2021 'apocalypse': Bizarre logic and history behind the Mayan conspiracy

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The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxIn 2012, thousands of people were convinced the world would end on December 21 thanks to the resurfacing of a Mayan prophecy.Of course the supposed day of reckoning came and went and the hysteria was largely forgotten about.But the Mayan calendar and its portents of doom are now back in the public consciousness, as some believe the let-down of eight years ago was never the true date the world was scheduled to end on.In fact they've blamed the miscommunication on a translation error and it will apparently be 2021, not 2012, when it all goes down — for real this time.The Maya civilisation, which existed from approximately 8000BC until the.