Ein Stück aus dem Tollhaus: Während hierzulande Hinz und Kunz über den Maya-Kalender fabuliert, haben deren wahre Erben in Guatemala laut AP “die Schnauze voll davon”, immer wieder Fragen zum vermeintlichen Weltuntergang im Jahr 2012 gestellt zu bekommen.
Unter der Überschrift “2012 isn’t the end of the world, Mayans insist” berichte die Agentur gestern über einen vom Weltuntergangsgerede genervten Maya-Stammeshäuptling:
Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly “running out” on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it’s not the end of the world.
Or is it?
Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. “I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff.”
It can only get worse for him. Next month Hollywood’s “2012” opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping
an aircraft carrier on the White House.
Dass Pixtun und seine Stammesbrüder kein Interesse haben, sich mit dem Gerede der 2012-Propheten zu befassen, ist übrigens kein Wunder, immerhin haben die Maya in Guatemala echte Probleme, über die sie sich den Kopf zerbrechen können:
“If I went to some Mayan-speaking communities and asked people what is going to happen in 2012, they wouldn’t have any idea,” said Jose Huchim, a Yucatan Mayan archaeologist. “That the world is going to end? They wouldn’t believe you. We have real concerns these days, like rain.“
Die Tatsache, dass die echten Maya der vermeintlichen Maya-Prophezeiung keinerlei Bedeutung beizumessen scheinen, hält geschäftige Autoren natürlich nicht davon ab, die Angst vor dem Jahr 2012 auch weiterhin zu schüren. Erfreulicherweise kommt im Artikel aber auch Phil Plait von BadAstronomy zu Wort:
Once every 25,800 years, the sun lines up with the center of our Milky Way galaxy on a winter solstice, the sun’s lowest point in the horizon.That will happen on Dec. 21, 2012, when the sun appears to rise in the same spot where the bright center of galaxy sets.
Another spooky coincidence?
“The question I would ask these guys is, so what?” says Phil Plait, an astronomer who runs the “Bad Astronomy” blog. He says the alignment doesn’t fall precisely in 2012, and distant stars exert no force that could harm Earth. “They’re really super-duper trying to find anything astronomical they can to fit that date of 2012,” Plait said.
Leider vergeht einem das Lächeln ob dieser Farce dann aber recht schnell, wenn man die Konsequenzen der Angstmacherei betrachtet:
At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the “Curious? Ask an Astronomer” Web site, says people are scared. “It’s too bad that we’re getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they’re too young to die,” Martin said. “We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn’t live to see them grow up.”
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