{"id":2254,"date":"2011-11-26T16:44:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T05:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2011-11-26T16:44:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T05:44:45","slug":"comalcalco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2011\/11\/comalcalco-2254.html","title":{"rendered":"Dec 21, 2012: Second Mayan Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayan experts keen to debunk 2012 doomsday theories used to point out how strange it was that the Mayans never mentioned the specific date of (their equivalent to) Dec 21, 2012, not anywhere. The only way <em>we <\/em>knew of it is by determining when their Long Count would finish, and start again. Then a few years ago some scholars let us in on a secret, the date is inscribed upon <a href=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/index.php\/Common-Questions\/did-the-ancient-mayans-predict-a-doomsday.html\">Tortuguero Monument 6<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026(long ago) it happened, the day Eight Chuwen, the ninth of Mak<br \/>\nwhen the Becoming-Ripe-House was constructed(?).<br \/>\nIt was the \u2018underground house\u2019 (shrine) of (the god) Ahkal K\u2019uk\u2019.<br \/>\nIt was two and nine-score days, three years, eight-score years and 3 x 400 years<br \/>\n(before) the Thirteenth Bak\u2019tun will end<br \/>\non Four Ajaw, the third of Uniiw,<br \/>\nwhen ..?.. it will occur,<br \/>\nthe descent..?.. of B\u2019olon Yookte\u2019 at ..?..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given that there was just one mention, experts assured us that Dec 21 2012 was not an important date for the Mayans.<\/p>\n<p>But what about two mentions? Making the news this week, the National Institute of Anthropology and History have let it be known that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/science\/discoveries\/story\/2011-11-24\/mexico-apocalypse-2012-mayans\/51387348\/1\">a second reference exists<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The inscription is on the carved or molded face  of a brick. Comalcalco is unusual among Mayan temples in that it was  constructed of bricks.<\/p>\n<p>Arturo Mendez, a  spokesman for the institute, said the fragment of inscription had been  discovered years ago and has been subject to thorough study. It is not  on display and is being kept in storage at the institute.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2255\" href=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2011\/11\/comalcalco-2254.html\/comalcalco\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2255\" title=\"comalcalco\" src=\"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/comalcalco.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which begs the question, how many more are there, kept secret?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The brick date does coincide with the end of the 13th Baktun; Baktuns  were roughly 394-year periods and 13 was a significant, sacred number  for the Mayas. The Mayan Long Count calendar begins in 3114 B.C., and  the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The brick does not mention the Long Count date, so it could be a coincidence &#8211; these Calendar Round dates repeat every 52 years.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the date, the brick doesn&#8217;t say much, just <strong><em>he\/she\/it arrives<\/em>.<\/strong> That leaves open the possibility of the return of a comet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayan experts keen to debunk 2012 doomsday theories used to point out how strange it was that the Mayans never mentioned the specific date of (their equivalent to) Dec 21, 2012, not anywhere. The only way we knew of it is by determining when their Long Count would finish, and start again. Then a few years ago some scholars let us in on a secret, the date is inscribed upon Tortuguero Monument 6:<br \/>\n\u2026(long ago) it happened, the day Eight Chuwen, the ninth of Mak<br \/>\nwhen the Becoming-Ripe-House was constructed(?).<br \/>\nIt was the \u2018underground house\u2019 (shrine) of (the god) Ahkal K\u2019uk\u2019.<br \/>\nIt was two and nine-score days, three years, eight-score years and 3 x 400 years<br \/>\n(before) the Thirteenth Bak\u2019tun will end<br \/>\non Four Ajaw, the third of Uniiw,<br \/>\nwhen ..?.. it will occur,<br \/>\nthe descent..?.. of B\u2019olon Yookte\u2019 at ..?..<br \/>\nGiven that there was just one mention, experts assured us that Dec 21 2012 was not an important &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","category-mayan-calendar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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