MAYAN 2012 CALENDAR PROPHECIES

There are people that believe the Mayan 2012 calendar date of December 21^st or 23^rd may identify the end of civilization or possibly the commencement of apocalypse.   The predictions based on ancient records can range from a non-event to a spiritual shift in attitudes to annihilation.

The Mayan group of Mesoamericans formulated the long count calendar based on astronomy, and when translated in one fashion into current date format, can be interpreted to end in December on the 2012 calendar.  This correlation between the Long Count and Western calendars has caused speculation and predictions to flourish.

Although there is no consensus among Mayan researchers, it is a popular notion to devise the end time as correlating to their ancient records by the long count calendar.  The Long Count calendar identifies a day by counting the number of days passed since a creation date or zero date which was 13.0.0.0.0 that corresponds to August 11, 3114 BC and completes its life cycle on a date corresponding to approximately December 21^st, on the 2012 calendar.

The Mesoamerican culture used a 260 day ceremonial calendar, which had 20 periods of 13 days, as well as the 365 day solar calendar.  The two calendars would then coincide every 52 years.  They then devised the long count calendar to measure dates beyond the 52 years.  Due to lack of consistency in formulas used, there is much debate as to the actual corresponding dates but is a popular belief that the Mayan calendar predicts the end of time as we know it on the 2012 calendar.

Researchers generally believe that the long count calendar was in existence prior to the Mayans due to where artifacts have been found in and around Mexico.  The Mayans elaborated on the calendar through astrological tables that were used exclusively by the Mayan astronomers to forecast solstices, equinoxes, the path of the planets in our solar system and other celestial phenomena.  The long count calendar can be translated to complete its cycle in the 2012 calendar year.

In Mayan mythology each Long Count cycle is a world age and forms the basis for a New Age belief that a cataclysmic event will occur on the Western 2012 calendar on or about December 21^st.  This forecast is considered by Mayan scholars to be a misinterpretation, yet is commonly referenced in media as the 2012 calendar doomsday prophesies.

If we assume that the current age completes on December 21 on the 2012 calendar, and a new age begins, what type of metamorphosis will occur?  Various writings and calculations can be used to predict floods, earthquakes, or implosions of the universe.  Non-biblically based prophesies are thought provoking and entertaining, but should be considered in the context they were derived.

We can all contemplate our existence, the reason for it and how we live our lives and our purpose here.  No matter the date, whether it is in the 2012 calendar year, today or in a hundred years, we will all meet our maker through some event taking place, and we do need to prepare for that moment in time.

The great tribulation will take place and the signs and events that will take place have and are occurring.  Can man attempt to pinpoint the exact date in time as to the end of the world in the 2012 calendar year?  It is written that no man can know, but we are each responsible for preparing ourselves through our faith and beliefs.

View our resources and consider the prophesies, the source and your own beliefs.  The 2012 calendar predictions are intriguing.