Msnbc.com is reporting that Mayan Elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun is “fed up with this stuff” regarding the frantic inquiries he’s been getting about 2012 – the supposed end date of the Mayan calendar.

Mexican archaeologist Guillermo Bernal agrees, saying that both new agers yearning for global enlightenment and rapture minded dooms-dayers are guilty of superimposing Western mythologies on top of Mayan ones, “perhaps because Western myths are “exhausted.””

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Background: The end of the Mayan “long count” is predicted to occur on December 21, 2012 in correspondence with a “galactic alignment” that occurs once every 26,000 years or so. Some believe the turning of these cycles to have an influence on human events.

So. will cosmic rays of sunshine enlighten and raise up humanity’s spirit to a new level of wonder and miracle? Or will they bring only the awe-inspiring flash of solar radiation as it burns flesh and scorches the earth’s surface in an instant?

Stay tuned for more 2012 hype and related merchandise folks, you can count on it. ‘Cause as Ninja-Man always says “armageddon is a racket”.

In the meantime, enjoy this short clip of  Woody Harrelson playing a weird beard conspiracy dude in the upcoming disaster movie to end all disaster movies,  “2012” from Sony Pictures.

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