Effendi Wrote:
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> Going back to the topic, is it safe according to
> your knowledge to say that end of the Maya Long
> Count does not mean any pole shifts, galactic
> superwaves, ice ages, mega super duper sun flares
> and all those scary themes?
NOne that the Maya recorded. They didn't have magnets and I'm pretty sure they weren't aware of magnetic poles.
Interestingly enough, some of the peoples there DID know about sunspots... but not, apparently, solar flares. They weren't aware of the galaxy or galactic superwaves (the sky was a dome to them.)
It's hard to say what the culture believed, since this was all hundreds of years in the future. Some religious changes were taking place just before the arrival of the Europeans. The poet/thinker Hungry Coyote had insisted that the gods wanted flowers and vegetables as sacrifices (and barely escaped with his life, running from the Aztecs). Droughts and changes in technology caused changes in village life and this impacted the religious beliefs.
> I've been overwhelmed
> by that, I regret ever reading all this rubbish. I
> can say I don't really believe it anymore, but...
It's rubbish.
Everone longs for a magical Disney-esque world, where there's Just Enough adventure and dinner all around at the end of the day and the bad are punished and everyone becomes nice to each other. Since many don't see a practical way to do this (like, start a revolution by being NICE to people and making a point to notice it and compliment it when you meet it in others), they look for a cosmological way to do it; a "great change" in the heavens. A "sign" that will "convert" all those Nasty Believers In Other Things and turn the world into an Eden.
But, unless they got the WHOLE world believing it, I'm afraid it won't happen. And even if they could get every human on the planet to buy into this, folks will begin to backslide the first time they get that 500th annoying phone call from the Credit Card company who INSISTS your life will be over unless you accept their card... and they'll snap and snarl at the poor telephone solicitor, and there goes Eden.
Kerpoof.
