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:) that's a funny idea, with the end of their calender wanting us to get a new one. actually astrologically seen in 2012 the I-dunno-which-planet or something similar changes from the Aquarius into the Pisces, after ages. As far as I know (and understood) it is a very big and important change (astrologically seen) and that's also, according to that guys, why the world is becoming worst and worst the last years, as it will be the end of some era, and the start of a very new one.

2012 isn't the end of the Mayan calendar. The Mayan calendar has no end (well, their Long Count calendar doesn't at any rate). In 2012 we start a new 394 year outermost cycle (its like a new millennium).

The reason people consider it a potential date for the end of the world, is that in Mayan mythology, this is the fourth world to be created, and the last one ended after 5122 years. December 21st, 2012 is the start of the 5123 year of the current world (Mayan time starts in August 11, 3114 BCE) and so some people have assumed that the world as we know it will end, and then be created a new. However, this was not a belief held by the Mayans (near as we can tell). For them it would just be a new millennium.

Good call.

actually, they did. its kinda creepy. they had a mythology about ships coming over the ocean full of white men who rode beasts and that it would wipe out their civilization. or maybe I am getting the Mayans confused with the Inca or the Aztecs. One of em predicted their own demise at the hands of the Conquistadors down to like the century.