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-Tinggal 52 minggu dan 1 hari sebelum 21 Disember 2012, sebelum Puak Maya kata ‘the-end-of-the-world’.
-Kawasan tertumpu Puak Maya di bahagian tenggara Mexico, rancang utk buat perayaan sepanjang tahun 2012 ni..
- Agensi pelancongan Mexico (Mexico‘s tourism agency) menjangka 52 juta akan datang mexico tahun 2012 hanya di kawasan Chiapas, Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Tabasco dan Campeche. Biasanya mexico hanya menerima 22 juta pelancong sahaja dalam setahun..
-Banyak Arkeologist berselisih pendapat yang tarikh 21 Disember 2012 tu hanya pengakhiran kalendar Mayan sahaja, bukan pengakhiran dunia ni..
-”The world will not end. It is an era,” kata Yeanet Zaldo, jurucakap pelancongan utk the Caribbean state of Quintana Roo. “For us, it is a message of hope.”
-bandar & pekan di kawasan puak maya akan memulakan perayaan-sepanjang-tahun pada Rabu ini..
-Di Chiapas, bandar kepada Tapachula di Sempadan Guatemala akan start countdown dengan jam digital berketinggian 8 kaki, exactly a year sebelum tarikh tersebut.
-Tapak arkeologi di Izapa, Bomoh-bomoh puak Maya membakar kemenyan, menjampi serapah & Berdoa..
-Di Hutan tropika Quintana Roo, orang-orang meletakkan pesanan & gambar dalam ‘kapsul masa’ yang akan ditanam utk tempoh 50 tahun..
-”People who still live in Mayan villages will host rites and burn incense for us to go back in time and try to understand the Mayan wisdom,” Zaldo said.
-The doomsday theories stem from a stone tablet discovered in the 1960s at the archaeological site of Tortuguero in the Gulf of Mexico state of Tabasco that describes the return of a Mayan god at the end of a 13th period.
-Gronemeyer, dari La Trobe University di Australia membandingkan teori puak maya dengan mitos “Y2K”, yang mana orang percaya semua sistem komputer akan ‘crash’ bila bermula millennium baru pada 1 januari 2000.
-For some reason, Gronemeyer says, people have ignored evidence that dates beyond 2012 were recorded.
-The blogosphere exploded with more speculation when Mexico‘s archaeology institute acknowledged on Nov. 24 a second reference to Dec. 21, 2012, on a brick found at other ruins.
-”Human beings seem to be attracted by apocalyptic ideas and always assume the worst,” Gronemeyer said.
-It’s all a bit frustrating for serious Mayan researchers whose field has made huge strides in recent years.
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