Any scientific/historic  truth about the AZTEC calendar that ends 2012?
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It's the Mayan calendar, not the Aztec. And it doesn't end. It simply POINTS very strongly at a certain day: Dec 21, 2012. That day in the Long Count (the name of that particular calendar) is 13.00.00.00.00. The next day is \n13.00.00.00.01. No endings.\nWhat happens on that day is simply this: it's a grand astronomical alignment that takes 26,000 years to repeat (due to precession of the equinoxes). On that morning, which is the winter solstice, the sun rises against the background of the Milky Way, in particular a dark area toward its center. The Maya thought that dark spot was the birth canal of the universe. (Actually it's very close to the center of our galaxy). So what happens when the sun comes out a birth canal? It's REBORN. That's what it's about. Not endings. This world is already dead and we're in the birth pangs of that new world coming in.\nRead Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 by John Major Jenkins for more on this subject.
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New agers and doom-sayers have lacthed on to this year as "the end of the world" because it is the roll-over year of the Mayan long-count calender.  Think about how your car's odometer works.  Yoiu hit 100,000 miles and it rolls over to zero.  Why did it roll over to zero?  Did the old car end, and anew car begin?  No.  All that happened is that you ran out of  numbers to count how many miles your car has driven, and thus you rolled-over and had to start counting with zero again.\n\nThis is exactly what happens to the Mayan calender in 2012, it runs out of numbers to count the days and must start over.  As far as some of the nuttier theories out there the Mayan's had no concept of a "black hole," allignments of the visible planets happen on almost 200 year cycles, Nostrdamus never gave any dates for his rantings, and the aliens don't have a magic clock.  The Mayans were facinated by the planet Venus on the othe hand and the cycles of Venus are partially what they based several of their calenders off of.
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All I know is that the Mayan calender ends in 2012, same as the Bible matrix claims the Earth will end in a fiery blast.
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The story about the world ending in 2012 came about because the Mayan calendar ended on 2012.  But there wasn't any true significance behind their choice of ending it on 2012 as far as we can tell--they simply ran out of room when they were carving it.\n\nIn the Bible it basically says that no one will know when the end of the world will be.  And really, would you even want to know?  We should really be living EVERY day as if it were our last.  Tell your crush you like him/her, call up an old friend, say something nice to your neighbor, go see that movie you've been dying to watch--do all the things you would do if you knew today was going to be your last day on Earth.\n\nBecause it very well could be.
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No because that's when we changed to the Gregorian calender. As previous measurements of time didn't allow for the fact that there are 365 and 1/4 days in a year plus 11 minutes, dates were becoming out of synchronization. Thus in 1582 the system adopted by Pope Gregory XIII was made law in Britain and it's colonies and is now in worldwide use. This meant 'jumping' from 5th October to 14th October to make up for the discrepancy and caused the 'Missing 9 Days' riots as people thought that they would die nine days sooner than they would have done if the calender had not been amended. This is why no-one was born between those dates as they did not exist.
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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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Some say that the world will end on that year and in my opinion I say yes,why because I know,that and it says so in the Mayan calendar.I know,it's stupid and all but the Mayan were really advanced and most of things they predicted came true.So why not this?
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Timeline\n 1100  Aztecs left homeland in search of new home.\n 1195  Aztecs arrived in Valley of Mexico.\n   \n 1250  Aztecs settled near Lake Texcoco.\n   \n 1325  Tenochtitlan was founded. First temple built by Aztecs.\n 1350  Causeways built with canals.\n 1370 Tenoch, Aztec Priest-Ruler, died.\nAztecs ruled by Tepanecs.\n 1375  Acamapichtli becomes first ruler of Aztecs.\n   \n 1400 Tepanecs were defeated.\nAztecs expand and rule whole valley.\n 1428 Aztecs joined forces with Texcoco & Tlacopan formed Triple Alliance. Atzcapotzalco conquered.\n 1440  Moctezuma started rule.\n 1452  Tenochtitlan destroyed by flood. 1452-4 Famine.\n 1458  Moctezuma sent armies to conquer lands.\n 1469  Moctezuma I died.\n 1486  Ahuizotu became ruler.\n 1487 Great Temple at Tenochtitlan dedicated.\nAztecs expanded southward into Mayan territories.\n   \n 1502  Moctezuma II became ruler. Aztec Empire at height.\n 1519  Cortez comes to Mexico. Moctezuma II killed.\n 1520  Cuitlahuac elected ruler.\n 1521  Tenochtitlan destroyed.\n 1522 Tenochtitlan rebuilt, named Mexico City. Declared capital of Spanish colony of New Spain.\n\nOR\n\nTimeline for the Aztec Empire\n  Author:  * Xolotl  Huascar -  6 Posts  on this thread out of  309 Posts  sitewide.\nDate: Dec 13, 2003 - 08:45\n\nTimeline 1100 Aztecs left homeland in search of new home.\n1195 Aztecs arrived in Valley of Mexico.\n\n1250 Aztecs settled near Lake Texcoco.\n\n1325 Tenochtitlan was founded. First temple built by Aztecs.\n1350 Causeways built with canals.\n1370 Tenoch, Aztec Priest-Ruler, died.\nAztecs ruled by Tepanecs.\n1375 Acamapichtli becomes first ruler of Aztecs.\n\n1400 Tepanecs were defeated.\nAztecs expand and rule whole valley.\n1428 Aztecs joined forces with Texcoco & Tlacopan formed Triple Alliance. Atzcapotzalco conquered.\n1440 Moctezuma started rule.\n1452 Tenochtitlan destroyed by flood. 1452-4 Famine.\n1458 Moctezuma sent armies to conquer lands.\n1469 Moctezuma I died.\n1486 Ahuizotu became ruler.\n1487 Great Temple at Tenochtitlan dedicated.\nAztecs expanded southward into Mayan territories.\n\n1502 Moctezuma II became ruler. Aztec Empire at height.\n1519 Cortez comes to Mexico. Moctezuma II killed.\n1520 Cuitlahuac elected ruler.\n1521 Tenochtitlan destroyed.\n1522 Tenochtitlan rebuilt, named Mexico City. Declared capital of Spanish colony of New Spain.
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I know that most other people who answered this question have no clue what they are talking about.\nThere is not just one "Mayan calendar" there are many.  When all the calendars are used together (like we may follow the regular calendar and also a religious calendar), they are very accurate and can predict eclipses and plantary cycles.\nMy favorite is the 260 sacred/ritual calendar, but when people post on here about the "Mayan calendar" they mean the Long Count.  There isn't anything mystical about it. It's basically an odometer of days, except that it goes to 20 in each place instead of 10 (well, one only goes to 18, just to be confusing). Today is 12.19.13.14.5 on that time meter.\nThe big thing everyone is talking about is the so-called end date.  I don't understand the hype.  Time doesn't end and calendars don't end.  What is happening is, on 12-21-2012, the long count date will be 13.00.00.00.00 (pretty cool, like our calendar going from 1999 to 2000).  Yes, 13 was a sacred number to the Maya and yes, the date would have been significant to them.  BUT that column of the "odometer" goes to 20, and even then another column can be addded.\nThere is no "prediction" inherent in a column of numbers, except how many days away a certain number combination is.\nThere IS something going on that day,however.  There's a grand astronomical alignment between the sun and the milky way at dawn which to the Maya would have signified rebirth of the sun and the dawning of a new age.  As usual that has been twisted around by the ignorant fear-mongers to mean our world is ending in a cataclysm on that date.  It's an ENERGETIC rebirth,  not a phsyical one and we don't have to die in fire to have a new beginning.\n--the spell checker isn't working, sorry for any errors
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The original celebration can be traced to many Mesoamerican native traditions, such as the festivities held during the Aztec month of Miccailhuitontli, ritually presided by the "Lady of the Dead" (Mictecacihuatl), and dedicated to children and the dead. In the Aztec calendar, this ritual fell roughly at the end of the Gregorian month of July and the beginning of August, but in the postconquest era it was moved by Spanish priests so that it coincided with the Christian holiday of All Hallows Eve (in Spanish: "Día de Todos Santos.") This was a vain effort to transform the observance from a profane to a Christian celebration. The result is that Mexicans now celebrate the day of the dead during the first two days of November, rather than at the beginning of summer. But remember the dead they still do, and the modern festivity is characterized by the traditional Mexican blend of ancient aboriginal and introduced Christian features.
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HI ..August 3 2006...The final one!;) ...\nKind regards!:) ...
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The Mayan "long count" calender turns-over in 2012.  This has far more to do with their counting system and way of writing dates than with any particular "forcast of doom."\n\nThink about it this way: You hit 100,000 miles on your car's odometer.  It rolls over and starts at "0" again.  Did you old car come to an end, only to be replaced by a new car, or did you just run out of digits in the system that measures how far you have traveled?  The Mayan long count calender starts over in 2012 for the same reason.
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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 believe that it was proven that the meso american societies of the aztecs, incas, or mayans used a numerical system with a  zero. You may want to check wikipedia
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See what ignorance religion inspires!  Maybe intelligent design will be taught in school that day.  The days of the calendar are meaningless.  6000 years ago, the Egyptians used a 360 day calendar.  The Romans used a calender with months having 29 or 31 days because they were superstitious!!! LOL  Cesar came along and changed the calendar again.  (Julian Calendar).  Then in the 1500's they realized that Cesar screwed up the year so much that it needed fixing.  So now we use the Gregorian calendar.  Either way, you can't equate 6/6/06 to any historical occurrence of equal opposite happening to Jesus's birth.  the fact that we celebrate 12/25/xx is ludicrous.  Plus, there is no calendar year zero.  It jumps from 1 BC to 1 AD.
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The Mayan calendar is like an odometer in a car.  When the odometer hits 100,000 miles it "turns over" and starts again at 00000.  The car does not self-destruct, the odometer simply starts over again at zero.  That is what will happen on 21 Dec 2012.  The odometer will turn over and the Mayan long count will start over at zero.  Nothing will happen.  The Maya believed that the long count had turned over several times in the past.  Indeed, this is the 12th "long day" as I recall, and the 13th "long day" will begin on 21 Dec 2012.\n\nNote to previous poster:  No, it is the Mayan calendar NOT the Aztec calendar.  The Aztecs were a relatively "primitive" people compared to the Mayans where astronomy and mathematics are concerned.  They had no calendar.\n\nNote to later poster:  That "predicting Cortes" thing is just myth.  The Maya did no such thing.
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Can I shed some light here? First off, the bible says no man shall know the hour nor the day, behold I come like a thief in the night......Okay, that doesn't mean there aren't going to be any old ancient clues laying around for us to find a NEAR time-frame.\n \nThe Aztec calendar ends abruptly in 2012\n\nThe recorded time-line in the Grand Gallery of the Great pyramid stops at 2013 I believe\n\nCatholic prophecy has only one more pope after the current one.\n\nSo these are all OLD prophetic signs to use as clue. as old as, or much older than the Bible. I don't know where 1984 came from. 2000 was a misinterpretation from the Bible, a verse about lasting a thousand years but not thousands, so midnight 1999 had to be a deadline.