2012 phenomenon galaxy, or Earth's collision with a mythical planet called Nibiru. Scholars from various disciplines quickly dismissed predictions of concomitant cataclysmic events as they arose. Professional Mayanist scholars stated that no extant classic Maya accounts forecast impending doom, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresented Maya history and culture, while astronomers rejected the various proposed doomsday scenarios as pseudoscience, easily refuted by elementary astronomical observations. December 2012 marked the conclusion of a "b'ak'tun"—a time period in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used in Central America prior to the arrival of Europeans. Although the Long Count
Igbo calendar planting season when the king, the "Eze Nri" in the Nri area, tells the Igbo to go and sow their seed after the next rainfall, and the Harvest festival (') in the eighth month. The Nri-Igbo yearly counting festival known as "" marked 10 March 2012 as the beginning of the 1013th year of the Nri calendar. The festival was delayed due to other events. Imöka is celebrated on the 20th day of the second month. Igbo calendar The Igbo calendar () is the traditional calendar system of the Igbo people from present-day Nigeria. The calendar has 13 months in