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Many misinterpreted this to mean an absolute end to the calendar, which tracked time continuously from a date 5,125 years earlier, and doomsday predictions emerged. SATURNO: Well, in general the information that we have about Maya astronomy comes from a series of books that were preserved from sort of just before the arrival of the Spanish, sometime in the 15th or maybe 14th century.
Pinchbeck claims to discern a "growing realization that materialism and the rational, empirical worldview that comes with it has reached its expiration date . One inscription, known as Tortuguero Monument 6, is the only inscription known to refer to bʼakʼtun 13 in any detail.
On 23 July 2012, a massive, potentially damaging, solar storm came within nine days of striking Earth. She advocates deeper analysis of both conspiracy theories and doomsday prophecies to reveal subtle currents beneath the surface of society. In 1957, Mayanist and astronomer Maud Worcester Makemson wrote that "the completion of a Great Period of 13 bʼakʼtuns would have been of the utmost significance to the Maya. I’ve read for instance that if a two-kilometer diameter asteroid were to strike the Earth at something like 50,000 kilometers per hour the energy released in the impact would be equivalent to that of a 1 million megaton bomb. This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, [2] and festivities took place on 21 December 2012 to commemorate the event in the countries that were part of the Maya civilization ( Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), with main events at Chichén Itzá in Mexico and Tikal in Guatemala.
Climate change may not seize people’s attention in the same way as more implausible theories, because of its gradual nature. A spokesman from the Conference of Maya Ministers commented that for them the Tikal ceremony is not a show for tourists but something spiritual and personal. The secretary of the Great Council of Ancestral Authorities commented that living Maya felt they were excluded from the activities in Tikal. When asked when the world would end in a press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, "In about 4. When the 1843 prediction failed to materialize, Miller recalculated and determined that the world would actually end in 1844.I am far more concerned about issues, such as climate change, which we can have control over, but without our intervention could bring about disastrous consequences. He's all the way in Guatemala, and he's going to be joining us as soon as we can get the phone lines working down to Guatemala. Artist's conception of a young version of the solar system depicting the dusty disks thought to be the breeding grounds of planets. The idea is not to mock those who fear such claims, but to offer solid scientific reasons for their dismissal. The general intent of this literature was not to warn of impending doom but "to foster counter-cultural sympathies and eventually socio-political and 'spiritual' activism".
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