Name: The Mayan Calendar & 2012
Uploaded: 2021-05-19T13:12:09.000Z
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Hello time travelers and any other people living in the future:

If you're watching this, it means that the Maya,

And Hollywood, as it almost always is when

I'm talking, of course, about the Mayan calendar,

As you've noticed, Hollywood shysters, along with some

cable TV people and a good number of pseudoscientist authors

are trying to convince the world that maybe

it's all going to end on December 21, 2012.

The earth is going to split in two or the poles are going to shift

or house cats are going to rise up against us

And they're all feeling that way because of a particular significance

that a particular ancient civilization put on that very date.

And if you're watching this video after December 21, 2012.

Well, you may have to feel a little bit embarrassed

Now I'm not saying that December 21st, 2012 isn't

an important date in the Mayan calendar, it certainly is.

I can personally guarantee that the world is not

It's not even that I don't believe that the world is going to end,

The Maya had lots of different ways of measuring time.

And one of them was especially for measuring

who can't remember life before Tomb Raider Underworld

And they measured it using what's called the Long Count Calendar.

Twenty of these k'ins, twenty days, were called a winal.

Eighteen winals, or 360 days, made a tun, or about a year.

Twenty tuns were known as a k'atun, or about 20 years.

which amounted to about 144,000 days, or about 394.26 years.

The Maya used this system to count the number of days since

are currently living in the fourth creation.

The first three, the gods screwed up or whatever

Believe it or not, some scientists actually did the math

backwards and they figured out that the date of

the last creation was 3114 BC on August 11th.

So here's how the Maya marked time from that day:

You start with the number of b'ak'tuns, or 144,000-day cycles,

you put on the number of k'atuns, or 20-year cycles

Then you add the number of tuns, the 360-day cycles:

May 5, 1980, according to the Mayan Calendar.

And finally, we have what December 21, 2012 looks like.

the Mayan calendar clicks over to the next whole b'ak'tun.

And do you know what happened the last time this happened,

the last time we clicked over to a whole b'ak'tun?

The last time that this happened was September 18, 1618.

An auspicious date known for absolutely nothing happening on it.

I've got a history of everything that happened on every day

in history, and let's see what we've got.

We've got: the Spanish crown reinforced its

That is the only thing that we could find in any history book

Now it is true that the Mayans believed that the last creation

So that's probably where all the hysteria is coming from.

But there's nothing in all of Maya lore that says that the calendar

will stop, or that creation will cease or any mumbo-jumbo like that.

If anything, people who study this say, that it probably will just

be an occasion for some noisemakers, and singing auld lang syne,

and getting really drunk, and hooking up with that hot housewife

who lives two doors down from Chichen Itza.

It's basically just Y2K for Mesoamericans.

So, yes, I'm afraid that you do have to finish that term paper.

And continue paying off your student loans.

Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow.

It's great to know that we're not all going to perish

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