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A questionabout 2012?
I read this somewhere:
December 21 – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization among others, completes a "great cycle" of thirteen b'ak'tuns (periods of 144,000 days each) since the mythical creation date of the calendar's current era.[6] On this day the Long Count date at creation—written 13.0.0.0.0 in modern notation, equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar—is repeated for the first time in a span of a little over 5,125 solar years.[7] The completion of this cycle and the repetition of the previous Creation's Long Count ending date have been central to the 2012 phenomenon. Academic researchers have not concluded that the ancient Maya themselves attached similar significance to this point in time.[8]
So wouldn't this mean that the if this is the case that world would have ended 5,125 solar years ago?
Well, no. Because 5,125 years ago was the approximate date for the Mayan calendrical system's beginning. Meaning this would've been when it started. "...is repeated for the first time" points to this fact.
The Mayan civilisation, according to what I've read of them(which was years before all this doomsday crap), didn't actually start at the 'beginning' of their calendar as they were not, by their own admission, around at that time. They calculated when it would have begun and the date of 3114BCE was what they came up with.
It is very true, as you've got written there, that the Mayans really didn't predict any 'doomsday' occurring in 2012ACE either.
Good point though! Unfortunately, due to the human nature of being obsessed by it's mortality, there will always be those who will produce and those who will be influenced by, premonitions of The End of the World.
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