Mayans say Guatemala government promotes 2012 doomsday myth for profit

A Discovery News article says that since nothing sells like fear, the supposed end of the Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012–only 17 days away–has been blown out of proportion and misinterpreted mainly for profit.

It turns out that the Maya in Guatemala feel unhappy with their government for promoting a massive Doomsday Event, and tour groups are having a field day with “End of the World 2012” tours.

But this time, the anger isn’t directed at the West’s “messianic thinking,” Maya leaders have accused the Guatemalan government of perpetuating the myth that the Mayan Long Count calendar predicts the end of the world for financial gain.

“We are speaking out against deceit, lies and twisting of the truth, and turning us into folklore-for-profit. They are not telling the truth about time cycles,” Felipe Gomez, leader of the Maya alliance Oxlaljuj Ajpop, told the AFP news agency.

Mayans pissed off over doomsday deceit

I find it refreshing to see that the actual Maya are speaking out against the perpetuation of the misinterpretation of their ancient Mayan prophecies.

Carol Chapman, author of the End of the World 2012 EBook

Inspirational Quote Sunrise and Moonrise

May every sunrise hold more promise, every moonrise hold more peace.

–Anon.

Problem with Mayan end of the world 2012 December 21st date caused by difference between Venus or meteor

UC Santa Barbara associate professor Gerardo Aldana says that if the correlation of the Long Count Calendar date was correlated to a meteor event rather than to a cyclical Venus event, the End of the World 2012 Mayan prophecy date could be off by at least 60 days from December 21, 2012.

One of the key events described by Aldana is a battle date as set by the ruler of Dos Pilas (a Maya site in the current geographical location of Guatemala). Ruler Balaj Chan K’awiil chose this date by the appearance of Chak Ek’. According to John Normark, researcher at the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies at Stockholm University, Chak Ek’ “used to be believed to be Venus but in another study Aldana believes it is a [meteor].”

2012 Mayan Calendar “Doomsday” date might be wrong

Carol Chapman, author of the End of the World 2012 EBook

December 21 2012 End date of the Mayan Long Count Calendar may be off by at least 60 days

According to an online Discovery News article by Ian MacNeill, the Mayan end of the world 2012 date might be off by at least 60 days.

The problem has to do with correlating dates in the Mayan Long Count calendar with dates in our present Gregorian calendar. Scholars use a constant called the GMT constant, which refers to the initials of the three men who determined this constant:  Joseph Goodman, Juan Martinez-Hernandez and J. Eric S. Thompson.

Carol Chapman, author of the End of the World 2012 EBook

The Riviera Maya is in Quintana Roo in the Yucatan Peninsula

The Riviera Maya is located along the northern Caribbean coast of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo

In the map on the right, the Riviera Maya is the northern part of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The Riviera Maya extends along the extreme eastern coast of Quintana Roo along the Caribbean Sea (also on the right).

The popular Mayan ruins of  Coba and Tulum are in Quintana Roo as well as the modern tourist towns of Playa del Carmen and Cancun.

Carol Chapman, author of the End of the World 2012 EBook.

Inspirational Quote from Henry David Thoreau, “It’s not what you look at . . .”

Close up of Impatiens flowers with raindrops

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End of the World 2012 EBook

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The End of the World 2012 EBook, is the memoir of author and filmmaker Carol Chapman to discover the truth about the 2012 Mayan prophecies.

Concerned with rampant end of the world fears fanned by misleading reports, Chapman uncovers the truth surrounding this mysterious 2012 date. She examines expert sources to determine if the Mayan calendar does actually end on December 21, 2012 and even includes recent archeological discoveries released in April and June of 2012.

The Land of the ancient Maya

The Yucatan Peninsula showing the location of Mayan ruins sites

As you can see from the map of the Yucatan Peninsula on the right, there are Mayan ruin sites in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco (where Tabasco Sauce comes from), and Chiapas.

There are also Mayan ruins in the countries of Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras.

Of course, the ancient Maya–the ones who wrote the Mayan prophecies and made the Mayan calendar–did not think of the area as the map looks today with separate Mexican states and separate countries.

For them, it was all the land where they lived with different centers of power where large populations lived. These are today’s Mayan ruins sites.

And today, even though this land is separated into different countries and different Mexican states, it is still the land where the Maya live–the modern-day Maya who are the descendants of the ancient Maya.

The Maya have lived in this area for thousands of years.

Carol Chapman, director/producer of the End of the World 2012 Movie and the Yucatan Travel Movie

Cancun did not become an official part of Mexico until 1974

Cancun is in Quintana Roo, Mexico’s youngest state.

Quintana Roo is where Cancun is. Lots of people don’t know that Quintana Roo and Cancun did not even become a part of Mexico until 1974.

Although Quintana Roo was a territory of Mexico since 1905, it did not become an official state until October 8, 1974.

It is Mexico’s youngest state. Quintana Roo, like Yucatan, is a Mexican state in the Yucatan Peninsula, and is one of the states in Mexico where the Maya live.

Excerpted from the End of the World 2012 Book and End of the World 2012 EBook

Carol Chapman, director/producer of the End of the World 2012 Movie and the Yucatan Travel Movie

Where the Maya Live in Mexico

The Yucatan Peninsula

With all the information on the End of the World 2012 Mayan Prophecies, many people don’t know where the Maya live.

They live in the Yucatan Peninsula, which looks like a thumb sticking out from the “hand” of Mexico.

The top of the thumb is the state of Yucatan. Then, on either side, in the middle of the thumb are the states of Campeche and Quintana Roo.

Excerpted from the End of the World 2012 EBook and the End of the World 2012 Book.

Carol Chapman director/producer of the End of the World 2012 Movie.