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The order of days : the Maya world and the truth about 2012 / David Stuart.

Title
The order of days : the Maya world and the truth about 2012 / David Stuart.
Author
Stuart, David, 1965-
Publication
New York : Harmony Books, c2011.

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Description
xv, 352 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
Summary
Presents an analysis of doomsday prophecies about 2012 while refuting common myths and explaining what hysteria-based interpretations of the end of the Mayan calendar reveal about today's world.
Subject
  • Maya calendar
  • Maya astronomy
  • Maya cosmology
  • Maya > Prophicies
  • End of the world (Astronomy)
  • Two thousand twelve, A.D
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Itza prophecy -- Mesoamerican times -- Finding order -- The essence of space -- Ideas of the day -- Long counting -- Beginnings and endings -- The deepest time -- Kings of time -- Seeing stars.
ISBN
  • 9780385527262
  • 0385527268
LCCN
^^2010028515
OCLC
  • 642842961
  • SCSB-11316427
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library