Mayan Calendar

To use a Maya calendar, familiarize yourself with the Long Count, Tzolk'in, and Haab calendars. The Long Count is a linear count of days. The Tzolk'in is a 260-day cycle, and the Haab is a 365-day solar calendar. You can combine these calendars to track dates and events in the Maya system.

Yes, the Mayans developed a sophisticated lunar calendar that tracked the phases of the moon. Their calendar system, known as the Tzolk'in, consisted of 260 days based on the cycles of the moon and was separate from their solar calendar.

There are several places where you can find information on the Mayan calendar. There is the local library, there are museums, the internet, asking friends about it is an option as well. There are also sometimes television programs that provide information.

There is a large amount of pseudoscience that makes various claims as to how the world will end in 2012, but so far, none of it has been proven via the scientific process. One of the more outlandish claims:

The world is giong to end in 2012. The mayans saw that there was a balance to the way our planets line up and they saw what happened to our brother planet Wajiru. Wajiru orbited about 53,000 miles behind earth and was destroyed by one massive light that connects our sun to three other ones in three other galaxies. Earth wasnt hit because it was not in line with the other planets but the other planets that were lined up in it were. Over time they resphered, but they were much larger than they are today. On December 21, 2012 at 12:21 will be the exact moment when the Earth will be destroyed along with the other planets (besides Jupiter, It will only get smaller again) because Earth has slowly been moving a bit slower every year and is now in the spot Wajiru was in. 2012© was right.

This can be proven wrong with one simple fact: stars cannot emit a focused beam of energy.

Currently, there is no conclusive, or even remotely convincing, evidence that the world will end in 2012.

The Maya Calendar's base date is 3114 BC, however it is widely accepted that this must have been for mathematical and calendric utility as opposed to actually representing the date at which the Maya's began recording events or even had a calendrical system.

This is a central part of their long count calendar system, which was used in conjunction with their Sacred Round and Solar Year which formed their short count calendar.

The Mayan calendar does not predict the end of the world. The misconception that it did was a misinterpretation by popular culture. The Mayan calendar is a complex system used to track time cycles.

Yes, the Mayans developed complex and accurate calendars. They had multiple calendars, including the Long Count calendar that tracked longer periods of time with precision. Mayan calendars were used for various purposes, such as tracking agricultural cycles, religious ceremonies, and predicting celestial events.

The Mayan calendar system consists of several calendars of different sizes. The most well-known is the Long Count calendar, which has a cycle of approximately 5,126 years. Additionally, the Mayans used a Tzolk'in calendar of 260 days and a Haab' calendar of 365 days.

One thing that is the same about the mayans calender and are's is well.... the mayans actually made are calender design so that's the similarity there is only around one difference a different language

The Mayan calendar was created during the time of the ancient Maya civilization, with different components developed at different periods. The Long Count calendar, for example, originated around the 5th century BCE.

It depends on what you mean by 'correct'. As calendars go, it is as correct as any other as long as it serves the needs of those who use it. A calendar is a way of reckoning time, and that's all it has to 'do', whatever that means. If you are asking about the popular predictions of the end of the world, 21 December 2012, based on the Mayan calendar, then the answer is no. It's a calendar, for goodness' sake. The cycles built into the calendar all coincide on 21 December 2012. Some conclude that this is a mystical sign that the world will end. Truth is, a new cycle of cycles begins on 22 December 2012 according to the Mayan calendar, which might mean something to people who are actually observing the Mayan calendar.

The Mayan calendar does not have specific days designated as "bad days." It is a complex system that tracks cycles of time for various purposes, such as agricultural planning or ceremonial events, but it does not label any days as inherently bad.

The idea that the Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world in 2000 is a misconception. The Mayan Long Count calendar simply marked the end of a cycle, not the end of the world. The December 21, 2012 date associated with the Mayan calendar was misconstrued as the end of the world, but the calendar itself does not predict the end of existence.

The Mayan civilization was in southern Mexico and Central America, ranging from Copán in Nicaragua (c 400-800 AD) to Tikal in Guatemala, to Izapa (before 600 BC) and Palenque (c 200-1100 AD) in Mexico.

The calendar has features of earlier versions by the Olmecs and Zapotecs.

The Mayan calendar Tzolk'in has 260 days. It is composed of 20 periods of 13 days each. These days are linked with 20 names and symbols.

the Mayan calender was made a long time ago by the central America.the Mayan calender is about 5000 or more years old.the Mayan calender predicts the end of the world in 2012 but 2012 is in fiction.but no one really knows when the world could end.

The Kukulkan pyramid, also known as El Castillo, is aligned with specific astronomical events related to the Mayan calendar. During the spring and fall equinoxes, the sunlight creates a shadow that resembles a serpent descending the pyramid's staircase, symbolizing the feathered serpent god Kukulkan. This alignment highlights the Mayan's advanced understanding of astronomy and their intricate calendar system.

No. The calendar ends December 21 (Winter Solstice, 2012. It simply marks the end of one calender and the start of another. They never actually predicted that it would end on that date but the calender would still have people putting more dates in because it would just go on forever and ever

To be honest, No one knows when they world is going to end.

If it was going to end, they'd tell us and they wouldn't be building in London for 2012! - we'll die, but not yet. another thousand years possibly more.

Aztec vs. Mayan Calendar The two calendars were was basically similar. The ritual day cycle was called Tonalpohualli and was formed, as was the Mayan Tzolkin, by the concurrence of a cycle of numerals 1 through 13 with a cycle of 20 day names, many of them similar to the day names of the Maya. Where the Aztec differed most significantly from the Maya was in their more primitive number system and in their less precise way of recording dates. Normally, they noted only the day on which an event occurred and the name of the current year. This is ambiguous, since the same day, as designated in the way mentioned above, can occur twice in a year. Moreover, years of the same name recur at 52-year intervals, and Spanish colonial annals often disagree as to the length of time between two events. Other discrepancies in the records are only partially explained by the fact that different towns started their year with different months. The most widely accepted correlation of the calendar of Tenochtitlán with the Christian Julian calendar is based on the entrance of Cortés into that city on November 8, 1519, and on the surrender of Cuauhtémoc on August 13, 1521. According to this correlation, the first date was a day 8 Wind, the ninth day of the month Quecholli, in a year 1 Reed, the 13th year of a cycle. The Mexicans, as all other Meso-Americans, believed in the periodic destruction and re-creation of the world. The "Calendar Stone" in the Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology) in Mexico City depicts in its central panel the date 4 Ollin (movement), on which they anticipated that their current world would be destroyed by earthquake, and within it the dates of previous holocausts: 4 Tiger, 4 Wind, 4 Rain, and 4 Water. The Aztec calendar kept two different aspects of time; tonalpohualli and xiuhpohualli. Each of these systems had a different purpose. The tonalpohualliwas the 'counting of days.' It originated by ancient peoples observing that the sun, crossed a certain zenith point near the Mayan city of Copan, every 260 days. So this first system is arranged in a 260-day cycle. These 260 days were then broken up into 20 periods, with each period containing 13 days, called trecenas. Each period was given the name of something that was then shown by a hieroglyphic sign, and each trecena was given a number 1-13. Each trecena is also thought to have a god or deity presiding over each of the trecena. They kept these counts in tonalamatls, screenfold books made from bark paper. The Aztecs used this as a religious calendar. Priests used the calendar to determine luck days for such activities as sowing crops, building houses, and going to war. The xiuhpohualli was the 'counting of the years.' This calendar was kept on a 365-day solar count. This was also the agricultural and ceremonial calendar of the Aztec state. It was divided into 18 periods, with each period containing 20 days, called veintenas. This left five days that were not represented. These were called "nemontemi." These were the five transition days between the old and the new year, and were considered days of nothing. This was a time of festivals. People came to the festivals with their best clothes on, and took part in singing and dancing. This is also when the priest would perform sacrifices, most of these sacrifices were human, but others were preformed on animals and fruit. The solar year was the basis for the civil calendar by which the Mexicas (Aztecs) determined the myriad ceremonies and rituals linked to agricultural cycles. The calendar was made up of 18 months, each lasting 20 days. The months were divided into four five-day weeks. The year was rounded out to 365 days by the addition of the five-day nemontemi (empty days), an ominous period marked by the cessation of normal activities and general abstinence. The correlation of dates in the Gregorian calendar is uncertain, although most authors on the subject affix the beginning of the Aztec year to early February. A variety of sources were consulted in developing the following chart of some of the ritualistic activities associated with each month. Many of the Aztecs' religious ceremonies, including frequent human sacrifices, were performed at the Great Temple, located in the center of their capital city of Tenochtitlan.

The 2012 Mayan calendar refers to the end of what was known as the "Long Count" calendar cycle on December 21, 2012. Despite some misconceptions, there was no prediction of an apocalyptic event associated with this date in Mayan beliefs. It was simply the end of a cycle, similar to how our calendar ends on December 31st each year.

The Mayan calender does not end in 2012. The Mayan Calender operates on a system of counts and long counts and cycles. At the end of the long count, it is the end of the cycle in 2012, not the world. If people tell you the the world will end, don't believe them, the Mayans would have had written accounts of how the world would end. The world will not end on December 7, 2012; tell your friends this and save a lot of people a lot of grief.

The calendar used most widely today, the Gregorian calendar, was developed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. This calendar replaced the Julian calendar and is now the internationally accepted civil calendar.

most people are not a 100% if the Mayans predication's are true we have to wait and see