Although it has been considered as a forgotten method and reference in counting seasons and days during the ancient period, the Mayan Calendar has started to be the focus of interest for doomsday conspiracy and theorists for the past decade. This is because of the mayan calendar end of the world prophecies that is said to unfold on December, 2012, causing widespread fear, curiosity and appeal. The Mayans are an ancient civilization from Central America that had lived around the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico; they are a race of people that are very scientifically and mathematically highly developed for their time as well as being religious and highly spiritual. Their highly developed knowledge for astronomy and their creativity are evident in the few surviving pictorial alphabet and drawings which is also proof that the Mayans existed long before the Spanish conquistadors had reached the Central Americas.
Among the civilization’s systems that scientists and experts now understand is the Mayan Calendar. The ancient calendar is a very highly developed and mathematically accurate system that calculates the movements of the sun and the moon and the changes in the seasons. The Mayan calendar is very accurate, more so than that of succeeding calendars had been designed and created many years afterwards. And this is one of the major reasons why a lot of people truly believe the ancient Mayan 2012 predictions of doomsday. So now that the astronomical and mathematical accuracy of the Mayan Calendar is understood, the next question is how does the mayan calendar work?
The Mayan Calendar features three periods of time and can be viewed as three different dials on a single watch, each of these dials have a specified time scale. The three time periods in the calendar is the Long Count period that relates to time periods stretching for 1000's of years; the ordinary 365 day period called the Haab and the shortest time period, covering only a fortnight is the Tzolkin. Each dial is a finite system that covers certain times of starting and finishing points that enable its users to determine the specific start and end time of a month, year or even a millennium which is very much like the modern day calendars that we use.
The Mayans, a superstitious civilization, marks the end of each cycles which are called the Calendar Round, every 52 years, and is seen as an unlucky time. With its worldwide reputation for precision, the Mayan and Aztec end of the world theories are the most popular and widely believed apocalypse theories in history, because the Long count calendar, which is the longest time cycle in the highly accurate Mayan Calendar, the only calendar in the history of the world to have recorded years dating five thousand years, will come to an end on December 21, 2012. The mayan astrology is known for its mathematical and scientific precision, have they really figured out when life here on Earth will finally come to an end?
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