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For the past twenty years scientists keep coming up with theories that the world will come to an end. Now the scientists have come up with a whole new theory called Nostradamus, which is supposed to happen on December 21st, 2012 at anytime of day. These scientists came up with this theory based on the Mayans calendar and how they thought the Mayans were very accurate on predictions and went along with it without really researching more into it. The Mayan calendar is cut down into three parts the Long Count, the Tzolkin and the Haab. Each of these parts is very different but, each convinced scientists that the world was going to end on December or 2012. On this day the world will not end, there are many reasons why this one day will not lead to the world ending just like that, and even though the Mayan Calendar has predicted almost all the eclipses correctly, the calendar could mean many different things that the Mayans believed in that these scientists have not uncovered yet.


A typical date in the Mayan calendar looks like 12.18.16.2.6, 3 Cimi 4 Zotz. The 12.18.16.2.6 is part of the Long Count, which is one of three parts of the Mayan calendar. The Long Count is a mixed base-20/base- 18 or a number, meaning the number of days since the beginning of the Mayan era. The basic unit of the calendar is the kin meaning day, which is the last component of the Long Count. The remaining components are:


uninal (1= 20 kins or days)


tun (1 = 18 uinal = 360 days)


katun (1 = 20 tun = 7,200 days)


baktun (1 = 20 katun = 144,000 days)





The kin, tun, and katun are number from 0 -19, uinal numbered 0- 17 and baktun numbered 1- 13. The tricky thing about when the Long Count started is that is should have been 0.0.0.0.0, but since it is in the baktun which only numbers 1 -13, they had to start it at 13.0.0.0.0. No scientists know for sure when this date really took place but they have come across three dates which include the following: August 13, 3114 BC, August 11, 3114 BC, or October 15, 3374 BC. From this these scientists deem that the Long Count will reach 13.0.0.0.0 again on December 21st 2012 AD.


Additionally, the Long Count was only one of three parts of the calendar; the second part of this calendar is the Tzolkin. The Tzolkin is a combination of two week lengths, since our calendar uses a single week of seven days; the Tzolkin is being used as two different lengths of the weeks. A numbered week is of 13 days in which the days were numbered 1-13, and a named week of 20 days, which the names of the days were:


0. Ahau 1. mix 2. lk 3. Akbal 4. Kan


5. Chicchan 6. Cimi 7. Manik 8. Lamat 9. Muluc


10. Oc 11. Chuen 12. Eb 13. Ben 14.lx


15. Men 16. Cib 17. Caban 18. Etznab 19.Caunac





How someone reads this part of the calendar is actually quite simple, first off the smallest Long Count digit is 20 days, if the last digit of today’s Long Count is 0, the reader looks at the weeks and finds 0 which is Ahau. Since the numbered and the week were both “weeks,” each of the name/number changes daily. For example the day after 8 Lamat will not be 9 Lamat, but simply 9 Muluc, and the next time 8 Lamat comes around 20 days later, it will become 10 Lamat instead of 8, and the next time 8 Lamat comes again is not until 260 days of passed. The Tzolkin is also a 260 day cycle which either had good or bad luck associations connecting each of the days, which because of this became know as the “divinatory year.”


Moreover, the last part of the Mayan calendar is called the Haab. The Haab was the civil calendar and consisted of 18 “months” of 20 days each, followed by 5 days extra which is known as the Uayeb which gives a year length. Then months were:


1. Pop 2. Uo 3. Zip 4. Zotz 5. Tzec 6. Xul 7. Yakin 8. Mol 9. Chen 10.Yax


11. Zac 12. Ceh 13.Mac 14.Kankin 15.Muan


16. Pax 17. Kayab 18. Cumku


Unlike the Tzolkin, where the names of the months change daily they change every 20 days. For instance the day after 4 Zotz would be 5 Zotz, all the way up the 19 Zotz and then followed by 0 Tzec. The months are numbered 0 – 19, which uses the 0th day which is unique to the Mayan system; it is thought that the Mayas had discovered the number zero long before Europe or Asia had discovered it. The Uayeb comes in with a reputation of bad luck or “days without names/souls,” and were used as days for prayer and mourning. Adding the Long Count in, the Haab corresponds to 8 Cumku.


In any event, based on the Mayan calendar scientists have come to a conclusion that the world will end on December 21st of 2012. What most people do not realize is that the Mayans believe that this is an attempt to calibrate a 5th processional cycle of earth and each cycle consists of 25,920 years. On this date we are going to be entering a new era resulting from the solar meridian crossing the galactic equator, and the earth will be aligning it self to the center of the galaxy.Need Feedback on my essay. I would really appreciate it! Best Advice best answer?
Great essay! I'm impressed! My advice: write more stuff about the theory in general not just the calender. Great job though.


Hope I helped! Good Luck! :)Need Feedback on my essay. I would really appreciate it! Best Advice best answer?
Nostradamus was the last name of a man. Nostradamus is not a theory, although he did have some.
First, your thesis is wrong. I know of no scientist who has ever proposed that the world will end.





That little detail aside, the essay is well done.
its kind of dry try putting some personality into it i know its hard to put personality into a factual report but it can be done











godd luck and i like the topic i saw a show on it a couple of weeks ago











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