Countdown To The End of the Mayan Calendar
1,149 days!!! What’s that, you may ask??? That’s the number of days until December 21st 2012. The day that some believe marks the end of the world! Sounds crazy, huh? The Mayan calendar, which is known to be the most accurate calendar to date, does not continue past the winter solstice of 2012. I’m sure many of us have heard about the Mayan calendar before, but do we truly understand how it works and why it is believed to be the most dependable and accurate?
The ancient Native American civilization, known as the Maya, lived in the region that today is Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and western Honduras. The Mayans were extremely innovative and their knowledge at the time was like none other. The Maya built colossal stone pyramids, temples, sculptures, and developed their own language of writing using hieroglyphs. The Maya had very precise knowledge and understanding of our solar system and it’s cycles. Just considering how long ago the Mayan civilization was first established and when it thrived, is amazing. The Mayan civilization was initially established between 2000 B.C. and 300 A.D. But the Mayans did not reach their highest state of development until between 300 A.D. and 900 A.D., according to archaeologists.
The Maya believed that our solar system completes cycles that ultimately make up one entire cycle, called a galactic day. One galactic day, they believed, takes 25,625 years to complete. According to the Maya, we are approaching the end of the fifth and final individual cycle, with each cycle lasting 5,125 years.
On December of 2012 the Mayans believe that humanity will enter what they call the Golden Age: a time where we can transform our civilization based on fear to a civilization centered on harmony. On that date, they said the Sun, which will have received a powerful light from the center of the Galaxy, would ultimately change its polarity and drive human kind to be ready to move into the Golden Age era.
One of theMayans first prophesies talks about a period at the end of each cycle called 'The Time of No-Time'. This is the last 20 years of each cycle; meaning from 1992-2012. The Mayans said that during this time “solar winds” would become intense, and also that the last 20 years up until 2012 would be a great realization for mankind. That because of our own contamination and lack of preservation of the Earth, we would lead to these changes of mankind and the world. According to the Mayans, these changes would occur so that mankind could advance to superior levels and leave behind materialism and would free everyone from suffering.
The Mayan calendar does not necessarily say that the world will abruptly end in December of 2012, but rather that it is up to us to determine our future. Hopefully, if we can change our habits of pollution and fear, according to the Maya, live a life of peace and tranquility.
The movie “2012” which is a dramatization based on the Mayan calendar prediction is set to be released on November 13th of this year.
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