Wednesday 2 July 2008

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Carl de Borhegyi said...

Breaking News, regarding 2012 and the End of the Mayan Calendar.

New evidence would indicate that the correlation of the Mayan Calendar, with the European Calendar could be off by 256 years, and contrary to much contemporary hype, the end of the fifth world may of ended in the year 1756, in other words,the world did not come to an end, the Mayan Calendar simply began a new cycle.

There has long been a debate among scholars as to the exact correlation of the Maya calendar with the European calendar. By the time of the Spanish Conquest the Maya Long Count system of dating had been out of use for hundreds of years. Maya dates were written in an abbreviated form called the Short Count which made any exact correlation with the calendar used by the Spanish a virtual impossibility. Attempts to correlate the Mayan Long count with secular time resulted in two different interpretations; the GMT (Goodman-Martinez-Thompson) correlation and the Herbert Spinden correlation. The two correlations differed by 256 years at the crucial Julian year of 1539.
The Goodman-Martinez-Thompson (GMT) correlation has been the basis for the belief that the world would end in the year 2012. This correlation fits much of the chronological evidence from archaeological and historical sources. However,the correlation developed by Herbert Spinden fits even better than the GMT correlation with archaeological evidence from both the Maya lowlands and southern Highland regions. According to this correlation, all Maya dates fall 256 years (one Short Count cycle) earlier than the GMT correlation, meaning that the prophesied end of the world occurred in the year 1756.