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thing to learn about the real me welcome to stuff. You missed in history class from Housetop works, dot, com hello and welcomes the Pied gas Time editor kinda then joined by staff. Writer change their kindness Jane. Did you take time the other day to watch all of the inauguration ceremony use and television for a cheer were also visiting your transcribe I've been watching. I want you to annoy ok, so you followed up on our story. The fashion this feature is the blue bird, etc. So of course, young heiress funding housed efforts office because a couple of us dropped our work anyway, the common ran, and we watched the ceremony.

Tv and of his. It was really special and and not just because the bomb, a girl's looked adorable and their brightly coloured closed and because record for doubt their names so fancifully I have. I have declared him Malea and such If we really couldn't get enough, we ve been saying it around the office ever since then by IRAN really great, be in a room with intelligent people watching such historic event and thinking how utterly incredibly, tragically sad. It is the last inauguration we will ever see because the world will end in twenty twelve. Oh, my goodness, now it seems that non ets I dont mysterious did, I believe I was afraid it. Everybody worked up, excited for our podcast say, which is about the mine calendar and it or at all, familiar with the mind calendar. You may know that there's a prophecy that the world will end on December, twenty first, twenty twelve, this shit

and some people are a little on edge about this idea. Although it doesnt have that much history in terms of the mine calendar. In terms of what the mines actually believe, which is interesting right, I think a lot of these fires can be attributed to doomsday speakers and we actually guys are always popular Yod workers, their funding here about in their fund the thing about short of the end of the world, so that the end of the world, we actually got a listener, email about the mine calendar and I'm not quite sure of our friend Molina- is a doomsday believer or she just wanted to hear more the story behind it, but she wrote to us. How do I like to know with the Mayans really say about this twenty twelve and of days. I have heard many interpretations most I think you're geared selling books, smart girl and doomsday gear. I'd like to know how, after it were their predictions and why this calendar was so important to them. So Molina here's the answer and we will start by cracking the code behind them

calendar and understand this year. Do we have the overall context about the Lion civilization in general? I guess So what you know the Mayans the whole empire was incredibly sophisticated. They existed around parts of what is now Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and parts of southern mixer. I was well and They were a very sophisticated culture. They actually started re. They were when the first message: Americans, the people and in that central american area- start writing it all in the pre classic period which went up to from between about you We see in three hundred eighty and you can actually do I the mind civilization into three distinct periods form as ever, pre classic which changes mentioned. Then the classic followed, not rain, three hundred until nine hundred and opposed classic from nine hundred to fourteen honey. And around that time we see the mayan

civilization sort of reaching a bitter end with the spanish inquisition. Come then inserts facing the culture out. That's true and scholars are bid baffled by what happened at the end of the classic period is interesting. They were incredibly service goodbye. There was a time about nine hundred eighty, where are they recent sharp decline in their civilization, they left he's in temples abandoned. It was very odd and scholars disagree about what caused whether it was exhausting the food supply or their wars among peoples and your eye. Is the Spanish arrived and built the fourteen hundreds fourteen hundreds and that sort of ended the period of the Mine empire in general, and we know a lot about mine history for crises were people who left written records. They had a system of hieroglyphics if they use for recording myths and history and other governmental decrees. Things like this, they actually had eyes would like a primitive type of Burke and paper that were bound together as well as sigh which were large, freestanding sternly.

Demands of us like a novelist relay that they would car things and you, and, in addition to hieroglyphics, they also had a logo, graphics and fanatics. The law back. So Alphabet stay in many ways or at least three ways really of recording there. Straight through a lot of their writings had to do with time in general. They are very focused, maybe preoccupied with the you have time and that's where we get the idea. They were in the how they came up with all the different calendars that they did. Write and calendars were important because they wanted to mark the passing of time because they look too We bodies in the sky to interpret the behaviour and the moods and whims of their gods. Many of their actions, whether it was you ceremony for for planting or for the economy or for accounting procedures or based on guard, behaviour in almost like today, how some people ascribed to astrology to determine how a person his personality may be influenced by their birth dates. The mines user calendar for similar purpose

as is written numbers themselves, held a particular importance, particular ones like the Number- thirteen, for instance held sort of religious connotations with it represented a levels Evan we're sacred lords ruled the earth, and so a number thirteen is important, and that applies over to the fore calendar, which is called the sole keen. I believe it's pronounced calendar and we should. Genteel they're, all manner of pronunciations, dried, greek, italian or research for the different increments of time and names in the mind calendar. So worse, There are some scholarly variations on pronunciation, but we are going to go with the most popular and to kick it all fighting said. Resulting calendar also called the sacred round calendar. Let's

let's break this down, and this is going to get a little bit painstaking. So if your near a computer at my actually be helpful, if you could go to the house for its website and pollute the calendar year resorted to article on how the mind how into work that rate, it will be easier to visualize. If you have a nice animation on the site, that will let you go through this Keen calendar, okay, so the basics joking calendars divided into two hundred sixty days This number is kind of significant nerve itself scholars kind of disagree with it. My signify, length of pregnancy, but more than likely probably signify the time of corn crop exactly so from here. Under sixty days are comprised of twenty different day names, and thirteen, too, numbers. So imagine two circles and

the outer a larger circle. We have a twenty day names listed and each one is represented by a cliff than on the end inside Sir God and her locks with thirteen different numbers. So, The inner circle turns a number matches up with a glimpse of a day. Name and if you're mass or you have a calculator nearby you may figured out. The two under sixty days is derived from the fact that twenty day names times, thirteen numbers equals to sixty yards. And so we go through the cycles of the days and the number, together and, as you know, thirteen is less than twenty. So once you got through the thirteen numbers, it would go back to this number, but continue on in the cycle. Of its Fraga thirteenth, sorry, the fourteenth day name exactly so just continues rotating until you reach two hundred sixty and each common. Number and day name has a significant meaning and the holy man and the agriculturalists of them

Civilization would use these numbers to predict auspicious time four ceremonies and crop planting like we said earlier, but there was a problem with the talking and sorting out the talking, while some people say talking risk. Doping, resulting how of- and that was that I didn't measure a full salary year, like their gregorian calendar, would do that there were more than of obviously to figure out day. There were seasons and two under sixty days was not us or year basically, and which also mention that the resulting calendar had segments of twenty days which they called. We know, do I and ale, and So these segments of twenties report particularly important in the carried over into their other calendars as well, and this led to the hot calendar- and this is a calendar that was based on the cycle of the sun, and we know, were sorted out. The formative unit of the hot calendar so

Jane said a winos a twenty day period. There are eighteen of these twenty day periods, which equalled three hundred sixty days. Now, as we know a guy three hundred sixty days does not a full solar cycle. May so they went through the three hundred and sixty is a pre even number, and I like it said the Mayans compensated for those five extra days by making them nameless days and they refer to those as a way out, and that was a single month comprised of these five days, and they thought it was a very dangerous toy I'm not right in the way I was kind of a compromise between the mathematicians and the astronomers, because, obviously the astronomers, nearly three hundred sixty is not a full so a year of a mathematicians love than the evenness over number three sixty. So that's where they get the compromise some of the web, and during this time I was customary tube, vigilant land to celebrate the guides and two beseech than for blessings on the civilization and hope site. You no good good tidings of be restored.

That's workers during the way they believe in God, sort of left the whole earth unprotected. So tight again they multinational here this refrain a couple of times. It wasn't enough, they wanted a longer calendar and the, even though the hub calendar is closest to our georgian calendar. Today, They did want to record more time in a single calendar, for local reasons, Suki posterity and us came up with was called the calendar round, and this had eighteen thousand Eight hundred ninety days and encompassed fifty two years by here comes out. Referring again it still wasn't long ass. Fifty two years was not enough, as you said, and so they wanted to make it even longer- and this is the massive massive calendar. I've ever heard of it's called the long court counter we refer to it today. Is that any more this time in great cycles in a great cycle spans a little over five thousand one hundred and twenty five years right. So the lawn

calendar also has its own individual units that it is comprised of. So let's go with us? We ve got one day, which is a keen twenty days, in all which we ve heard before three hundred sixty days a tune. Seven thousand two hundred days a cartoon one hundred forty four thousand days a dark tune so we have all these different individual components going inside along calendar, and we see that it is very good all for measuring ethics, really forgiving story and something to base their they on and predict future delegations going on end and things like, yeah. It was actually a difficult task to people find these euro date of the great cycle for instance, it were in cycle right now and in order to figure out what date today is in the great cycle, we had to figure out what the first with the beginning of this great sick cycle was in. That ended up being August, thirteenth

three thousand one hundred and fourteen b c, and we didn't just come up without number up and stands. There was in a british anthropologist name, Sir Eric Thomson who wanted to reconcile these different calendars. And in order to find out when the current great cycle began, he had to match up some different events from the spanish inquisition that had been recorded on the Dresden Codex, but was one of the mind governmental records that was spared from the ravages of finish inquisition and he took that and compared it alongside the long count, calendars, vavasor, gregorian calendar to come up with a definitive date and lighting said that was August, thirteenth. Thirty one fourteen BC, so we're in the middle of a great cycle, there's room, but if you do, the math were actually about to end that great cycle. Unless we get, the data The December twenty first, twenty twelve, which will end Michael. But it's important to know that the Mayans believe that this is not the first cycle is ever existed. It's actually believe the fourth, and so

the universe of the planet has lived through already three sites, the ends of three cycle, so the mines don't necessarily believe that the world or end at the end of this fourth one now, and they actually think that the ending of the cycle is really wonderful time to celebrate and to appreciate the fact that the planet has made it through another great cycle yeah. But There is also another reason why people think that this might be the end of the world, because an interesting things. Gonna happen on December, twenty first twenty twelve and then that it is a winter solstice. But you know happens every year, but is also particular went resources where the sun, while I'm at the centre of our galaxy and that have is only every twenty six thousand years. So like me, and your curious about what people say. You can do a Google search and pull up all number of different doomsday websites and predictions for December. Twenty first twelve range round combination of social strive and environmental catastrophe and in war as written

the meeting into a giant park collapse and some people say that a common ass right is going to impact the earth and we're all gonna die without the magnet. Field on the earth is going to change. The pulse will be reversed or or hey. You could rent male gibsons apocalyptic until you get a preview of what yeah. It's interesting. If you look at the idea that the mice were actually able to predict eclipses, which is pretty sophisticated, fur what they knew, and so maybe you might be inclined to think what did they know that this, crazy, haven't, says what may happen on that day too. Most astronomers actually agree that they could not have known this right. So Oh, I remember possibilities for December twenty first, yes, twenty twelve, and we know that this is a very hard concept to Thailand, your mind without seeing the visual AIDS. So we would strongly encourage you to look at the art.

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