{"id":22093,"date":"2012-12-21T08:27:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T13:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-15T13:28:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T17:28:50","slug":"i-survived-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/i-survived-the-end-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"I Survived the End of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to some ‘experts’, the Mayans predicted that the end of the world is on or after 12\/21\/2012. Well if you are reading this the world did not end.<\/p>\n

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So who were the Mayans? According to this article<\/a>, the Mayan civilization<\/a> flourished in what is now the modern-day Central America<\/a> region which includes parts of Mexico<\/a>, Guatemala<\/a>, Belize<\/a>, El Salvador<\/a>, and Honduras<\/a>. The period of their society lasted from roughly 1800 BC to 800 AD. Why the Maya civilization disappeared is subject to debate among scholars, and includes theories such as a multi-year drought, peasant revolt, disease, and possible overpopulation.<\/p>\n

The Mayans left many contributions to the world including their hieroglyphic language, Mayan architecture<\/a> which includes the famous stepped pyramids, and one of their most famous contributions, the Maya Long Count Calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is the Mayan Calendar? The Mayan Calendar is actually a collection of several calendars the Mayans used to synchronize events for farming, politics, and astrological events such as the Venus cycle. All of these calendars ranged from as short as 13 days up to 584 days. The Mayans designed their calendar (we believe) to be liner in nature so that it could be extended to any date in the future until eternity. BUT IT STOPS! December 21, 2012 is the last possible day of the current Mayan Calendar.<\/p>\n

Did they expect a new, updated calendar would be created?<\/p>\n

Are you supposed to re-cycle the existing calendar as the Mayan culture was steeped in the recognition of death and rebirth?<\/p>\n

What did they intend when they made the current calendar?<\/p>\n

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Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I survived the end of the world, sorry Mayans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3125],"tags":[2197,1479,1478],"class_list":["post-22093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-2197","tag-end-of-the-world","tag-maya-calendar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22093"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131848,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22093\/revisions\/131848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}