Is the following simple fiction?
The commonly-established way of expressing the correlation between the Maya calendar and the Gregorian or Julian calendars is to provide number of days from the start of the Julian Period (Monday, January 1, 4713 BCE) to the start of creation on 0.0.0.0.0 (4 Ajaw, 8 Kumk'u).
The most commonly accepted correlation is the "Goodman, Martinez, Thompson" correlation (GMT correlation). The GMT correlation establishes that the 0.0.0.0.0 creation date occurred on 3114 BCE September 6 (Julian) or 3114 BCE August 11 (Gregorian), Julian day number (JDN) 584283, the number of days since the start of the Julian Period. This correlation fits the astronomical, ethnographic, carbon dating, and historical sources. However, there have been other correlations that have been proposed at various times, most of which are merely of historical interest, except that by Floyd Lounsbury, two days after the GMT correlation, which is in use by some Maya scholars.
Today, 14:54, Wednesday April 25, 2007 (UTC), in the Long Count is 12.19.14.4.13.
(My emphasis)
As they counted using astronomical events and were interested in cycles, it's not surprising that one of their cycles will end at an astronomical event.
Maybe I'm just getting some sparks in my brain, but ancient cultures with pyramids and other astronomical features have an interest because, among other things, they show the ancient culture's astronomy and, by inference, tell us something of how the culture viewed its movement through time and space (D'où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ?.)
I'm sure some over-doped people have invented theories from this...who among us has never been over-doped and invented a crazy theory?
Oh...cough cough.
And maybe some people write their theories in books and sell a lot and make money.
But I don't see the "crazy theory" types as subtracting from analysable historical artifacts (eg. pyramids, both egyptian and mesoamerican, but not just pyramids...have a looksee at this...)
Which, when polished up might have looked like this.
...they think.
The Antikythera Mechanism
I see the crazy theories as...well...crazy theories. More entertaining than the ones told in religious buildings and maybe with a few more shafts of something real sneaking through...
...may just be sparks in my head...
(...and may I just add that when I think of "gullible people" I don't think of hippies being conned by ancient stories, I, more depressingly, think of people turning up to these meetings...
Eight million and counting! Quick! I need...something funky!
Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
