{"id":2286,"date":"2011-12-02T14:11:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T03:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2011-12-02T14:11:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T03:11:26","slug":"sven-gronemeyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2011\/12\/sven-gronemeyer-2286.html","title":{"rendered":"Sven Gronemeyer: No Doomsday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gronemeyer has been studying the stone tablet found years ago at the archeological site of Tortuguero in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Tabasco.<\/p>\n
He said the inscription describes the return of mysterious Mayan god Bolon Yokte at the end of a 13th period of 400 years, known as Baktuns, on the equivalent of Dec. 21, 2012. Mayans considered 13 a sacred number. There’s nothing apocalyptic in the date, he said.<\/p>\n
The text was carved about 1,300 years ago. The stone has cracked, which has made the end of the passage almost illegible.<\/p>\n
Gronemeyer said the inscription refers to the end of a cycle of 5,125 years since the beginning of the Mayan Long Count calendar in 3113 B.C.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The above is well-known. What would have caught the attention of readers was the title of the Telegraph article<\/a> – The end of the world not happening – for now says expert<\/em><\/strong>. Presumably the article would contain information to put our minds at ease…<\/p>\n
“The date acquired a symbolic value because it is seen as a reflection of the day of creation,” Gronemeyer said. “It is the passage of a god and not necessarily a great leap for humanity.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Every time the Long Count calendar restarts, it is certainly the anniversary of the day of creation. The last <\/em>day of creation, for the Maya believed there have been several. And the day before that will likewise be the anniversary of the last time the Mayan world ended, 5125 years ago. And each previous time their world ended, it was via a natural disaster, instigated by the gods. Every debunking scholar skips that part.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gronemeyer has been studying the stone tablet found years ago at the archeological site of Tortuguero in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
\nHe said the inscription describes the return of mysterious Mayan god Bolon Yokte at the end of a 13th period of 400 years, known as Baktuns, on the equivalent of Dec. 21, 2012. Mayans considered 13 a sacred number. There’s nothing apocalyptic in the date, he said.
\nThe text was carved about 1,300 years ago. The stone has cracked, which has made the end of the passage almost illegible.
\nGronemeyer said the inscription refers to the end of a cycle of 5,125 years since the beginning of the Mayan Long Count calendar in 3113 B.C.
\nThe above is well-known. What would have caught the attention of readers was the title of the Telegraph article – The end of the world not happening – for now …<\/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-2286","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\/2286","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=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}