Oldest Mayan calendar found; goes way beyond 2012

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The oldest-known version of the ancient Maya calendar has been discovered adorning a lavishly painted wall in the ruins of a city deep in the Guatemalan rainforest.
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"The Mayan calendar is going to keep going for billions, trillions, octillions of years into the future," said archaeologist David Stuart of the University of Texas, who worked to decipher the glyphs. "Numbers we can't even wrap our heads around."
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Oldest Mayan calendar found, and it goes way beyond Dec. 12, 2012


Gee, what a surprise. :D
 
Aw crap. Couldn't they have kept this under wraps until after The End of the WorldTM? This was going to be so much fun. I've been looking forward to laughing at all the loonies. Killjoy.:mad:
 
So, I'm curious. Did the Mayans ever work out that whole 360 days and no leap year problem?
 
Psi Baba said:
Aw crap. Couldn't they have kept this under wraps until after The End of the WorldTM? This was going to be so much fun. I've been looking forward to laughing at all the loonies. Killjoy.:mad:
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Don't worry, the End of the WorldersTM will ignore all rational information, including this.
 
I'd like to know when the last "new cycle" began, for when the so called believers claim this will still be some kind of change.
 
My corporate motto in 1999:

We're Y2K complacent

My corporate motto in 2012:

We're Mayan compliant

Now I gotta think up another one. Ideas?

~~ Paul
 
Cool, I was just reading about the new find at the BBC.

The Xultun find is the first place that all of the cycles have been found tied mathematically together in one place, representing a calendar that stretches more than 7,000 years into the future.

The Mayan numbering system for dates is a complex one in base-18 and base-20 numbers that, in modern-day terms, would "turn over" at the end of 2012.

But Dr Saturno points out that the new finds serve to further undermine the fallacy that this is tantamount to a prediction of the end of the world.

"The ancient Maya predicted the world would continue, that 7,000 years from now, things would be exactly like this," he said.
"We keep looking for endings. The Maya were looking for a guarantee that nothing would change. It's an entirely different mindset."
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I think the number of EOTW believers is pretty small, but this also disproves the prevalent woo that says this will be the dawning of a new "spiritual" era.
 
This will be an easy one to spin, my prediction is that this one should show up any time now:

The insane said:
When this calendar was made, they thought the world wouldn't end, but new information came to light after this calendar was created. So don't worry all, the end of the world should still occur on schedule.
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Humans are great at rationalising problems away, and it's even easier to come up with rationalisations when rationality isn't a requirement.
 
supaluminal said:
This will be an easy one to spin, my prediction is that this one should show up any time now:


Humans are great at rationalising problems away, and it's even easier to come up with rationalisations when rationality isn't a requirement.
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When was the calendar they've been getting the end of the world "information" made? Was the Mayan culture in decline at the time?
 
Orphia Nay said:
When was the calendar they've been getting the end of the world "information" made? Was the Mayan culture in decline at the time?
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There is no Mayan calender from which anyone could get end of the world information. It's just that their counting system, like any counting system, reaches a nice round number periodically (like ours does every century, millenium etc). In the case of the Mayan calender the first occurence of the the roundest number of them all occurs on December 21st 2012. There's nothing in any of the writings/inscriptions left by the Mayans that would lead any rational person to think that they expected this round number to coincide with the end of the world, that's pure speculation. This latest find confirms that they had no such expectation.
 
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