Famously, the Mayan long-count calendar is supposedly set to end and reset in the year two-thousand and twelve (2012), which, according to some (loose) interperetations of Mayan myths, corresponds with an end of the current creation and the beginning of the next. This has led to la...
The Mayan calendar rose to fame in 2012, when a “Great Cycle” of itsLong Countcomponent came to an end, inspiring some to believe that theworld would end at 11:11 UTC on December 21, 2012.The media hype and hysteria that ensued was later termed the2012 phenomenon. Of course, the pre...
the Long Count is, in fact, a cycle of around 5000 years with the basic unit being the kin (day). While the start date of the Gregorian calendar is January 1st 0 AD, it is reckoned that the Long Count of the Mayan Calendar began ...
126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, and festivities took place on 21 December 2012 to commemorate the event in the countries that were part of the Maya civilization (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), with main events at Chichen Itza in Mexico and Tikal ...
And perhaps the greatest mystery of all has been the Long Count calendar that started its last Great Cycle on 13 August 3114BCE and will come to an end 5125 years and 132 days later, on the winter solstice of 2012. 作者简介:David Douglas has a special interest in ancient mysteries, ...
December 21, 2012 is when the Maya’s “Long Count” calendar marks the end of a 5,125-5126-year era. Here is some information about it:The date December 21st, 2012 A.D. (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count), represents an extremely close conjunction of the Winter Solstice Sun with the ...
The general idea about 21 December 2012 is that, the date is not the end, but the beginning of the new long-count period. As the most complex calendar system ever developed, the Mayan Long Count Calendar was keeping the tracks of the long intervals -the ruins reveal with the time referen...
The Mayan Long Count calendar begins in 3114 B.C., and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012. The third glyph on the brick seems to read as the verb huli, "he/she/it arrives." Both inscriptions — the Tortuguero tablet and the Comalcalco brick -- were probably carved ...
Yes, the Mayas used a 365-day per year system, but that’s not the only calendar they possessed. In fact, the Mayas used three separate calendar systems, all at the same time. One is the Long Count calendar, off of which is based the whole 2012 doomsday apocalypse myth. Then, also...
T hey knew so much about th e world and th e univers e that they invented th e Long Count Cale ndar. T h e Mayan Calendar 2012 is actually just pa rt of th e calendar. 3. T h e most interesting thing ab disasterthat will happen in th e year 2012. According to it, ther ...