12-22-2012, 04:37 AM
(12-21-2012, 12:45 PM)Tal Wrote:(12-21-2012, 12:25 PM)eppie Wrote: It is interesting how a large group of people all of a sudden thinks that the Maya are right about something?
I mean how does that work? You wake up one day and think; maybe I should find out what maya people who lived a very long time ago think about this....and then I will believe everything they said?
Not to mention the whole "Didn't see the Spanish coming" end of their civilization.
inb4 "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition"
As far as the Mayans are concerned, a few things.
One, they did not predict an apocalypse, nor do they have anything to do with this ridiculousness. The ending of one bak'tun and the beginning of the next is no more or less significant than a Millennium by the Christian calendar. The bak'tun is not even the largest unit in the Mayan calendar, although it is the largest one usually counted.
Two, Mayan civilization was not ended by the arrival of the Spanish. Classical Mayan civilization had collapsed 500 years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue. The Mayan people, and their way of life, has continued ever since, as they were not wiped out by the Spanish.
-Jester