what does the mayan calendar say about 2012?
The End Of Time
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 December 2012 marked the conclusion of a b 'ak 'tun — a time period in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar , used in Central America prior to the arrival of Europeans . Although the Long Count was most likely invented by the Olmec , it has become closely associated with the Maya civilization , whose classic period lasted from 250 to 900 AD . The writing system of the classic Maya has been substantially deciphered , meaning that a corpus of their written and inscribed material has survived from before the European conquest . 

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 Scholars from various disciplines quickly dismissed predictions of concomitant cataclysmic events as they arose . Professional Mayanist scholars stated that no extant classic Maya accounts forecast impending doom , and that the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresented Maya history and culture , while astronomers rejected the various proposed doomsday scenarios as pseudoscience , easily refuted by elementary astronomical observations . 

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 The idea that the year 2012 presaged a world cataclysm , the end of the world , or the end of human civilization , became a subject of popular media speculation as the date of 21 December 2012 approached . This idea was promulgated by many pages on the Internet , particularly on YouTube . The Discovery Channel was criticized for its " quasi @-@ documentaries " about the subject that " sacrifice [ d ] accuracy for entertainment . " 

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 The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or otherwise transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012 . This date was regarded as the end @-@ date of a 5 @,@ 126 @-@ year @-@ long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar , and as such , festivities to commemorate the date took place on 21 December 2012 in the countries that were part of the Maya civilization ( Mexico , Guatemala , Honduras , and El Salvador ) , with main events at Chichén Itzá in Mexico , and Tikal in Guatemala . 

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 Several prominent individuals representing Maya of Guatemala decried the suggestion that the world would end with the 13th b 'ak 'tun . Ricardo Cajas , president of the Colectivo de Organizaciones Indígenas de Guatemala , said the date did not represent an end of humanity but that the new cycle " supposes changes in human consciousness . " Martín Sacalxot , of the office of the Procurador de los Derechos Humanos ( Guatemala 's Human Rights Ombudsman , PDH ) , said that the end of the calendar has nothing to do with the end of the world or the year 2012 . 
