Maybe a strange question but; Did the Maya Calander have a span from approximately 2000 year? I know the theory is that it ended in 2012 but were their years as long as ours? And did they also start counting around our year 0?

I was later also thinking about another superstition; namely what about those pieces of parchment and all the other pieces of paper around the world that makes people think they've got rights and duty's and must obey some group of people that wright these things down with their special magical pen's

English is not my native language.