Posted on December 1, 2011 - by admin

A second reference to 2012 in Mayan inscriptions? (Answer: probably not)

A bit of extra excitement for the world of Mayan scholarship and 2012-watchers: from the blog of Johan Normark, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Historical Studies at University of Gothenburg.

“Yesterday the news spread around the 2012 world that there is another ancient Maya inscription that mentions December 21, 2012 on the so called Comalcalco bricks. For example, Rob Bast wrote an entry called Dec 21, 2012: Second Mayan reference.”

Normark goes on to explain why a) this isn’t actually the significant ’second reference’ that it seems to be and b) even if so, big deal! It would make only two references in the Mayan canon (admittedly somewhat minimal after the efforts of Diego de Landa), to the supposed cataclysm of 2012. (which should surely merit a bit more prominence, if it was indeed an over-arching prediction of doom!)

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