The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012. This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Mayan scholars stated that no classic Mayan accounts forecast impending doom. Astronomers rejected the various proposed doomsday scenarios as pseudoscience.
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The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012. This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Mayan scholars stated that no classic Mayan accounts forecast impending doom. Astronomers rejected the various proposed doomsday scenarios as pseudoscience which is refuted by elementary astronomical observations. The notion of a ‘Great Cycle’ coming to an end in 2012 is a modern invention, said Mayan scholar Mark Van Stone. In contrast, later researchers said that, while the end of the 13th bʼakʼtun would perhaps be the cause for the celebration, it did not mark the end. of the calendar. The writing system of the classic Maya has been substantially deciphered, meaning that a corpus of their written and inscribed material has survived from before the European conquest. The Popol Vuh describes the gods first creating three failed worlds, followed by a successful fourth world in which humanity was placed. In the Maya Long Count, the previous world ended after 13 b b tuns, or roughly 5,125 years. The Long Count’s zero date was set at a point in the past marking the end in the third world and the beginning of the current one, which corresponds to 11 August 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. This means that the fourth world reached theend of its 13thbʼ Tun, or Maya date 13.0.
0. 0, on 21 December2012. In 1957, Mayanist and astronomer Maud Worcester Makemson wrote that \”the completion of a Great Period of 13 b tuns would have been of the utmost significance to the Maya. Thus … when the Great Cycle of the Long Count reaches completion, the present universe will be annihilated. ’’ Mayan Scholar Linda Schele and David Freidel argued that the Maya did not conceive of a sudden or sudden change of any sort in 2012, and that they did not prophesied that they prophesied it. Other scholars through the late 1980s and early 1990s said that this interpretation of the date was not correct and that the date would not be a cause for a celebration for the Maya or Aztec or ancient Meso American civilization. The date was a cause of celebration for those living in the countries that were part of the Maya civilization, with main events at Chichén Itzá in Mexico and Tikal in Guatemala. The New Age interpretation held that the. date marked the start of a period during which Earth and its inhabitants would undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation. It was also suggested that the Date of the New Year would mark the beginning. of a new era, but this has been rejected by astronomers as well as other scholars. The idea that the Long count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresented Mayan history and culture.
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