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  • It's not the End of the World: emic evidence for local diversity in the Maya Long Count

  • Mark Van Stone
  • Journal:
    Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 7 / Issue S278 / January 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 July 2011, pp. 186-191
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    January 2011
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  • Examining Ancient Maya notions about prophecies and their calendar cycles, we find that they predicted no ‘end of the Maya calendar’. Indeed, surviving texts and art indicate that they seem to have expected no change in the status quo whatever, for at least 4000 years into the future. This search also turned up evidence that different local schools of calendar-priests differed significantly from each other; it is entirely possible that priests in one city expected the End of the World, while their peers elsewhere believed the opposite.

  • The 2012 phenomenon: Maya calendar, astronomy, and apocalypticism in the worlds of scholarship and global popular culture

  • John B. Carlson, Mark Van Stone
  • Journal:
    Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 7 / Issue S278 / January 2011
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    26 July 2011, pp. 178-185
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    January 2011
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  • This essay introduces the papers from the specially organized session on the theme ‘The 2012 phenomenon: Maya calendar, astronomy, and apocalypticism in the worlds of scholarship and popular culture’. The papers that follow address this topical theme in the contexts of Maya and Western cultures as well as academic and popular cultures.