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The 2012 phenomenon was a range of beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012, the end of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. The web page explains the Maya origins, the New Age interpretations, the doomsday scenarios, and the scholarly rejections of the 2012 phenomenon.
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.
The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but new research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span.
One frequently cited date was December 21, 2012. This date had many apocalyptic associations, as it was the end of a cycle in the long count in the Maya calendar. Several writers published books connecting the encounter with 2012. [23] Despite that date having passed, many websites still contend that Nibiru/Planet X is en route to Earth.
Mayan civilization itself ended hundreds of years ago, but the calendar ticked They had agriculture, written language and, as we've been learning in story after story this week, a calendar.
Learn about the non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar used by pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, especially the Maya. Find out how it counts days from a mythical creation date, how it uses zero and Mesoamerican numerals, and how it is written on monuments.
This is a list of topics that have been criticized as pseudoscience by academics or researchers, based on their logical, methodological, or rhetorical flaws. The list covers various fields of science, such as astronomy, physics, biology, and psychology, and includes examples of pseudoscientific claims and arguments.
Mayahypotesen – Svenskarnas roll för Gaias födelse år 2012, (Maya hypothesis – Swedes' role in Gaia's birth in 2012), Carl Johan Calleman (1994). ISBN 91-630-2576-0 (Available in pdf in Swedish) The Mayan Calendar: Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our Time, Carl Johan Calleman, Garev Publishing International (2001) ISBN 0-9707558-0-5