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Re:The Mayan calendar might represent a longer timescale tha... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:33AM (#35783396)
The old one didn't say the end of the world was 2012 either. It was just the date going from 0.0.0.0.12.19.19.17.19 to 0.0.0.0.13.0.0.0.0

And there exist Mayan documents talking about dates that are still in the future!

The rumor was just because the previous world supposedly ended after that amount of time, with the current world being the fourth, but it was specifically not supposed to happen to this one.

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Re:The Mayan calendar might represent a longer timescale tha... by jcranmer on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @01:34AM (#35783741)
More specifically, the Mayans dated the (most recent) creation as happening on 13.0.0.0.0, with the next day being 0.0.0.0.1. Given that Mesoamerican cosmology explicitly talks of multiple incarnations of creation, some people took it to mean that the current cycle of creation would end on 13.0.0.0.0, but there's no evidence that any Mayan thought this was true.
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