The Mayan were advanced Mesoamerican civilization
living in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and
northern Honduras. The Mayan were not one unified empire, but
rather a series of powerful city-states that often
allied with or warred upon one another. Maya civilization
peaked around 800 A.D. before falling into decline. In order
to plan activities ahead of time and to predict what future
holds for mankind at that time, the Mayans developed their
calendars to keep tract of short, medium to long term events.
For example the calendar round was used to fix dates for
marriages, dates for war, name individuals, and calendar to
predict the future. The most controversial calendar that the
Mayans developed was the long count calendar which predicted
rare galactic alignment of the December solstice sun with the
Galactic equator which occurs once every 26,000 years and
marked 2012 A.D to be the exact date which was also the end
date for this long count calendar. These calendars and some of
the most important cosmic activities they discovered during
their time were cut into stones, walls, and monuments and were
preserved up to today. The meaning of these drawings have been
decoded by scholars who were interested with Mayan mythology
through the help of historians and traditional leaders of the
Mayans who live today. For the purpose of this topic,
only the long count calendar and monuments from one Mayan city
called the Izapa which have recognizable scenes from Maya
creation mythology will be used to unlock the physics behind
these artifacts. Also to better understand this piece of work,
knowledge about some astronomical terms will be discussed
first.