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How did 2012 get predicted?

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Azntiger17

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12y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The year 2012 was an end of one of the cycles of the Mayan calendar, specifically the 5125-year cycle in the "Mesoamerican Long Count calendar." The Mayans believed that the world began on August 11, 3114 BC, and their civilization existed entirely within the cycle, so December 21, 2012 was the "end" of their calendar, or more specifically the end of the 13th b'ak'tun (394-year cycle).

However, any deterministic value was simply coincidental, and it became just another erroneous prediction of the End of the World. We are currently within the 14th of 19 b'ak'tun (13.x.x.x.x) which will end on March 26, 2407.

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