The MAYAN 12-12-12 & The End of the World 12-21-12.
We are hosting 1 event to acknowledge 2 important dates.
The first is the MAYAN 12-12-12 sequence of numbers. Something that does not happen very often.
And the second being the “End of the World” —December 21, 2012, to be exact—according to theories based on a purported ancient Maya prediction.
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What is going to happen on this day is, we will be at the above listed coordinates for exactly ½ an hour, from 12pm to 1230pm.
We will have a log book available for those wanting to sign in.
Because it will be lunch time, a fair few of you will not have much time. If you just want to drop by and sign the log book, you are more than welcome to do just that.
There will be a few parking spots for those that want to stop and have a chat to everyone.
We look forward to seeing you, hopefully not for the last time.
A bit of interesting reading...
But could humankind really meet its end in 2012—drowned in apocalyptic floods, walloped by a secret planet, seared by an angry sun, or thrown overboard by speeding continents?
And did the ancient Maya—whose empire peaked between A.D. 250 and 900 in what is now Mexico and Central America—really predict the end of the world in 2012?
At least one aspect of the 2012, end-of-the-world hype is, for some people, all too real: the fear.
NASA's Ask an Astrobiologist Web site, for example, has received thousands of questions regarding the 2012 doomsday predictions—some of them disturbing, according to David Morrison, senior scientist with the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
"A lot of [the submitters] are people who are genuinely frightened," Morrison said.
Fortunately, with the help of scientists like Morrison, most of the predicted 2012 cataclysms are easily explained away.
Maya Predicted End of the World in 2012
The Maya calendar doesn't end in 2012, as some have said, and the ancients never viewed that year as the time of the end of the world, archaeologists say.
But December 21, 2012, (give or take a day) was nonetheless momentous to the Maya.
"It's the time when the largest grand cycle in the Mayan calendar—1,872,000 days or 5,125.37 years—overturns and a new cycle begins," said Anthony Aveni, a Maya expert and archaeoastronomer at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
The Maya kept time on a scale few other cultures have considered.
During the empire's heyday, the Maya invented the Long Count—a lengthy circular calendar that "transplanted the roots of Maya culture all the way back to creation itself," Aveni said.
During the 2012 winter solstice, time runs out on the current era of the Long Count calendar, which began at what the Maya saw as the dawn of the last creation period: August 11, 3114 B.C. The Maya wrote that date, which preceded their civilization by thousands of years, as Day Zero, or 13.0.0.0.0.
In December 2012 the lengthy era ends and the complicated, cyclical calendar will roll over again to Day Zero, beginning another enormous cycle.
"The idea is that time gets renewed, that the world gets renewed all over again—often after a period of stress—the same way we renew time on New Year's Day or even on Monday morning," said Aveni, author of The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012.