On the one hand it let Mesoamerican scholars make some money and get some attention which helps interest and funding in a VERY neglected field. On the other hand it was complete pap. Total nonsense. They had 4 MAJOR calendars and plenty of minor ones. The long term calendar just hit 0000 in 2012. What this ment to The Classical Maya isn’t clear, if this ment a new era philosophically or actually some kind of doomsday, who can say. We know they wouldn’t celebrate certain holidays if there was famine or drought, they’d wait till a good harvest then celebrate, they weren’t THAT beholden to the calendar.
On the one hand it let Mesoamerican scholars make some money and get some attention which helps interest and funding in a VERY neglected field. On the other hand it was complete pap. Total nonsense. They had 4 MAJOR calendars and plenty of minor ones. The long term calendar just hit 0000 in 2012. What this ment to The Classical Maya isn’t clear, if this ment a new era philosophically or actually some kind of doomsday, who can say. We know they wouldn’t celebrate certain holidays if there was famine or drought, they’d wait till a good harvest then celebrate, they weren’t THAT beholden to the calendar.