In 2010, during excavations, American archaeologists discovered another Mayan calendar that "cancels" the alleged end of the world. Meanwhile, scholars dispute the very definition of the Mayan calendar, because it simply cannot be completely recorded. We are only talking about a unified set of rules for an ongoing dating system in which individual dates, periods and cycles are recorded. Like any other, it is relevant as long as it is used.
The calendar found is an astronomical table containing complex mathematical calculations of the cycles of motion of Venus, Mars and the Earth. The surviving murals describe in detail the solar and lunar years. The calendar is compiled for the next 7 thousand years. Entries are made on the walls of one of the buildings. It has been suggested that the building in which the ancient scientist lived could be a kind of school of astronomers, and the graffiti was a visual aid.
The find does not contain any predictions regarding the alleged end of the world. Moreover, according to scientists in the classical tradition of Maya civilization, such a concept does not exist at all. Disasters, earthquakes - all this is present in the Aztec calendar mythology. The myth of the end of the world in 2012 is the result of an incorrect combination of these traditions.
The mentality of the ancient Mayans was fundamentally different from the existing one. Where modern humanity is seeking the end of the world, they have seen the continuation of life in a new time period. There is a version that according to Mayan calendar representations for 2012, there is a change of eras. A deity named Bolon Okte will rule the next time period, which will end in 7136.
Alexander Safronov, a member of the European Mayan Association, draws an analogy between the Mayan calendar and the current Gregorian calendar. He says that they simply cannot be complete. A calendar is just an astronomical calculation-based dating system. And nobody, in general, except perhaps specialists, cares about how many years ahead the Gregorian calendar has been drawn up, what will happen when the billing period ends.
Tables of calendar calculations were found in the province of Pétain in northern Guatemala, where one of the largest "dead cities" of the Mayan civilization is being excavated. The ruins of Shaltun were discovered back in 1915. Systematic excavations began in 2001. Scientists date the find to the 9th century A.D. Today it is the oldest of all known calendar entries of the Mayan civilization.
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