That so-called Mayan calendar was only completed to 2012, most likely because the old Mayan monk that was chiseling it out, croaked before he got to 2013. Or maybe he got promoted to a higher level of incompetence and his successor just wasn't interested in such an impractical project. After all, the Mayans were already gone nearly a thousand years earlier anyway.

Oh! But where's the magical mysticism in that thought!

Nah - we've just got to scare the hell out of ourselves some way or another, right

So lets all go to the poles and put the same power mongering nitwits back in - That's even scarier! Who needs the Mayans?