2012: Is it the End or New Begining

The Mayan Long Count Calendar

The whole ancient civilization of Maya revolved around the concept of time. Priests were consulted on civil, agricultural, and religious matters and their advice came directly from reading the sacred calendars. The first is the sacred calendar is known as the "Tzolkin." It combines numbers from 1 through 13 with a sequence of 20 day-names. It works in a similar manner to our named days of the week, and their date within each month. Trust me, it's more detailed than that, but that's just the tip of the pyramid. It goes further on explaining how and when the different ages of time start and end. For example: the First Age began with the creation of the Earth, and it had upon it vegetation and living beings. Unfortunately, because they lacked speech, the birds and animals were unable to pay homage to the gods and were destroyed. In the Second and Third Ages the gods created humans of mud and then wood, these also failed to please and were wiped out. We apparently fall on the Fourth and/or Final Age, the age of modern, fully functional humans. Is it possible that these "Ages" refer to evolutionary changes? ... If they did then what might occur when the current age is complete on Dec. 21, 2012? .. Who knows really, last time I checked there's not many Mayans out there telling everybody about the meaning of this or what's going on. So the question is this: Is it the end of days , ala 'Apocalyptico', or the begining of new life, evolution??? ... You decide ....