http://crazy2012.com What's so special about year 2012? Will we all survive 2012? Are the Mayas right? Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:18:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Below are documented the various religious holidays in the year 2012 for many of the key world religions.  The winter solstice is on December 21, 2012 -- the same day as the Mayan Calendar ends. JANUARY 2012 1 Mary, Mother of God - Catholic Christian Feast of St Basil - Orthodox Christian Gantan-sai (New Years) ... http://crazy2012.com/2007/10/22/16/ The Maya are probably the best-known of the classical civilizations of Mesoamerica. Originating in the Yucatán around 2600 B.C., they rose to prominence around A.D. 250 in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, northern Belize and western Honduras. Building on the inherited inventions and ideas of earlier civilizations such as the Olmec, ... http://crazy2012.com/2007/10/06/mayan-civilization/ The Maya calendar is actually a system of distinct calendars and almanacs used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and by some modern Maya communities in highland Guatemala. These calendars could be synchronised and interlocked in complex ways, their combinations giving rise to further, more extensive cycles. The essentials of ... http://crazy2012.com/2007/10/05/the-mayan-calendar/ In about five-and-a-half years, the world will supposedly end. Don't worry, though, because it will be a lot of fun. That is the impression I get from Nickelodeon Films, anyway. The kid-friendly division of Paramount is making an action-adventure for the whole family that is based on the idea that ... http://crazy2012.com/2007/10/02/another-movie-about-the-2012-apocalypse-this-one-is-for-the-kiddies/ Although there were only 365 days in the Haab year, the Mayas were aware that a year is slightly longer than 365 days, and in fact, many of the month-names are associated with the seasons; Yaxkin, for example, means "new or strong sun" and, at the beginning of the Long ... http://crazy2012.com/2007/10/01/did-the-mayas-think-a-year-was-365-days/ There are many videos on the subject of the Mayan calendar showing the end of the world in December 2012. This video starts to explain how ancient civilizations including both the Egyptians and the Mayans were highly educated in astronomy. The Mayan calendar is so accurate it predicted an eclipse ... http://crazy2012.com/2007/09/30/mayan-calendar-predicts-apocalypse-in-2012/ USA Today wrote an article recently on 2012: With humanity coming up fast on 2012, publishers are helping readers gear up and count down to this mysterious — some even call it apocalyptic — date that ancient Mayan societies were anticipating thousands of years ago. Since November, at least three new books ... http://crazy2012.com/2007/09/28/does-maya-calendar-predict-2012-apocalypse/ Government scientists say the next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the last one. The unprecedented forecast was made using a computer model of solar dynamics developed by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. Scientists predict the next cycle, called Cycle 24, will produce ... http://crazy2012.com/2007/09/27/strong-sunspot-cycle-in-2012/ Predicted and scheduled events in year 2012   January January 23 - Chinese New Year and scheduled new moon. This time of year is associated with the Water-Dragon in Chinese astrology.  January 31 - 433 Eros, the second largest Near Earth Object on record (size 13x13x33 km) is expected to pass Earth at ... http://crazy2012.com/2007/09/26/events-in-2012/ The date December 21st, 2012 A.D. (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count), represents an extremely close conjunction of the Winter Solstice Sun with the crossing point of the Galactic Equator (Equator of the Milky Way) and the Ecliptic (path of the Sun), what that ancient Maya recognized as the Sacred Tree. ... http://crazy2012.com/2007/09/25/december-21-2012-the-mayan-new-year/