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The Mayans believed in the importance of time. By recording it on their calendars, they believed they could transcend it. Believing that catastrophes were sent by gods dependent on time, they keenly observed the passage of time but without the aid of precision instruments - no clocks, telescopes, or hourglass. To the Mayans, knowing time meant knowing the processions of the stars and therefore the future.

Mayan organization of time:

In the beginning was the figure 13, the symbol of time.
Birth of man - the union of 13 with 20, or 260 years or the Sacred Round Calendar
Life of man - union of the Sacred Round time and solar time, or 52 years.
Life of the world - 52 times 20 - 1,040 years
Life of the universe - five worlds, or 1,040 times 5 - 5,200 years.

Mayan time starting point: 3114 B.C
Each world has 1,040 years.
The end of the Mayan fourth world: 1046 A.D

The Mayans believed they lived in the fourth world. The height of their civilization occurred between 2000 B.C. and 900 A.D. Is it likely that during the ninth century, a congress of astronomer-priests convened at Xochicalco to discuss the coming catastrophe and seek out ways to divert it? Did they deliberately decide to flee their cities giving up everything to avoid disaster? For the Mayans, extremely bad drought, heavy deforestation, and land exhaustion was happening towards the end of the ninth and tenth centuries. Perhaps the astronomer-priests averted total disaster but at a high cost. By the time the Spanish conquistadors arrived, the Mayans had forgotten their beautiful, magnificent cities even once existed.

The period in which we live in now is the fifth world. It is also the final world.
2012 A.D. - This date marks the end of the 13th 400 year period. A significant date, according to the Mayans. But what will happen?

Nasa predicts the height of a severe solar storm.
Some predict polar shift.
Others say, like the Mayans, we may be predicting disaster but will the solution come at a high cost similar to their outcome?