In the history of ancient civilizations of the world, like the Mayan peoples who descended from heaven, having a brilliant time, then mysteriously disappeared.

They master the specialized knowledge of astronomy and deep, dating system is perfect, an elaborate astronomical calculations and methods of abstract thinking that high. Perfection and accuracy of the calculation date was make many experts wonder!

Sacred Calendar of Mayan Tzolkin is a door or entering the mind of a highly developed civilization in the Western world before the arrival of European nations. Experts believe, Ancient Mayan astronomy is an amazing intellectual achievement, equivalent to the geometry of the Ancient Egyptian and Greek philosophy.

Many people believe, a 2,000-year-old calendar was more accurate than the Gregorian calendar used since 1582.

Ancient Mayans lived in the early first millennium AD in the Mesoamerican region, which stretches from northern Mexico to Honduras, in the northern Yucatan Peninsula. Population of 5 million to 14 million people, live in cities now known as southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize.

In The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness (2004), Carl Johan Calleman PhD writes, in addition to high culture in the fields of art and architecture found in these regions of the pyramid, such as Palenque, Tikal, Copán, and Chitchén Itza, the Ancient Mayans well-known capability in astronomy and mathematics. This is the first nation to use the number zero (0).

Ancient Mayans were obsessed with time. According to Lawrence E Joseph in Apocalypse 2012 (2007), they create at least 20 calendar, customized with a variety of cycles, ranging from pregnancy until the harvest, moon to Venus. Its orbit is very accurate calculation of the difference is only one day every 1,000 years.

The ruins of their cities, according to Jared Diamond in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive (2005), was discovered in 1839 by legal experts from the United States, John Stephens, along with British draftsman Frederick Catherwood. Exploration was found 44 cities and places.

Obsessed cycle

Most importantly for the people of the Ancient Maya is the cosmic ethos. Peace means the attitude of harmony with the eternal movement of the universe. Due to fixed on the cycle, they do not realize the changes around them.

This may explain the breakdown of the nation. Although there who believe they moksa, methodologically Jared Diamond explains, the cause is the destruction of the environment carrying capacity for agriculture and excessive forest clearing, as well as a very high population growth.

This view was confirmed Aeronautics and Space Research Agency United States (NASA) that found pollen trapped in sediment is 1,200 years old-before-the collapse of Mayan civilization in the area around Tikal. That’s a massive deforestation, the trees disappear, live grass.

Another cause is the ongoing war for power and natural resources. Less than a century, the population decreased 80-90 percent. According to Diamond, the attention of the leaders when it seems to focus on short-term problem. They are greedy, power mad, and oppressive.

However, it does not nullify the dramatic collapse of the Mayans of ancient wisdom, especially about the forecasts of disaster that has not been unchallenged. Spanish raid in 1519 on the orders of Rome has been predicted with the help of the stars in the sky.

Its forecast to save the ancient texts, which still kept the elders in the interior, among the thousands of texts that were burned colonists and four books about the Mayan Calendar which was later found in Europe.

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