The Mysterious Mayan Calendar

Who are the Mayans

They were a people who lived in Mesoamerica, and that includes Mexico and Costa Rica. The time was from about 2000BC.

What is Special About Them

They had mastered astronomy, developed an elaborate written language, built towering monuments, and left behind exquisite artifacts.

They built impressive structures like these, including pyramids:

A calendar known as the Aztec calendar looks like this :

It weighs almost 25 tons, has a diameter of just under 12 feet, and a thickness of 3 feet.

260-Day Calendar

The Mayan had two calendars. One is a 260-day calendar, broken up into 20 periods, with each period containing 13 days. This was used for religious purposes.

365-Day Calendar

Somewhat like ours today, it has 365 days and was divided into 18 periods, with each period containing 20 days. This left five days that were not represented and considered days of nothing. This was a time of festivals.

Other calendars

In addition, the Mayans had 17 different Calendars based on the Cosmos. Some of these calendars go back as far as ten million years and are so difficult that you would need an astronomer, astrologer, geologist, and a mathematician figure them out. They also made tables predicting eclipses and the orbit of the planet Venus. How could the ancient mayans do what we cannot do or understand today with our supercomputers? Isn't that something we should ask and wonder if there had been help from some sources, like aliens, who have far greater knowledge than us? Why would they need so many calendars in the first place? Did aliens come from Venus or Mars and taught the Mayan all those knowledge?

Movement of Planets

The Dresden Codex is one of the few surviving books from the ancient Mayan civilization. It is filled with numeric equations based upon the movement of the planets, the sun and the stars. They took particular interest in the movements of Mars and Venus. How could these ancient people have such knowledge (we don't even have them today) without the use of advanced technology? Why would they want these knowledge if they did not have use for them?

They had a magic number-1,366,560. No one knows what it means today.

They had a god named Quetzalcoatl, who promised to return one day.

21st December 2012

What is attracting attention now is that the Mayan has a calendar that spans over 25000 years, and our year 2012 is the end of their current calendar. It is accurate even to the day - 21st December. Some people take it as the end of the world. Some predict a spiritual renewal (whatever that means is open to interpretation). The fact is, no one knows what will happen, and no other ancient prophecies has anything on it, not even the Book of Revelations in the Bible.