The Mayan calendar is often referred to as the Aztec Calendar, or the "sun stone" consists of 3 complex calendars. They are the following:

The Religious Calendar
The Solar Calendar
The Long Count Calendar

The religious calendar, which takes 260 days to complete its full cycle, has 20 weeks made up of 13 days (not the standard 7 day week like we have). Every week comes with a unique name, an emblem and distinct significance related to it.

Their solar calendar comes with 365 days just like our present day calendar, which suggests that the Mayans DID know that the earth takes 365 days to orbit around the sun! The solar calendar is split into 18 months of 20 days each. Towards the end of the cycle, there are five days thought to be unlucky since they don't fit into any month. And again, every single month features a unique name, emblem, just like the religious calendar.

The religious and solar calendar, however, doesn't have a direct connection with 2012 predictions. To find out 2012 prophecies, we closely analyze the third calendar, the Long Count Calendar. The long count is set up in the format of days, beginning from day, "1," and counting through each day to the present. Every day ever in history can be documented using the Long Count Calendar and with a few easy math formulas, the Long Count Calendar can be deciphered.

The Long Count is numbered with a special numerical system. Our calendar years are formatted like this: 1850,1991, 1995, 2001, etc. The Mayans, however, only used 5 digits separated by a period.

The first digit was numbered from 0 to 20.The second digit was a range between 0 to 17, the third from 0 to 19, the fourth from 0 to 19, and the last from 0 to 12. The numbers were put together from right to left just like our current method.

We then can take any selected number using the formula above and separate it using a period. For example, we'll use: 3.10.7.12.0

Next, the numbers had to be multiplied by the following strict formula in order to get a day.

The first number was a multiple of 1, the second number was a multiple of 20, the third a multiple of 360, the fourth a multiple of 7200 and the fifth a multiple of 144000.

To get a day we calculate the 5 digits 3.10.7.12.0 like this:

(3 x 144000) + (10 x 7200) + (7 x 360) + (12 x 20) + (0 x 1) = 506,760 long count days.

Scientists and Archaeologists used the formula above to decipher the Mayan calendar dates, and calculated day 1 to be August 11th, 3114 BC, as well as the end of the calendar date that leaves everyone questioning - December 21st, 2012.

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