC calender of Bishop Ussher. Sounds familiar... why might that be  having Calienders dating to the Bbilical creation on the other side of the world almost as if people spread out from Babel at one time after the flood.
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Actually, it is the Maya calendar that is going to "roll over" to the next digit on 2012.  The Aztecs did not use this particular calendar.\n\nWe have absolutely no hard data on what the Maya believed might happen on this date.  What we do know is that some of their sacred texts project / prophecize events long into the future (AFTER 2012).  So we can be sure they did not feel this would be the end of everything.\n\nThe ancient Maya were very interested in cycles.  What came before may indicate what will happen in the future.  Therefore, keeping close track of time was important to their world view.  The change in 2012 is actually like their "millenium" event that we experienced in our year 2000.  As a technological society, there were many who worried about the Y2K apocalypse.  The ancient Maya would have surely celebrated / recognized / worried about / or otherwise noted this momentous change in their calendar.  But I don't believe that they would have claimed it was the end of the world.\n\nIf you are into crystals, astrology, or other new age phenomena, you may find plenty of info on the web regarding 2012.  But don't believe for a second that it is rooted in our true knowledge of ancient Maya prophecies.  The truth is we simply do not know what the ancient Maya believed would happen.  In fact, in this case, negative evidence is important.  If they really believed the world would end at the turning of their calendar, don't you think that there would have been some note of it in their ancient monuments or the prophetic books of Chilam Balam?\n\nAnd to answer your question directly.  No, I don't think the world is going to end.
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I believe it's predicted by the Mayan calendar in December of 2012 the world will end.  Hopefully it won't though.  *crosses fingers*
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http://www.new-year.co.uk/chinese/calendar.htm
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The Mayan calendar does not predict the end of the world on Dec 12th 2012. \nThe exact date of the end of the current Mayan Long Count is still a matter of debate amongst Mayan scholars, although it is likely to be around Dec 21 2012. \nThe Mayan calendar is cyclical, and there are names for cycles longer than 13 bactuns of the Long Count which are coming to an end in 2012. \nEven if the Mayans did believe that the world would come to an end at the end of the Long Count, there is no reason to assume that they have any special knowledge which would allow them to make this prediction correctly. You are free to believe the Sun won't come up tomorrow, but it will anyway.... \n\n\nThe fact that the winter solstice on 2012 is "aligned" with the plane of the Galaxy has no significance. \nIt takes the winter solstice 700-1400 years to cross the plane of the Galaxy. \nThe solstice last year (2005) was within 0.1 degrees (or 1/5th the size of the Sun) of where it will be on 2012. \nThe Sun crosses the plane of the Milky Way twice every year with no ill effect.
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http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTM\nhttp://history.enotes.com/early-civilization-almanac/aztec-government-economy\nhttp://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/INCAS.HTM
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According to Maya calendar it's 23/12/2012 :)   Sorry , can't remember any closer dates.
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calender was roman.  zodiac was astrologers from Nostradamus times 360 degrees I have no idea
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Your question makes NO sense.  What is a "thirtd"?  You've also picked seemingly random long count dates and not explained why you chose them and no others (yes, you have them in seasons, but with huge gaps...?)\nI'm going to guess here.\n13 was a sacred number to the Maya, therefore the start of the 13th Baktun was a big deal for them.\nAlso what's going on in 2012 on the winter solstice is an astronomical alignment which only happens every 26,000 years and signifies the birth of a new sun/new world age.  These do happen in quarters, although not the ones you've chosen, and the winter one is the "grand" one which starts the cycle anew.
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The predictions of the Mayan Calendar have been accurate, and the changes predicted are already happening if you know what you look for. The end of the Mayan Calendar is not the end of the world but the end up an age and a birth into a new one. It's the crumbling of old forms and institutions, replaced by more egalitarian ones..the weakening of the dominance of the West and the left brain/masculine, and the strengthening of the East, the right brain and the "feminine"... it's also the birth of a more spiritually attuned age. The signs of this shift are everywhere, but certain people are focused more on what is going wrong.
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I'm quite sure the last day of the Mayan calender is December 21, 2012.  This is the date of the alien invasion in X-Files canon.  You can find out more information by going to wikipedia.org and doing a search for '2012'.  However, it is more likely than not that the calendar 'ends' because this just happened to be the end of one of their large cycles, and not because they really thought the world was going to end at this time.
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Actually, that's pretty easy.  They are both "Mesoamerican" civilizations.  The term "Mesoamerica" was formalized by a scholar named Paul Kirchoff.  He outlined a trait list of items that various cultures within Mesoamerica had in common.  Any of Kirchoff's traits should apply to either the Maya or Aztec cultures.\n\nSee the links listed below:
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Okay, I just have to wonder, seriously, what's the difference now?  Calendars are simply tools for humans to measure our man-made construct of time.  In reality, there is no time.
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EarthCalendar\nhttp://www.earthcalendar.net