When do the mayans think the end of the world is

ES Mag. Follow us:. Password Please enter a valid password. Submit Submit. By Kit Heren. T he world will come to an end in December this year, an American evangelical pastor and conspiracy theorist has claimed. And that's pretty much it, despite all efforts by writers and filmmakers to market the notion that the Maya predicted the crack-up of Earth this year. Born from a misinterpretation of an inscription found at a now-pulverized Maya site in Mexico's Tabasco region, the end-of-the-world talk reached its highest point with the disaster thriller , starring John Cusack.

Theories about how the world would meet its end have ranged from the appearance of a rogue planet called Nibiru that would sideswipe Earth to a European physics experiment spawning a world-gobbling black hole. Rather than ancient prophecies, Tegmark say what worries him is computer intelligence getting out of control in the coming decades. Discovered in the now-destroyed ruin called Tortuguero, the inscriptions were part of the dedication of a tomb or shrine at the site carved around the 7th century A.

The inscription mentions the appearance of a Maya deity, Bolon Yokte' K'uh, on the date That corresponds to Dec.

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Eric Mack. The Maya were looking for a guarantee that nothing would change. It's an entirely different mindset. That should be enough to soothe Maya-inspired worries about doomsday scenarios. But what about other potential agents of catastrophe—coronal mass ejections, a "killer planet," polar shifts? On these possibilities, NASA can shed some light. People want to know about the existence of Nibiru, or Planet X, and whether it's coming to destroy Earth or not.

Others inquire about alignment of the heavenly bodies, shifting of the magnetic poles, and bursting of solar flares. Nibiru does not exist. There are no special forces when planets align. Don't worry about , and enjoy when it comes. Despite this emphatic professional pushback, anxiety over our impending demise persists.

According to an article in the New York Times, a number of Russians have fallen under the apocalypse spell, snatching up essentials as December 21st approaches. The story also cites apprehension in southern France, where certain camps believe Bugarach mountain has the power to protect in a doomsday scenario. In the United States, doomsday preparers have help from people like Larry Hall, who is building underground luxury "survival condos" in Kansas missile silos leftover from the Cold War era.

Careful not to judge anyone's reason for worry, he said, "I'm not saying you're right or you're wrong. I'm just trying to have a one-size-fits-all solution to whatever your threats may be. Catherine Zuckerman knows her apocalypses.