To high school students like us, the end of the world seems impossible. We could never think of having no cell phones, not seeing your friends every day at school, not living the way we do now and maybe even no humanity.
We’re all accustomed to the simple free gifts we enjoy every day. To others, this is a different story.
For many years, Dec. 21, 2012 has been viewed at as the beginning of the end. This is all based on theories about ancient Mayan structures and encrypted monuments said to predict our final days.
But unlike all other “Doomsday” theories, this one has actual archaeological evidence to back it up. During highway construction in Mexico, a stone tablet was found, and it was later recovered and partially restored, having been damaged by the construction. Archaeologists named it Monument Six. The remaining parts contain the equivalent of the date 2012.
Inscriptions on the tablet describe something that’s supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a Mayan god associated with both war and creation. However, the end of the passage is eroded and cracked, making it almost illegible.
The end has been studied and partially translated, possibly reading, “He will descend from the sky,” according to Associated Press writer Mark Stevenson. The Maya viewed this transition as “all cycles ending and a time of transformation and renewal.”
Scary as it sounds, there are further dates recorded in Mayan history, some leading up to the year 4772, making historians wonder if the theory’s not as legitimate as believed.
If this were all mythology, it could be possible to trash it as just a scare tactic. But some say the Maya knew another secret: the Earth’s axis wobbles.
This slightly changes the alignment of the stars every year. “Once every 25,800 years, the sun lines up with the center of our Milky Way galaxy on a winter solstice, the sun’s lowest point in the horizon,” Stevenson said.
This will happen on Dec. 21, 2012. Coincidence?
The fact that they could have discovered this with ancient telescopes and stargazing is astonishing. The Mayans put great pride in their astronomy and viewed it at the utmost of importance.
Following is supposed to be the big boom of dramatic events. With this galactic alignment, some astronomers worry the earth’s poles could reverse due to some magnetic force.
It’s happened multiple times in history and no doubt we are past our due date. If the poles were to switch, the entire mantle of the earth would shift in a matter of days or even hours, changing the positions of the north and south poles and causing worldwide chaos.
Earthquakes would hit every continent and massive tsunamis would rain over coastal cities, inundating all in sight. Still the evidence is scarce.
The last end of the world scenarios all turned out to be false. Were we warned or just worried?