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Someone forgot to tell the Mayans that 2012 was the end of the world
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you would have heard by now that the Mayan calendar is suppose to end in December 2012, with the world to end at the same time.
It’s a theory made so good that Hollywood has turned it into a movie, but the theory has a fatal flaw: it’s not true. The Mayan Calendar doesn’t end in 2012, and even goes out as far as roughly the year 4772.
Mayan Indian elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun tells AP that it’s definitely not the end of the world, saying “I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff” and that the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.
The date though is significant as it’s the end of a Mayan calendar period and it does correspond with some astronomical alignments; the two not being a coincidence as the Mayan’s were big on astronomy, however there’s nothing world ending about the date in their records at all, period.
People 2,700 years into the future around December 4772 though may have cause for alarm.
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