December 21st 2012: fire pours down from the sky; oceans heap up and swallow the land; continents rip themselves apart; Mother Nature will turn executioner. This is when and how the world will end. If you believe in prophecies. 2012 Apocalypse, 2009
This phenomenon – now simply known as 2012 – is gaining believers as the date approaches. Could there be some truth to this theory? Penn & Teller, Bullshit! s7e4: The Apocalypse, Showtime 2019
I’m starting to suspect Doctor Rand doesn’t know a brown dwarf from a hole in his ass. ibid.
Penn & Quetzalcoatl Reverse Mortgage Company. ibid.
Time is running out. Our world is about to end. That’s the apocalyptic prediction from those who believe our impending doom was foreseen centuries ago by mysterious Mayan prophets whose doomsday calendar is about to run out. 2012: The Final Prophecy, National Geographic 2010
The mineral evidence suggested abrupt magnetic shifts and massive changes in sea level and climate all at the same time ... Pole shift wasn’t some apocalyptic theory but a real event. ibid.
One of the world’s most powerful civilisations: at its peak in the tenth century Mayan empire spanned most of southern Mexico, as well as Guatemala, Belize and Honduras. ibid.
Mythology lives on in stone and a few rare texts. ibid.
The Mayans believed Time was divided into five cycles. ibid.
Time is running out … The Apocalypse is now … Midnight on the 21st December 2012. The Mayan Apocalypse 2012, More4 2012
Survival shelters are big business. ibid.
From the outset a willing blindness of the facts has fuelled speculation about the Maya. ibid.
The importance of Time – a defining feature of the Mayan civilisation. ibid.
Maya scribes writing on tree-bark paper created great libraries of books, sacred texts and codices. But this literary heritage was finally destroyed by the Spanish conquistadors. ibid.
It’s almost as if we’re hard-wired to contemplate our own destruction. ibid.
These four families are preparing for a time in the not so distant future when they believe water, food and fuel will be scarce. Doomsdayers 2012, 2008
62,362. Dennis, like many other 2012ers, feels that the time-frame for an apocalyptic disaster extends into 2013. ibid.
What if the Mayans are right? Adam Maloof, geoscientists Princeton University
It’s purely an astronomical calculation ... There is no historical track record of linking the cycles with any particular Earth disaster. Jonathan Gray, interview Coast to Coast Hidden Discoveries
The Maya Doomsday Prophecy of December 21st 2012 ... The ten baktuns dating form this creation are coming to an end on December 21st 2012. Maya Underworld: The Real Doomsday, National Geography 2014
Ancient calendars foretold a deadly countdown. A galactic alignment triggering a wave of natural disasters. Some said our planet was headed for extinction. Others believed in another agenda, one even more profound. Ancient Aliens s4e2: The Doomsday Prophecies
Yucatan Peninsula: One of the world’s greatest ancient civilisations, the Maya … The Maya consisted of around 15 to 20 million people … The Maya were one of the first civilisations to develop a written language, use modern mathematical methods, and build huge celestial observatories. ibid.
Why 2012? Why did this date hold a special significance? ibid.