OK, I know it's more than two years away, but the turn of the b'ak'tun only comes around once every five millenia or so, right? I know (or I think, anyway) that a lot of you over in Europe probably don't care quite as much about this, but here in the Esperias we are already quite beside ourselves with anticipation. Some friends and I are talking about heading to Tolan, where the official imperial festival will be complemented nicely by some more fringe parties... either way, quite a scene.
Do any of you buy into the apocalyptic stuff people are throwing around? It seems strongest among the devoutly religious, which is odd - like I tell everybody, the calendar was invented way before Christianity made its way over here... like so many "Christian" ritual elements, it was co-opted by the early missionaries and put to different uses. The first Christians used the Hebrew calendar, and a little later used the Roman one (that's the basis of the anno domini count used in most European churches today.)
I certainly did not mean to add to what looks like a flood of DB threads. I swear I had the idea for this earlier today before it was trendy (embarrased face)
Do any of you buy into the apocalyptic stuff people are throwing around? It seems strongest among the devoutly religious, which is odd - like I tell everybody, the calendar was invented way before Christianity made its way over here... like so many "Christian" ritual elements, it was co-opted by the early missionaries and put to different uses. The first Christians used the Hebrew calendar, and a little later used the Roman one (that's the basis of the anno domini count used in most European churches today.)
I certainly did not mean to add to what looks like a flood of DB threads. I swear I had the idea for this earlier today before it was trendy (embarrased face)
