I briefly watched the end of a televised documentary about the Mayan calendar, and it pretty much said something about this year being where the center of the Milky Way which is called the Dark Rift will line up with Earth during the Winter Solstice and how we will get to see Venus during an eclipse. Man, that is cool!
It felt a little bone-chilling there for a moment, but I'm pretty excited to see what might happen to this seemingly unchanging world at the end of this year. What the researcher seemed to allude to for me is that the Mayans really based a lot of their religious beliefs based on the structure of the island they lived on. However, their mathematical and astronomical knowledge is so ingenious that I'm sure most of us would have never even sought to go that far out of our own imaginations.
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