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And he was bad enough (lemmy.world)

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[–] yourFanatic@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In 2010 -2011 I never heard or saw any Mayan or Aztec person imply that their calendar indicated a doomsday. It was only Rogan and his guests.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

On the one hand it let Mesoamerican scholars make some money and get some attention which helps interest and funding in a VERY neglected field. On the other hand it was complete pap. Total nonsense. They had 4 MAJOR calendars and plenty of minor ones. The long term calendar just hit 0000 in 2012. What this ment to The Classical Maya isn't clear, if this ment a new era philosophically or actually some kind of doomsday, who can say. We know they wouldn't celebrate certain holidays if there was famine or drought, they'd wait till a good harvest then celebrate, they weren't THAT beholden to the calendar.