Mayan Calendar: End of The World, Or A New Beginning? Details
The Mayan calendar's prediction of the Earth's end have many individuals planning for the worst. However, despite what' being said about what'll be happening in Belize, Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, the nation's stomping grounds to the largest collection of Maya ruins shouldn't ultimately bring anything apocalyptic in nature.
Ceremonial priests and spiritual guides (Ajq'ij) are said to be in charge of counting down the days, but instead bringing in a new era on Dec. 21, according to International Business Times.
"The Maya religion is about religion is about keeping count of the days, and the Maya elders have shared with me that there are no predictions of strange things, but there will be a shift in the consciousness of humanity," said Carla Molina, president of Ecotourism & Adventure Specialists in Guatemala.
The publication states that the festivities taking place on Dec. 21 will symbolize "a change from the corn people to the men of honey, who are in harmony with nature and, like bees, only take from it what they need, according to legend."
While the slew of conflicting doomsday theories have gotten many Maya experts angry, they've also given the Mayans an outlet to elaborate on the details of their civilization.
"I would suggest to people not sell their house, quit their job, leave their spouse, nor say something nasty to someone they think they will never see again," University of Illinois archeologist Lisa Lucero stated to USA Today.
Many theories regarding how the world would meet its demise have ranged from the appearance of a rogue planet called Nibiru colliding with it to a physics experiment stating that the planet would be pulled into a black hole.
"People tend to worry about the wrong things. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about anything particular to this year," MIT physicist Max Tegmark stated.
The 2012 apocalypse is based off stone inscriptions now being held at the Carlos Pellicer Camara Regional Anthropology Museum in the Mexican City of Villahermosa.
