ORDER OF DAYS, THE(ISBN=) 英文原版

“More than a rebuttal of the apocalypse-pushers, The Order of
Days is a broader (and more interesting) consideration of the
role that time played in Maya culture…. An authoritative study of
an fascinating and timely topic. And not to worry if your reading
takes you beyond next Dec. 21.”  –The Wall Street
Journal

The world’s foremost expert on Maya culture looks at 2012
hysteria and explains the truth about what the Maya meant and what
we want to believe.

Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilizations
End. The World Cataclysm in 2012. 2012: The return of
Quetzalcoatl. According to many of these alarmingly titled
books, the ancient Maya not only had a keen insight into the
mystical workings of our planet and the cosmos, but they were also
able to predict that the world will end in the year 2012.

David Stuart, the foremost scholar of the Maya and recipient of
numerous awards for his work, takes a hard look at the frenzy over
2012 and offers a fascination (and accurate) trip through Mayan
culture and belief. Stuart shows how the idea that the “end of the
Mayan calendar,” which supposedly heralds the end of our own
existence, says far more about our culture than about the ancient
Maya. The Order of Days explores how the real intellectual
achievement of ancient Maya timekeeping and worldview is far more
impressive and remarkable than any of the popular, and often
outrageous, claims about this advanced civilization.

David Stuart is a Mayanist scholar and professor of Mesoamerican
art and writing at the University of Texas at Austin. He began
deciphering Mayan hieroglyphs at the age of eight, under the
tutelage of Linda Schele. He has made major contributions in the
field of epigraphy, particularly related to the decipherment of the
Mayan * used by the pre-Columbian Mayan civilization of
Mesoamerica.