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The world's foremost expert on Maya culture looks at 2012

hysteria and explains the truth about what the Maya meant and what

we want to believe.

Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilizations

End. The World Cataclysm in 2012. 2012: The return of

Quetzalcoatl. According to many of these alarmingly titled

books, the ancient Maya not only had a keen insight into the

mystical workings of our planet and the cosmos, but they were also

able to predict that the world will end in the year 2012.

David Stuart, the foremost scholar of the Maya and recipient of

numerous awards for his work, takes a hard look at the frenzy over

2012 and offers a fascination (and accurate) trip through Mayan

culture and belief. Stuart shows how the idea that the "end of the

Mayan calendar," which supposedly heralds the end of our own

existence, says far more about our culture than about the ancient

Maya. The Order of Days explores how the real intellectual

achievement of ancient Maya timekeeping and worldview is far more

impressive and remarkable than any of the popular, and often

outrageous, claims about this advanced civilization.

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David Stuart is a Mayanist scholar and professor of Mesoamerican

art and writing at the University of Texas at Austin. He began

deciphering Mayan hieroglyphs at the age of eight, under the

tutelage of Linda Schele. He has made major contributions in the

field of epigraphy, particularly related to the decipherment of the

Mayan * used by the pre-Columbian Mayan civilization of

Mesoamerica.

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“More than a rebuttal of the apocalypse-pushers, The Order of

Days is a broader (and more interesting) consideration of the

role that time played in Maya culture…. An authoritative study of

an fascinating and timely topic. And not to worry if your reading

takes you beyond next Dec. 21.”  -The Wall Street

Journal

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The world's foremost expert on Maya culture looks at 2012 hysteria and explains the truth about what the Maya meant and what we want to believe.

Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilizations End. The World Cataclysm in 2012. 2012: The return of Quetzalcoatl. According to many of these alarmingly titled books, the ancient Maya not only had a keen insight into the mystical workings of our planet and the cosmos, but they were also able to predict that the world will end in the year 2012.

David Stuart, the foremost scholar of the Maya and recipient of numerous awards for his work, takes a hard look at the frenzy over 2012 and offers a fascination (and accurate) trip through Mayan culture and belief. Stuart shows how the idea that the "end of the Mayan calendar," which supposedly heralds the end of our own existence, says far more about our culture than about the ancient Maya. The Order of Days explores how the real intellectual achievement of ancient Maya timekeeping and worldview is far more impressive and remarkable than any of the popular, and often outrageous, claims about this advanced civilization. As someone who has studied the Maya for nearly all of his life and who specializes in reading their ancient texts, Stuart sees the 2012 hubbub as the most recent in a long chain of related ideas about Mesoamericans, the Maya in particular, that depicts them as somehow oddball, not "of this world," or as having some strong mystical link to other realms. Because the year 2012 has no prominent role in anything the ancient Maya ever actually wrote, Stuart takes a wider look at the Maya concepts of time and their underlying philosophy as we can best understand them. The ancient Maya, Stuart contends, were worthy of study and admiration not because they were strange but because they were altogether human, and they developed a compelling vision of time unlike any other civilization before or since.