#better make your 2013 holiday plans. :)
The Mayans had many calendars they used, one of which was known as the “long count” calendar, which measures very long periods of time. According to this calendar (which has been known to archeologists for decades, by the way) the Earth’s “fifth sun” woul
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end at the Winter solstice, December 21, 2012, at which point a new,
sixth 5,125-year cycle would begin. What significance this had to the
Mayans is a source of some debate, but it is the general consensus that
they did not attribute to it any catastrophic events. Most likely, they
simply considered it a time for spiritual renewal or introspection,
which doesn’t sound all that dangerous to me. The teaching that the
Mayan’s believed it was the end of time, then, appears to be a largely
westernized misreading (or deliberate misrepresentation) of the
significance of the Mayan calendar and Mayan beliefs associated with it.
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