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- From: ap1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrew C. Plotkin)
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Re: Trouble?
- Message-ID: <oeyN_1600gpIEPk3xb@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 21:30:41 GMT
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- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- wincerw@feserve.cc.purdue.edu (Bill Wincer) writes:
-
- -> Actually, I believe--but I'm not sure--that the Mayan calender
- -> does not stop at 2012. Instead I think that it starts into a new
- -> age at (or around) this time. I vaguely remember hearing that
- -> every age is supposed to be marked by some extraordinary events.
- -> I think that this approaching one is supposed to bring forth a new
- -> race of human(oid)s and a mass re-awakening of magick.
-
- I'm not sure what is "supposed" to happen, but the local references say
- that, yes, the new cycle of the Mayan calendar will begin on Dec. 23,
- 2012. (Archaeologists disagree over the exact date. I'm sure that with
- sufficient bull-headedness you could place it on Christmas -- not that
- that date is any more precise.) That will be cycle number 13. (13th
- since what? I dunno. Creation of the universe is popular for starting
- calendars.)
-
- The cycle is about 400 years long; cycle 12 began in 1618, give or take
- a few calendar corrections. (Actually, the cycle is exactly 400 * 360
- days; that particular Mayan calendar was not Sun-based, so it had no
- leap-days.)
-
- I'm not terribly expert on Mayan beliefs, but my impression was that
- they had a cyclical view of history; events tend to repeat in larger and
- smaller cycles. Anything cool happen in 1618? Or 1224? The classical
- Mayan civilization did collapse more or less around 830... (Well, it
- took several decades, and the northern parts of the Yucatan hung on
- longer.)
-
- --Z
-
- "And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
-