It’s probably not the end of the world for 2012, the blockbuster disaster movie set to perpetuate the notion that – according to the Mayan Longcount Calendar – global destruction is pending in just over three years. Nobody really expects Hollywood to tell the truth, after all. But it certainly won’t do the picture’s credibility much good that members of the Maya community of South America, as well as various skeptical experts, have spoken out to make clear that they hold no such belief in doomsday’s imminent approach.
“I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff,” said Apolinario Chile Pixtun, a Mayan elder, speaking to Discovery News. He’s determined that the perceived end of the Mayan Longcount Calendar on December 21 2012 and the Armageddon it will seemingly herald is firmly a creation of western imagination, and has no rooting in Mayan beliefs.
