It seems that when anyone talks about Mayans, most people automatically think the world is going to end or that they predicted some sort of apocalypse.

I honestly think it’s because society today now looks at things too negatively. Just because the calendar ends and there is nothing after that doesn’t mean it’s going to end.

Apocalypse is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception.

When someone asks you, “Do you think the world is going to end on Dec. 21, 2012?” most people reply saying yes, no or “Who knows?”

Maybe it’s the media making it sound as if it’s the end. The most common joke I’ve seen on the internet about 2012 is that if the Mayans were good at predicting the future, there would still be Mayans. However, there are still tons of Mayans; about 6 million living today. There are more than have probably lived at any other single point in history.

It could just be that people don’t really know anything about the Mayans, or people don’t care to look into it more.

The Mayans were one of the most advanced cultures found in the Americas.

They were artists, architects, scientists, mathematicians, engineers, historians, writers, academics, farmers, traders and astronomers, among other things. They were smarter than most in that they took things that already existed and improved upon them.

Mayan elders have said to this day that the world has no end, it is instead a continuing of cycles. Once this cycle ends, another cycle begins.

According to the Mayan calenders, it’s something important that has to do with the sun.

A new era, in which something big will change. As for knowing what will change, the Maya cannot say.

While they had written many things, the parchment which they used to write upon was destroyed either by time or by Spanish conquistadors.

The Mayan elders do not prophesy that everything will come to an end. This is a time of transition from one World Age to another.

The message they give concerns our decision on how we enter the future ahead. Moving through with either resistance or acceptance will determine whether the transition will happen with cataclysmic changes or gradual peace and tranquility.

Personally, I think it’s about transformation and renewal.

It’s certainly nothing as simplistic as the end of the world.