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Originally Posted by Robert Cawthon
The Mayan calander? Just because it ends, (resets?) doesn't mean the end of the world, just time to change calanders. Ours ends every year (duh!) and it doesn't signal the end of the world. Just the end of the calander. On the other hand, I plan to have three days of parties (one before, the day of, and the day after) just because. Why not?  |
That depends, though. It's not just the end of the calendar, but rather the end of a cycle of the Earth. December 21, 2012 is the first day of the 14th b'ak'tun (13.0.0.0.0). Most Mayan records simply do mention it as essentially the turn to a new calendar and/or a massive new year's type celebration.
However, according to some records, some Mayans believed that we were living in the "fourth world," and each of the previous three had ended at the first day of their 14th b'ak'tun. One monument refers to (though partially destroyed) "black[ness] will occur" at the end of the thirteenth b'ak'tun and makes references to a Mayan god generally accepted to be associated with war and the underworld.