Doomsday, again.

“So the Mayan calendar ends in 2012. So what? My calendar ends in December. It just starts again.” 

- Generic saying.

So as i've done about before, 2012 is approaching - and pretty fast. 

Many people just think that the Mayans predicted 2012, they are wrong. Many different cultures had actually predicted the end of the world around this time.

"They had no technology, they couldn't work it out"

The Mayans didn't have the technology we have today, that is correct - they didn't even have metal tools. But they were astonishing astronomers, they had the Universes age relatively close to what we think. They had the time it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun basically exact and they had a good knowledge of the axial precession of Earth. 

The atomic clock says that the time it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun is 365.2422 days whereas the Mayans said, thousands of years ago, its was 365.2420 days. That is astonishing in my opinion, even today we're unsure of the 4th decimal, is it 2 or 0?

They knew about cycle the Earth goes though called 'Axial Precession'; a 30,000 (give or take a few thousand year) cycle in with the Earth axis completes its cycle of moving.

In 2012 the Mayans say a 'snake man' (could be a man, a snake or just a man in a rocket - a rocket could of been misunderstood) called Kukulkan will return in 2012, he is the 'creator' of the Maya, and man themselves. 

A snake, seem familiar?

The story of Adam and Eve, the snake? The ancient chinese 'snake like' dragons? What they knew as snakes are all involved in stories of creation, there has to be some significance in it.

The Mayans had a written language, a complex math system and this may not seem like much but, the number 0. This is quite amazing considering this is back a few thousand years.

Doomsday is coming, do you think we'll go through a huge cataclysm?

Even the Bible predicted something in 2012, it predicted a war between The Arch Angel Michael and guess what? The Giant Dragon (a snake like being). Could this just be what we know as 'extra-terrestrials' coming back to us, like the Maya said? Which could even lead to a war.

The Maya were an amazing civilisation, with great knowledge. They weren't as dumb as everyone says they are. Everything they did back then had a significance, why would they have a 5,125 year cycle? Or temples in the shape of the Pleiades? They had an ancient knowledge, things lost in history - that we don't understand. 

Thanks for reading, Ben.