Global Warming

[Ozme52]

Yes, I'm familiar with the concepts and it's mostly a matter of interpretation. There are no Mayan left to ask, are there? My own take is that the Mayan who was doing the calculations died before training his replacement.

The Mayan calendar is very complex because it was important to them to know and understand a tremendous number of cyclic events. Their calendar 'starts' and 'ends' at a confluence of all those cycles.

My cut at it is they figured why do "page" 2 if "page" 1 is exactly the same.

If it mattered to us enough, we would have a seven year calendar... where the date and day matched. Or a lunar calendar that was 33-34 years long, matchng a date to a particular phase of the moon, or a 210+/- year calendar matching date-day-and lunar phases... But those things don't matter to us, so we have a one year calendar.

Here's a great wikipedia explanation.

BTW, the source of the end of the world theory is a New Age concept... If someone were to offer it today for the first time and you'd label it cultist. From the wikipedia article: "The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar forms the basis for a New Age belief, first forecast by José Argüelles, that a cataclysm will take place on or about 21 December 2012."



All that aside...