The year 2012 is here. Courtesy 2012, the Hollywood flick, the end of the world in 2012 has acquired a global phenomenon. Websites are full of theories and counter theories about the world ending in 2012. And all these happened just because of the fact that the Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012. But we don’t follow Mayan calendar do we? So what is it that has left us concerned? It is the simple fact that the Mayan calendar is an accurate one. If an ancient calendar could be that accurate does it mean that it can predict the end of the world accurately too?
Strange as it may sound, the concept of the world coming to an end can be found in numerous mythologies across the world and people of various cultures seem to believe them. In this discussion you can leave aside those cultures that are ancient but exist even today like the Hindus, the Greeks or the Chinese. Instead focus your attention to those ancient civilizations that had predicted the end of the world.
No doubt the predictions given by the ancient Mayan civilization attracted the most attention. The ancient Mayan calendar consists of 1872000 days which equivalents to 5,125.37 years. The 21st December 2012 is the last day of this ancient Mayan calendar. And thus people all around the world think that the end of the world was predicted by the ancient Mayans. The reason why the Mayan prediction is getting so much importance is because of the fact that it pinpoints at a single day of a single year.
The end of the world has been predicted by Hopis an ancient civilization from Arizona. There are ten signs in the Hopi prophecy each indicating major developments in the world. However it is the last sign that matters the most. The last sign tells that man will come to know of a habitat in heavens, outside and over the earth which will fall with a crash that will be great. It will look like a blue star. And soon afterwards, all the events of the people of Hopi will cease. The predictions also say that trees will die, man will build houses in sky, hot places will become cold and vice versa, land will be consumed by ocean and again new lands will rise from sea and lastly the appearance of Blue Star Kachina will mark the return of Pahana or White Brother.
End of the world was also obvious in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. At that time he was the emperor of ancient Babylon. He dreamt of a statue whose body parts were made from different metals. The head was made of gold while the feet were mad of iron and clay. In the dream a stone crashed onto the legs of the statue making it tumble and it reduced to mere dust. Daniel interpreted the dream for Nebuchadnezzar and came to the conclusion that it in fact predicted the end of the world.
And lastly it is said that Ancient Egypt calculated the end of the world in 2012 thousands of years before Mayan predictions. According to Ancient Egyptian calculations we will be entering the Seventh Age or the Age of Aquarius when the winter equinox in the precession of the current age will take place at sunrise on 21st December 2012. According to their calculations the present time cycle ends in 2012 AD. So what exactly is the truth? We will have to wait and see.