Doomsday Debunked: Nibiru is Nuts, False vacuum, Big Rip, Asteroid Impacts, Pole Shift, Blood Moons - Debunking Doomsday News

Product Information

Turistas invaden Copán Ruinas en cierre del 13 baktun" [Tourists invade the Copan Ruins for the end of the baktun 13]. FLATOW: And they tracked - they knew that Venus had a 584-day cycle in the sky and things like that? Salvadoreños celebran el 13 Bʼaktun entre danzas, ceremonias y deseos de paz" [Salvadoreans commemorate the Bʼaktun 13 with dancing, ceremonials and wishes for peace]. The twelve constellations that line the ecliptic are known as the zodiacal constellations, and, annually, the Sun passes through all of them in turn. Subscribe to our events calendar to stay up to speed on all things happening in social sciences at UCI.

December 2012 marked the conclusion of a bʼakʼtun—a time period in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used in Mesoamerica prior to the arrival of Europeans. Some Maya scholars, such as Barbara MacLeod, [45] Michael Grofe, [92] Eva Hunt, Gordon Brotherston, and Anthony Aveni, [93] have suggested that some Mayan holy dates were timed to precessional cycles, but scholarly opinion on the subject remains divided. S. television channel 18 on March 25, 1988, to announce that he would descend to Earth the following week in a physical form identical to Chen.Commenting on the new calendar found at Xultún, one archaeologist said "The ancient Maya predicted the world would continue—that 7,000 years from now, things would be exactly like this. But work by Yeomans and other scientists has resulted in identification of some 94 percent of space bodies large enough to be a global threat.

New Age proponents of the galactic alignment hypothesis argued that, just as astrology uses the positions of stars and planets to make claims of future events, the Maya plotted their calendars with the objective of preparing for significant world events.Author Graham Hancock, in his book Fingerprints of the Gods, interpreted Coe's remarks in Breaking the Maya Code [127] as evidence for the prophecy of a global cataclysm. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then – just as your calendar begins again on Jan. At present my main focus is on Bounce Metronome, another music program valued by musicians for its ability to play complex polyrhythms, rhythm cycles etc. A third suggested alignment was some sort of planetary conjunction occurring on 21 December 2012; there was no conjunction on that date.

But the fears themselves ought not to be so easily dismissed, says Lilith Mahmud, a cultural anthropologist at UC Irvine who studies political conspiracy theories. He also appears in inscriptions from Palenque, Usumacinta, and La Mar as a god of war, conflict, and the underworld.

And it was - it's a monument that has actually more to do with the politics of the time in which it was carved, which is really the end of the eighth century, but it has to do with today. His ideas were repeated by archaeologist Sylvanus Morley, [39] who directly paraphrased Förstemann and added his own embellishments, writing, "Finally, on the last page of the manuscript, is depicted the Destruction of the World . The 2012 Phenomenon: Maya Calendar, Astronomy, and Apocalypticism in the Worlds of Scholarship and Global Popular Culture".

Asked why people seem more cognizant of it in 2012, Lepo says: “It just happens to occur on the winter solstice this year. Embedded figures cannot be submitted, and we discourage the use of figures within eLetters in general. Although the Long Count was most likely invented by the Olmec, [14] it has become closely associated with the Maya civilization, whose classic period lasted from 250 to 900 AD. When he later discovered this date's proximity to the end of the 13th bʼakʼtun of the Maya calendar, he revised his hypothesis so that the two dates matched. Scholars from various disciplines quickly dismissed predictions of cataclysmic events as they arose.

Anxiety can make us all more prone to fear, and to looking for answers, and looking for a sense of control. I then got involved in programming music after I invented a particular type of fractal tune based on self similar sloth canon sequences. Critics argued that photons cannot form belts, that the Pleiades, located more than 400 light years away, could have no effect on Earth, and that the Solar System, rather than getting closer to the Pleiades, was in fact moving farther away from it. On 17 December 2012, Jell-O ran an ad saying that offering Jell-O to the Mayan gods would appease them into sparing the world.