The Long Count calendar is 5,125 years long. Five cycles of the Long Count calendar add up to the great year to within one-half of one percent and the Maya show all five cycles in their artwork and talk about them in their folklore.

Many mainstream critics claim that this is just a coincidence since, in their opinion, the Maya could not and did not know about precession. But how could this be a coincidence when the Maya record stories about the shifts seen in their sky and base their calendar on what causes these shifts? And the ninety-nine and a half percent accuracy is quite compelling. In my opinion, this is strong evidence that the Maya had an accurate value for the precessional cycle. But this is just the beginning of the evidence!

Notice that the Maya have gone through less than one Long Count. What is most interesting is that they did not design the calendar and start using it as if they were on the first day. They started about three thousand years into it. Why? I think it's obvious they started at a specific point on purpose in order to have it end when they wanted. And consider this. What if they knew about the minor inaccuracy of one-half of one percent and properly accounted for it? If that were true, the calendar would of course end on the exact day that they wanted. Yes, the exact day!

Originally posted by Incarnated
reply to post by Waldy

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Why would we? We know where the errors are. We know no one wants to hear about them. We know how to tell time. The countdown has begun. It's only a matter of seconds before you see just how wrong we were.


Again? Why would we? We are a respectful lot. We don't wish to fill your fluffy threads with stuff you don't want to hear. We wish you would do the same for us, but we understand you're not that in control. You have something to prove and we can suport that. We'd only respond because you are so despet that you'd talk about us on your fluffy-a-nutta thread about false understandings based around the 2012 date.

As for us, we will be right in time. We have nothing to prove. Hope this answers your question.

[edit on 18-12-2008 by Incarnated]