2012??

I am very sure,

the minute your eyes caught the title 

the first thing would pop in your mind is

'doomsday.'

All of a sudden ,

for the past five years,

the year which merely represented by numbers

has drew so much of attentions, and discussion 

throughout the globe. 

In fact there are several versions on what about to happen.

Version 1 :

The galactic alignment between the aerospace objects in the milky ways ,

will somehow create a combined gravitational effect between the Sun

 and the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy (known as Sagittarius A*), 

thus creating havoc on Earth

Version 2:

Triggered by a massive solar flare, 

an energy equal to 100 billion atomic bombs will be released,

causing a geomagnatic reversal,
the interchange of south and north pole
causing chaos on earth's structure.
The last shit happened 780 000 years ago.

                                                                                    Version 3:

                                                                                    Planet X or popularly known as Nibiru,

will collide with or pass by earth in that year,
eventhough it's now regarded a pseudoscience, and 

rejected by many, as no astronomical significance could be related,
this version was the very first to predict about 2012.

notably, some has taken less apocalyptic stand.

Version 4:

It would mark a transition in human thinking.
Man for long has been enveloped in materialism ,

the rational, empirical worldview, which woul soon  

                                                                                    expire. Mankind would experince a dispensation of 

                                                                                    consiousness that's more mystical, intuitive and  

                                                                                    Shamanic. 

Version 5:

Pic de Bugarach, a mountain at sounthern France with unique geographical features,

is thought to residence off alien , who are living inside the mountain.
When the apocalypse  is bound to happen, the aliens would finally emerge
to save people... funny??
but mind it, many has already started camping around the mountain,

the village which has tiny population of 189 people,
has attracted 20 000 travellers this year alone.


All these versions eventhough they differ entirely,

on naming what about to happen, what has caused them,..
to stand firm together on the year 2012..
why 2012??
why so much of emphasis on  what seemingly sounds like a normal year?

It all started when thos stone slab with inscriptions in Maya language

surface during 1960's.

Unlikely to what one may expect,
the text is rather damaged, 

all those one could read is,

as offered by Stuart,

“"The Thirteenth Bak'tun" will be finished (on) Four Ahaw, 

the Third of K'ank'in. ? will occur. 

(It will be) the descent(?) of the Nine Support (?) God(s) to the ?."

There words in brackets are actually missing 

as the result of damages caused by earlier lootings, 

but thought to fit in precisely.

Ancient Maya people believed in cycles of time.
A bakthun refers to 394.26 tropical years.
13 of such bakthuns refers to a complete cycle of time
The Mayan people dates their dawn of civilisation on the 8th or 9th cycle of the current calendrical cycle.
And when the 13th cycle completes,
a new cycle will begin.

Thus many speculate that the text is only referring to 

an end of the cycle, symbolising a beginning of a new era.
NOT apocalypse.

So how did all these 2012 sensation started??

Shortly after Goodman's work was first published explaining the stone slab, 

a German scholar Ernst Förstemann interpreted the symbols and images

on the last page of an pre-Hispanic Maya book called the Dresden Codex 

as references to the end of the world in a cataclysmic flood that he interpreted 

as "destruction of the world," "apocalypse," and "the end of the world." 

 Förstemann's ideas were repeated by American archaeologist Sylvanus Morley

 in a 1915 book on ancient Maya hieroglyphic writing.  

Morley added his own embellishments, writing

"Finally, on the last page of the manuscript, is depicted the Destruction of the World... 

Here, indeed, is portrayed with a graphic touch the final all-engulfing cataclysm in the form of a Great Flood."

And that was cited down by other  later books 

adding fuel to the 2012 sensation.

When a second inscription was founded , 

mentioning the cycles of bakthuns and also specifically telling the end date, 

last May/June, excitements was on the air again.

Then native people now speaking Mayan language
do not believe in doomsday, and asserts that
all these apocalyptic ideas are in fact,

a very westernised perspective.

So 2012.. doomsday??

PROBABLY NOT. 

References :
1. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2166375/Second-inscription-confirming-end-date-Mayan-calendar-2012-Guatemala.html
2. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reality-check/201112/what-you-should-know-about-2012-answers-13-questions
3. http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/the_tortuguero%20_monument.htm
4.http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Mayas+have+made+some+prophecies+about+2012+apocalypse+experts/7318059/story.html