I agree re the Mayan calendar. ISTR hearing that they did their calculations based on something similar to the Julian Day Number, although it is obviously called something else, and was also anchored on another date.

One of the arguments in the End-Of-The-World-2012 concept is just where the Mayan's anchored their calendar. This is important because depending where you anchor it changes the date of the end of the world. Some say it passed quite some time ago.

BTW, I looked into this a bit and it's not really the "Mayan Calendar", but more like the Meso-American calendar system, as more than the Mayans used it, and there were variations of it. Also, this end date that's supposed to be coming up in 2012 is just the end of one of the many cycles in the calendar. There are even longer cycles.

Just as we have weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, and millennia, so they also had their time spans. This 2012 date is merely then end of one of these longer cycles. A new one simply starts.

Further, there are Mayan texts that refer to dates in the future, FAR in the future - 10's of thousands of years, a few even millions.

Brian