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Ancient Text Confirms Mayan Calendar End Date
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Posted on 06/28/2012 4:34:15 PM PDT by Perdogg
A newly discovered Mayan text reveals the "end date" for the Mayan calendar, becoming only the second known document to do so. But unlike some modern people, ancient Maya did not expect the world to end on that date, researchers said.
"This text talks about ancient political history rather than prophecy," Marcello Canuto, the director of Tulane University Middle America Research Institute, said in a statement. "This new evidence suggests that the 13 bak'tun date was an important calendrical event that would have been celebrated by the ancient Maya; however, they make no apocalyptic prophecies whatsoever regarding the date."
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: archaeoastronomy; catastrophism; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; megaliths
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posted on
06/28/2012 4:34:24 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
To: Perdogg
So I’ll have to wash my underwear?
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posted on
06/28/2012 4:44:34 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Perdogg
It started today, a little early, but too many people don’t see it. And, hey, the Mayans could be off 6 months in a 600 year prediction.
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posted on
06/28/2012 4:44:34 PM PDT
by
Terry Mross
( To all my kin: Do not attempt to contact me as long as you love obama.)
To: Perdogg
"This new evidence suggests that the 13 bak'tun date was an important calendrical event that would have been celebrated by the ancient Maya; however, they make no apocalyptic prophecies whatsoever regarding the date."
If the car didn't erupt into a fireball when you rolled over 120,000 miles, it's probably not going to do so when you hit 130,000. The next bak'tun takes us to long count 13.0.0.0.0.
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posted on
06/28/2012 4:46:53 PM PDT
by
Renderofveils
(My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
To: cripplecreek
If you are over 50, you aren't required to wear underwear. Ubi sub ubi doesn't apply.
After 80... you don't even have to wear pants. ;)
Until then, Semper Braccae.
/johnny
To: cripplecreek
I thought I’d be able to max out my Discover Card. Guess not.
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posted on
06/28/2012 4:51:54 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: Perdogg
It ended because they ran out of room and had to start over.
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posted on
06/28/2012 5:03:54 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
To: Perdogg
To: Perdogg
Did the Mayans observe leap years?
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posted on
06/28/2012 5:13:52 PM PDT
by
SunStar
(Democrats piss me off!)
To: SkyDancer
Or the calendar maker died
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posted on
06/28/2012 5:33:54 PM PDT
by
Average Al
(Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
To: SunStar
No - the mayan’s did not consider leap years. Their calendar already ended - in July 2010 IIRC.
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posted on
06/28/2012 5:41:21 PM PDT
by
21twelve
;') [singing] two thousand uno du'os party over says the lights of heaven /
tonight i'm gonna party like it's two thousand eleven
![December 20, 2012](http://i6.tinypic.com/87apfr4.png)
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posted on
06/28/2012 6:36:02 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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06/28/2012 6:36:33 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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06/28/2012 6:36:34 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/28/2012 6:36:42 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: cripplecreek
So Ill have to wash my underwear?Why start now?
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posted on
06/28/2012 6:46:06 PM PDT
by
roamer_1
(Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
To: SunStar; 21twelve
The modern sidereal year is something like 365.242198 days long (that’s what it was when i was in high school, it may have been refined a bit more since).
The Mayan calendar was a bunch of calendars all running concurrently (they kept track of the lunar cycles, the Venus cycle, etc), but their solar calendar was 365 days long, no account being made for the fractional day. The five days added to the 360 day calendar weren’t assigned to a specific month; analogously, the Egyptians later added five days to their 360-day solar calendar, which had exactly 12 months of 30 days each.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar#Long_Count
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posted on
06/28/2012 6:51:02 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
My brother sincerely believe in the Mayan Calendar and every time I call him, he reminds me that the Great Change is coming on Dec 21st this year.
I keep telling him that while I'm very fond of mysteries to stop spoiling the suspense.
(BTW....no Chrismas present for him this year.)
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posted on
06/28/2012 7:04:24 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
To: shibumi
“They ran out of room on the rock” ping.
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posted on
06/28/2012 9:43:08 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name.)
To: Salamander
With or without an apocalyptic event the world will, at this pace, be totally unrecognizable by the end of the year anyway.
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posted on
06/28/2012 10:13:13 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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