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This is one of the most unbelievable things that is going around on the internet. It's ridiculous. Caesar created the leap year...Caesar created the leap year. Okay now let that sink in.
The Mayan Calendar does not have anything whatsoever to do with the Gregorian (western, christian) calendar, which was a modified and updated version of the Julian calendar to incorporate Easter.
The Mayan Calendar was based on astrology and the earth's relevance to where the stars lie in correspondence.
It is naive to think something like this is true. The Mayan calendar isn't set on the days of the year and especially our years in the Gregorian version. It is a complex long count cog system that ends when it ends. It did not end 7 months ago according to our time and the Gregorian calendar. It just so happens to end December 21, 2012. They are in no way related or influenced by one another. It is not written on the Mayan calendar that December 2012 is the end. It is a complex decimal system that starts over after that date. The Gregorian calendar and the leap years are completely irrelevant to the time it is ending. The calendar ends when it ends. And starts again where it starts. Our Gregorian calendar, Caesar's imposed leap years, and our agendas account for nothing based on the Mayan calendar systems. It ends December 21, 2012 because that's how we convey it, not because the Mayan's said December 21. The Mayan calendar did not end 7 months ago, it ends in a few months from now. The leap years did not influence the Mayans in any kind of way. http://www.learnabout2012.com/TheMayanCalendar.html, here is more information regarding the Mayan Calendar.
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Or to put it another way, the Long Count calendar counts days, not years. 1.8 million (or so) days. No years, so no leap years involved. Just a very, very long sequence of days, not tied to the moon, the sun, not to anything. Just like a computer would count them.
ReplyDeleteThank you!! That thing has been bugging me too. I don't know all of the technical details of how the long count calender works, but any idiot should see from common sense that the date of 2012-12-21 isn't something that the Mayans wrote down specifically, it's the date that their date translates to in our calendar..
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