Waiting for the end of the light characteristic of the man of Western civilization. The roots of this are usually looking for in the Bible, which is an important part of the Revelation of St. John the Evangelist. The early Christians lived with a sense of what is about to come Judgement and all will be given for their. There are massive phobia of the Middle Ages, when the round before the date ( in 1000 the birth of Christ, for example), thousands of people were selling their possessions, went into the woods and dug a pit - tombs, in preparation for the coming apocalypse. Late recurrence of these fears, we have experienced recently, nine years ago, when the media favorite theme was the notorious ...
And now humanity is waiting for the new end of the world. At this time, is well known, even the exact date - December 23, 2012.
The current ( and I want to say - on duty ) Apocalypse are calculated using the Mayan calendar. Maya - the Indian people, who created an amazing civilization in the rain forests of Guatemala and the Yucatan. Now the magnificent city of this civilization lie in ruins, attracting only archaeologists and tourists, but the people survived. The descendants of the ancient Maya lived in Central America, while maintaining the traditions established three thousand years ago. Including knowledge of the calendar system, which is considered one of the greatest intellectual achievements of the ancient world.
Strictly speaking, the Mayans used two calendars: a short (260 -day ) and 360 -day, which lay at the heart of the so-called Long Count. The Mayas also had vigesimal number system, so five days later in the year considered to be ... At the same time in the home still used by the 365-day (in the last five days of nameless blind eye ), and for mathematical calculations - a 360-day.
In contrast to the short- year Long Count allowed the Indians to look far into the future. It consisted of a series of periods, measured in ascending order, starting with one day. The system was as follows:.
Kin 20 - 1 uynal (20 days);.
18 uynaley - a tun (360 days);.
20 tuns - one katun (7,200 days or 19.7 years);.
20 katuns - 1 baktun ( 144,000 days or 394.3 years);.
Accounted for 13 baktun Great Cycle, or the Sun. 13-baktun - is 1,872,000 days, or about 5130 years. In Maya mythology, there were five Great Suns. The era ended with the sun every global disaster.
The end of the current Great Cycle is scheduled for December 23, 2012.
Here we must bear in mind the following.
Calendar for the Maya was not so much an astronomical instrument, as a complex predictive machine, which determines the fate of individuals and the whole nation. Some scientists believe that the mass exodus of residents from the prosperous cities of Guatemala and Mexico at the end of VIII century BC. e. explained by the mystical fear of the end of the next calendar cycle. That is the prediction of disaster came true, but it came to pass, because all believed in him. Similarly, in the middle of the XV century, shortly before the advent of the Spaniards, one of the Maya abandoned their capital of Chichen Itza and went to the south, where he founded the new town of Tah Itza (apparently, this is the capital of the dilapidated, decadent civilization shows . No one forced the Indians to leave the inhabited places, their homes - no one but. calendar and prophesied unimaginable disaster. Subsequently, the Spanish conquistadors, quickly understand the superstitious fear of the Indians before the ... 
Now the descendants of the surviving custodians of knowledge of Maya calendar is actively preparing for the end of the Great Cycle. According passed from mouth to mouth prophecies ( Mayan sacred books were burned by Catholic priests soon after the conquest ), the day the world will die from a global cataclysm, most likely - the flood.
It is not surprising that the prophecies of Indian priests became widely known in modern Western society. Indian esoteric practices in vogue since the days of Carlos Castaneda and New Age current peak. Surprisingly, rather, the way society is willing to swallow this bait and with what pleasure it chews.
As we approach the fateful date of vague fears and expectations of more and more transformed into a vivid picture of the coming apocalypse. One of these paintings was the Roland Emmerich movie ...
Emmerich generally a big fan of scaring the audience horrific disaster. In ... In ...
But in ... Aliens won the valiant American pilots, arctic storm calmed down, and mankind is beginning to gradually get used to life in a new ice age.
From ... It is said - the end of the world, then end of the world. All grown-up. Of all mankind survived four hundred thousand people who bought a place in advance on the giant ...
Moreover, that the biblical allusions in the film can be traced clearly enough ( several times repeated the term ... Dr.. ), The system of selection, when saved are merely ... What's been said about the rich and the kingdom of heaven? . Easier for a camel to climb in the eye of a needle than a person who does not have a billion euros - on board the ... Perhaps there is some layer of technical and military elite, ensuring the survival of the holders of not cheap boarding pass, but in the film we see a scientist, who had raised the alarm for three years before the disaster, but old Captain America's ... In general, the number, put it politically correct, middle-aged people among the inhabitants of the arks leads to gloomy thoughts. It is clear that youths rarely billionaires. But given the fact that the survivors on the ...
However, this part. Emmerich's film is interesting for another - an attempt to predict the possible actions of political leaders in the face of global catastrophe.
And no matter how it was unpleasant to have to admit that the scenario proposed by Emmerich, seems quite plausible.
For those who have not watched the movie, I'll explain: learning from scientists about the fact that in 2012 mankind has actually die as a result of global cataclysm, the leaders of the ... In Tibet, with the help of cheap Chinese labor built the very same ... The company is funded by rich people who want to escape ( they have been informed individually). In parallel, work is under way to rescue the masterpieces of world culture, especially those who do not occupy much space.
The earth trembles in the throes of continuous earthquakes, groans under the blows of giant tsunamis, California goes under water, the Cathedral of St. Peter collapses like a house of cards. And only then heroically remaining in office, U.S. President appeals to the citizens of his country with the penitential speech and gives them the truth. The truth, which was known to him three years before the accident.
Here's the moment ( for all his Hollywood pops ), and does, in my opinion, the film is worthy of serious analysis Emmerich.
... Even if they know in advance that the Earth is waiting for the Great Flood, or an asteroid strike, alien invasion, or. They will just smile sweetly and say smooth, accurate speech. Ability to escape will be provided only to a narrow circle of the elect, while our fate, the fate of all mankind - to be absorbed by the huge wave.
If this story took to shoot, for example, Tarkovsky, we saw the film, a parable about the choice of the torments of conscience and the salvation of.
Emmerich took a spectacular razvlekalochka the ... Elite unhesitatingly sacrificed six billion people simply because they did not see sense in their continued existence. Representatives of the ... And the fact that they eventually rescued ... ... Well done, muzhichina!.
However, I doubt that reading Emmerich Saltykov -Shchedrin.
Only one consolation: December 23, 2012 end of the world did not.
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