Predicting the end of the world has been the pastime of prophets and seers since the world, well, began. While the pastime has produced a lot of now discredited prophecies they are discredited only in retrospect. At the time they made sense because the yearning to know the future and ?nd a purpose of life in an end that makes it mean something are universal forces which cut across every culture.
Chapter 1 of the 12.21.2012 Planet X Codex reviews the first few hundred prophecies in recorded history predicting the end of the world.
