[img]http://resources2.news.com.au/cs/newscomau/v2/_shared/base/css/images/icons/homepage-title.png[/img] Source: [url]http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/dont-worry-about-end-of-the-world-in-2012-mayan-tablet-doesnt-predict-apocalypse/story-fn5fsgyc-1226212034359[/url]
[img]http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2011/12/02/1226212/033782-2012-movie.jpg[/img]
Someone tell this monk to relax, everything's going to be just fine. Picture: Courtesy of Columbia Pictures Source: news.com.au
[release] • Hieroglyphs expert says there'll be no apocalypse in 2012
• Nothing about the end of the world in Mayan tablet
• Mexican institute tries to dispel talk of world ending
[B]THE end is not near.[/B]
At least that's according to a German expert who says his decoding of a Mayan tablet with a reference to a 2012 date denotes a transition to a new era and not a possible end of the world as others have read it.
The interpretation of the hieroglyphs by Sven Gronemeyer of La Trobe University in Australia was presented for the first time Wednesday at the archaeological site of Palenque in southern Mexico.
His comments came less than a week after Mexico's archaeology institute acknowledged there was a second reference to the 2012 date in Mayan inscriptions, touching of another round of talk about whether it predicts the end of the world.
Gronemeyer has been studying the stone tablet found years ago at the archeological site of Tortuguero in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
He said the inscription describes the return of mysterious Mayan god Bolon Yokte at the end of a 13th period of 400 years, known as Baktuns, on the equivalent of Dec. 21, 2012. Mayans considered 13 a sacred number. There's nothing apocalyptic in the date, he said.
The text was carved about 1,300 years ago. The stone has cracked, which has made the end of the passage almost illegible.
Gronemeyer said the inscription refers to the end of a cycle of 5,125 years since the beginning of the Mayan Long Count calendar in 3113 B.C.
The fragment was a prophecy of then ruler Bahlam Ajaw, who wanted to plan the passage of the god, Gronemeyer said.
"For the elite of Tortuguero, it was clear they had to prepare the land for the return of the god and for Bahlam Ajaw to be the host of this initiation," he said.
Bolon Yokte, god of creation and war, was to prevail that day in a sanctuary of Tortuguero.
"The date acquired a symbolic value because it is seen as a reflection of the day of creation," Gronemeyer said. "It is the passage of a god and not necessarily a great leap for humanity."
Last week, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology said a second inscription mentioning the 2012 date is on the carved or molded face of a brick found at the Comalcalco ruin, near the Tortuguero site. It is being kept at the institute and is not on display.
Many experts doubt the second inscription is a definite reference to the date cited as the possible end of the world, saying there is no future tense marking like there is in the Tortuguero tablet.
The institute has tried to dispel talk of a 2012 apocalypse, the subject of numerous postings and stories on the Internet. Its latest step was to arrange a special round table of Mayan experts this week at Palenque, which is where Gronemeyer made his comments.
Many experts doubt the second inscription is a definite reference to the date cited as the possible end of the world, saying there is no future tense marking like there is in the Tortuguero tablet.
The institute has tried to dispel talk of a 2012 apocalypse, the subject of numerous postings and stories on the Internet. Its latest step was to arrange a special round table of Mayan experts this week at Palenque, which is where Gronemeyer made his comments.[/release]
Wow, really!? No shit!
First post says it all.
[QUOTE=BldrGyMnGy;33528933]First post says [B]it all.[/B][/QUOTE]
No, the second one does
we know that since the 2012 rumor started...
you are late as fuck
[QUOTE=falcont2t;33528984]we know that since the 2012 rumor started...
you are late as fuck[/QUOTE]
Hey, news is news.
[quote]From correspondents in Mexico City
From: AP
December 02, 2011 9:41AM[/quote]
I thought we already knew this.
and then i herped i derped
and the world ended in 2012
Oh jesus christ save this shit for NEXT December.
Everyone knows what this new era will be like.
[video=youtube;2rZEYLNg3gs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZEYLNg3gs[/video]
[sp] If you don't get it it's because the games plot is that the events of 2012 brought magic back to the world[/sp]
fuck. my bunker is almost done... I'm gonna sue the mayans
And suddenly people are [B][I]SHOCKED![/I][/B]
People will just move on to the next big doomsday idea. I hope it involves a Roman Legionnaire Zombie apocalyse.
In other news the sky is blue and we breathe air.
Here in Guatemala, the Capital of the Mayan civilization, we always laugh our asses off everytime we see an idiot flipping shit about 2012. That is exactly what we been saying all the time, the mayans refer to 2012 as a year of mayor change on the world, the dawn of a new era.
[QUOTE=N-12_Aden;33529781]People will just move on to the next big doomsday idea. I hope it involves a Roman Legionnaire Zombie apocalyse.[/QUOTE]
Skeletons don't make for good zombies.
[QUOTE=Fables;33530087]Skeletons don't make for good zombies.[/QUOTE]
You clearly have never played any kind of fantasy RPG
aw and I had my sign ready for 2012, what a waste.
Oh hey I just realized how close this is
Completely honest question: Should I go out on that day? I'm sure that more than a few people will use it as an excuse to loot, and I'm right off of a major shopping street.
[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;33530344]Oh hey I just realized how close this is
Completely honest question: Should I go out on that day? I'm sure that more than a few people will use it as an excuse to loot, and I'm right off of a major shopping street.[/QUOTE]
I never understood why people loot.
It's so much better to loot looters. You don't need to go through rubbish to find the good stuff.
[QUOTE=Firegod522;33529814]In other news the sky is blue and we breathe air.[/QUOTE]
We do? I thought everyone else breathed carbon dioxide too! What the actual fuck.
[QUOTE=Hidole555;33529395]Everyone knows what this new era will be like.
[video=youtube;2rZEYLNg3gs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZEYLNg3gs[/video]
[sp] If you don't get it it's because the games plot is that the events of 2012 brought magic back to the world[/sp][/QUOTE]
I forget, was that plot device ever part of the original PnP Shadowrun?
Also that game never happened, the only Shadowrun game ever made is the one for the SNES and Genesis.
really??
[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;33530344]Oh hey I just realized how close this is
Completely honest question: Should I go out on that day? I'm sure that more than a few people will use it as an excuse to loot, and I'm right off of a major shopping street.[/QUOTE]
Kill all the looters and take their loot. It's only fair.
[quote]...denotes a transition to a new era...[/quote]
Yeah...
[h2]THE APOCALYPTIC ERA[/h2]
[QUOTE=Santz;33529888]Here in Guatemala, the Capital of the Mayan civilization, we always laugh our asses off everytime we see an idiot flipping shit about 2012. That is exactly what we been saying all the time, the mayans refer to 2012 as a year of mayor change on the world, the dawn of a new era.[/QUOTE]
With all the political and economic instability around the world, you are probably right about the dawn of a new era
[QUOTE=Fables;33530087]Skeletons don't make for good zombies.[/QUOTE]
Roman Legionnaire Draugr then
[QUOTE=N-12_Aden;33529781]People will just move on to the next big doomsday idea. I hope it involves a Roman Legionnaire Zombie apocalyse.[/QUOTE]
In 1986, a clandestine cadre of top Russian officials, faced with proof that their glorious republic was soon to dissolve, concocted a plan - send a series of massive, time-travelling, 200-mt nuclear bombs to the far future of 2023. The simultaneous detonation would result not only in mass destruction and wide-spread nuclear fallout, but it would also alter the Earth's tectonic behavior, decimating the capitalist pig-dogs in a series of CG-intensive earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions, all shot in crystal-clear HD. With the world in shambles, a secret army of half-man-half-gorrila Soviet supersoldiers, grown and trained over the last thirty years in secret bunkers miles beneath the Siberian wastes, will rise to the surface to claim the world in the name of the newly reborn Soviet Union.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
