2012 phenomenon | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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00:01:50 1 Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
00:03:15 1.1 Apocalypse
00:05:07 1.2 Objections
00:07:56 1.3 Prior associations
00:09:45 2 Maya references to bʼakʼtun 13
00:10:20 2.1 Tortuguero
00:12:32 2.2 La Corona
00:13:12 2.3 Dates beyond bʼakʼtun 13
00:15:45 3 2012 Age beliefs
00:17:29 3.1 Origins
00:20:15 3.2 Galactic alignment
00:20:51 3.2.1 Precession
00:23:19 3.2.2 Mysticism
00:25:12 3.2.3 Criticism
00:27:10 3.3 Timewave zero and the iI Ching/i
00:29:33 4 Doomsday theories
00:30:15 4.1 Other alignments
00:33:24 4.2 Geomagnetic reversal
00:35:07 4.3 Planet X/Nibiru
00:35:52 4.4 Other catastrophes
00:38:37 5 Public reaction
00:40:15 5.1 Europe
00:43:45 5.2 Asia and Australia
00:45:25 5.3 Mexico and Central America
00:49:24 5.4 South America
00:51:00 5.5 North America
00:51:47 6 Cultural influence
00:56:50 7 See also
00:57:20 8 Notes



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The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or otherwise transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012. This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, and as such, festivities to commemorate the date took place on 21 December 2012 in the countries that were part of the Maya civilization (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), with main events at Chichén Itzá in Mexico, and Tikal in Guatemala.Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulae were proposed as pertaining to this date. A New Age interpretation held that the date marked the start of a period during which Earth and its inhabitants would undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 21 December 2012 would mark the beginning of a new era. Others suggested that the date marked the end of the world or a similar catastrophe. Scenarios suggested for the end of the world included the arrival of the next solar maximum, an interaction between Earth and the black hole at the center of the galaxy, or Earth's collision with a mythical planet called Nibiru.
Scholars from various disciplines quickly dismissed predictions of concomitant cataclysmic events as they arose. Professional Mayanist scholars stated that no extant classic Maya accounts forecast impending doom, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresented Maya history and culture, while astronomers rejected the various proposed doomsday scenarios as pseudoscience, easily refuted by elementary astronomical observations.