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Originally Posted by gGriffeth
I'm guessing all of you know the Mayan significance of the year 2012. What do you think well happen?
This
is an interesting page. Its shows Linda Schele's theory on what well happen. I recommend you read it.  |
Here is the last few sentences from the website:
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This essay is not contrived upon sketchy evidence. It basically rests upon two facts:
1) the well known end date of the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan Long Count, which is December 21st, 2012 A.D. and
2) the astronomical situation on that day. Based upon these two facts alone, the creators of the Long Count knew about and calculated the rate of precession over 2300 years ago. I can conceive of no other conclusion. To explain this away as "coincidence" would only obscure the issue.
For early Mesoamerican skywatchers, the slow approach of the winter solstice sun to the Sacred Tree was seen as a critical process, the culmination of which was surely worthy of being called 13.0.0.0.0, the end of a World Age. The channel would then be open through the winter solstice doorway, up the Sacred Tree, the Xibalba be , to the center of the churning heavens, the Heart of Sky.
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gGriffeth, you really should search for other threads on 2012, this has been discussed frequently here. I really like the idea of a sticky 2012 FAQ - maybe the BA could do that on his website.
But anyway, the
Wikipedia article on this is actually quite good. They point out that the correlation between the Mayan calander and ours is commonly accepted, but not by all scholars. In other words, even that is not absolutely known.
But there also is the fact, even given that correlation, that there is probably nothing significant to that date, even in Mayan tradition (my bold below).
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The last creation ended on a long count of 12.19.19.17.19. Another 12.19.19.17.19 will occur on December 20th 2012, followed by the start of the thirteenth Baktun, 13.0.0.0.0, on December 21st. It has been discussed in many New Age articles and books that this will be the end of this creation, the next pole shift or something else entirely. However, the Maya abbreviated their long counts to just the last five vigesimal places. There was an infinite number of larger units that were usually not shown. When the larger units were shown (notably on a monument from Coba), the end of the last creation is expressed as 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13 .13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0, where the units are obviously supposed to be 13s twenty places larger than that b'ak'tun. In this age we are only approaching 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.13.0.0.0.0 , and the larger places would all need to similarly roll over to 13 again to match the date of the new creation.[6]
This is confirmed by a date from Palenque, which projects forward in time to 1.0.0.0.0.0, which will occur on October 13, 4772 (a Friday). The Classic Period Maya likely did not believe that the end of this age would occur in 2012. According to the Maya, there will be a baktun ending in 2012, a significant event being the end of a 13th 400 year period, but not the end of the world.
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By the way, 12.0.0.0.0 in the calendar was September 18, 1618, if you believe the correlation. Last I heard, nothing special happened on that date.
Lastly, as others have pointed out, this "crossing the galactic plane on 12/21/2012" is at best oversimplified, if not just wrong