The Mayans did not think that the world will end at the end of the cycle of their calendar. They even had dates beyond 2012.
Since it is a cycle and there are only four elements in nature, fire, earth, water, and air, the cycle will repeat with the first one--fire. And this may mean that the destruction will be by fire. A nuclear World War III as I explain below may be that fire. And the earth will be enveloped by smoke for a year. There will be no place in this world where we can hide without being affected by the coming war.
The year when the Mayans think the world would end is:
The Mayan calendar and the end of the world.
In 2012 there was a great stir in the different news media since the last date registered in the Mayan calendar was December 21, 2012, possibly indicating that day as the date on which the Earth would be destroyed or human life it would be extinguished.
However, many Mayan scholars point out that it is possible that this date, beyond the end of the world, indicated the date up to which they had made their solar, lunar and other predictions of the stars that make up the calendar.
The theme of the end of the world in 2012 predicted by the Mayans, was material for various films, documentaries and even the uncertainty of many people in that year.
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