What did the year 2012 represent in the Mayan calendar

They are writing in a more poetic sense, saying, Well, on the 21st of December 2012, the god is going to come down and start a new cycle and the old world is going to die and the new world is going to be reborn—just to make it more poetic." (Read about the rise and fall of the Maya in National Geographic magazine.)

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