According to legend, the ancient Mayans' long-count calendar ends at midnight Thursday 20th December 2012. Coloured skulls.
According to legend, the ancient Mayans' long-count calendar ends at midnight Thursday 20th December 2012, ushering in the end of the world. This is the beginning of the new world, an American seer, said at a gathering of hundreds of spiritualists at a convention center in the Yucatan city of Merida, an hour and a half from the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza. The Maya, who invented an amazingly accurate calendar almost 2,000 years ago, measured time in 394-year periods known as baktuns. Some anthropologists believe the 13th baktun ends Dec. 21. Still, archaeologists have uncovered Mayan glyphs that refer to dates far, far in the future, long beyond Dec. They affirmed that the Mayan calendar has 1,872,000 consecutive individual days and lasts 5,125 years, a length of time known as the Great Cycle. Besides, they determined that the calendar probably began somewhere around 11 August, 3114 BC. The beginning is clear, but not the end. Some people say December 21, others December 23 and some experts in August. The Mayan calendar is based on the position of the heavenly bodies -- the sun, the moon and the stars -- and was meant to tell the Mayan people about agricultural and economic trends
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