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Judi Lynn

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Mon Apr 21, 2014, 09:08 PM Apr 2014

Reading the hieriglyphic staircase on the Maya in Honduras

Reading the hieriglyphic staircase on the Maya in Honduras
By Pat Brennan, For Postmedia News April 17, 2014


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Visitors to Copan can explore a large complex of Mayan step-pyramids, plazas and palaces.[/font]

Don’t be too sure we dodged a bullet in December 2012 when the world didn’t come to an abrupt end, as predicted by an ancient Mayan calendar.

It could be that the predicted doomsday date of Dec. 21, 2012 is actually Dec. 21, 2021.

It all depends on how accurately archeologists are re-assembling the Mayan calendar on which the prophecy is based.

The calendar is actually a huge story book assembled as a wide staircase leading to the top of a Mayan temple in Honduras.

More:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/travel/Reading+hieriglyphic+staircase+Maya+Honduras/9750238/story.html















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