Because the decoded Mayan calendar to our current one isn’t fully accurate. The good news is that the Mayan “Long Count” calendar may not end on Dec. 21, 2012. And by that, the world’s expiry date may not end along with it too. The only bad news is, if you’re a believer of the prophecy that is, you won’t know when the world’s gonna end, or perhaps it already has.

A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook “Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World” (Oxbow Books, 2010), argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years. That would throw the supposed and overhyped 2012 ‘kaboom’ apocalypse off by decades and cast into doubt the dates of historical Mayan events. (The doomsday worries are based on the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, much as our year ends on Dec. 31). Though, I’ve to admit there’re many prophecies that tag along this conspiracy.

If you do not know, our current Gregorian calendar was converted from the Mayan Calendar using a calculation method called the ‘GMT constant’, named for the last initials of three early Mayanist researchers. Much of the work emphasized dates recovered from colonial documents that were written in the Mayan language in the Latin alphabet, according to the chapter’s author, Gerardo Aldana, University of California, Santa Barbara professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies.

Later, the GMT constant was bolstered by American linguist and anthropologist Floyd Lounsbury, who used data in the Dresden Codex Venus Table, a Mayan calendar and almanac that charts dates relative to the movements of Venus.

“He took the position that his work removed the last obstacle to fully accepting the GMT constant,” Aldana said in a statement. “Others took his work even further, suggesting that he had proven the GMT constant to be correct.”

But Aldana disagree, saying that Lounsbury’s evidence is far from irrefutable.

“If the Venus Table cannot be used to prove the FMT as Lounsbury suggests, its acceptance depends on the reliability of the corroborating data,” he said. That historical data, he said, is less reliable than the Table itself, causing the argument for the GMT constant to fall “like a stack of cards.”

Sad news is, Aldana doesn’t have any answers as to what the correct calendar conversion might be, preferring to focus on why the current interpretation may be wrong. Looks like end-of-the-world theorists may need to find another ancient calendar on which to pin their apocalyptic hopes. Well, at least you still have extra time to save up that €1billion to get onboard. Roland Emmerich might need to remake his much hyped 2012-titled movie. “It is all just a dream… a conspiracy of the Illuminati.”

SOURCE via Yahoo! News