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sorry I did not expand on the issue, I was just saying that the 6/6/06 is just a date and we associate the number of the beast with it. The Mayan prophecy is associated with their cycle calander based on the prcession of the galaxy, they have a numbering system using a cycle of approx 26000 years in the long count. Regarding the World Age cycle we are closing in 2012 and the new World Age cycle to dawn, there are varying cosmologies as to whether we are closing the Fifth World and entering the Sixth, or closing the Fourth World and entering the Fifth. For example, In the perspective of the living Maya Timekeepers of Guatemala, calendrically speaking, each element has a 5,125 year cycle. They teach that we have been through fire, earth, air and water already. The next cycle (beginning Dec 21, 2012) will be ether - the Fifth Age - the Age of Center. Likewise, the Hopi teach we are closing the Fourth World of Destruction, and preparing to begin the Fifth World of Peace. Regardless of the title given, what is clear is that we are on poised on the brink of a World Age Rebirth
yes, the Maya must have known that the earth is globe shaped. Like they knew about equinoctial precession and that the earth tilts as it orbits the sun. They not only worked into their calculations the effect of that tilt but how it occurs and how it affects the earth.
Not bad for a people who didnt have the telescope the compass or even the wheel.