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2012 is a 2009 disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor and others. It follows the survivors of a global cataclysm caused by a solar flare and the Maya calendar.
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. Learn about the Maya origins, the New Age interpretations, the astronomical alignments, and the scholarly rejections of the doomsday scenarios.
Apocalypto is a 2006 historical action-adventure film directed by and co-written by Mel Gibson, set in Yucatán around 1517. It follows the journey of a hunter named Jaguar Paw and his fellow tribesmen who are captured by Maya raiders and face human sacrifice and Spanish conquistadors.
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 Maya calendar system, which consists of several cycles or counts of different lengths, such as the 260-day Tzolkin, the 365-day Haab, and the Long Count. The Long Count is a count of days since a mythological starting-point, equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
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
13/13/13 is a 2013 American horror film about a global insanity outbreak on the 13th day of the 13th month of the new millennium. The film was directed by James Cullen Bressack and produced by The Asylum, and received negative reviews from critics.
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.