German Researcher Claims Mayan Apocalypse is Re-Scheduled on Christmas Eve
Apparently, the Mayan calendar doomsday scare continues. Nikolai Grube, a German researcher who is an expert in Mayan artifacts interpretation, claims that the world might end on Christmas Eve, December 24.
According to Grube, though most of the Mayan writings indicate the calendar's end last December 21, there are many other dates mentioned including December 24. Many people have predicted that the dates could mean the Mayan Apocalypse.
"Two-thousand-twelve was a very interesting year for Mayan research," Nikolai Grube of the University of Bonn stated. Researchers were able to find the room of a Mayan scribe at the excavation sites in Xultun, Guatemala.
The walls of the scribe's room are reportedly covered with numbers and images of calendar measurements which confirm the Mayans work with several astronomical cycles of the planets such as Mars, Venus and Mercury. The Mayans also attempted to forecast the solar and lunar eclipses.
The December 21 date indicated on the Mayan calendar is the end of the so-called "baktun." This particular date is similar to the millennial change that happened last December 31, 1999 where people commemorated it worldwide. A "baktun" is a unit of time in the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar where it is divided into even longer phases.
"Baktun" represents 144,000 days or approximately 394 years. The Mayan calendar began about 5,125 years ago. According to the Mayan mythology, that was the time when the world was created with the belief there are also other worlds that existed in the past. However, harmonizing the present-day calendar with the Mayans may not be a good idea.
Nikolai Grube further added that a few days difference in the Mayan calendar is possible. Hence, this supports his claim that the end of the 13th "baktun" may not have really happened last December 21 but it could on December 24.
Meanwhile, at least 80% of all the identified Mayan writings have already been decoded and interpreted. There are several writings that mentioned dates far beyond than the December 21, 2012 Mayan Calendar end. "You find dates in Mayan texts that are thousands or millions of years into the future," Grube declared. However, the texts emphasized that the world still exists and the gods are still present which contradicts the Mayan apocalypse predictions.
