Talk:Fifth World (mythology)

Orphaned status
I have added links to this page in Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, Mayan religion, Hopi mythology, Quetzalcoatl and End Time. Darkfrog24 (talk) 23:59, 2 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for deorphaning... I had no idea this article existed until you updated Hopi mythology. Yworo (talk) 01:37, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I had no idea this concept existed until I checked out WP: Orphan. Darkfrog24 (talk) 03:19, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Reference to Hopi "fifth world". There is no Hopi fifth world - it is a bogus concept promulgated by non-Hopi new age advocates and charlatans. Since when does any old unattributed piece of internet rubbish count as a reference or citation. Utter nonsense. Aarionrhod (talk)

2012
If I'm not mistaken, the 2012 thing is nonsense.--90.179.235.249 (talk) 01:59, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

I do not concur even if there are alignment issues that are unsolved yet. Oblivion is the wrong word as any word can neither be good or bad. The fifth world is just a dream that we wake into the sixth world from. Bill Newbold (talk) 10:29, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Mis-information about the Maya Calendar
The article states: "The Maya calendar charts out this progression through astrology, concluding that the current, fourth world will end sometime near the December solstice in 2012 (dates vary based on interpretation)." This is nonsense. Apparently the author didn't actually read the article to which he linked. If you read the Maya calendar and the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar articles you will see that there is no Mayan doomsday prediction. There is no Aztec doomsday prediction either. The debate about which correlation to use was largely settled in about 1950 so the "(dates vary based on interpretation)" part is wrong. This is described at length in the section about correlations between the Long Count and western calendars section in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar article. Senor Cuete (talk) 14:47, 5 October 2010 (UTC)Senor Cuete

mythology of number
Has it ever been suggested that the Europeans arriving with drastic consequence is the 'sixth world' to these beliefs? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kapler42 (talk • contribs) 18:04, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Some academic sources
See, and  for starters. Removed Hancock as a reference. Dougweller (talk) 20:58, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

New edits
Please also note the sources linked above. Some nice material in the new edits but a couple of dodgy references. The "Enlil Institute" is really one person self-publishing on lulu.com. His Amazon page says " He attended the University of Nigeria, and graduated from the State University of New York with a Bachelors degree in Political Science. He also earned a Juris Doctorate from New York University School of Law. Author J. Paul Olweny was born in Kampala, Uganda. He attended school in Australia and Canada before graduating with a degree in Political Science." So clearly fails our criteria at WP:RS. Diana Doyle is a school teacher and her website also fails our criteria - not reliably published and she isn't a recognised expert. Waters is just New Age, doesn't belong here. Locke doesn't seem to be a specialist or reliably published. Doug Weller (talk) 15:10, 9 December 2015 (UTC)