during the height of their civilization
they were one of the few cultures that
had established writing they had art
mathematics and also astronomy with 2012
fast approaching the Mayans are on
everyone’s radar because of the supposed
doomsday prediction should we be
concerned hi I’m Rebecca Braden and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be learning more about the Mayans and
why the world is so intent on predicting
its end people are familiar with the
Mayans everyone’s heard of them but not
many people know much about them the
Mayans were an amazing culture that
lived in Mesoamerica from southern
Mexico to northern Central America the
culture began in around 3,000 BC and it
lasted until the Spanish conquest which
ended around 1700 AD the Mayans were one
of the few cultures to have an accurate
calendar because they were astronomers
and they kept track of the cycle all the
planets in the Sun of the Moon they have
several calendars and one of them is
called the Long Count calendar it lasts
5,125 years on December the 20th 2012
it’s the last day of the Mayan Long
Count calendar the next day December the
21st 2012 the Long Count calendar starts
over people got the impression that well
since this long Mayan cycle is coming to
an end so is the world but in fact it’s
like our calendar we don’t worry that
the world is coming to an end on
December 31st each year because there’s
a new beginning the following day
I’ve heard that the winter solstice
December 21st 2012 is going to mean the
earth aligns with the center of the
Milky Way in fact the earth aligns with
the center of the Milky Way around every
winter solstice each time the earth goes
around the Sun on the winter solstice
what happens is the earth is on one side
the Sun is in the middle in the center
of the Milky Way is on the other side
but it’s not a perfect line as a matter
of fact the entire solar system is about
four thousand light years above the
plane of our galaxy which means there
can never be a perfect alignment the
idea of looking out for doomsday is not
only important it kind of strikes a
chord in all of us but I think also
there’s a certain sense of excitement
and mystery about it all
they were one of the few cultures that
had established writing they had art
mathematics and also astronomy with 2012
fast approaching the Mayans are on
everyone’s radar because of the supposed
doomsday prediction should we be
concerned hi I’m Rebecca Braden and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be learning more about the Mayans and
why the world is so intent on predicting
its end people are familiar with the
Mayans everyone’s heard of them but not
many people know much about them the
Mayans were an amazing culture that
lived in Mesoamerica from southern
Mexico to northern Central America the
culture began in around 3,000 BC and it
lasted until the Spanish conquest which
ended around 1700 AD the Mayans were one
of the few cultures to have an accurate
calendar because they were astronomers
and they kept track of the cycle all the
planets in the Sun of the Moon they have
several calendars and one of them is
called the Long Count calendar it lasts
5,125 years on December the 20th 2012
it’s the last day of the Mayan Long
Count calendar the next day December the
21st 2012 the Long Count calendar starts
over people got the impression that well
since this long Mayan cycle is coming to
an end so is the world but in fact it’s
like our calendar we don’t worry that
the world is coming to an end on
December 31st each year because there’s
a new beginning the following day
I’ve heard that the winter solstice
December 21st 2012 is going to mean the
earth aligns with the center of the
Milky Way in fact the earth aligns with
the center of the Milky Way around every
winter solstice each time the earth goes
around the Sun on the winter solstice
what happens is the earth is on one side
the Sun is in the middle in the center
of the Milky Way is on the other side
but it’s not a perfect line as a matter
of fact the entire solar system is about
four thousand light years above the
plane of our galaxy which means there
can never be a perfect alignment the
idea of looking out for doomsday is not
only important it kind of strikes a
chord in all of us but I think also
there’s a certain sense of excitement
and mystery about it all
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