Archive for the 'Mayan Calendar' Category

Mayan Calendar: “Doomsday”

By Dave Golowenski If 2011 turns out to be the last full year of human existence, as some say the Mayan calendar predicts, can it be said that enough was made of this last complete trip around the sun? Most Mayans probably are beyond caring about By Jessica Sinclair on January 1st, 2012 Yep that's [...]

Mayan calendar: December 21 2012 won't be end of the world says Leonzo Barreno

Mayan Calendar End of the World. Email this item Email · Print this item Print Share this item Share x. RSS Feed · Digg this item Digg · Facebook this item TAGS: 2012 cartoon end of the world maya mayan calendar Now that 2012 has arrived, we're going to hear more with each passing day [...]

End of Mayan calendar spurs big boom in end-of-world business

A co-worker suggested that with the Mayan calendar predicting the world's end in 2012, I should do a column about what people would do if they actually believed this was the last year of their life. "Personally," said the co-worker, It 's here at last – the final year on the Mayan Calendar gets underway [...]

End of Mayan calendar spurs big boom in end-of-world business

Call it Apocalypse Cash Cow: The endless stream of books, DVDs, merchandise and even smartphone apps tied to the day when the Mayan calendar ends — and, as a slew of authors say, so will the world as we know it. “It's an amazing cottage industry First, a disclaimer: Many people believe that after 1872000 [...]

2012 End-of-the-World Countdown Based on Mayan Calendar Starts Today

By Tony Massarotti, Globe Columnist Catching up on the little things while pointing out that precisely one year remains on the Mayan calendar We have become indisputably spoiled here during the Golden Age of Boston sports, but let's give the Another doomsday scenario is making the rounds on the Internet and believers are saying that [...]

2012 End-of-the-World Countdown Based on Mayan Calendar Starts Today

The Mayans were calendar nuts. They had a solar calender (Haab) that consisted of 18 months that were twenty days long plus a five day festival of human sacrifice to make up the difference. They had a lunar calendar By Rob Cullivan The Mayan calendar, shown here, marks the end of the 13th b'ak'tun, or [...]