The Mayan Calendar and 2012 Prophecies

[yogi3939]

Some real info on the Mayan Calendar and the 2012 Prophecies

There have been many things written recently about the Mayan Calendar and the “prophecy” predicting a cataclysmic end to the earth on December 21, 2012. But here are some real tidbits for you to chew on.

1 – The Mayan Calendar itself makes no predictions about the end of the world. It is just a calendar that includes several periods of time along with the actual day, month and year data we are accustomed to seeing on a calendar. The longest of these periods is the one that marks the orbital plane of the ecliptic of the solar system coming into alignment with the plane of the ecliptic of the Milky Way which is the galaxy the solar system resides in. This is a 26,000 year cycle and will complete its next alignment on Dec. 21, 2012.

2 – No one really knows how the ancient Mayans got such accurate information that they could construct such a calendar without the modern observational equipment we have today. But we Christians mostly believe it had to be some kind of satanic or demonic influence.

3 – What about the effects of that alignment? The fear mongering claims that the exact date of the alignment will bring on some gravitational influence on Dec. 21, 2012 that will cause catastrophic shifts in the earth’s core and crust that will all but destroy the world and bring mankind close to extinction are pure fluff with no substance to them at all. Let me explain….

To think that completing the final three years of the 26,000 year cycle will bring on such activity makes less sense than seeing that your wall clock has only three seconds to go until 12:00 Midnight and expecting the gravitational influence of the hands on each other to make them fall off at exactly midnight.

First of all you need to understand that the moon has hundreds, if not thousands, of times more influence on the earth through it’s gravity than anything else in our own solar system. You can discount the sun since it is what we are in a stable orbit around. All the perturbations in the earths orbit are caused by the moon and the other planets and their moons making the earths orbit around the sun vary by small amounts.

Now consider that the force of gravity diminishes with distance on the “inverse square of the distance” law just like light does. (This is just going to be an example I am using to illustrate a point, not the actual numbers that you would come up with if you took the masses of the earth and moon into account and worked the real figures; but they are still valid as an illustration since the principle still applies.) That means that if the moon was almost touching the earth and if you moved it 100,000 miles away and the gravitational attraction between the two diminished by half then moving it 200,000 miles away would diminish the pull by ¼ and at 300,000 miles it would be 1/9 and at 400,000 miles it would be 1/16 as strong. At 1,000,000 miles it would be 1/100 and at 2,000,000 miles it would be 1/400 as strong. So you can see that an inverse square function grows exponentially as the distance it operates over increases linearly.

Since the moon is by far the closest body to us it also has by far the most influence on the earth. The moon is what causes the tides to happen. But you don’t see a chart showing the tidal effect of the planets Jupiter or Saturn because they are so far away in relation to the moon that the inverse square law makes their influence difficult to measure unless you have some very precise astronomical instruments to measure it with. This is true even though Jupiter and Saturn each weigh millions of times more than the moon.

So let me ask you a question; just how much gravitational influence do you think the rest of the galaxy has on the earth when the nearest parts of it with any appreciable amount of mass are Hundreds of Light Years away (a light year is the distance light travels in one year at approximatley186,000 miles per second or 5,865,696,000,000 miles – yes that is 5 trillion eight hundred billion plus for just one light year) not just the paltry millions of miles to the planets in our own solar system???

Now that we have discounted the effects of galactic gravity on the earth lets next examine the “rush to doom” that the sky is falling crowd say we are in the process of completing. HEY WAKE UP AND SMELL THE MATH; if there were anything to the 2012 predictions we would already be there. Follow me as I do the math for you….

4 - First of all the Mayan long cycle we are supposed to worry about is a 26,000 year cycle which we are only about three years from completing. First let’s do a little preparatory math so we can understand the math that counts when we do it. If you use a calculator to divide the number 1 by the number 100 you get the answer .01. Since the number 1 represents the whole of something (1 pie, one orange, etc) and 1 percent of anything is 1/100 or one one hundredth of it the number .01 represents 1 percent of the number 1. It may make more sense to you if you look at it this way. Take the number 1.00 and you can see that it is the same as the number 100 with the decimal place moved. So the number 1.00 divided by the number 100 equals the number 0.01 or 1% of 1.00.

Now if we do the same math with the number of years of the cycle (26,000) and the number of years left to completion of it (3) we get 3 divided by 26,000= .000115 rounded to six places. This can then be rounded further to .0001 without losing too much accuracy for our purposes here. If the number .01 equals 1% then the number .0001 equals 1/100 (one one hundredth) of 1% or 1/10,000 (one ten thousandth) of the whole 26,000 year cycle. Said another way that means that the three years left to complete the 26,000 year cycle only represents one ten thousandth of the way to go to completion. If there were anything to the worries that the gravitational pull of the alignment would cause any problems we would already be close enough to be feeling so much of the effect that the amount left to go would not matter at all as it would be a miniscule amount of increase.

5 – What about the “supernatural” element to the 2012 alignment. Since we have already discredited anything else that is all that is left to worry about; or is it?

Some of the worriers claim that it was predicted by Nostradamus. But anybody who has really studied his quatrains (I have in both French and English) realizes that you could take any event in the history of the world since he wrote them and match it to one or more of his quatrains AFTER THE FACT. Yes that’s right; Nostradamus’s quatrains are so vague that you can pretty much make selected ones of them a prediction for anything you want to. We can also discredit any other psychic or seer on similar grounds. None of the older ones said anything that could be definitely pinned on the 2012 event and the modern ones are just “Johnny come lateleys” jumping on the band wagon before it gets away from them.

That leaves us with the only real authority on the subject, the bible, and since it does not mention anything that could relate to the 2012 event we have to totally discredit any “supernatural” element ascribed to the end of the Mayan calendar long cycle.

So there you have it, the Mayan doomsday predictions are nothing more than some elaborately constructed mirrors obscured by a lot of smoke.

[Take me away!]

Nice thoughts.... thanks for posting!

[6stringedsignseeker]

Well I've pretty much considered the whole 2012 thing to be a farse anyway. If anything it's simply an excuse for the devil to spread lies and fears amongst the people of Earth. If 2012 was the "end" the tribulation would have started in 2005. If that were the case we all missed the rapture. No chaos, no destruction, heck... nobody even realized a mass of people just dissapeared. Makes absolutely no sense to me, and most likely December 21'st 2012 will go by with less excitement than Y2k.... at least my lights flickered and the lights went out in half my apartment complex at the right time on Y2K... for about 15 minutes of so if I remember. I didn't worry about that day...while my boss on the other hand stocked up on everything from bottled water to toilet paper. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's still working on all that tp. No.... 2005 came and went... no rapture. And if this were the trib... heck, as bad as things are getting I gotta admit it's been far easier than the Bible or the Left Behind books and movies would have us believe. Since I trust the bible, I'm pretty sure we're not in the trib. I can however possibly see the world governments jumping on the whole 2012 issue and using it for thier own agenda of gaining more control of the populace. Especially here in the U.S. While everyone panics thinking the sky's gonna fall or the grounds going to swallow them or the whole worlds just gonna go KABOOM!!!! the government will probably just take away freedom after freedom after freedom all in the name of the preservation of life on Earth. "WE MUST FIRST SAVE YOU BEFORE WE CAN SAVE THE PLANET AND BY ESTABLISHING PEACE AND SECURITY THROUGH OUR CONTROL WE ARE SHOWING MOTHER EARTH THAT WE CAN DISCONTINUE OUR WARS AND OUR DESTRUCTION OF THE PLANET AND THE PLANET WILL BEGIN TO HEAL ITSELF. WE WILL BE SAVING THE EARTH BY SAVING OURSELVES!

Meh.... maybe not quite like that....

Still I guess there is the possibility that the rapture could occure in 2012. That would play into the devils game anyway... and if it doesn't happen on Dec.21'st I'm sure people could just say they miscalculated the date by a bit. People dissapear, the world government finally is established and the trib begins. Hmmm, I guess that's a possibiliy. But I'm not going to bet on it. I actually hope absolutely nothing happens, and people can see that once again a man made prediction on the end of the world was wrong. Perhaps people will learn to trust God and the Bible a little more as a result.

...well, I can hope anyway, right?

[PRZ-Him]

Thanks Yogi for posting all of that Info

My first thought when I heard about 2012 was that it
Might be Half way in to the Trib. which
would have been June 2008.

And all of us are still here...

Would take being Raptured then....Or Sooner

[Pendragon]

Some real info on the Mayan Calendar and the 2012 Prophecies

There have been many things written recently about the Mayan Calendar and the “prophecy” predicting a cataclysmic end to the earth on December 21, 2012. But here are some real tidbits for you to chew on.

1 – The Mayan Calendar itself makes no predictions about the end of the world. It is just a calendar that includes several periods of time along with the actual day, month and year data we are accustomed to seeing on a calendar. The longest of these periods is the one that marks the orbital plane of the ecliptic of the solar system coming into alignment with the plane of the ecliptic of the Milky Way which is the galaxy the solar system resides in. This is a 26,000 year cycle and will complete its next alignment on Dec. 21, 2012.

2 – No one really knows how the ancient Mayans got such accurate information that they could construct such a calendar without the modern observational equipment we have today. But we Christians mostly believe it had to be some kind of satanic or demonic influence.

3 – What about the effects of that alignment? The fear mongering claims that the exact date of the alignment will bring on some gravitational influence on Dec. 21, 2012 that will cause catastrophic shifts in the earth’s core and crust that will all but destroy the world and bring mankind close to extinction are pure fluff with no substance to them at all. Let me explain….

To think that completing the final three years of the 26,000 year cycle will bring on such activity makes less sense than seeing that your wall clock has only three seconds to go until 12:00 Midnight and expecting the gravitational influence of the hands on each other to make them fall off at exactly midnight.

First of all you need to understand that the moon has hundreds, if not thousands, of times more influence on the earth through it’s gravity than anything else in our own solar system. You can discount the sun since it is what we are in a stable orbit around. All the perturbations in the earths orbit are caused by the moon and the other planets and their moons making the earths orbit around the sun vary by small amounts.

Now consider that the force of gravity diminishes with distance on the “inverse square of the distance” law just like light does. (This is just going to be an example I am using to illustrate a point, not the actual numbers that you would come up with if you took the masses of the earth and moon into account and worked the real figures; but they are still valid as an illustration since the principle still applies.) That means that if the moon was almost touching the earth and if you moved it 100,000 miles away and the gravitational attraction between the two diminished by half then moving it 200,000 miles away would diminish the pull by ¼ and at 300,000 miles it would be 1/9 and at 400,000 miles it would be 1/16 as strong. At 1,000,000 miles it would be 1/100 and at 2,000,000 miles it would be 1/400 as strong. So you can see that an inverse square function grows exponentially as the distance it operates over increases linearly.

Since the moon is by far the closest body to us it also has by far the most influence on the earth. The moon is what causes the tides to happen. But you don’t see a chart showing the tidal effect of the planets Jupiter or Saturn because they are so far away in relation to the moon that the inverse square law makes their influence difficult to measure unless you have some very precise astronomical instruments to measure it with. This is true even though Jupiter and Saturn each weigh millions of times more than the moon.

So let me ask you a question; just how much gravitational influence do you think the rest of the galaxy has on the earth when the nearest parts of it with any appreciable amount of mass are Hundreds of Light Years away (a light year is the distance light travels in one year at approximatley186,000 miles per second or 5,865,696,000,000 miles – yes that is 5 trillion eight hundred billion plus for just one light year) not just the paltry millions of miles to the planets in our own solar system???

Now that we have discounted the effects of galactic gravity on the earth lets next examine the “rush to doom” that the sky is falling crowd say we are in the process of completing. HEY WAKE UP AND SMELL THE MATH; if there were anything to the 2012 predictions we would already be there. Follow me as I do the math for you….

First of all the Mayan long cycle we are supposed to worry about is a 26,000 year cycle which we are only about three years from completing. First let’s do a little preparatory math so we can understand the math that counts when we do it. If you use a calculator to divide the number 1 by the number 100 you get the answer .01. Since the number 1 represents the whole of something (1 pie, one orange, etc) and 1 percent of anything is 1/100 or one one hundredth of it the number .01 represents 1 percent of the number 1. It may make more sense to you if you look at it this way. Take the number 1.00 and you can see that it is the same as the number 100 with the decimal place moved. So the number 1.00 divided by the number 100 equals the number 0.01 or 1% of 1.00.

Now if we do the same math with the number of years of the cycle (26,000) and the number of years left to completion of it (3) we get 3 divided by 26,000= .000115 rounded to six places. This can then be rounded further to .0001 without losing too much accuracy for our purposes here. If the number .01 equals 1% then the number .0001 equals 1/100 (one one hundredth) of 1% or 1/10,000 (one ten thousandth) of the whole 26,000 year cycle. Said another way that means that the three years left to complete the 26,000 year cycle only represents one ten thousandth of the way to go to completion. If there were anything to the worries that the gravitational pull of the alignment would cause any problems we would already be close enough to be feeling so much of the effect that the amount left to go would not matter at all as it would be a miniscule amount of increase.

4 – What about the “supernatural” element to the 2012 alignment. Since we have already discredited anything else that is all that is left to worry about; or is it?

Some of the worriers claim that it was predicted by Nostradamus. But anybody who has really studied his quatrains (I have in both French and English) realizes that you could take any event in the history of the world since he wrote them and match it to one or more of his quatrains AFTER THE FACT. Yes that’s right; Nostradamus’s quatrains are so vague that you can pretty much make selected ones of them a prediction for anything you want to. We can also discredit any other psychic or seer on similar grounds. None of the older ones said anything that could be definitely pinned on the 2012 event and the modern ones are just “Johnny come lateleys” jumping on the band wagon before it gets away from them.

That leaves us with the only real authority on the subject, the bible, and since it does not mention anything that could relate to the 2012 event we have to totally discredit any “supernatural” element ascribed to the end of the Mayan calendar long cycle.

So there you have it, the Mayan doomsday predictions are nothing more than some elaborately constructed mirrors obscured by a lot of smoke.

So let me ask you a question; just how much gravitational influence do you think the rest of the galaxy has on the earth when the nearest parts of it with any appreciable amount of mass are Hundreds of Light Years away (a light year is the distance light travels in one year at approximatley186,000 miles per second or 5,865,696,000,000 miles – yes that is 5 trillion eight hundred billion plus for just one light year) not just the paltry millions of miles to the planets in our own solar system???

So what you are saying is it will takes us almost 3 light years to get out of debt based on projections of the deficit?? that means we will have to produce 186,000 dollars persecond to achieve pay off??

[Barkley]

Since the moon is by far the closest body to us it also has by far the most influence on the earth.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/new.../09-131AR.html
NASA Spacecraft Impacts Lunar Crater in Search for Water Ice

So lets bomb the moon now looking for water and we will worry about the consequences later, like 2012.

[ehbowen]

So what you are saying is it will takes us almost 3 light years to get out of debt based on projections of the deficit?? that means we will have to produce 186,000 dollars persecond to achieve pay off??

[yogi3939]

So what you are saying is it will takes us almost 3 light years to get out of debt based on projections of the deficit?? that means we will have to produce 186,000 dollars persecond to achieve pay off??

No, you have it all wrong. Obama is nowhere near finished spending money we don't have. Using a light year scale for the payoff is way to short term.

[yogi3939]

Just a little afterword here....

I have posted most, if not all of this in various threads or parts of threads that are about the 2012 doomsday predictions. But it tends to get buried in the following posts in a popular thread and slide off the boards in ones that recieve little attention. So I decided to write this article to include all aspects that matter about the 2012 event and put them in their own thread so anyone interested in, but confused by, the 2012 hype could see it and be informed.

Since the 2012 crowd is only going to get more hyped up and there is going to be more interest in anything related to 2012 as we get closer to the actual date I would like to ask the mods to make this a sticky so it maintains a prominent place on the boards to continue debunking the 2012 myths as the time approaches.

[brings us back]

An article from Fox News dating from last year
Next solar cycle

This finding not only has implications for scientists' understanding of the interaction between the sun and Earth's magnetosphere, but for predicting the effects to Earth during the next peak in the solar cycle.

The Sun operates on an 11-year cycle, alternating between active and quiet periods. We are currently in a quiet period, with few sunspots on the sun's surface and fewer solar flares, though the next cycle of activity has begun.

It is expected to peak around 2012, bringing lots of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). CMEs can interact with the Earth's magnetosphere, causing problems for satellites, communications, and power grids.

This upcoming active period now looks like it will be more intense than the previous one, which peaked around 2006, some scientists think. The reason is the changes in the sun's alignment.

During the last peak, solar fields hitting the Earth were first anti-aligned then aligned. Anti-aligned fields can energize particles, but in this case, the energy came before the particles themselves, which doesn't create much of a fuss in terms of geomagnetic storms and disruptions.

But the next cycle will see aligned, then anti-aligned fields, in theory amplifying the effects of the storms as they hit.

Raeder likens the difference to igniting a gas stove one of two ways: In the first way, the gas is turned on and the stove is lit and you get a flame.

In the other way, you let the gas run for awhile, so that when you add the gas you get a much bigger boom.

"It should be that we're in for a tough time in the next 11 years," Sibeck said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,.../scitech/space

And here is one more article similar in nature:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,.../scitech/space

Mayan prophecys aside, were in for some solar flare fun in 2012!

[yogi3939]

An article from Fox News dating from last year
Next solar cycle

This finding not only has implications for scientists' understanding of the interaction between the sun and Earth's magnetosphere, but for predicting the effects to Earth during the next peak in the solar cycle.

The Sun operates on an 11-year cycle, alternating between active and quiet periods. We are currently in a quiet period, with few sunspots on the sun's surface and fewer solar flares, though the next cycle of activity has begun.

It is expected to peak around 2012, bringing lots of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). CMEs can interact with the Earth's magnetosphere, causing problems for satellites, communications, and power grids.

This upcoming active period now looks like it will be more intense than the previous one, which peaked around 2006, some scientists think. The reason is the changes in the sun's alignment.

During the last peak, solar fields hitting the Earth were first anti-aligned then aligned. Anti-aligned fields can energize particles, but in this case, the energy came before the particles themselves, which doesn't create much of a fuss in terms of geomagnetic storms and disruptions.

But the next cycle will see aligned, then anti-aligned fields, in theory amplifying the effects of the storms as they hit.

Raeder likens the difference to igniting a gas stove one of two ways: In the first way, the gas is turned on and the stove is lit and you get a flame.

In the other way, you let the gas run for awhile, so that when you add the gas you get a much bigger boom.

"It should be that we're in for a tough time in the next 11 years," Sibeck said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,.../scitech/space

And here is one more article similar in nature:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,.../scitech/space

Mayan prophecys aside, were in for some solar flare fun in 2012!

Yes, but that has nothing to do with the purpose of this thread or the 2012 Mayan calendar predictions. It is just a coincicence and is based soley on the interaction of the sun and the earth and has nothing to do with the galactic alignment problems supposedly being ascribed to the end of the mayan calendar 26,000 year long count.

There is also a fallacy in the article itself. It claims that the cycle is 11 years long. That means 11 years from one solar max peak to the next. Then the article says that the last peak was in 2006. An 11 year cycle that last peaked in 2006 will not peak again in 2012 but rather in 2017. So the timing claimed by the article itself is seriously flawed. Just another case of smoke and mirrors in an attempt to relate something to the 2012 predictions that just does not fit in with them without help by fiddling with the numbers. For 2012 to be the next maximum peak the last one would have had to have been in 2001, not 2006 as stated in the article. BTW - That 11 year cycle is about the only thing the articles author did get completely right.

[In Christ]

Good Informatrion! Easy to understand! Thanks for posting!

[SpaceProg]

Whatever will happen will happen when it happens. Not before, not after. Until then... Live each day as it's your last, but dream as if you have eternity... which we do, really.

[brownbear]

Yes, but that has nothing to do with the purpose of this thread or the 2012 Mayan calendar predictions. It is just a coincicence and is based soley on the interaction of the sun and the earth and has nothing to do with the galactic alignment problems supposedly being ascribed to the end of the mayan calendar 26,000 year long count.

There is also a fallacy in the article itself. It claims that the cycle is 11 years long. That means 11 years from one solar max peak to the next. Then the article says that the last peak was in 2006. An 11 year cycle that last peaked in 2006 will not peak again in 2012 but rather in 2017. So the timing claimed by the article itself is seriously flawed. Just another case of smoke and mirrors in an attempt to relate something to the 2012 predictions that just does not fit in with them without help by fiddling with the numbers. For 2012 to be the next maximum peak the last one would have had to have been in 2001, not 2006 as stated in the article. BTW - That 11 year cycle is about the only thing the articles author did get completely right.

I agree, the shifting of the sun's magnetic orientation has nothing to do with galactic alignment. Though, it is sort of coincidental.

But, the article does not say that the cycle is from peak to peak. It simply says that the sun operates on an 11-year cycle, alternating between active and quiet periods. We are currently coming out of a quiet period which happened to peak in 2006. The next cycle is an active one and is expected to peak in 2012. This does not mean that the numbers were fiddled with to make it fit with 2012 theories. The timing is not flawed.

[Sundial]

2012 isn't the end of the world, Mayans insist

Oct 11, 3:58 AM (ET)

By MARK STEVENSON

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.

Or is it?

Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff."

It can only get worse for him. Next month Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.

At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the "Curious? Ask an Astronomer" Web site, says people are scared.

"It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die," Martin said. "We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up."

Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.

A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.

But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes "predictions" from Nostradamus and the Mayas and asks: "Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?"

It may sound all too much like other doomsday scenarios of recent decades - the 1987 Harmonic Convergence, the Jupiter Effect or "Planet X." But this one has some grains of archaeological basis.

One of them is Monument Six.

Found at an obscure ruin in southern Mexico during highway construction in the 1960s, the stone tablet almost didn't survive; the site was largely paved over and parts of the tablet were looted.

It's unique in that the remaining parts contain the equivalent of the date 2012. The inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation.

However - shades of Indiana Jones - erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible.

Archaeologist Guillermo Bernal of Mexico's National Autonomous University interprets the last eroded glyphs as maybe saying, "He will descend from the sky."

Spooky, perhaps, but Bernal notes there are other inscriptions at Mayan sites for dates far beyond 2012 - including one that roughly translates into the year 4772.

More here....

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091011/D9B8P09O0.html

[drinu]

Ok Its true there is nowere in the bible regarding 2012 , but with all that is going around rumours of wars, earthhquakes , fammine , flooding, economy collapse arent these signs of end of times so could there be something coming ?
It wont be the end of the world but it could be a new era if the polar shifting happens the worst that could happen is that we lose all telecommunications of ever kind which will bring us thousand years back .

[carlos.c304]

I can say ithout doubt that I am 1000% sure the world will not end ANYTIME during 2012.....The Bible speaks of a 7 year tribulation following the rapture and....well....we, the church, are still here!!!! this is october 2009....if the rapture took place today, the earliest the world could end would be around 2016......so , no, the world will continue right on thu 2012

[In Christ]

Makes for an interesting read. Personally I will not date set, however I do seriously and adamantly FEEL that Christ will call his bride home in a very soon twinkling of an eye... May all of us continue to pray for the lost and be 'd soon!

[Sundial]

...I do seriously and adamantly FEEL that Christ will call his bride home in a very soon twinkling of an eye... May all of us continue to pray for the lost and be 'd soon!

Here's the quote from the article that got my attention:

....interprets the last eroded glyphs as maybe saying, "He will descend from the sky."

[OtherSideOfTheBoat]

The calendar may have not run out they just need to order a new one. Anyway, I think it should be obvious that the Mayans do not have an accurate handle on spiritual things.