Mayan Prophecies

Introduction

The Mayans created a powerful civilization in Central America, unfortunately killed by gold-hungry invaders from Europe. Some consider them, along with the ancient Egyptians as the descendants of Atlantis. Their civilization has had significant achievements: astronomy, mathematics, hieroglyphic writing, and monumental pyramids. They were known mathematical concept of zero, the number 'dwudziestkowym' wrote down in the system. Maya ran very accurate observations of the sky, able to set the date of solar eclipses, calculated the time cycle of the moon around the Earth, used a very accurate calendar.

Mayan Calendar 2012

The Mayans had a very elaborate system of measuring time. Their calendar, or as some say, the system calendars allow very accurate calculation for the next days, months and years. In their culture, the calendar was more than just a tool for measuring consecutive days to express their philosophies and vision of the world. Marked the meaning and order of the world, defined the place of the whole community and individuals in the universe. According to the calculations of astronomers in 2012 during the December solstice sun would be in the area of ??the Milky Way. When the Sun is in this area should take place upgrade of the world, his new birth. Maya predicted respectively for the events that would change the course of history. Therefore, the timing produced by this extraordinary culture, it should be understood not only physical, but above all a spiritual culture too. We attach great importance Mayans to the reckoning of time (Thomas, 234).

Mayan Prophecies

The history of the Mayan civilization is full of questions, now is not 100% able to decipher hieroglyphic writing (known as glyphs), but a feature of Maya is that they were big time meters, did not have watches, but his mathematical and astronomical advances with the observation of the heavens, they were allowed to set a timetable centuries ago with a near-perfect accuracy. The Mayans refer to worlds as great changes that have hit the planet earth; we are currently living defining the Fourth World (Douglas, 75).

Ritual calendar

Timing system developed by the Maya was very thorough and was a combination of three types of calendars. The first is the ritual calendar 'tzolkin' in which the calendar year had 260 days, designated combinations of the names of 20 consecutive days and the numbers from 1 to 13. This means that each subsequent day of the year had a different designation and the full names of the days will not be repeated. The second component of the calendar 'tum' was divided for 18 months. The third element was 'haab' solar calendar, in which the calendar year consisted of 18 months counting 20 days and one month, counting 5 days, which the Mayans believed to be an unlucky time (Stray, 37).

Long Count

It consisted of the timing of the date recognized as the initial, as in the Gregorian calendar we measure time since the birth of Christ. Dates from the Maya Long Count denote their buildings and temples. This brings to mind the ...