[Aztlan] National Geographic Magazine

[Greg Sandor]

If the Maya calendar can be renewed at the end/beginning of the cycle, is
anyone doing this?  Will there be a new calendar calculated for the coming
cycle?

Regards,

Greg

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry Avila" <hwavila at tutopia.com>
To: <Aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] National Geographic Magazine


>
> I read a similar situation in one the the lastest issues of "Popular
> Mechanics" where they post that a giant asteroid will impact on Europe in
> some decades.
>
> Many times the wish for profit defeats the wish for communicate veridic
> information to the people.  The case of the "Maya End of the World 2012"
> it´s more dramatic.  The WWW is full of wrong information about it and the
> worst thing is that there are books talking about the Maya End of the 
> Word.
> We have the duty of to instruct and guide the people in order to stop this
> movement of wrong information.  Unfortunately, we don´t have the reach of 
> a
> popular magazine.
>
> Regards!
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <eschele at austin.rr.com>
> To: <Aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 4:09 PM
> Subject: [Aztlan] National Geographic Magazine
>
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> As many of you are aware, the National Geographic Manazine's issue for
>> the Month of August, has a segment on the ancient Maya and "How a Great
>> Culture Rose and Fell". After reading it, just for fun, I decided to go
>> online to their companion website for the story and take their online
>> quiz about the ancient Maya.  I was amused and surprised to see that as
>> an explanation to the question "The Maya’s counting system was based on
>> multiples of what?" (Answer of "20") they then included the following
>> statement:
>>
>> "The Maya used Long Count, a system starting at a mythological zero
>> date, which can be traced back to August 11, 3114 B.C. According to
>> this Maya calendar, the world is supposed to end on December 21, 2012."
>>
>> http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0708/feature2/quiz.html
>>
>> I know that NG magazine is designed for popular consumption, therefore
>> their stories are often an oversimplfication, but they could have at
>> least explained that for the Maya, the end was really the beginning and
>> that with the right ceremonies and sacrifices, the calendrical count
>> would indeed start anew.  I know that this sounds like a broken record,
>> but you might think that at least the NGM could get it right. The
>> ancient Maya did not believe that the world would "end on December 21,
>> 2012."  The calendar cycle ends yes, but not the world!
>>
>> lol,
>> Elaine
>>
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