End Of The World

A while ago, one of the news channels showed a programme on the End Of The World. The date predicted by the channel was 22-Dec-2012. The channel was refering to prophecies by Mayan Civilization.

This prompted me to do some googling on this subject. Read below :

The belief :

The Mayan calendar ends on December 22, 2012. For centuries thousands have believed the Mayan prophecy that all life on earth as we know it would cease to exist on that date, and that the earth would be reborn and a new cycle would begin.

Explaining the rubbish:

The so-called calendar "end date" is December 21 not 22 or 23. The answer to the question is NOTHING IS HAPPENING ON DECEMBER 22, 2012.

And this is what's happening on 21-Dec-2012: The Mayan Long Count calendar is moving over from 12 Baktuns to 13 Baktuns (similar to our calendar going from 1999 to 2000 except a Baktun is 400 years long !!). Also on that morning, which is the winter solstice, there will be an astronomical alignment between the sun and the dark spot on the Milky Way at dawn.

Want to know more:

The following link explains the rationale behind the Mayan Prophecy. I dint go through the whole thing as I found the article was toooooo lengthy :).

http://www.adishakti.org/mayan_end_times_prophecy_12-21-2012.htm