Will the world end on 21st December 2012? 1
7th Mar 2009
Hello lovely people
Will the world end on 21st December 2012? If not, what will happen?
My intuition has always told me that date is the end of time, but not the end of the world. I did not have much more knowledge, but then read a very informative book called Maya Prophecy.
This book explains that the Maya prophecy is actually not a prophecy as we know it, but rather a calendar. So what is so particular about this calendar and the date of 21st December 2012?
Let me give some background. The Maya believed that time binds the various dimensions of the Universe together. They believed that time can be measured, that time does not stand still, and that time flows away from the past into the future.
The Maya also believed that time is circular and cyclical, and that events are repeated in different cycles.
The Maya used three different calendars. The first is the Long Count Calendar. This calendar was used to record past events and predict future events. It starts again more or less every 5 000 years.
The second calendar is known as the Sacred Calendar or Ritual Almanac. This calendar consisted of 260 days, and is used mainly for religious purposes and divination. The Sacred calendar consists of two separate calendars, one comprising 20 days, and the second comprising 13 numbers. These two calendars ran concurrently, for example where both calendars started on the same day, both day 1 and day 14 of the 20-day calendar would be day 1 of the 13-day calendar. Day 20 and day 13 coincided every 260 days.
The third calendar is known as the Solar Calendar. This calendar consists of 360 days, followed by another five-day period.
The start of the Solar Calendar and the Ritual Almanac only coincides every 52 years. This period is called the Calendar Round. This is regarded as a highly sacred period of time and is celebrated with various activities that celebrate the dying of the old and the re-birth of the new.
If the Maya Long Count Calendar is correlated with the Gregorian calendar, then it can be calculated that the world started on 13th August 3114 BC. The Maya Long Count Calendar ends on 21st December 2012.
Is that the day on which the world will end? I have heard 21st December 2012 being described as “the end of time” – that is the end of the Maya Long Count calendar as translated to the Gregorian calendar.
However, there is another significant event that will happen on that day.
On 21st December 2012, the December solstice sun will cross the Milky Way in precisely the location of the dark-rift in the Milky Way, also known as “the road to the underworld”. The sun will be at the exact centre of the Galaxy. According to the Maya the center of the Galaxy is the cosmic womb, the place of dead, transformation, regeneration and rebirth. This moment shows the end of the current Maya Long Count Calendar.
To be continued.
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