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One inscription, known as Tortuguero Monument 6, is the only inscription known to refer to bʼakʼtun 13 in any detail. He's all the way in Guatemala, and he's going to be joining us as soon as we can get the phone lines working down to Guatemala. This belief was supposedly supported by observations that the Earth's magnetic field was weakening, [116] which could precede a reversal of the north and south magnetic poles, and the arrival of the next solar maximum, which was expected sometime around 2012. FLATOW: Well, you've spent years piecing together the Maya's murals, studying their writings and culture. Two raves were foiled, 12 people had to be turned away from the peak, and 5 people were arrested for carrying weapons.
I then got involved in programming music after I invented a particular type of fractal tune based on self similar sloth canon sequences. I think perhaps some of the inspiration from those mathematical ideas found their way indirectly into my music programming.Coe, Linda Schele and Marc Zender, adhere to the "Lounsbury/GMT+2" correlation, which sets the start date at 13 August and the end date at 23 December. Sharer's revised table of date correlations in the 4th edition of Morley's The Ancient Maya, [d] each became convinced that 21 December 2012 had significant meaning. The Discovery Channel was criticized for its "quasi-documentaries" about the subject that "sacrifice[d] accuracy for entertainment". Asked why people seem more cognizant of it in 2012, Lepo says: “It just happens to occur on the winter solstice this year.
I don’t know whether she was exaggerating, but I took her at her word,” said Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA’s near-Earth Object Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. It is possible that only the earliest among Mesoamericans observed solstices, [95] but this is also a disputed issue among Mayanists. Sharer's 1983 revision of the 4th edition of Sylvanus Morley's book The Ancient Maya ( Morley 1983, p.
He also appears in inscriptions from Palenque, Usumacinta, and La Mar as a god of war, conflict, and the underworld. The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012. Pinchbeck claims to discern a "growing realization that materialism and the rational, empirical worldview that comes with it has reached its expiration date . An astrobiologist at NASA has debunked the rumor of the imminent destruction of the world in which a mysterious planet known as Nibiru would collide with the Earth.
As a believer in Jesus Christ, I didn't think that it would happen because God tells us that we don't know when the time will come. In December 2011, NASA's Francis Reddy issued a press release debunking the possibility of a supernova occurring in 2012. Several prominent individuals representing Maya of Guatemala decried the suggestion that the world would end with the 13th bʼakʼtun.
In Michigan, schools were closed for the Christmas holidays two days early, in part because rumours of the 2012 apocalypse were raising fears of repeat shootings similar to that at Sandy Hook. Most scientific estimates say that geomagnetic reversals take between 1,000 and 10,000 years to complete, [118] and do not start on any particular date. This correlation, which differs two days from Sharer's, is repeated in subsequent editions of Coe's book. In one stele he is portrayed with a rope tied around his neck, and in another with an incense bag, together signifying a sacrifice to end a cycle of years. Timewave zero" is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase over time in the universe's interconnectedness, or organized complexity.