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In May 2012, an Ipsos poll of 16,000 adults in 21 countries found that 8 percent had experienced fear or anxiety over the possibility of the world ending in December 2012, while an average of 10 percent agreed with the statement "the Mayan calendar, which some say 'ends' in 2012, marks the end of the world", with responses as high as 20 percent ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 January 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. In Christian belief, the Last Judgement is an apocalyptic event where God makes a final ...
Hurray! The election is over, and thank goodness that television commercials can return to normal. And while there may be a collective sigh going up around the nation regardless of the election ...
Mayan civilization itself ended hundreds of years ago, but the calendar ticked. The Mayans were quite an advanced civilization. They had agriculture, written language and, as we've been learning ...
Maya inscriptions occasionally reference future predicted events or commemorations that would occur on dates that lie beyond 2012 (that is, beyond the completion of the 13th bʼakʼtun of the current era). Most of these are in the form of "distance dates" where some Long Count date is given, together with a Distance Number that is to be added ...
In the theme of Christmas and the spirit of giving, I plan to use the next few days leading up to Christmas to continue counting down the 12 Days of Christmas in all their Foolish glory. In my ...
John Major Jenkins (4 March 1964 – 2 July 2017) [1] was an American author and pseudoscientific researcher. He is best known for his works that theorize certain astronomical and esoteric connections of the calendar systems used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.
Instead he sees the Mayan calendar as describing the creation process of the whole Universe. [9] Within the logic of the Mayan Long Count, he says, an auspicious end would have to be on a day which is 13 Ahau in the tzolkin count. Since 21 December 2012 falls on 4 Ahau this is an unlikely end date. The 28 October 2011 is a 13 Ahau date. [10]