The end of the world. The question is how do we know what will happen? And the answer is we don’t. No matter how educated you are, nobody knows what will happen. So when people go on to say that the world is meant to end on December 21, 2012 they’re going by what they have heard and think not by what they know. Most also say that it’s not made up and that it was proven by the Mayans that the calendar ends on this date. This is the truth but not meaning the end of the world. Just the beginning of their new cycle called a baktun.

               A baktun is the end of a cycle on the Mayan calendar that lasts 5,125 years. A baktun is not the end of the world and should not be a state of panic but a state of celebration for making it another cycle. Most Mayan elders and Mayans in general are beginning to become irritated and fed up with the hype of the world ending on December 21, 2012 because of their calendar. He says that most don’t try to understand their calendar and that they just jump to conclusions. Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the end of the world. “I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff,” he said.

               What I found about all the information I searched up over the Mayans is that they had no intention of causing a big deal over a simple celebration that they hold dear to their hearts. They are most likely upset that people have turned something so important to them into a joke. People who started this rumor are most likely wanting to be put in the media or want to cause public endangerment and scare the world.