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Originally Posted by Brianna

How many times do the Mayans have to say it?

I had a brass 'perpetual calender' made in India. It was good up until 2025, 2052, or something like that. It wasn't a prediction, it was just that the design stopped at that point. I don't know how the Mayan system was designed, even after reading the Wiki article, which gave me a headache.

It just reminds me too much of the Y2K problem. Someone figured out how much effort it would take to carve an extra group of lines into 30,000 walls and monuments and said '*** that'.

Since the Long Count dates are unambiguous, the Long Count was particularly well suited to use on monuments. The monumental inscriptions would not only include the 5 digits of the Long Count, but would also include the two tzolk'in characters followed by the two haab' characters.
The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar forms the basis for a New Age belief, first forecast by José Argüelles, that a cataclysm will take place on or about December 21, 2012, a forecast that mainstream Mayanist scholars consider a misinterpretation, yet is commonly referenced in pop-culture media as the 2012 problem. [12][13]

"For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. in Crystal River, Florida. To render December 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in." [13]