Developed or Dumb & Dumber?

The hype around doomsday was generated by some fools and supported by some useless TV channels. No wonder there some TV channels surviving only for spreading rumour and creating panic. Finally, we got over it and I think 21^st, 2012 was as good as it gets. When the urban Indian took it quite coolly, people from some of the so-called developed countries were having petty immature approach towards it. The precaution taken by some of them were so ridiculous that you only doubt about their sanity. The doomsday bunkers, the ship (Noah’s Ark) and many more that we have seen or heard during past few days or rather almost a year.  Every civilization left some footprint behind and it was same with the Mayan. The Mayan never invented the calendar was in question but they developed it further and still used in some of the Mayan countries. The calendar is over 5000 years old and ended on 21^st December, 2012. The Mayans never predicted the end of the world.

Mayan Calendar

The Maya kept historical records such as civil events, their calendar and astronomical knowledge. They maintain a distinctive set of traditions and beliefs due to the combination of pre-Columbian and post-Conquest ideas and cultures. The Maya and their descendants still form sizable populations that include regions encompassing present day Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and parts of Mexico. The essentials of the Maya calendar are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout the region, dating back to at least the 5th century BCE. It shares many aspects with calendars employed by other earlier Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Zapotec and Olmec, and contemporary or later ones such as the Mixtec and Aztec calendars.

Designed

The Mayan Calendar consists of three separate corresponding calendars, the Long Count, the Tzolkin (divine calendar) and the Haab (civil calendar). Time is cyclical in the calendars and a set number of days must occur before a new cycle can begin.

Tzolk'in

The tzolk'in  or tzolkin is the name commonly employed by Mayanist researchers for the Maya Sacred Round or 260-day calendar. The word tzolk'in is a neologism coined in Yucatec Maya, to mean "count of days". The various names of this calendar as used by precolumbian Maya peoples are still debated by scholars.

Haab'

The Haab' was the Maya solar calendar made up of eighteen months of twenty days each plus a period of five days at the end of the year known as Wayeb'. The five days of Wayeb', were thought to be a dangerous time. Maya had customs and rituals they practiced during Wayeb'. For example, people avoided leaving their houses and washing or combing their hair.

The Long Count

The Long Count is an astronomical calendar which was used to track longer periods of time, what the Maya called the “universal cycle”. Each such cycle is calculated to be 2,880,000 days (about 7885 solar years). The Mayans believed that the universe is destroyed and then recreated at the start of each universal cycle. This belief still inspires a countless of prophesies about the end of the world.

The Mayan calendar completes its current “Great Cycle” of the Long Count on the  December 21, 2012, hence the innumerable of doomsday prediction was surrounding on this date.

Doomsday’s fear is all in the mind of a person and only for those who are having a very weak frame of mind.

!!!I In due time Life will die its own death, fear cannot prevent it!!!