About the “end of the world.”

Rumors about the upcoming lightning apocalypse, of course, did not arise from scratch. The ancient Mayan people considered time as cycles of 5,125 years each. The beginning of the last such cycle falls on August 13, 3113 AD, and the end, respectively, on December 23, 2012. In my opinion, some researchers irresponsibly provided the advantage of such a rhythm of time compared to other cycles. The same Maya had a different cycle, which began in 3154 BC. and had a duration of 8,000 years. Continue reading →