'Cause it goes to eleven.
At Palenque, the texts of the Cross Group state that on December 9, 3121 BC a woman named Muwan Mat was born. Then 754 years after the era began on August 11, 3114 BC she gave birth to GI of the Palenque Triad on October 23, 2360 BC. These dates span the creation date, beginning in a 12th bak'tun and picking back up in a 1st bak'tun. Here are the long counts in sequential order:But then, on the other hand:
12.19.13.4.0 8 Ahau 18 Sek -- December 9, 3120 BC -- Birth of Muwan Mat
13.0.0.0.0 4 Ahau 8 Kumku -- August 11, 3114 BC -- Creation Date
1.18.5.3.7 13 Kimi 19 Keh -- October 23, 2360 BC -- Birth of GI
There is reason to believe that the number 13 was used as a symbolic way to say "completion." There are texts at Yaxchilan, Coba, and the Dresden Codex that present long count dates in which many cycles above the bak'tun repeat the number 13 as their coefficients. The example at Yaxchilan, on a panel in front of Temple 33, places ten 13's above a contemporary date:And what did the Maya think of the date 21st of December 2012? In a shocking twist,
13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.9.15.13.6.9 -- Oct 19, 744 AD
there is only one text known to record the 13.0.0.0.0 date for December 21, 2012 AD. It was found on Monument 6 from Tortuguero and the text is broken right after the date is mentioned, occulting the event that was to have been referenced.So in short, the 21st of December 2012 would have been significant to the Maya because the date ends a b'ak'tun, a cycle of almost 400 years. The significance may also go beyond this, but this is far from certain.
Hello, I'm David McGahan: "What's German for eponysterical?"Eponysterisch.
ERROL MORRIS: Did the Mayans really predict that the world would end on December 21, 2012?I'm no expert, so I'm not up on the scholarship regarding the Mesoamerican calendar, but I've always liked this idea since I read it.
DAVID HUMISTON KELLEY: No. It’s based on a false assumption.
ERROL MORRIS: Please explain.
DAVID HUMISTON KELLEY: They are 208 years too early. [The correct date is December 21, 2220 – E.M.] I wrote a long article on various ways of solving this problem. I included in a footnote that you could almost get things to matchup correctly, if you used correlation 660205, the Julian day number of the base state of the Mayan calendar. Which is also the interval between the translation of the number in the Mayan baktun, katun date, if you add that number to that date you get what we would consider to be the equivalent date. Ha! A bit complicated but I think you can follow. The colonial Mayas, most of them didn’t have any clue about this. The ones who did were the calendar specialists and they made sure to keep their mouths pretty tightly shut because the Spaniards were burning people at the stake for maintaining pagan ideas of which the calendar was a major part. The calendar determined all the ceremonies and rituals, when people were sacrificed, all the nasty things and all the good things.
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