Posted on 10/13/2009 10:49:09 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun is so over with being asked about the end of the world, "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff." But it doesn't look as though the frantic anxiety about the Mayan calendar ending in 2012 is going to let up anytime soon. With a blockbuster film entitled 2012 on the way and new websites being dedicated to the impending apocalypse every day, now, more than ever, the idea seems to be gaining momentum.
But Chile Pixtun says the doomsday theories actually have their genesis in Western and not Mayan ideas. Pixtun says that although 2012 does mark the end of a significant time period for the Mayas and there are a series of astronomical alignments that coincide in 2012 (including one that happens only once every 25,800 years) it does not mean that the Mayan believed the world would end on this date. End of days and apocalyptic ideas are mostly grounded in Western and Christian theories, while the Mayans believe in a more cyclical aspect of time.
So where did all this hysteria begin? With Monument Six. Found in the 1960s, Monument Six is a stone tablet which is almost undecipherable but contains an inscription indicating that some sort of larg event will occur in 2012 in relation to Bolon Yokte, the Mayan god of war and creation.
The Mayan civilization, at its apex from 300 A.D. to 900 A.D., had an amazing talent for accurate astronomical calculations and a knack for creating calendars which are more precise than the Greco-Roman calendar currently in use. Their calendar begins in 3,114 B.C., and marks time in 394-year periods known as Baktuns.
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but of course he will say that. Cover up the whole thing.
/sarc
I say the old man that was hammering on this calender retired in disgust saying “This is job is for a younger man. I am tired and going fishing. I respectfully submit my resignation so that I may retire”.
No mystery. lol
My copy of “the book” says that no man will know the hour or the day.
“Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.”
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Thats how I was taught
Yep.
And some of our “brightest” seem to be a little slow understanding that.
Not that I care, but George Noory is going to lose a lot of credibility with all this 2012 stuff. In the same way that Art Bell lost a lot of credibility with the Y2K stuff, and the approaching meteor (the Raelian thing). In fact, Art Bell lost so much credibility that he had to have his MOTHER on the show. Anybody remember that? He harped on the approaching meteor endlessly. Little did he know that a whacked-out cult was taking him seriously - and they all killed themselves. George Noory is doing the same thing with the 2012 stuff. When nothing happens - when the world doesn’t end - he is going to look like a fool. Wonder who he will bring on to salvage his reputation?
Mayan calender talks about a 2012 transition from the current negative era to an era of love, not end of the world
hopefully inline with the election of President Palin. She will shake up washington, route out corruption, balance the budget, bring back gold/silver standard
I don’t care what he says. I’m not doing my Christmas shopping that year till the 23rd. I mean if he’s wrong, why waste all that money?
Funny, poor guy, as soon as it was discovered he was a Mayan the next question would be tiresome, and he would be asked everywhere he went, getting a cup of coffee, picking up his dry cleaning, putting gas in the car.
He may just snap and say “you’re all going to die!!!!”
I'll start believing Mayan calendar predictions, along with Nostradamus and all the other dead so-called "prophets" when their ramblings actually predict something that hasn't happened yet and it comes true. This business of people matching events that have already happened to cryptic script written centuries ago is BS. Tell me about something that hasn't happened yet. When it comes true, I'll start listening.....
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