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Religion & Occult · Prophecy & apocalypse
December 21, 2012 was widely treated in mass media as the focal date of the so-called Mayan 2012 prophecy. Maya archaeologists have publicly argued that Classic Maya sources did not predict a global apocalypse for 2012.
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- 2012-12-21 · eventWidely cited Mayan calendar cycle end date arrives
- 2013 · mutationPost-date narratives shift toward awakening and legacy readings