Dates in the Apocalypse are closer than they appear, apparently; if you'd been hedging your investments targeting for the winter solstice of 2012, you might want to recalibrate about 13x7x9 days earlier to September 2010 because it seems there was a slight clerical error in our academic understanding reconstructing the Mayan Calendar. You just have to feel sorry for all those authors and movies slated to hype a date two years too late ...

How many 365-day years are there in 1699200 days? = 4655 years. BUT, 4655 years of ca 365.25-days (actually 365.2422 days) = 1700238 days rather than 1699200 days.
[ Maya Calendar Corrected ]

And I'll bet Kubrick had some sort of copyright on the corrected date -- Man this end of the world stuff gets complicated, and a big thanks to Robert Bast for hipping us to the news, although poor Robert is another with domain-name investments two and a half years too late. Nonetheless, he's given us plenty warning enough to wade through Andis Kaulins's accounting and reckon ourselves.

Really honestly truly?

Well ... it is true that Andis Kaulins is no Mayan scholar, but it is also true the Michael Faraday was no physicist and Albert Einstein was no mathematician, and that it was their respective ignorance of common sensibilities which lead to their groundshattering reformulations of our reality, and in Andis's defense, it is highly likely the Mayan astronomers did indeed know about and account for the 6hr discrepancies between the sidereal and tropical days, and mightily suspicious that their correction ritual should involve their magic number of 13x9x7 days.

But the really compelling slant in the Andis approach is the calibration check that, so far as my unread mind has experienced, appears in no other Mayan calendar analysis: Conventional archaeological standard calibrations do not account for the 76-year periodical reappearance of Halley's Comet! And the Andis Kaulins method, by simply assuming a sidereal/tropical correction, matches the comet visits precisely to 'significant' political and mythological events.

Comet Calibrations

And was Halley's comet important to the Maya? A persistent and ominous smear as bright as the sun? That question seems hardly worth asking. And the suggestion that they failed to note the comet only because their prediction dates were out by the Andis Factor just doesn't seem reasonable. Consider this snippet off the Aztlan mailing list:

Halley's Comet of 1066, for instance, is featured prominently in the contemporaneous Bayeux Tapestry because King Harold's Anglo-Saxon soldiers saw it as a clear signal that God wanted them defeated, hence their morale deteriorated, while King William's Normans read it as a propitious sign and swept to divinely predicted victory - and England was forever changed, as much by an ideological interpretation as by any material factor. If Halley 837 was such an especially spectacular apparition that the Japanese emperor even hid in terror from it, wouldn't the Maya have reacted similarly? Lloyd would have it that just because the event didn't occur on the exact dates when it might have been foreseen according to then current eschatological rationale, the Maya should have dismissed the belated comet as simply having no relevance. That to my mind is pure post-Enlightenment secular reasoning. Lloyd, GET UNREAL!

I believe the Maya would very much have liked to predict when comets would appear just as they had with eclipses and the Venus cycle. Remember that k'atun-ending date 9.17.0.0.0 is the most recorded of all on Maya stele, for one reason because they had figured that a total eclipse with possible dangerous consequences should happen on that unique day. When it didn't (it did actually, but could be seen only elsewhere in the world), they celebrated, as on stele E at Quirigua. One might well a imagine a ruling lord somewhere in Mayadom, terrified after having witnessed the comet of 837, calling in his astrologers and calendar calculators to explain why they hadn't been able to forewarn him. "Why didn't you connect the dots!", he would have screamed, "why couldn't you see all those menacing 52 signs and realize what was about to happen?" Then, one of his mavens dared to stammer, "But my lord, when we examined X and Y and saw that 52 were just D days and therefore not to worry...." WHAT!!!." screamed the lord again, "Guards, take this kook away, and post his head on the skull rack!"
[ [Aztlan] Ma: Halley's Comet, 834AD ]

Only it gets more complicated still, even when you consider how the Andis correction will align the Mayan start date with the Pharoanic calendar, because it could well be we have the Mayan's all wrong in worshiping an alignment to the galactic plane (for which there is good evidence) when they were very clearly most interested in the Sun, and as David Wilcock points out, one little shift to the 25,000 year earth-tilt jupiter-saturn sunspot entangled Solar Breathing paradigm bounces our best-before due date way out to 2039!

The smallest counting harmonic used in the Mayan Calendar is the katun, which is approx. 19.75 years. Chatelain's amazing discovery was that this is actually a Jupiter - Saturn conjunction scale, and thus 260 of them makes a Mayan Calendar. Thus, when we add everything together based on this revised system from Chatelain, the end of the entire cycle is no longer the fraudulent date of 2012; it is actually just a tad after the year 2039. ... this same exact date in the [Great] Pyramid is indicated as a Messianic revival of some sort; an incarnation of Spirit essence into the Earth planes.
[ A NEW LOOK AT 2012......2039? ]