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October 28, 2011
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October 6, 2011 - 11:14am

I am grateful that it will soon be October 28 and that we finally will get to the “end;” not of the Mayan calendar, but of the absurdity that has come to surround this date.

There are several key points to be made:

1. Not a single serious scholar in the entire world supports Dr. Calleman’s ideas concerning the Mayan calendar and his principal theories have no basis in Mayan culture, past or present.

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Mayan ceremonies in the highlands of Chiapas
September 2, 2011 - 12:45pm

My wife June and I returned recently from three weeks visiting among Tzeltal and Tzotzil-speaking Maya near the highland city of San Cristóbal de las Casas attempting to assess Mayan perspectives concerning the future and the year 2012. I was genuinely surprised to find that nearly all the Maya we spoke with had already heard of the year 2012, usually via television, and they generally associated the date with an “end of the world” scenario.

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The Chilam Balam books
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May 14, 2011 - 8:48pm

After the Monument 6 glyphs carved by a Mayan scribe at Tortuguero in the seventh century, the next explicit unambiguous reference to the 2012 date and the completion of thirteen pik (b’aktun) cycles, may have been a minor footnote added by Vassar astronomy professor Maud Worcester Makemson to her 1951 translation of a colonial period Mayan holy book known as the Chilam Balam of Tizimin. Dr. Makemson wrote that “The completion of a great cycle of thirteen baktuns would indeed be an occasion of the highest expectation .” 

According to Makemson, the Tizimin text states that:

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This year's Maya Meetings at Austin about 2012
April 7, 2011 - 9:50am

For over three decades, the Maya Meetings sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin have annually showcased the work of the most accomplished scholars in the field of Mayan Studies, men and women who have dedicated their professional lives to better understanding the ancient Maya and their contemporary descendants.

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