Mayans

The Mayan Calendar
The significance the classic Maya gave the December 21, 2012 date remains uncertain along with other enigmatic predictions left behind by prophets through the ages. Most classicMaya inscriptions are strictly historical prophetic declarations based on subjective interpretations. The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of beliefs and proposals positing that cataclysmic ortransformative events will occur in the year 2012 culminating on the winter solstice December 21, 2012. This forecast is based primarily on what is said to be the end-date of the Mayan Calendar, which ispresented as lasting 5,125 years. Arguments supporting this dating are drawn from a mixture of archaeoastronomical speculation, alternative interpretations of mythology, numerological constructions, andalleged prophecies from extraterrestrial beings.
A metaphysical interpretation of this transition posits that, during this time, the planet and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical orspiritual transformation, 2012 marking the beginning of a new era of consciousness experience. Conversely, some believe that 2012 marks the beginning of an apocalypse. Both ideas have been disseminated innumerous books and TV documentaries, and have spread around the world through websites and discussion groups.
Certain predictions about how the world could end in 2012 (alignment with a black hole,collision with a rogue planet, polar shifts) have been rejected as pseudoscience by the scientific community, which maintains that many of these suggestions would violate the laws of physics, or arecontradicted by simple observations.
December 21, 2012: The Mayan Long Count calendar, used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, completes its 13th b'ak'tun cycle since thecalendar's mythical starting point (equivalent to 3114 BCE August 11 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, according to the "GMT-correlation" JDN= 584283). The Long Count b'ak'tun date of this starting point...