People
Maya
Peoples of Mesoamerica who built interlocking calendars — a 260-day sacred count, a 365-day year, a 52-year round, and a Long Count from 3114 BCE — and who still keep the 260-day count in highland Guatemala.
Unknown Maya scribe; photograph of a public-domain manuscript, “Dresden Codex, page 49”, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A reported line in the 2021 Bashar transcript says the original Maya were a different species from outside Earth. Ancient genomes from the Maya region, including 2024 work from Chichén Itzá, show long continuity with Indigenous peoples there. An off-world founding population is not found. The calendars are theirs. The 2012 apocalypse is not.