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SATURNO: Chances are when the Maya set up this count of days, which happened at some point in the past, we don't actually know when they started counting, they set up a date in the distant past which was Day Zero and a day in the distant future that would be sort of the last day of that cycle. Polar shifts happen too, when the Earth’s magnetic poles flip, but none are expected for thousands of years – and there is no indication they cause any harm to life when they do happen.
In addition, before the main Tikal ceremony, about 200 Maya protested the celebration because they felt excluded.NISAR will study changes to ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice in fine detail, as climate change warms the air and ocean. Based on McKenna's interpretation of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching, an ancient Chinese book on divination, [62] the graph purports to show great periods of novelty corresponding with major shifts in humanity's biological and sociocultural evolution.
The 2012 date was also loosely tied to the long-running concept of the photon belt, which predicted a form of interaction between Earth and Alcyone, the largest star of the Pleiades cluster. Mystical speculations about the precession of the equinoxes and the Sun's proximity to the center of the Milky Way appeared in Hamlet's Mill (1969) by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Deschend. I've had articles published in Forbes Magazine, The Huffington Post, Slate, Newsweek, and Business Insider. He made reference to the destruction of the world and an apocalypse, though he made no reference to the 13th bʼakʼtun or 2012 and it was not clear that he was referring to a future event.
Review – The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012, by Anthony Aveni and 2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya, by Mark Van Stone" (PDF). Jenkins attributed the insights of ancient Maya shamans about the Galactic Center to their use of psilocybin mushrooms, psychoactive toads, and other psychedelics. On 17 December 2012, Jell-O ran an ad saying that offering Jell-O to the Mayan gods would appease them into sparing the world. From our perspective on Earth, the ecliptic is the path taken by the Sun across the sky over the course of the year. SATURNO: Yeah, I mean, they actually understood that Venus was a single body in the night sky, something that the ancient Greeks didn't recognize.
c] Thus this inscription anticipates the current universe lasting at least 20 21×13×360 days, [24] or roughly 2. According to the Popol Vuh, a compilation of the creation accounts of the Kʼicheʼ Maya of the Colonial-era highlands, the current world is the fourth. Evidence shows that the Sun passed through the plane bisecting the galactic disc three million years ago and in 2012 was moving farther above it. Subscribe to our events calendar to stay up to speed on all things happening in social sciences at UCI.
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