Messico: inizia il conto alla rovescia per la fine del mondo del 2012.

Messico: inizia il conto alla rovescia per la fine del mondo del 2012.

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Un orologio digitale nel Chiapas.











A Tapachula, città nel sud del Messico, inizierà presto il conto alla rovescia per la fine del mondo.
Il comune ha installato un orologio digitale che a partire da
mercoledì segnalerà il tempo rimanente prima del solstizio del 21
dicembre del 2012, quando secondo alcune credenze terminerà il calendario Maya e arriverà l'apocalisse.

Gli studiosi ritengono che l'annuncio della fine del mondo sia un'inesatta interpretazione delle scritture, che indicano invece il passaggio tra due età.

fonte Lapresse

altre notizie (in english) nel take Ap qui sotto.
MEXICO
CITY (AP) - A city in southern Mexico wants to live each moment as if
it were the last. Tourism officials in Tapachula have installed a
digital clock to count down the time left before the Dec. 21, 2012,
solstice, when some believe the world will end. The clock starts Dec.
21, a year before the supposed apocalypse. Chiapas state tourism
regional director Manolo Alfonso Pinot said Friday that Mayan priests
will perform a ceremony at the nearby archaeological site of Izapa.
Maya experts say the doomsday fears are a misreading of Maya stone
inscriptions that mention the date, saying the Mayans only considered it
the end of one calendar cycle and the beginning of another. Pinot said
he doesn't believe the world will end, but looks at it as a sort of
beginning, in the business sense at least. "A lot of people know they
can fill their body with energy if they come to these exceptional
sites," he said. "If people are interested, we have to take advantage of
this." Tapachula, best known as a gritty border town crossed by
Central American migrants en route to the United States, is not a
popular Mayan tourism destination. But nearby Izapa is a place where
many stelae have been found, including the "Tree of Life" stone
discovered in the 1950s and thought to convey an ancient Mayan tale. At
Izapa, close to the Tajumulco volcano, Pinot says a Mesoamerican ball
court, a carved stone and the throne of the Izapa ruler face a straight
line that on Dec. 21, 2012 is expected to align with the planets. "It
is hard to say what you will be able to see that day," he said. The
doomsday theories stem from a pair of tablets that describe the return
of a Mayan god at the end of a 13th period of 400 years, which falls on
Dec. 21, 2012. Experts say the date marks the end of a 5,125-year cycle
that began in 3113 B.C., and the start of another. ___ Follow Adriana
Gomez Licon on Twitter at http://twitter.com/agomezlicon

fonte AP