I had a frustrating experience.
I figured that since the ancient Egyptians had a 365-day calendar without leap years, and built pyramids, like the Maya, obviously the conclusion would be that the Mayan calendar must be an imperfect form of the *real* calendar that fortells the cosmic cycles: the calendar of Atlantis!
So clearly all I have to do is find out about the Atlantean long count, and I would know when the end of the world is really supposed to take place.
Well, in my web search for information on the calendar for Atlantis, I finally found one web site which said the best explanation of the Atlantean calendar is contained in a book by Charles Berlitz...
entitled Doomsday: 1999.
Back to the drawing board...