According to Gerardo Aldana, the ancient Mayan calendar may have the 2012 doomsday wrong! The University of California Santa Barbara professor has a new book out, ‘Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World’. Gerardo Aldana says the ancient Mayan calendar may have the 2012 doomsday wrong by 100 years!
Of course, not everyone agrees with his findings. Many people have made a cozy living on the hysteria that the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012. But Prof. Aldana disagrees. Using a GMT constant to convert the Mayan calendar to a Gregorian one, which shows that the actual date of the end of the Mayan calendar may be off from 50 to 100 years.
The popular notion spread by many is that the Mayans, who were apparently obsessed with Time and in tune with Nature, realized centuries ago that the world would come to an end on December 21, 2012. But the reality is that the Mayans actually used three calendars. One based on the solar year of 365 days, another based on the transit of Venus of 260 days and a third based on a 52-year cycle.
Geraldo Aldana’s research, however, questions the ‘GMT constant’, named after Mayan scholars, Joseph Goodman, Juan Martinez-Hernandez and J. Eric S. Thompson. Early translations of the Mayan calendar and prophecies into Latin may lie at the heart of the problem. Aldana believes that there are errors with the GMT constant itself, which thereby throws the whole December 21, 2012 doomsday date off.
If Prof. Geraldo Aldana of the University of California Santa Barbara is correct, then the 2012 doomsday is wrong and may be off between 50 to 100 years. This is good news for us slackers who have yet to build doomsday bunkers and stocked up with food, water, guns and ammunition. But just in case, plenty of people, including the U.S. government, are preparing. More on that soon!
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October 22nd, 2010 at 6:25 am
Holy moley! Typos (“MGT” ??) and incomplete sentences (noun + verb, anyone?) make this article impossible to read. It looks to have been written by a high school freshman. Please go back and take a course in remedial writing, and try once again to convey your point!
October 22nd, 2010 at 7:17 am
@ Jack
Oops! Okay, so there was one single typo. It’s corrected. Happy now? Probably not!
I think what’s really bugging you, Jack, is now you’ll have to pay all those debts you’ve been running up thinking that the world is coming to an end soon. But don’t worry, I’m sure the Mayans will give you a nice loan.
Ha-Ha-Ha!
October 22nd, 2010 at 3:59 pm
The only problem with his theory is that the Precession of the Equinox cycle will still occur on the date in question. If we are to believe that Mayans had the astronomical skills they are attributed, then this piece of corroborating evidence cannot be overlooked.
October 23rd, 2010 at 11:09 am
The Maya Calendar has the Dec. 21, 2012 date correct. It was based on zodical Precession or the end of a Great Year which is also the end of the Piscean Age. Astronomers know that the Great Year ends on that date so did the Maya also end their long count calendar on that date. Many cycles of time end on that date as well as other calendars. The Maya were not the only ones who knew about that date as most of the world did up till the late 1800′s when the knowledge was lost. Christ taught it in the Bible. Washington DC was laid out by our Freemason founding fathers to remind visitors to the city of that date. Monuments carved in stone were left world wide to remind us of that date. The ancient Maya have had it correct all along.
October 28th, 2010 at 7:27 am
Whew- glad I have a few more years to live
November 20th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Breaking News… regarding the end of the Mayan Calendar in the year 2012 or even 100 years later.
There has been a lot of debate among scholars as to the exact correlation of the Mayan calendar with the European calendar. A number of researchers including my late father Maya archaeologist Dr. Stephan F. de Borhegyi, (better known as Borhegyi), and most notably E. Wyllys Andrews (1960, 1965, 1965c, 1968, 1973) have presented convincing archaeological evidence favoring the correlation developed by Herbert Spinden. It is the Spinden correlation that sets all Maya dates 260 years earlier than the G.M.T. correlation.
Recently a petroglyph was found in Central Mexico, carved into a hillside dated archaeologically at 2000 B.C., of a monkey jumping from a mushroom (first noted by the author) with what appears to be a probable Long Count date located above the monkey’s left shoulder. If this date (2169 BC) can be confirmed, it fits the “once favored” correlation of the Mayan Calendar developed by Dr. Herbert Spinden, which establishes the beginning of the world at 3374 B.C. that, in turn, places the “so-called” end of the Mayan Calendar at 1752 rather than 2012.
According to archaeologist Michael Coe, only two correlations meet the requirements of both dirt archaeology and specific dates. Bishop Diego de Landa, who wrote his chronicles shortly after the Spanish Conquest, tells us of an event which fell on a certain day in the 52 year calendar round that he said coincided with July 16th, 1553 in the Julian Calendar. This calendar, developed by the Romans during the reign of Julius Caesar was used in Europe until it was revised in the year 1582 during the papacy of Gregory the X!!!, after which it was known as the Gregorian Calendar. This is the calendar now used in most countries in the world. Another date, recorded in the native chronicles known as the Chilam Balam, set the date of the Spanish foundation of the city of Merida in Yucatan in the Julian calendar date of January 1542.
A number of correlations have been developed, but the one that has been generally accepted is the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson (GMT) correlation, associated primarily with archaeologist J. Eric S. Thompson. This correlation, which fits much of the chronological evidence from archaeological and historical sources, is the basis for the belief that the world will end in the year 2012. The correlation developed by archaeologist Herbert Spinden, and named after him, also fits much archaeological and historical data. The two correlations differ, however, by 260 years.
If this interpretation is correct, it establishes the beginning of the world at 3374 B.C. That, in turn, places the “so-called” end of the Mayan Calendar at 1760 rather than 2012. In other words, contrary to much contemporary hype, the end of the “fifth world” may have already ended. If so, there was no Armageddon and the Mayan Calendar simply began another cycle.
Carl de Borhegyi
To see a sketch of the monkey petroglyph and read more of archaeological evidence which supports the Spinden correlation go to mushroomstone.com and visit 2012 Alert!