How many of you out there have heard of the Mayan calendar? I am sure unless you have been living in a cave for the last 10 years you have heard that it runs out in 2012. You have probably seen the television programs, recently or maybe you even saw the movie, '2012.' The actual date for the Mayan calendar to end is on December 21, 2012. There have even been people that speculate that the world will in fact end in 2012.

I just want to state the facts about the Maya calendar in this article:

First, the Maya calendar is purely a system with unique calendars and almanacs. The Maya civilization did in fact use this system for many years. However, it did end on December 21, 2012. There have been a lot of other claims that also predict that the year 2012 could be the end of civilization, as we know it. One is the Nostradamus Prophecies.

Ok, so we all know the Mayans were great in developing a calendars. So how do these calendars work?

With aside from a western calendar the Mayan calendar revolves around a 260 day cycle. Believe it or not the Mayan calendar is still used in some regions of Oaxaca by the Maya communities of Guatermalan highlands. So there are is a solar cycle ; this is simply a period of time that earth orbits the sun, lunar cycle, and a Venetian cycle. The Venetian cycle pays close attention to Venus. The big picture is the overall cycle, though. It will make a complete cycle on Dec 21, 2012.

So many scholars know the Maya version as the Tzolkin, or Tzolk in. Whatever you want to call it is combined with a three hundred and sixty five day calendar which is known as the Haab. 52 Haab is a form of a synchronized cycle.

There is a different form of the Mayan calender called the 'Long Count'; this based on the number of days since the mythological starting point. According to GMT correlation this starting point is equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC.

So why should anyone care about the Mayan calendar?

It is a fact that this calendar is more accurate than the one we currently live by. Maybe, the Maya civilization did in fact know something that we do not know. They were in fact attacked and conquered by the very technology they had created themselves.

So all and all, the calender does in fact in end on the December 21, 2012. It is an interesting subject that everyone seems to be talking about. Does this mean that the world will end? No one really knows the Mayan calendar does complete a cycle on Dec. 21, 2012, though. They did foretell their own future, could they in fact foretell ours?

Will The End Be 2012?

This is just the tip of the iceberg. There a bunch of how the world will end predictions. The weird thing is they all relate to the date December 21, 2012.