but is it possible to predict the end a
few years back many people thought they
had according to popular legend the
ancient Maya thought the apocalypse
would arrive on a specific date December
21st 2012
I want to know if this is really true
so I’ve traveled to their ancient
capital Tikal in Guatemala
I’m meeting Stanley Gunter who’s a world
leading decoder of Mayan inscriptions
this is the temple of the masks and on
the other side the temple of the giant
Jaguar this would have been the very
center of the ancient city of Tikal what
about those heads tall duck and things
they’re those what we call steal a steal
a steal a and they commemorate periods
in the Maya calendar so we see that they
would have been dedicated to periods of
time such as every 20 years every 10
years and especially every about 400
years the ending of the great baktun
cycles the festival to mark the end of a
baktun cycle would have culminated in
the king sacrificing the captive
does that go to say that the Mayans felt
that 2012 would be the end of time the
apocalypse so we heard a few years ago
about 2012 when people said the end of
the 13th baktun was going to be the end
of the world predicted by the Maya and
there’s a monument down here I think we
should take a look at that would help
explain that this is Stella 10 you can
see we’ve got a king there’s his head
big headdress full of feathers his
shoulders all of his jewelry down to his
feet if you look down below we can
actually see we have a captive we can
see his head
we have his hands and even down to his
legs he’s all tied up for sacrifice so
now what does this have to do with the
apocalypse well we have to go around the
other side here okay we have a date that
gives us a specific point in time we
have eleven years of 360 days then we
have three Cotton’s that’s about twenty
years each so we’ve got another sixty
and then here we have nine baktuns
because this is a date of about 525 ad
so if you remember we had 13 baktuns
ended in 2012 but the really interesting
thing is this monument doesn’t stop
there
it goes on and tells us there were 19 of
the higher unit the peak tip and even
higher we have 11 of the next unit and
so on each one of those units is 20
times larger than the previous so what
we see on this monument then is that 13
baktuns wasn’t the end of any calendar
it was simply the end of one cycle
within a whole series of nested cycles
each one larger than the other
you
few years back many people thought they
had according to popular legend the
ancient Maya thought the apocalypse
would arrive on a specific date December
21st 2012
I want to know if this is really true
so I’ve traveled to their ancient
capital Tikal in Guatemala
I’m meeting Stanley Gunter who’s a world
leading decoder of Mayan inscriptions
this is the temple of the masks and on
the other side the temple of the giant
Jaguar this would have been the very
center of the ancient city of Tikal what
about those heads tall duck and things
they’re those what we call steal a steal
a steal a and they commemorate periods
in the Maya calendar so we see that they
would have been dedicated to periods of
time such as every 20 years every 10
years and especially every about 400
years the ending of the great baktun
cycles the festival to mark the end of a
baktun cycle would have culminated in
the king sacrificing the captive
does that go to say that the Mayans felt
that 2012 would be the end of time the
apocalypse so we heard a few years ago
about 2012 when people said the end of
the 13th baktun was going to be the end
of the world predicted by the Maya and
there’s a monument down here I think we
should take a look at that would help
explain that this is Stella 10 you can
see we’ve got a king there’s his head
big headdress full of feathers his
shoulders all of his jewelry down to his
feet if you look down below we can
actually see we have a captive we can
see his head
we have his hands and even down to his
legs he’s all tied up for sacrifice so
now what does this have to do with the
apocalypse well we have to go around the
other side here okay we have a date that
gives us a specific point in time we
have eleven years of 360 days then we
have three Cotton’s that’s about twenty
years each so we’ve got another sixty
and then here we have nine baktuns
because this is a date of about 525 ad
so if you remember we had 13 baktuns
ended in 2012 but the really interesting
thing is this monument doesn’t stop
there
it goes on and tells us there were 19 of
the higher unit the peak tip and even
higher we have 11 of the next unit and
so on each one of those units is 20
times larger than the previous so what
we see on this monument then is that 13
baktuns wasn’t the end of any calendar
it was simply the end of one cycle
within a whole series of nested cycles
each one larger than the other
you
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