What are facts about the Mayan calendar?

Answer 1

The Mayan calendar is an ancient calendar created by the Mayan civilization, a pre-columbian civilization in what is now Mexico. It included the long count, tzolkin, and Haab. The long count is a mixed-base representation of a 4-part number, and the number repeats itself every 394 years. The Tzolkin counts ever 13 days and names every 20 days, which repeats every 160 days. Haab is a 365 day calendar consisting of 18 20-day months and then 5 days at the end of the cycle. In order to name a date, the Mayans used 4 numbers from the long count, a number and a word from tzolkin, and a number and a word from haab.

The Mayans believed that, much like their calendars, the universe was cyclical. They calculated the day that this world ends and make way for a new one, and that day matched up with December 21, 2012 on the Gregorian calendar.
The Mayan Calender is a clock-type calender that predicts accurate accountancy such as the end of the world possibly on December 21, 2012. Because of this public pondering about this type of happening , it even came out with a 2009 movie based on the Apocalypse in 2012 and called it : "2012."
The mayan calender is a calender used by the mayan people in america about 2000-5000 years ago. it says thet the world will end in 21. of december 2012.

21.12.12

Answer 2

The Mayan calendar is a calendar that the ancient civilization the mayans, created In there time. This calander is basically like our calendars. But instead, this one says how long the world will last. Now, while where on the subject, many people suggest that this calendar shows that he end of the world on the 21st of December 2012. This is highly unlikely and I assure you that it's not true. The mayans may have died out and didnt get to finish the calendar but scientist know that he mayans said boning about 2012 being the end if the world , but it being he start of a new era. Hope that answers your question :)

Answer 3

The Mayans had many calendars. They were geniuses of astronomy and mathematics.

The Tzolkin was a 260 day count of days. The Tzolkin was combined with a 365-day solar year known as the Haab to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haabs called the Calendar Round. Smaller cycles of 13 days and 20 days were important components of the Tzolkin and Haab cycles.

A different calendar was used to track longer periods of time and for the inscription of calendar dates and events. This is called the Long Count. It is a count of days since a mythological starting-point, sometime in 3114 BC. By its linear nature, the Long Count was capable of being extended to refer to any date far into the past or future. This calendar uses a modified base-20 numbering system to elegantly specify days within a huge timeframe.

Many Mayan Long Count inscriptions contain additional data which provides extended information about a date, including the lunar phase on that day, the lunar cycle number (a repeating series from 1 to 6), and which of the nine Lords of the Night ruled for that particular night. (Hey, you can't be too careful.)

The Mayans also maintained a 584-day Venus cycle which tracked the risings of Venus as the morning and evening star. Many events in this cycle were considered astrologically bad, and occasionally warfare was astrologically timed to coincide with stages in this cycle.

Other cycles were also tracked: there was an oddball 819-day Count, as well as 9-day and 13-day cycles tracked for religious purposes.

Since Calendar Round dates repeat every 18,980 days, approximately 52 solar years, the cycle repeats roughly once each lifetime, so a more refined method of dating was needed if history was to be recorded accurately. To specify dates over periods longer than 52 years, the Mayans used the Long Count calendar.

The Mayan name for a day was k'in. Twenty k'ins are a winal. Eighteen winals make a tun. Twenty tuns are a katun. Twenty katuns make a baktun. A baktun therefore is 144,000 days, or approximately 394 years.

The Long Count calendar identifies a date by counting the number of days from the Mayan creation date 4 Ahaw, 8 Kumk'u (which is in 3114 BC in our calendar system). By using their modified base-20 day numbering system, the Mayans could accurately specify exact dates over vast periods of time.

We are currently in the 13th baktun, which will end on December 21, 2012, at which time the Mayan calendar will click over and start the 14th baktun. The 13 baktuns so far represent 13 x 394 years, or approximately 5126 years since the Mayan starting-point in 3114 BC.

There are also four rarely used higher-order cycles: piktun, kalabtun, kinchiltun, and alautun. Using these larger cycles in their numbers, Mayan inscriptions have been found which accurately pinpoint specific days both 90 million years in the past and 400 million years in the future. (Blows your mind, doesn't it.)

Recently New Age believers have been saying that a huge event like a cataclysm will occur at the end of the current Mayan calendar, which is on December 12, 2012. However this is silly because that day is just the start of the next baktun. If you were Mayan, you would probably just throw a big party, like everyone in our modern world did in 2000. No catastrophe happened on January 1, 2000 (in spite of Y2K fears), and probably nothing will happen at the start of the Mayan 14th baktun. (I recommend everyone shave your heads on that day, to thank the gods for getting mankind through another 394 years, and to ask their blessing for the next 394 years.)

On the other hand, according to Mayan religious myth, this existence is the fourth world the gods created, they screwed up the first three. And the last creation, the third, ended at the start of a 14th baktun. Just sayin'...

Answer 4

The Mayan calendar is made up of several cycles, including the Tzolk'in (260-day cycle) and the Haab' (365-day cycle). It is a complex system that combines both religious and practical purposes, marking important celestial and agricultural events. The Long Count calendar is used by the Maya to track longer periods of time and dates back to around 3114 BCE.

Answer 5

The Mayan calendar is a ancient calendar to the Mayan civilization. Some people thought it predicted the end of the world in 2012, but we are still here.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

The last date on there calendar was 12/21/2012 because they didn't have enough space to put any other dates. It is just the beginning of a new calendar.