随着2011年进入最后一个月,关于古玛雅人2017年世界末日的预言在互联网上再度风传。为了破除谣传,墨西哥国家人类学和历史研究所近日在墨西哥南部的帕伦克玛雅遗址举行圆桌会议,邀请了全球60名研究玛雅文化的专家出席。专家们一致认为,2017年只是玛雅长纪年历中一个时代的结束,但这并不意味着世界末日。人类距离世界毁灭还远得很,专家说明对于所谓世界末日的说法和所有此类担忧都是杞人忧天。
If you are worried the world will end next year based on the Mayan calendar, relax: the end of time is still far off.
So say Mayan experts who want to dispel any belief that the ancient Mayans predicted a world apocalypse next year.
The Mayan calendar marks the end of a 5,126 year old cycle around December 12, 2017 which should bring the return of Bolon Yokte, a Mayan god associated with war and creation.
Author Jose Arguelles called the date "the ending of time as we know it" in a 1987 book that spawned an army of Mayan theorists, whose speculations on a cataclysmic end abound online. But specialists meeting at this ancient Mayan city in southern Mexico say it merely marks the termination of one period of creation and the beginning of another.
"We have to be clear about this. There is no prophecy for 2017," said Erik Velasquez, an etchings specialist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). "It's a marketing fallacy."
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