Newly discovered Mayan tablet predicts Apocalypse 2012

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Here’s yet another brightly-colored feather for your jaunty caps, Doomsday fans. The 2012 Mayan Apocalypse just got a much-needed credibility boost, says the Examiner.com.

The Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History recently revealed a brand spankin’ new reference to our impending extinction. Namely, an inscription on a brick found at the picturesque Comalcalco temple ruins.

Here’s more from Newser:

So now that means the Mayan ruins make not one but two apparent references to a possible apocalypse in 2012. The good news—maybe—is that Mexican archeologists say not to worry about it. Experts have finally confirmed that a second suspected reference to 2012 was found at the Comalcalco ruin in an inscription that has been safeguarded in storage for years by Mexico. An earlier find from the nearby Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco named the same apparent date on a stone tablet. The Tortuguero inscription describes some kind of world-ending or world-changing event that is supposed to occur in December 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a Mayan god linked to both war and creation.

But some experts say translating the Mayan date to 2012 is inaccurate, and officials at Mexico’s Institute of Anthropology and History have long said such fears are a Westernized misinterpretation of what happens at the end of a Mayan calendar cycle. “Western messianic thought has twisted the cosmo-vision of ancient civilizations like the Maya,” the institute said in a statement yesterday. But concern is running so high that a roundtable of 60 Mayan experts will meet next week at Palenque to “dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another,” the statement added.

Now that you know the world is about to end do you really think the Mayans had a clue about the Apocalypse? I know! I know! Some of those movies were really cool.