They note that the association of Bolon Yokteʼ Kʼuh with bʼakʼtun 13 appears to be so important on this inscription that it supersedes more typical celebrations such as "erection of stelae, scattering of incense" and so forth.

While political conspiracy theories usually lack the apocalyptic dimension of doomsday forecasts, “more often than not, political conspiracies hint at an imminent threat to a way of being. Jenkins claimed that the classical Maya anticipated this conjunction and celebrated it as the harbinger of a profound spiritual transition for mankind. From hiding in bomb shelters to sharpening their survival skills, doomsday theorists are preparing for judgment day, which the Mayan calendar predicts will take place on Friday.The Origin of the 260-day calendar: the gestation hypothesis reconsidered in light of its use among the Quiche Maya" (PDF). Asteroids, mysterious cosmic blackouts, fictional planetary alignments with equally fictional destructive effects, polar shifts and solar storms – all have figured into various predictions of the end, rocketing around the Internet and scaring the daylights out of a good many people. Another idea tied to 2012 involved a geomagnetic reversal (often referred to as a pole shift by proponents), possibly triggered by a massive solar flare, that would release an energy equal to 100 billion atomic bombs. To those who counter that Nibiru might be invisible, Lepo explains it would still gravitationally affect the planets in the solar system and asteroids that are being monitored.

The idea is not to mock those who fear such claims, but to offer solid scientific reasons for their dismissal. The solar coronal brightness decreases by a factor of about 100 during a solar cycle as the Sun goes from an "active" state (left) to a less active state (right). On the west panel at the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, a section of text projects forward to the 80th 52-year Calendar Round from the coronation of the ruler Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal. NASA Armstrong continues to demonstrate America’s leadership in aeronautics, Earth and space science, and aerospace technology. Climate change may not seize people’s attention in the same way as more implausible theories, because of its gradual nature.On 23 July 2012, a massive, potentially damaging, solar storm came within nine days of striking Earth. The Book of the Life of the Ancient Mexicans, Containing an Account of Their Rites and Superstitions: An Anonymous Hispano-Mexican Manuscript Preserved at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy (Reprint of 1903 edition with additional commentary). En el año 2023, la temperatura promedio de la superficie de la Tierra fue la más cálida que se haya registrado, según un análisis de la NASA. Unlike the 260-day tzolkʼin still used today among the Maya, the Long Count was linear rather than cyclical, and kept time roughly in units of 20: 20 days made a uinal, 18 uinals (360 days) made a tun, 20 tuns made a kʼatun, and 20 kʼatuns (144,000 days or roughly 394 years) made up a bʼakʼtun. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon when I was 14, soon to turn 15, so I'm an Apollo era kid.

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Evidence shows that the Sun passed through the plane bisecting the galactic disc three million years ago and in 2012 was moving farther above it. A worldwide panic ensued, stoked by the media and such newspaper headlines as “Comet May Kill All Earth Life, Says Scientist. Evo Morales criticó al sistema capital durante celebración maya" [Evo Morales criticized capitalism during Mayan celebration]. Of course, we’ve debunked this far-fetched hypothesis, as the Large Hadron Collider has been operating smoothly for years. I then got involved in programming music after I invented a particular type of fractal tune based on self similar sloth canon sequences.

w]e're on the verge of transitioning to a dispensation of consciousness that's more intuitive, mystical and shamanic". For example, we’ve built cities by the ocean and farms in places where weather conditions are good for crop growth. The main ceremony in Chichén Itzá was held at dawn in the plaza of the Temple of Kukulkán, one of the principal symbols of Maya culture. Celebraciones marcan el cambio de era del calendario maya" [Celebrations marking the change of the Mayan calendar era]. Some believers in a 2012 doomsday used the term "galactic alignment" to describe a different phenomenon proposed by some scientists to explain a pattern in mass extinctions supposedly observed in the fossil record.

Based on observations of modern Maya rituals, Gronemeyer and MacLeod claim that the stela refers to a celebration in which a person portraying Bolon Yokteʼ Kʼuh was wrapped in ceremonial garments and paraded around the site. I don’t know whether she was exaggerating, but I took her at her word,” said Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA’s near-Earth Object Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. This year, the project that I co-direct was lucky enough to find a monument that had a reference to this particular date, today in fact. Until now, where at the site of Xultun in the last couple of years we've been able to uncover some wall paintings that actually replicate the kind of numerical tables that we see in the much later codices in a late classic, probably the early 800s, house in the site of Xultun that has those same tables painted on the walls.