Don't worry about end of the world in 2012, Mayan tablet doesn't predict apocalypse or does it?
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Don't worry
about end of the world in 2012, Mayan tablet doesn't predict
apocalypse or does it?
From correspondents in Mexico City
AP
December 02, 2011 11:48AM
Hieroglyphs expert says there'll be no apocalypse in 2012
Nothing about the end of the world in Mayan tablet
Mexican institute tries to dispel talk of world ending
THE end is not near or is it?
At least that's according to a German expert who says his decoding
of a Mayan tablet with a reference to a 2012 date denotes a
transition to a new era and not a possible end of the world as
others have read it.
The interpretation of the hieroglyphs by Sven Gronemeyer of La
Trobe University in Australia was presented for the first time
Wednesday at the archaeological site of Palenque in southern
Mexico.
His comments came less than a week after Mexico's archaeology
institute acknowledged there was a second reference to the 2012
date in Mayan inscriptions, touching of another round of talk
about whether it predicts the end of the world.
Gronemeyer has been studying the stone tablet found years ago at
the archeological site of Tortuguero in Mexico's Gulf coast state
of Tabasco.
He said the inscription describes the return of mysterious Mayan
god Bolon Yokte at the end of a 13th period of 400 years, known as
Baktuns, on the equivalent of Dec. 21, 2012. Mayans considered 13
a sacred number. There's nothing apocalyptic in the date, he said.
The text was carved about 1,300 years ago. The stone has cracked,
which has made the end of the passage almost illegible.
Gronemeyer said the inscription refers to the end of a cycle of
5,125 years since the beginning of the Mayan Long Count calendar
in 3113 B.C.
The fragment was a prophecy of then ruler Bahlam Ajaw, who wanted
to plan the passage of the god, Gronemeyer said.
"For the elite of Tortuguero, it was clear they had to prepare the
land for the return of the god and for Bahlam Ajaw to be the host
of this initiation," he said.
Bolon Yokte, god of creation and war, was to prevail that day in a
sanctuary of Tortuguero.
"The date acquired a symbolic value because it is seen as a
reflection of the day of creation," Gronemeyer said. "It is the
passage of a god and not necessarily a great leap for humanity."
Last week, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology said a
second inscription mentioning the 2012 date is on the carved or
molded face of a brick found at the Comalcalco ruin, near the
Tortuguero site. It is being kept at the institute and is not on
display.
Many experts doubt the second inscription is a definite reference
to the date cited as the possible end of the world, saying there
is no future tense marking like there is in the Tortuguero tablet.
The institute has tried to dispel talk of a 2012 apocalypse, the
subject of numerous postings and stories on the Internet. Its
latest step was to arrange a special round table of Mayan experts
this week at Palenque, which is where Gronemeyer made his
comments.
Many experts doubt the second inscription is a definite reference
to the date cited as the possible end of the world, saying there
is no future tense marking like there is in the Tortuguero tablet.