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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!)

My advice to people who want to be fascinated with the 2012 apocalypse and lost Mayan documents with ancient prophecies?

Stick to fiction! There’s plenty of choice. For readers aged 12+ with an interest fact-blended with action-packed, time-travelling fantasy and manuscript hunting, best-selling series The Joshua Files begins with INVISIBLE CITY, which has been translated into 17 languages.

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Posted on November 10, 2009 - by admin

2012 debunkery - it’s just a story!

Well, every reputable scientific agency is producing information on why the 2012 ‘threat’ is not real. So much choice of 2012 debunkery!

I’ve picked National Geographic’s recent article about 2012, which similarly to our mayan2012kids own page about 2012 theories (only much more emphatically), it goes through the various - ahem - theories. Nat Geo admirably refutes each one, which is good, saves me the time.

If you’re worried about 2012, read the National Geo article. It’s good and concise.

What seems to be more of an interesting question is that NASA and National Geographic are even bothering to take time time to engage with this as a serious Thing.

As someone who thinks that the 2012 threat is suitable only for fiction, (much like the wicked witch and her gingerbread cottage, Voldemort, his Death-Eaters and the Priory of Sion), it’s quite baffling to me that serious, proper people like NASA and FAMSI etc need to actually dispute this.

What’s next - a sober article in Nature about how vampirism doesn’t exist? (And I mean an article. News and Views doesn’t count, they put any old gossip in that.)

What a credulous bunch we all must be. Not you, reader. If you’re a young person reading this because The Joshua Files made you anxious, be assured that the threat of 2012 is no more real than vampires, werewolves and wicked witches. It’s the stuff of nightmares and stories.

But you knew that already, didn’t you? Whatever thrills you enjoy from a bit of fictional threat, deep down you have Common Sense.

Everyone else, shame on you! How could the ancient Mayans possibly know the date of the end? Unless, like in The Joshua Files, (SPOILER ALERT - highlight the following text!) they had time travel…

I don’t know about you, but I’d need more than the possibility of t(spoiler) -ime travel to persuade me to lose a night’s sleep thinking that the world is going to end. I would need cast iron proof of t(spoiler) ime travel and a LOT more.

All the same I’m still going to enjoy seeing 2012 - Emmerich’s apocalyptic vision of mayhem. Some people like movies about virus-infected, flesh-eating zombies taking over a ravaged planet; I enjoy doomy eschatological fantasy.

Because I know it isn’t real…

Posted on October 15, 2009 - by admin

2012 is not the end of the world, Mayan elder insists

At least one Mayan elder is getting fed up of all the 2012 talk…Apolinario Chile Pixtun insists that 2012 is not the end of the world.

Here’s a quote from the 2012 article in The Telegraph:

But most archaeologists, astronomers and Mayans say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, internet doomsday rumours and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes “predictions” from Nostradamus and the Mayans and asks: “Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?”

Right on. Plus, hopefully readers will also be enjoying the fictitious adventures of young Josh Garcia as he and his friends fight to stave off 2012 catastrophe.