MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site.
We spent an entire day in the Coba region this past Tuesday. Got to climb the highest temple in the Yucatan, Nohoch-Mul. (After this year, you will no longer be allowed to climb these structures so go soon.) We got a big history lesson that day from our guide, a mayan native, had lunch with them and sat in on a ceremony (with blood a letting sacrafice). It is the end of a calander period only to them. They laugh at the apocalyptic beliefs of visitors.
TOTALLY too cool......thanks for posting the pix AND confirming (from the source) that the hype is getting out of control.....it would be
comparable to americans going hysterical over Dec.31st of ANY year,it is just a CALENDAR ENDING of a cycle......
Yeah I think some are caught up in the negative aspects of what we have discovered. I like to think things are gonna be changed but in the positive.
Maybe the aliens will come back and help fix things.
The impending apocalypse may not be so close after all.
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.
But that still won't stop some people, or countries for that matter, from trying to make a buck off the false hysteria. The only reason I booked the tour to Coba was that it is LESS visited and still allowed visitors to climb the pyramid. Once they stop allowing folks to climb it, visits will decline greatly and the natives in the area will suffer for it.
Apocalypse Tourism: Mayan 2012 End of World Calendar To Be Used by Mexico to Attract Visitors
I bet quite a few whackos will do that. I suspect that there will be a big influx of visitors to mayan sites on 12/21/2012. If you have not booked a flight yet, you may want to soon and brush up on your Mayan vocabulary.
