The 14th Baktun Starts Today

wendell borton

Its fairly amazing the mayan knowledge of astronomy, to be able to come up with a calender thousands of years ago that still is accurate today. It s also the start of the new piktun a unit of over 7,000 years to get match exactly with the winter solstice just shows how accurate it is.

Misinterpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is the basis for a popular belief that a cataclysm will take place on December 21, 2012. December 21, 2012 is simply the day that the calendar will go to the next b'ak'tun, at Long Count 13.0.0.0.0. The date on which the calendar will go to the next piktun (a complete series of 20 b'ak'tuns), at Long Count 1.0.0.0.0.0, will be on October 13, 4772.
Sandra Noble, executive director of the Mesoamerican research organization Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI), notes that "for the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle". She considers the portrayal of December 2012 as a doomsday or cosmic-shift event to be "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."[24]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar#Long_Count

Instead of looking for the end of the world it should be seen as a opportunity for a start of a new world.

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davet82

so thats what they really ment... so nobody was wrong :rolleyes:

touts

The WORLD IS GOING TO END on October 13, 4772!

Doesn't quite have the same ring to it.....

seamus

wendell borton wrote: »

Its fairly amazing the mayan knowledge of astronomy, to be able to come up with a calender thousands of years ago that still is accurate today.

Any calendar will remain accurate for as long you count it.
If they just started counting days and said that today was day 1,872,000, then the calendar would still be "accurate". It's an arbitrary measurement of days, just like our own calendar.

What's most intriguing about the calendar really is the recognition of yearly cycles and being able to convert these cycles into mathematical concepts and calculations with reasonable accuracy, much like the babylonians did with time - 7,000 years before computers were invented.

It s also the start of the new piktun a unit of over 7,000 years to get match exactly with the winter solstice just shows how accurate it is.

Nope, just another B'ak'tun. Pure coincidence that it fell today, the end of the first piktun falls on 13th October 4772.

Duckworth_Luas

**** off Mayans, it ruined my day that the world didn't end this morning! :mad:

super_furry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kl4hJ4j48s

squod

The Mayans. Where did all that knowledge get them anyhow? They're all bleedin' dead now.

Seaneh

No they're not.

From Wikipedia

The Maya peoples never disappeared, neither at the time of the Classic period decline nor with the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores and the subsequent Spanish colonization of the Americas. Today, the Maya and their descendants form sizable populations throughout the Maya area and maintain a distinctive set of traditions and beliefs that are the result of the merger of pre-Columbian and post-Conquest ideas and cultures. Millions of people speak Mayan languages today

squod

Registering meself as mayan in the next census. Mayan O' Brien. A jewish Mayan even.

I'll be .........

♫ Mayan - O'Brien - in Zion ♫

kincsem

Go away.

LivelineDipso

squod wrote: »

The Mayans. Where did all that knowledge get them anyhow? They're all bleedin' dead now.

There are about 3 million Mayans living in Mexico and Guatamala today.


The Mayans never said it would be the end of the world. This is something the media made up.

The 2012 endtime disaster was a product of journalists and Hollywood.

Any other versions of it were New Age woo involving ascension or some bollox.

anhedonia

The Mayans, a great bunch of lads.

Icyseanfitz

you know what i hate, everyone is saying how incredibly advanced these mayans where and yet the spanish and other europeans turned up and pretty much wiped them off the planet with about as much effort as a sneeze,

and these native americans had a pretty decent run at things when you take into account they didnt have to put up the dark ages/catholic church/Muslims etc. which held back europes advancement for about a 1000 years

bunch of gob****es if you ask me :pac:

anhedonia

The Mayans, bunch of gobsh1tes if you ask me.







na, doesnt have the same ring to it.

Mr. CooL ICE

In battle, the Mayans/Aztecs/Incas/whatever lacked metal armor or chain mail technology. Also, their usual tactic was to kill an enemy and bring it back to the village to show it off, sometimes getting fame and bitches as a reward, but this tactic was useless against traditional European/Asian tactics who overwhelmed them.

Another cause of the inferiority of their civilization was the lack of horses on the continent, which allowed European/Asian farming, building and transport methods to be far superior.

There are many more points. For what they lacked, they made up for by looking at the sky and inscribing patterns on stone to create giant inedible Oreos which managed to freak many people out.

/Buzz Killington

Icyseanfitz

LordChessington wrote: »

In battle, the Mayans/Aztecs/Incas/whatever lacked metal armor or chain mail technology. Also, their usual tactic was to kill an enemy and bring it back to the village to show it off, sometimes getting fame and bitches as a reward, but this tactic was useless against traditional European/Asian tactics who overwhelmed them.

Another cause of the inferiority of their civilization was the lack of horses on the continent, which allowed European/Asian farming, building and transport methods to be far superior.

There are many more points. For what they lacked, they made up for by looking at the sky and inscribing patterns on stone to create giant inedible Oreos which managed to freak many people out.

/Buzz Killington

as i said bunch of gobs1tes :pac: where there no horses up north america canada? sure didnt they have fecking lamas anyway

Seaneh

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

as i said bunch of gobs1tes :pac: where there no horses up north america canada? sure didnt they have fecking lamas anyway

No, there were no Horses in the Americas before the Europeans brought them.