#mayan apocolypse

[sleepyaxolotls]

I'm pretty sure Christmas feels weird this year because we were all counting down to the maya apocalypse instead of Christmas

[skeleruris]

what is the mayan calender even

did they just sit around and

"ok here's a day, and another one after that, and look, another one"

"this one might be a tuesday"

"oh i don't think there will be a day after this one"

[jasonmayart]

Well... Here we are.

[livingstonegordo]

thank dead god man, i thought i was going to die a virgin

[actual-lesbian-garnet]

Good Day

School ended and the world didn't end. What a good December 21.

[benjaminsapiens]

Mayan Apocalypse

The world is ending. Or maybe not. There’s been talk over the past couple years about how the Mayan calendar predicts that the world is going to end today, December 21, 2012.

In the ancient Long Count calendar used by the Maya and other Central American cultures, dates are measured by their distance from the date of creation, which was 3114 BC in our years. The largest unit of time was the b’ak’tun, a length of 144,00 days or 394.25 years. We are currently in the 13th b’ak’tun, which will end on 12/21/2012, at which point the 14th b’ak’tun will begin.

           Now, according to one account of Mayan beliefs, our universe is the fourth one that has been created. The first three were imperfect, and the gods only created men after the fourth creation. The thing is, the third creation lasted for exactly 13 b’ak’tuns, and the current universe was created at the start of the 14th b’ak’tun of the third universe, which became year 0 for the fourth and current universe. Some have concluded, therefore, that at the start of the 14th b’ak’tun of the fourth universe on December 12, 2012, our world will extinguished and another will take it’s place.

There are two problems with this theory. First, the third cosmos was a failure, unlike ours, so there’s no reason to believe that our universe will be replaced after the same period of time. There’s no mention of an apocalyptic event on that date in Mayan writing, and experts say there’s no reason whatsoever to believe that the Mayans thought the world would end at that time.

Secondly, the Mayan religion is mythological and not actually true. I can’t stress this fact enough. The universe will not be ending today.

[xvnot15]

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