| Mayan mythology talks of worlds prior to the current | | | | as it currently is. It does not necessarily predict the end |
| one in which several attempts at the creation of | | | | of the world in totality, but an end to the way that |
| humankind failed. Each time the intention was to create | | | | things are in the here and now and the start of |
| a race that was to worship the gods who created | | | | something new in a new cycle. |
| them, but for various reasons this did not happen and | | | | References were also made on Mayan artifacts to |
| so in a new cycle, they began again. | | | | the end of this cycle bringing around the return of the |
| For the Maya, time was cyclical and at the end of | | | | Mayan god of war and a time of darkness descending |
| each cycle was seen the end of one world and the | | | | upon us when he came. |
| beginning of the next. The Maya view us as being in | | | | What is more, one can look to the people alive today |
| the fourth world currently, with animals, men of clay | | | | and see how they are in regards to worship. The |
| and men of wood having come before us. | | | | majority of the people alive either do not worship, or |
| Given the fact that the Mayans saw time as running in | | | | else worship discordant gods-not a situation to please |
| cycles and that the end of one world saw the start of | | | | a maker. This mirrors the situation faced in the |
| a new world and hence the end of the previous world, | | | | previous three worlds, where the people that were |
| it is a reasonable summation that they saw the end of | | | | created forgot or were unable to worship their maker. |
| this Long Count calendar as being the end of the world | | | | |