Background : The aztecs waged war on their neighbours not to conquer but just so they had enough slaves to sacrifice and appease their gods.
TheHistoryMaster2520 on
~~Did the Aztecs/Mexica explicitly say that the world was going to end in 2012, or is it just where their calendar happened to end?~~
Edit 1: The calendar originated from the Maya, not the Mexica, though the Mexica used the same calendar.
Edit 2: The idea that the end of a cycle in the Maya calendar marked an apocalyptic event was first proposed by archaeologist Michael Douglas Coe in 1966, which has been contested by other Mayanists and contemporary Maya leaders in Guatemala and Mexico, who have refuted the idea that the Maya believed the world would end in 2012.
AwfulUsername123 on
The world ending in 2012 was just a recommendation.
aCucking2Remember on
I have a Mayan calendar that I got at chichen Itzá. I don’t know why people fixated on what year they stopped. Like you would get tired and stop if you were doing that by hand at some point. The point of the calendar was to count 1 year. They had 360 days with 5 cursed days. If you were born between august 1-6 you were marked for sacrifice whenever they needed one. This was solstice or eclipses etc. Our Mayan guide who studied anthropology and astronomy said that the sacrifices were them basically asking for rain. It’s hot as balls there inland. It was 43 Celsius 106 Fahrenheit without the heat index when I went in may. I imagine that they had a hot period with drought and went to live on the coasts where it was cooler
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Background : The aztecs waged war on their neighbours not to conquer but just so they had enough slaves to sacrifice and appease their gods.
~~Did the Aztecs/Mexica explicitly say that the world was going to end in 2012, or is it just where their calendar happened to end?~~
Edit 1: The calendar originated from the Maya, not the Mexica, though the Mexica used the same calendar.
Edit 2: The idea that the end of a cycle in the Maya calendar marked an apocalyptic event was first proposed by archaeologist Michael Douglas Coe in 1966, which has been contested by other Mayanists and contemporary Maya leaders in Guatemala and Mexico, who have refuted the idea that the Maya believed the world would end in 2012.
The world ending in 2012 was just a recommendation.
I have a Mayan calendar that I got at chichen Itzá. I don’t know why people fixated on what year they stopped. Like you would get tired and stop if you were doing that by hand at some point. The point of the calendar was to count 1 year. They had 360 days with 5 cursed days. If you were born between august 1-6 you were marked for sacrifice whenever they needed one. This was solstice or eclipses etc. Our Mayan guide who studied anthropology and astronomy said that the sacrifices were them basically asking for rain. It’s hot as balls there inland. It was 43 Celsius 106 Fahrenheit without the heat index when I went in may. I imagine that they had a hot period with drought and went to live on the coasts where it was cooler