In 2010, during excavations, American archaeologists discovered another Mayan calendar, which "cancels" the alleged end of the world. Meanwhile, scientists dispute the very definition of the "Mayan calendar" existing now, since its complete record simply cannot be. We are talking only about a continuing dating system bound by a single set of rules, in which individual dates, periods and cycles are fixed. Like any other, it is relevant as long as it is used.
The found calendar is an astronomical table containing complex mathematical calculations of the cycles of motion of Venus, Mars and Earth. The surviving frescoes detail the solar and lunar years. The calendar is compiled for the next 7 thousand years. Writings were made on the walls of one of the buildings. It is suggested that the building in which the ancient scientist lived could have been a kind of school for astronomers, and the inscriptions on the walls were a visual aid.
The find does not contain any predictions regarding the alleged end of the world. Moreover, according to scientists in the classical tradition of the Mayan civilization, such a concept does not exist at all. Catastrophes, earthquakes - all this is present in the calendar mythology of the Aztecs. The myth of the end of the world in 2012 is the result of an incorrect combination of these traditions.
The mentality of the ancient Maya was fundamentally different from the one that exists today. Where modern humanity is looking for the end of the world, they saw the continuation of life in a new time period. There is a version that, according to the Mayan calendar, there is a change of epochs in 2012. A deity named Bolon Octa will rule the next time span, which will end in 7136.
Alexander Safronov, a member of the European Association of Mayanists, draws an analogy between the Mayan calendar and the Gregorian calendar used today. He says that there simply cannot be a complete record of them. The calendar is just an astronomical dating system. And no one, in general, except perhaps for specialists, is concerned about the question of how many years ahead the Gregorian calendar has been drawn up, what will happen when the calculation period ends.
Tables of calendar calculations were found in the province of Petén in northern Guatemala, where one of the largest "dead cities" of the Mayan civilization is being excavated. The ruins of Shaltun were discovered back in 1915. Systematic excavations began in 2001. Scientists date the find to the 9th century AD. These are the oldest known calendar records of the Mayan civilization to date.
