You all know by now probably that I love looking for numbers in movies, books, TV shows, ads, and the like and having been doing so since the person behind me on around March 12, 1995 at the Petaluma Theater (CA) asked someone "Did you see that?" when the film Outbreak showed a 611-614 or so sequence.

But, unless, the Mayans had some knowledge about the movements of the planets and the like-- probably from outside sources-- cannot see how they would know how 12/12/2012 could mean anything?

I remember all those books about aliens visiting various ancient civilizations and the evidence for this. Maybe, there is something to that??? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronaut_theory

The Mayans were a magnificent civilization as far as knowledge of the planets was concerned as well as architecture but my skeptical mind is having a lot of trouble making that leap of faith that without some kind of extraterrestial help in the form of a miracle and/or aliens cannot see how they could discover the date of the end of the world.

Guess I will have to see that DVD at some point and judge for myself though.