The National Institute of Anthropological History in Mexico has been trying to quell the barrage of forecasters predicting the apocalypse. In the Mayan calendar, the long calendar count begins in 3, BC and is divided into roughly year periods called Baktuns.
Mayans held the number 13 sacred and the 13th Baktun ends next year. These groups have no headquarters but for internet sites. He says they refer to themselves as "lightworkers" who believe a fleet of alien space ships hover around our solar system. In many ways, they emphasise the more positive aspects of the traditional Christian Apocalypse. The fire-and-brimstone part gets downplayed in favour of the glorious Kingdom to come.
This month marks Advent in the Christian Calendar, during which Christians are encouraged to read from the Book of Revelation, the apocalyptic vision of St John the Divine. The twenty-first of December, however, is not on the biblical calendar and few, if any, believers in the traditional Book of Revelation are attached to this date.
The supposed date of the coming apocolypse, 21 December, also marks the Winter Solstice, symbolic in many cultures of the end of darkness and the renewal of the light. It might, suggests Harrison, focus our minds on how we have been treating the planet and those on it, and how we could mend our ways.
In this respect, he says, "It might become a self-fulfilling prophecy. That's one hope. Edit Story. Jun 15, , pm EDT. I cover science and innovation and products and policies they create.
Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn. Check out my website. Eric Mack. Pieces like the Stone of the Sun or the Tlaltecuhtli monolith, discovered in , were highly representational and filled with intimidating monsters. Tlaltecuhtli, the largest Mexica icon ever discovered, has claws, blood spurting from her mouth and skulls for knees.
People were blocky with generic faces, almost like communist or nazi propaganda. The Maya, in contrast, had a more fluid style of art founded by painters. They depicted people more or less how they looked, often with subtle emotions rather than blank stares. Scientists recently announced the discovery of a mural found in the home of a royal scribe in the long-forgotten Maya city of Xultun —a city now reduced to little more than mounds of rubble and vegetation in northern Guatemala.
The mural depicts an actual king, rather than a god, and accurately renders his court. The mural also showcases the unique Maya Calendar, which was wholly distinct from the calendar used by the Mexica. As with the Mexica, Maya dates combine at least two calendars—one covering days and the other days, such that every day had two names, which reset every 52 years. But unlike the Mexica, it also uses a "long count" system that adds a numeral at the end of a cycle to keep a constant count of years, more like the Christian calendar.
Is that or ? But with the Maya long count, we know exactly. This "long count" feature is how we are able to extend the Maya calendar all the way to The Mexica calendar, by contrast, simply reset at zero at the end of a cycle. The Mexica would have no way of conceiving such a specific date so far into the future. Yet it is the Mexica, not the Maya, who trafficked in the apocalypse. The Classic Maya had almost no tradition of cataclysmic endings though they may have picked it up centuries later from groups like perhaps the Mexica.
For them, is just a year when several of their calendars reset, like for modern calendars.
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