Being a sacrifice for the Maya was not very fun.
We sometimes get it into our head that to be a sacrifice you had to be special in some way. This wasn’t the case for the Mayan sacrifices of old. If you were sacrificed by the Maya you were likely a prisoner of war or a slave. In order to get sacrificed you would first be painted completely blue and then you would be tortured. They would then either have an archery unit shoot you with a hundred arrows or they would carve your heart out of your chest while you were alive. Yes, this is insane. To make it more insane sometimes the head priest would peel off your skin and wear it.
Being a sacrifice for the Maya was not very fun
The 2012 Calendar was a myth.
Okay, so this is actually kind of complicated. Many folks misinterpreted how the Maya calculated their calendars and this got many folks believing that they had predicted the world to end in 2012. the truth is that the Mayans actually had many calendars and that in 2012 they would be merely switching to the next one in their list. There was no real reason to believe that the world would end in 2012 other than that some people wanted to start peddling conspiracy theories.
The 2012 Calendar was a myth
