2012
2012 isn't the end of the world, Mayans insist AP - October 11, 2009
Even the Maya are getting sick of 2012 hype MSNBC - October 10, 2009
PHOTO: Guatemalan Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun gestures as he pays his respects at an altar within the Iximche ceremonial site in Tecpan, Guatemala. Chile Pixtun shrugs off the 2012 frenzy, saying he's "fed up with this stuff."
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Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan, ideas.
A significant time period for the Maya does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.
But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya Indians say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials — such as one on the History Channel that mixes predictions from Nostradamus and the Maya and asks: "Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?"
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Posted: Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:36 PM by Alan Boyle