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According to interpretations of the "Mayan prophecy", the end of the world is predicted for next Friday, December 21st.

The idea that a global catastrophe of great proportions would strike the human race at the entrance of the winter equinox, which occurs on the same date, has been entertained for at least four decades.

But it was in the last three years that the prediction gained strength, polarizing those who firmly believe in the end times and those who are more skeptical. "This does not mean that the world will end on this date, the only thing is that this date will mean the end of the Baktún 13 cycle of the Mayan calendar", archaeologist Daniel Juárez Cossío, responsible for the wing dedicated to the Mayan civilization at the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico, told BBC Mundo. myths and natural disasters that marked the development of culture, based on agricultural cycles and movements of stars such as the Sun and Venus.

The calendar doesn't just determine the order of days. Around it were organized religious holidays, periods of cultivation and harvesting, the choice of names for newborns, human sacrifices and other important aspects of Mayan culture.

n 2012, 11,821 deaths by suicide were recorded in Brazil, 9,918 of which were men and 2,623 women, a rate of 6% for the 2012 event.

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In the ancient Mayan civilization, the so-called 'Stelae' are columns on which the dates of important events were marked. Monuments also served as a method of propaganda for the political and religious elite. In the case of Stela 6 and Stela 1, the objective was to associate "mythical" dates with the successes and governments of the time to create cohesion and social control. On a Friday that was baktún 13 4 Ahau 3 Kankin (in Mayan) which, translated into the Gregorian calendar, would be equivalent to December 21, 2012, is the last day of the calendar created by the Mayans, so there was a deduction that said the end of the world they predicted, the theory was nurtured for more or less 4 decades, and the closer it got to 2012 the worse it got.

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The 2012 phenomenon comprises a set of eschatological beliefs according to which cataclysmic or transformative events would happen on December 21, 2012.[1][2][3] This date is considered as the last day of a 5,125-year cycle of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar. Several astronomical alignments and mathematical formulas have been placed as belonging to this date, although none of them are accepted by the scientific community.