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- The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University Press of Colorado
summary
December 21, 2012. The Internet, bookshelves, and movie theaters are full of prophecies, theories, and predictions that this date marks the end of the world, or at least the end of the world as we know it. Whether the end will result from the magnentic realignment of the north and south poles, bringing floods, earthquakes, death, and destruction; or from the return of alien caretakers to enlighten or enslave us; or from a global awakening, a sudden evolution of Homo sapiens into non-corporeal beings—theories of great, impending changes abound. In The End of Time, award-winning astronomer and Maya researcher Anthony Aveni explores these theories, explains their origins, and measures them objectively against evidence unearthed by Maya archaeologists, iconographers, and epigraphers. He probes the latest information astronomers and earth scientists have gathered on the likelihood of Armageddon and the oft-proposed link between the Maya Long Count cycle and the precession of the equinoxes. He then expands on these prophecies to include the broader context of how other cultures, ancient and modern, thought about the “end of things” and speculates on why cataclysmic events in human history have such a strong appeal within American pop culture.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- pp. xix-xxii
- 6: What goes around: Other ends of time
- pp. 117-134
- 7: Only in America
- pp. 135-162
- 8: Epilogue: Anticipation
- pp. 163-166
Additional Information
ISBN
9781607320098
Related ISBN(s)
9780870819612
MARC Record
OCLC
558840912
Pages
212
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No