Who said world ending

Rather, the mention of the end of Bak'tun 13 is likely a forward-looking statement that refers back to the main subject of the inscription, which is the dedication of Monument 6. In an October blog post about his conclusions , Stuart makes an analogy to a scribe wanting to immortalize the New York Yankees' sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies in that year's World Series.

If this writer were to use the Maya rhetorical device thought to be in Monument 6's inscription, the text might read:. It happened 29 years after the first Yankees victory in the World Series in And so 50 years before the year will occur, the Yankees won the World Series.

Written this way, Stuart notes, the text mentions a future time of historical importance—the year anniversary of the victory—but it does so in reference to the event at hand, i. According to INAH's Gallaga, this structure of Maya texts is what has confused modern minds, given our penchant for literal, straightforward reading.

Even if the Monument 6 inscription refers to a god coming down at the end of Bak'tun 13, it isn't a statement about the end of the world, he said. Read about the rise and fall of the Maya in National Geographic magazine. Saturno, the Boston University archaeologist, agreed that the reference to a specific date is clear in Monument 6, but added that "there's no text that follows and says, Herein will be the end of the world, and the world will end in fire.

That's not anywhere in the text. Related video: Surviving —Preparation. Rather, Saturno said, the hype around stems from dissatisfied Westerners looking to the ancients for guidance, hoping that peoples such as the Maya knew something then that could help us through difficult times now.

In any case, even if the ancient inscriptions explicitly predicted the end of the world, Saturno wouldn't be worried, given the Maya track record with long-range prophecy. All rights reserved. That's just us. Maya Prophecy for End of the World? If this writer were to use the Maya rhetorical device thought to be in Monument 6's inscription, the text might read: "On October 7, , the New York Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series.

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