Since we are coming up on 2012
and the end of the Mayan long cycle, we are bound to be subjected to end of the
world profiteers, if not prophets and other story tellers. Of course, no such tradition actually existed
in the form we understand it from our own traditions and we can discount any
such claims.
In the meantime we will catch a
few stories drawing our attention to the Mayan world which we have nicely
rediscovered during the past three decades and as beautifully recreated in the
cinema since.
A year from now, we can count on
the press to feet us all sorts of stories on this topic.
2nd Mayan Tablet Linked to 2012 Apocalypse
BUT SOME EXPERTS SAY: DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT
By Mary
Papenfuss, Newser Staff
Posted Nov 25, 2011 12:32 AM CST
(NEWSER) – The bad news is
that Mayan ruins make not one but two apparent references to a
possible apocalypse
in 2012. The good news—maybe—is that Mexican archeologists say not to worry
about it. Experts have finally confirmed that a second suspected reference to
2012 was found at the Comalcalco ruin in an inscription that has been
safeguarded in storage for years by Mexico Tabasco
But some experts say translating
the Mayan date to 2012 is inaccurate, and officials at Mexico's Institute
of Anthropology and History have long said such fears are a Westernized
misinterpretation of what happens at the end of a Mayan calendar cycle.
"Western messianic thought has twisted the cosmo-vision of ancient
civilizations like the Maya," the institute said in a statement yesterday.
But concern is running so high that a roundtable of 60 Mayan experts will meet
next week at Palenque to "dispel some of the doubts about the end of one
era and the beginning of another," the statement a
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