We can all breathe easier on this score, according to a recent find at Xultan, in northeast Guatemala. Archeologists discovered a wall in a small room that seems to have functioned as a blackboard for Mayan astronomers. The 1200 year old calculations represent the oldest known Mayan astronomical tables, suggesting a future at least 6,000 years long.
Courtesty, National Geographic.
“Why would they go into those numbers if the world is going to come to an end this year?” asked Anthony Aveni of Colgate University, an expert on Mayan astronomy. Aveni and others published their findings Friday, in the journal, Science.
Rain forest location of the find – Courtesy National Geographic.
At the end of the year, when we no longer have the the elections to worry about, and all your friends are starting to think of apocalypse, you can tell them about the Mayan geeks, and suggest they chill.
You can read more about the find here: http://tinyurl.com/cw4aqzx
The First Gates 
I laughed at this, but truth told, I’m kinda relieved to think that the Mayans also had geeky folks running doomsday calculations just for the fun of it.
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And I suspect that these geeks were held in very high regard by everyone – same status as priests or magicians.
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Whew!
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I guess I can cancel that parachuting trip.
By the way Morgan, I am still trying to connect the dots on a comment you left regarding the three stooges. Would you be so kind to explain it to me … sorry sometimes I am a little slow on the uptake 🙂
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Sorry, but I can’t remember what I said about the Stooges. Maybe I was channeling Curly without even knowing it!
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A little behind on my reading here. I saw the articles about this and was reminded of how silly I thought the whole brouhaha was about the 2012 calender thingy. Good to know the Geeks are in charge.
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I was reminded of a Doonesbury panel last year, when that Oakland preacher was predicting the apocalypse. Zonker quotes Bible passages to show that no one “knows the hour or the day.”
When one of his friends asks him where he learned scripture, Zonker says, “Peanuts, of course. Linus is my main man.”
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Linus has sound theology 🙂
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Indeed. Sounder than most other folks.
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