2012 Phenomenom..

I'm trying really hard not to buy into all the bullshit i read and see online and on tv, but i must say that i have grown rather convinced that we should all be aware of what is being said about 2012.
At first i thought it was just another one of those damn movies being made about the end of the world and all that nonsense, but it's MUCH more than that. I'm at the beginning stages of my research on this, and as i learn more, ill keep posting on it. As I post, im going to try to keep it as 'elementary' as possible b/c if you're not used to fancy shmansy vocab, then you're going to get lost and uninterested and TRUST me, you do NOT want to loose interest in this.

I will try my best to stay committed to this blog and use it as my notebook for research, if anyone happens to become remotely interested in it, feel free to comment and all that good stuff.

So it all began with the Mayas...
In college i minored in Latin American Studies therefore i have pretty good general knowledge of the Mayan culture. A mesoamerican civilization (meaning that they originated in what is now known as latin america - specifically central america.) A Pre-Colombian society (meaning that they thrived before Chris.Colombus 'discovered' america in 1492 -and were fucked after that. Think of the pilgrims and indians story after thanksgiving dinner).
Many people associate them with the Incas or the indigenous peoples of central america. Although, many cultural aspects have been shared and past down from the Mayas, the indigenous peoples are FAR removed from the Mayan civilization of back then. Dating back to 2000 B.C! the Mayas are one of the oldest recorded civilizations of man kind.
The Mayas have a bad reputation of being barbaric because of their belief in human sacrifices. But DO NOT let this minor detail deter you from understanding their beliefs. YES, human sacrafices are WRONG, but they didn't know any better.
What they DID know was how to count time, and seasons according to the movement of the sun. They were obbssessed! The sky was their TV and the sun was a really good show. They would watch it ALLLLLLL the time. They would record its every move and even worship it! (equivalent of gossip girl.. chuck bass would be the sun). They would know everything about the sun, they could even predict what it would do next. (Like how everyone knew chuck would go ape-shit once his dad died, or something like that.)
Anywho, they had their own way of telling time. They used the mesoamerican long count calender AKA the Mayan Calender which started on August 11th, 3114 B.C. The calender records the number of days that pass since this date. There is no proven reason (or i have yet to find one) on why this date is used as day #1. Some people claim that it is the first day of humanity, but i really dont know about all that.

I'll go more into detail about this later..

xoxo
ML