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Artist and writer, Jose Arguelles, the man who first floated the idea of Resurrection is based on the Mayan calendar. But the meeting of experts on the ancient Mayan city in Mexico's southern state calendar is just a sign of the end of one period of creation and the beginning of another period.
"We have to explain about that. There is no prediction about 2012," said Erik Velasquez, an etching expert at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). "That interpretation is wrong."
History of the National Institute of Anthropology in Mexico has tried to quell the rise of the forecasters who predict the coming apocalypse is based on the Mayan calendar. "Thought the West had turned the worldview of ancient civilizations like the Mayans," the institute said.
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| A general view shows the exterior of the tomb of a Mayan ruler at the ruins of the Mayan city of Palenque in the hills of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas in this undated handout photo by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) released June 23, 2011. (Picture from: http://www.reuters.com/) |
In the Mayan calendar, long count calendar begins on 3,114 BC and is divided into periods called Baktun 394 yearly. Mayans regarded as a sacred number 13, and Baktun to-13 expires next year.
Sven Gronemeyer, Mayan code researcher from La Trobe University in Australia, who tried to uncover the meaning of that calendar, consider what is called as the last day reflects a transition from one era to the next era, namely the return of Bolon Yokte. "Because Bolon Yokte already been present on the day of creation," he said.
Institute stated, of about 15 thousand glyphic script, only two were mentioned in 2012. Mayans do not think the issue of humanitarian or global warming. "It is we who projecting our concerns to them," said Alfonso Ladena, professor of the Complutense University of Madrid. *** [REUTERS | KORAN TEMPO 3726]
