The Mayan calendar has long been referred to as the most accurate calendar ever created by mankind. It moves in circles like a toy, almost. It spins around, with smaller consecutive rings lining the larger out ring. Using merely the sun, the moon and the stars, the Mayans were able to track the passage of time better than any of our modern supercomputers. This is what has got the doomsday fanatics all riled up.

There are several misconceptions when thinking about the Mayans, their calendar, and the 2012 dooms day predictions that have been made about dooms days and catastrophe. The first is that the Mayans invented the calendar they used. It is true that the Mayans refined the cyclic calendar to what we see from their ruins today, but they did not invent the calendar.