OMG! A SECOND MAYA REFERENCE!

Back in November, there was a lot of rumbling about a second Maya reference to the End of the World. Apparently, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, the country’s archaeology institute, reluctantly reported that a “carved fragment” was found in the Tortuguero site in Mexico’s Gulf state of Tabasco.

Known as the “Comalcalco Brick,” the damning fragment’s inscription is on the face of a brick.

Yip, that’s it. An inscription on the face of a brick and yet this “second piece of evidence” generated world-wide attention and probably more than a few people saying something like: “See, more evidence. End of Days! End of Days!”

It was this fragment of brick that prompted the Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico to host a roundtable discussion of 60 Maya experts to “dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another, in the Mayan Long Count calendar.”

All of this hoopla gets us back to more malarkey.

Many Maya experts don’t even believe the Comalcalco Brick inscription refers to the 12-21-12 date. I know, I know, they’re only experts, so what could they possibly know?

I love this part, explained by John Thomas Didymus in the Digital Journal: ”The mystery of the message in the Tortuguero inscription is complicated by an illegible ending, though some have claimed the eroded text reads ‘He will descend from the sky.’" The ‘He’ refers to the Mayan god of war and creation.

In point of fact, the Comalcalco Brick offers us nothing more than more gobbledygook about which True Believers (morons/idiots) can get hysterical and pee themselves.

David Stuart, an expert on the Mayan inscriptions at the University of Texas, Austin, said that while some people think the Comalcalco Brick refers to 2012, “I remain rather unconvinced."

As should we all.