by Author Name Withheld 126

Created on: March 08, 2010   Last Updated: August 12, 2010

There is very little doubt that the Mayans were right in their predictions. They had excellent knowledge of planetary movement and galactic alignments. It is possible that they even had a greater understanding of some concepts than our modern science, but that is not of the most importance in this matter. What is relevant is that the Mayan calendar is not prophecy.

Clearly, there was no image sent divinely down to the Mayans. No mystical being is claimed to have brought such information as a warning. We see such things because we try to understand the Mayan calendar through our concept of religion. The best way to understand the Mayan calendar is by viewing our own equivalent calendar.

Upon opening a modern calendar there are many predictions. The cycles of the moon are presented in most versions. With complete accuracy, every phase of the moon is displayed months in advance. Does this mean that we have some prophetic insight into the future? It does not; further, no such claim is being made. These recordings are made simply as information with no religious significance.

In our calendar, we go on to predict seasons throughout the year. A year in advance, we know when cycles of the sun, harvests, and even hindering things such as snow will occur. We know these things simply from experience. Even without the aid of elders, most of us have lived long enough to have witnessed the passing of other cycles that confirm our beliefs.

Another similarity that goes unnoticed is that we also make other predictions. On such recordings, there is a knowledge that certain moods will influence certain times of year. We predict and facilitate that harvests will be celebrated, solstices rejoiced, or summer embraced. There are no skeptics wondering where we came to know how people might react and feel during these periods of the year.

Is it really that hard to accept that the Mayans also understood cycles of life? Because of a dark age, wars, and over events, there is little in the way of long term record in modern times. That does not mean that the Mayans did not not have a much wider reaching oral record from visitors and citizens. Before the fall of Alexandrian culture, many civilizations had vast recordings. This is proven in the extensive stores of information that found a home in Alexandria.

There should really be no argument that the Mayans likely understood many things that would come with much longer cycles than we currently understand. The real question of debate is what happens in 2012. That question can very easily be answered. What happens at midnight on December 31rst? Did we choose to end our own calendar there because we expect the world to end each year? Instead, it seems that this is simply where we divide one cycle from the next.

Many similarities exist between these two calendars. December marks the height of short days and the beginning of the journey to summer. The Mayan calendar ends as we cross a galactic divide in a much larger cycle. As it is our darkest time of the year, they view the divide as a dark time for civilizations. So many similarities, yet how do we react to our own predictions?

In many cases, we come together in the darkest part of the year. We control the circumstance by uniting and helping each other through. As the new year turns over, we look forward to the future and imagine a better world ahead. The only ones who can fulfill horrific predictions are the ones who created those predictions.

It is us and not the Maya who place such significance on this one small part of their calendar. As all in faith should be warned, we should be careful that we do not create self-fulfilling predictions with our own attitudes and apathy in seeking an end.

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