December 21, 2012 is the end of the world?

Hollywood is about to release a movie that mimics long speculation about the fateful day of December 21, 2012 when the world is engulfed by tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, intense earthquakes and meteor shower. Does humanity come to an end?

Since the Internet began to become popular since the 1990s, the talk of fateful days is believed to have been spread by the ancient Mayan. Many people panic when the winter solstice in 2012 is said to be the next disaster day.

A scene from the movie in 2012. Photo: LATimes.

" We received countless emails from grade 4 girls, saying they didn't want to die because they were too young, " said Ann Martin, who runs the astrology website in the US. " There is a mother and two children who write to us, worried that she will not live until the children grow up ."

Does humanity really end life on December 21, 2012? Many believe this may be true based on the Mayan Monument 6 stone column that archaeologists discovered in the ruins of Mexico in the 1960s.

According to the AP, these inscriptions refer to an event that will take place in 2012, related to the Mayan god Bolon Yokte. This is a god of war and creativity. However, this stone pillar is corroded and has a crack that makes archaeologists unable to read the final misery. Archaeologist Guillermo Bernal in Mexico reassures him that the last paragraph has the content: "He will come naked".

Another theory is related to the Mayan Long Count calendar. Maya civilization developed at its peak from 300 to 900 AD. Their Long Count religious calendar began in 3,114 BC and is expected to end on December 21, 2012.

Many astrologers believe that the ancient Mayans also knew of another secret: the axis of the world moving, changing the order of the stars every year. Every 25,800 years, the sun moves to the center of the Milky Way on the same day of winter solstice. According to this hypothesis, the sun's heat source will be higher than normal, which can strongly affect the environment on the earth. This event will happen on December 21, 2012.

The History Channel channel does a program called: " Past decoding: the end of the world in 2012 " which explains that the sun moving to the center of the Milky Way can cause a horrifying reversal. . " The whole earth will change in just a few days, maybe in a few hours. The north pole swapped places for the south pole, causing a global disaster ," the host said. " Earthquakes rocked the continents, tsunamis swept away many coastal cities. This could be a planet-wide disaster ."

Researcher Lawrence Joseph, who studied in 2012, said that solar storms could knock down North American power grid for many years, causing food and water scarcity leading to the collapse of civilization.

While the apocalyptic hypothesis spreads, American studios are about to release the 2012 film, describing the earth disaster. Dr. David Morrison, at the NASA Space Center in the US, said they received more than 1,000 questions about this issue. Many young men said they would rather commit suicide than witness the earth collapse. NASA insists the world has not yet come to an end and criticizes Hollywood filmmakers, raising concerns about fate.

Chilean Apolinario Pixtun, a Mayan, was fed up when asked about 2012. " I was in England last year. People were sick of me ," Chile Pixtun said, reassuring the hypothesis. about the apocalypse is not derived from the Mayan people, but by Westerners.

Archaeologist Jose Huchim said that the Mayans in the Yuncatan peninsula had more worries than whether the world ended or not. "If you ask them what will happen in 2012, they definitely have no idea. The world has come to the end of the world? They will not believe you. Their concerns are much more realistic, for example. When is the rain going, "Huchim said.

Astrology site manager Ann Martin said the world has been repeatedly predicted to end. " It seems that those who wrote the hypotheses did not remember that previous predictions did not come true ," Martin said.