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By: Daniel Nardini
The second most significant thing about this discovery is that it tells us something about the so-called prophecy of the year 2012. Later Mayan calendar system versions have what are called “baktuns,” or 400 year cycles. These Mayan calendars all have 13 baktuns, and they all point to the end of the cycles in what we call the year 2012. Many people today are interpreting this as the “end of the world.” However, this earliest known Mayan calendar system has 17 baktuns, and so this calendar goes well beyond 2012. Just as significant about this calendar is that it has larger number signs than baktuns. So this earliest of Mayan calendars projects beginning and ending cycles a million, a billion, a trillion, and even an octillion years from when the calendar system was written on the walls. In other words there is no end of the world anywhere near in sight, and certainly not at the end of this year. The Mayans, like the Indians (in India), believed that the world and the universe of existence is almost infinite.
There is no question that the Mayans actually believed that their way of life, their cities, their whole civilization would go on forever. Unlike the early Christians (and indeed the European peoples in the early part of the Middle Ages), who believed that the end of the world would come at certain times, the ancient Mayans in fact were not thinking this way at all. They believed that their institutions, their city states, their religion, their ruling houses and royal families, would actually go on forever. The end was the end of the cycle of what had gone on previously, but not the end of the world or the end of themselves. The Mayans believed in change, and not everything would be exactly the same. But they believed there would be things that would endure, and even today among the Mayan people this view is still there even if their civilization is not.