COME ONE COME ALL! WEAR YOUR SPACE SUITS!!
This is the party of all parties, bring anyone and everyone you know and party like its our last night on earth. Its a bring your own alcohol party, appetizers will be served, and there will be many barbecues and fire pits on site. Accomodations are the igloos you are responsible for building.
-PARTY STARTS AT SUNRISE ON DEC. 21ST AND HAS NO SET END DATE.
-IT WILL BE A FESTIVAL-STYLE GATHERING, OPEN AIR, WITH A PERFECT VIEW OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SHOW, IN A REMOTE LOCATION BETWEEN OTTAWA AND MONTREAL.
-THE LOCATION OF THE PARTY WILL BE REVEALED WITHIN THE WEEK PRIOR TO DEC. 21, 2012.
-ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE PARTY INCLUDES: EXTRAVAGANT COSMOLOGICAL DISPLAY, LIVE BANDS, DJ'S, GO GO DANCERS, BEER GARDENS, AND ICE BARS.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THIS IMPORTANT DAY:
The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the Maya civilization among others of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, completes its thirteenth b'ak'tun, or minor numerical sub-cycle, since the calendar's mythical starting point (equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, according to the "GMT-correlation" JDN= 584283).The Long Count b'ak'tun date of this starting point (13.0.0.0.0) is repeated for the first time in a span of approximately 5,125 solar years. The significance of this period-ending to the pre-Columbian Maya themselves is unclear, and there is an incomplete inscription (Tortuguero Monument 6) that records this date. It is also to be found carved on the walls of the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, where it functions as a base date from which other dates are computed. But the Maya certainly did not take it as representing the end of the current world, since an inscription by Pacal at Palenque looks forward to a royal anniversary on October 15th, 4772.
