The supposed end of the world according to the Mayan calendar is Friday Dec. 21, 2012 but now scholars are saying that the date could be off by a few days. The Mayan "Long Count" calendar system might actually correspond to Sunday not Friday said Carmen Rojas who is an archaeologist with the National Institute of Anthropolgy and History in Mexico to the Los Angeles Times.
Some scholars say that the calendar hasn't been accurately decoded enough to correlate to the calendar we use today. "Rojas stressed that the Maya not only calculated baktun cycles of 144,000 days, but also had systems that measured the marches of Venus and the moon. Other scholars note some Maya glyphs mark dates thousands of years further into the future," reported the LA Times.
Rojas said that Dec. 21 was not a relevant date and that it was an "accident that someone would take and pull it out."
"If you look at a book of Maya epigraphy, there are so many dates that could be commemorated. The glyphs are also not so easily interpreted. It depends on the correlation that you use," she added to the LA Times.
The Huffington Post erported that due to Mayan text discovered in June, the text does not talk about the end date as a prophecy of doom.
"This text talks about ancient political history rather than prophecy," Marcello Canuto, the director of Tulane University Middle America Research Institute, said in a statement. According to the Huffington Post "This new evidence suggests that the 13 bak'tun date was an important calendrical event that would have been celebrated by the ancient Maya; however, they make no apocalyptic prophecies whatsoever regarding the date."
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