Apocalypse 2012 Back On? Second Mayan Inscription Uncovered
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Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History now says Mayan ruins show a second reference to the apocalypse occurring in 2012 but said that rumors of the world ending late next year were a Western misinterpretation.
On Thursday, the institute released a statement saying that the date of the apocalypse had been found on the carved or molded face of a brick at the Comalcalco ruin in the southern part of the country.
Most experts had previously said there was only one reference in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
Arturo Mendez, an institute spokesman, said the fragment known as the Comalcalco Brick had been found years ago and studied thoroughly. It is not on display and is kept in storage.
The Tortuguero and Comalcalco inscriptions were probably carved about 1,300 years ago.
The Mexican institute cautioned Thursday that “Western messianic thought has twisted the cosmovision of ancient civilizations like the Maya.” Its experts said that the Mayas believed that time started and ended with regularity, with nothing apocalyptic occurring at the end.
The institute plans to hold a meeting of Mayan experts next week to “dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another, in the Mayan Long Count calendar.”
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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“…were a Western misinterpretation.” Uh, hello? Mexico is part of the Western World.
Posted by: SamJ | November 25, 2011, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
Thought so! I’d never heard of any Mayan prediction of an apocolypse until all the Hollywood sensationalism, of course.
Posted by: Diana Summers | November 25, 2011, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
The deity named as descending and performing a ritual at the EOT is a deity that paralells the god referred to as Jehovah by the Cannanites being a god of war.
Posted by: Solarchild | November 27, 2011, 6:09 pm 6:09 pm
You people are too funny. This civilization didn’t know enough to prevent its own demise and certainly didn’t know enough to know the date of its own demise. But you’re going to believe it knows the date of the end of the world?
To try and give it credit for knowing when the earths is going to end is nothing but a knee slapper. It’s akin to the occasional whack job Christians telling us the same thing using their interpretation of their book of ignorance.
Posted by: joe | November 28, 2011, 6:42 am 6:42 am
I am always just amazed by the Mayan’s. A group of people living thousands of years ago, so brilliant that they have a perfect model of our complete solar system and had a map of all the land on Earth, even the land under the ice at Antarctica. To put that into perspective a little, thousands of years later Europeans knew the earth was the center of the universe and also that the world was flat.
Posted by: Mike | November 28, 2011, 9:01 am 9:01 am
Iran almost has the bomb and America almost has gay marriage. Seems like it’s probably almost time to light the fire.
Posted by: Max | November 28, 2011, 9:05 am 9:05 am
I’m sure the myths of an extinct civilization are more valid than the latest science. Or the myths of current civilizations, for that matter.
Posted by: Arf40 | November 28, 2011, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm
Of course it’s the end…the end of Obama’s reign.
Posted by: FrankFan2112 | November 28, 2011, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm
imagine if there was proof of 2012 apocolypse, do u really think government would tell people and initiate panic.
People would stop working, paying bills, rioting stores,etc.
Think about it?
Posted by: matt | November 28, 2011, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm
if it does happen it happes if it does not we will enjoy life a little more
Posted by: christian | November 28, 2011, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm
2012 Part 2 the story begin at the Comalcalco ruin then the adventure begin See in the theater soon
Posted by: Comalcalco ruin | December 4, 2011, 1:53 am 1:53 am
kymatica, its time to wake up
Posted by: luke | December 9, 2011, 11:29 pm 11:29 pm
To the naysayers keep this in mind….
The end of life as it was previously known has happened before on this planet.
Civilizations have been wiped off the face of the Earth, species have gone extinct in a day, there is proof of a flash freeze where it froze all animals in an instant yet you deny an end can come.
Of course it will come again and I don’t need the Mayan’s to tell me that.
I can look to history for that evidence.
I don’t think the world will end but many will die and our way of life will be over.
As the world continues to fall apart all around you, in the face of your own demise will you continue to say it isn’t happening?
Posted by: alisha | April 13, 2012, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm