Mayan 2012 Predictions-The Reality

What is the hype about Mayan 2012 Predictions?
Since the start of the civilization man has always been in the fear of unknown. The fear of ending of the world is very common amongst people and draws more interest. In major religions such as Islam, Christianity and Judaism, they have their own beliefs regarding the end of the world. Most of the signs and the descriptions of the events for Armageddon are similar to each other but none of them has given the exact time frame.

The Mayan calendar plays a very important role regarding calculating the days and the theory of the end of times or the world. Mayan 2012 predictions are showing and predicting that in December 2012, the world is going to end. Because of this prediction, the fear of death and ending of the world is taking place amongst people.

MAYAN CALENDAR
Mayan calendar or Mayan 2012 predictions are based upon the relics and writings found in ancient’s Mayan site in Mexico. Interpretations of these writing led scientists to predict December 2012 as the end of the world. Most of the important of all these writings are the ones fond at Tortuguero. Mayanist historian Mark Van Stones has translated one of all these writings:

Tzuhtz-(a)j-oom u(y)-uxlajuun pik The Thirteenth [b'ak'tun] will end (ta) Chan Ajaw ux(-te') Uniiw. (on) 4 Ajaw, the 3rd of Uniiw [3 K'ank'in]. Uht-oom Ek'-... Black ... will occur. Y-em(al) ... Bolon Yookte' K'uh ta-chak-ma... (It will be) the descent(?) of Bolon Yookte' K'uh to the great (or red?)
BASIS OF MAYAN THEORY OR MAYAN CALENDER
The Mayan calendar is based on the count of cycles of twenty.
• The longest unit was Baktun,
• Each Baktun was made up to twenty Katuns,
• Twenty Tuns in a Katun,
• Twenty Unials in a Tun,
• Twenty days in a Unial.
So a single Mayan Baktuns consisted of 144,000 days.

So, 9.5.1.8.11 represents
• 9 Baktuns
• 5 Katuns
• 1 Tun
• 8 Unials and
• 11 days since creation.

So today’s and current interpretation of Mayan 13th Baktuns is December 2012 (with some debate about exact date in December). Mayan refers to it as end to long count calendar so that new cycle will start after the end of old one.

DEBTES ON MAYAN BY DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES
It is a scholarly debate among Mayanist, different communities and scientists for the exact date and the meaning of the end of the long count. Mayan experts differ in opinion because different Mayan states had their own system as well as use of Long Count Calendar. At one site, the reference shows that cycle will end at 20 Baktuns (there is no mention of end of all cycles) on Monument of King Pacal’s coronation with events as far as 400 years in the future which depict that event of the world will not end in 2012 rather in much farther in future and end of cycle will not result in end of life but a beginning of a new time. It will be starting of another cycle of time in that Long Count Calendar. According to modern Mayan scholars, one cycle represents one cycle of time odometer and as per their 2012 doomsday theories, end of this odometer will occur some where in thousands of years in future. So in reference to that any time line of December 2012 is wrong interpretation of Mayan calendar and no such date is going to be the end of time.

Islamic scholars oppose it on basis of facts that all the events mentioned near Qayamah (Armageddon) are not yet happened so till the happening of such events world will not be destroyed. Return of Hazrat Eisa (Jesus) and Imam Mehdi has yet to take place. Similarly Christians and Jews oppose it based on their religious books and term it as mere speculations. Even in Mayan original script there is mention of return of Bolon Yookte Kuh (Mayan god) after 13 Baktun but no further mention is made about him or about future events after his return.

There is another school of thought which links these events to alignment of Galaxy and even speculate that alignment of sun with center of Galaxy will create a black hole that will destroy earth. Some have related 2012 with passage of or collision of some star or planet called Nibiru with earth that will result in end of the cycle as well as time.

With drastic differences of interpretations of Mayan 2012 predictions among Mayan experts as well as other historians of ancient literature, there is very little likely hood that such catastrophe will occur in 2012. However we all know that every beginning has an end and that end is the ultimate fate of this world and the universe.



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