from an article i read on myspace 
The Mayan Calendars comprehension of time, seasons, and cycles has proven itself to be vast and sophisticated. The Maya understand 17 different calendars, some of them charting time accurately over
a span of more than ten million years. The calendar that has steadily drawn global attention since 1987 is
called the Tzolk'in or Cholq'ij. Devised ages ago and based on the cycle of the Pleiades, it is still held
as sacred. With the indigenous calendars, native people have kept track of important turning points in
history. For example, the day keepers who study the calendars identified an important day in the year One
Reed, Ce Acatal, as it was called by the Mexicans. That was the day when an important ancestor was
prophesied to return, "coming like a butterfly." In the western calendar, the One Reed date correlates to
Easter Sunday, April 21, 1519 the day that Hernando Cortez and his fleet of 11 Spanish galleons arrived
from the East at what is today called Vera Cruz, Mexico.
When the Spanish ships came toward shore, native people were waiting and watching to see how it would
go. The billowing sails of the ships did indeed remind the scouts of butterflies skimming the ocean surface.
In this manner was a new era initiated, an era they had anticipated through their calendars. The Maya
termed the new era the Nine Bolomtikus, or nine Hells of 52 years each. As the nine cycles unfolded, land
and freedom were taken from the native people. Disease and disrespect dominated. What began with the arrival
of Cortez, lasted until August 16, 1987 - a date many people recall as Harmonic Convergence. Millions of
people took advantage of that date to make ceremony in sacred sites, praying for a smooth transition to a new
era, the World of the Fifth Sun.
From that 1987 date until now, Mr. Barrios says, we have been in a time when the right arm of the
materialistic world is disappearing, slowly but inexorably. We are at the cusp of the era when peace
begins, and people live in harmony with Mother Earth. We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but
we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition.
As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction,
social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth changes. All this, Mr. Barrios says, was foreseen via the
simple, spiral mathematics of the Mayan calendars. "It will change," Mr. Barrios observes. "Everything will
change." He said Mayan Daykeepers view the Dec. 21, 2012 date as a rebirth, the start of the World of the
Fifth Sun. It will be the start of a new era resulting from and signified by the solar meridian crossing the
galactic equator, and the earth aligning itself with the center of the galaxy.
i view this whole 2012 thing the same way i view other "end of the world myths." oddly, those myths never prophecize the end of the world, only a great change that leads to a time of unrivaled peace and abundance.
Armageddon is a great battle which in the end takes us to 1000 years of peace.
Ragnarok is a great battle that destroys everything in yggdrasil (the universe, essentially) but from the ashes a new world of abundance is made for the last humans and gods to repopulate
Kali Yuga (hindu maybe?) is the "dark" times, or times of strife and discord, and the end is the darkest part, but then the cycle restarts and we go back to Satya Yuga, a time free of any unhappiness.
zoroastrianism traditions say that a great battle will occur between their lord "Saoshyant" and the destructive will of god named "Angra Mainyu." when the battle ends, the wicked suffer for 3 days and are then led to paradise with all the righteous.
i believe the same for this 2012 theory, if its real at all.
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