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Old 03-February-2004, 12:30 AM
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McKenna lined up his graph against human history, and somehow determined that the Zero Point, the Eschaton, was scheduled for Dec. 21, 2012, which also coincidentally happened to be the end of the 10,000 year calendar used by the Mayans
Wrong! This may be a nit pick, but one- it's not the end (see my post above) and two- he could have at least used the actual length of the pictun (the mayan unit of time in question). It's 7885 years long, not 10,000.

Here's a nice simple page page on the Mayan Calendar that explains all the different units they had and how long they were. It is an amazing Calendar.

There are units bigger then the Pictun. Why have units bigger then the Pictun when you thought you were living in the last one???
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