Case in point:
2012 and the "END OF DAYS" draws on various texts; Christian, Jewish, apocryphal, Mayan.

Of course, there are other texts too, some much older, involving such mythological "great years" and the changing of Ages and their harbingers.

It appears everyone is getting on the 2012 bandwagon!

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