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Lord of the Æsir
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Posts: 270
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Midgard
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End of the Mayan Calender: Part I -
05-16-2008, 02:02 AM
 December 20, 2012 C.E. The day we all shall perish!
(hehe, not really  )
The 2012 doomsday prediction is based on a misunderstanding of the Mayan calender. I'm going to try my best to explain how that calender works. Let me apologize now, because this will be a little technical. I can't help it. The keeping of time is a technical matter. It also wander into the area of region. Again sorry, I can't help it. They Mayans believed that time and religion were related.
First of all the Mayan calendar isn't really Mayan. It predates the Mayan civilization by over 300 years. It was first used by the Epi-Olmec people. Therefore scholars refer to it as the Mesoamerican Calendar.
Second, they actually used three different calenders. The Tzolk'in, the Haab', and the long count. I'll start with the first two calenders. They are somewhat easy and don' t cause any scary predictions. Because this is a rather tedious and long explanation I am going explain each of the calenders in a separate post.
(to be continued...)
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