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Mayan Doomsday
On the day of December 21, 2012, a day that will be fear as the date arrives has been target as the day of Armageddon. With most skeptics believing that it will be a normal day just before the holidays. But, what if ones nightmares come true and December 21 becomes a day of great pandemonium that man has ever seen. For those that don’t know who this source of these ideas of doom came from a great civilization whose past was full of darkness through the disappearance of their writing, dark secrets and its people. Which has recently been rediscover and who are these people one might ask well they are “The Mayans!” With this date arriving in next five years, must hurry up to look where this prophecy came from, who this people really are and is there any other sources of this date of destruction. Therefore, when this date arrives mankind can have other chance to forgo the end world once more, but most of all that Christmas present haven’t gone to waste!
What if someone was going to say that the current calendar is inaccurate than the Mayan nation who mysteriously disappear from the face of the earth and that current scientist agree with this statement. Their calendar is one and ten thousandth more accurate than Gregorian calendar which is what our current calendar is based off of. The Mayan calendar is more complex, but makes a lot more sense in the fact that it goes along with galactic/universal events which take place in space. The calendar is made up of three calendars call Tzolk’in, Haab’, and Long count. Each calendar has a specific amount of days and a special reasoning behind them. Without these calendars Mayan history won’t be the same in the fact that Mayan will learn of their future nation and fate of the world (Mayan Video).
The first calendar is like our solar calendar in the fact that it has three hundred sixty-five days, but made up of eighteen months of twenty days each plus a period of five days ("unlucky days") at the end of the year



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