2012 and A Deadly Birthday
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Seeing how I may die on my birthday three years from now didn’t seem to be a fun thing to do. However, my curiosity got the better of me when I learned that this end of the world scenario was predicted by the Mayas hundreds of years ago.
As a matter of fact, 21 December 2012 seems to be going to be a very special day. Wikipedia details the special “occasions.”
The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization among others, completes a “great cycle” of thirteen b’ak’tuns (periods of 144,000 days each) since the mythical creation date of the calendar’s current era.[6] On this day the Long Count date at creation—written 13.0.0.0.0 in modern notation, equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar—is repeated for the first time in a span of a little over 5,125 solar years.[7] The completion of this cycle and the repetition of the previous Creation’s Long Count ending date have been central to the 2012 phenomenon. Academic researchers have not concluded that the ancient Maya themselves attached similar significance to this point in time
And, while watching the resolution of 2012, I, and I’m sure a lot of other people too, were reminded of the biblical story of Noah, especially when animals were airlifted via helicopter into the Arks. And, like the age old story of Noah and his family, the 2012 film was enthralling as well with its version of how the world was submerged for 27 days due to the effects of a solar flare, and the beginning of a new world at Cape Hope in Africa.
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