![]() Repeating sets of 9 days (see below "Nine lords of the night") associated with different groups of deities, animals and other significant concepts are also known. An 819-day Count is attested in a few inscriptions. Less-prevalent or poorly understood cycles, combinations and calendar progressions were also tracked. Many Maya Long Count inscriptions contain a supplementary series, which provides information on the lunar phase, number of the current lunation in a series of six and which of the nine Lords of the Night rules. The cycles of the Long Count are independent of the solar year. An important exception was made for the second-order place value, which instead represented 18 × 20, or 360 days, more closely approximating the solar year than would 20 × 20 = 400 days. The Maya numeral system was essentially vigesimal (i.e., base-20) and each unit of a given position represented 20 times the unit of the position which preceded it. This calendar involved the use of a positional notation system, in which each position signified an increasing multiple of the number of days. By its linear nature, the Long Count was capable of being extended to refer to any date far into the past or future. The GMT correlation was chosen by John Eric Sydney Thompson in 1935 on the basis of earlier correlations by Joseph Goodman in 1905 (August 11), Juan Martínez Hernández in 1926 (August 12) and Thompson himself in 1927 (August 13). According to the correlation between the Long Count and Western calendars accepted by the great majority of Maya researchers (known as the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson, or GMT, correlation), this starting-point is equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar or September 6, in the Julian calendar (−3113 astronomical). ![]() It is a count of days since a mythological starting-point. Ī different calendar was used to track longer periods of time and for the inscription of calendar dates (i.e., identifying when one event occurred in relation to others). The Calendar Round is still in use by many groups in the Guatemalan highlands. ![]() ![]() The Tzolkin was combined with a 365-day vague solar year known as the Haabʼ to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haabʼ, called the Calendar Round. The 260-day count is known to scholars as the Tzolkin, or Tzolkʼin. But ultimately, predictive methods were similar to other peoples with whom they shared territory and culture.The Maya calendar consists of several cycles or counts of different lengths. The Maya as a Mesoamerican village was also carried out their prophecies. We know that Mexico inherited the same calendar used since the beginning of Mesoamerica, we can infer that all the pre-Hispanic peoples have this system to perform his prophecies. Based on record the events that happened in the past, make predictions about what kind or not, that would be the years ahead. Each of these parts was associated with a direction in space as well as some prophecies. Fray Diego Duran, who was one of the monks who dedicated himself to collect the history and knowledge of the sages Mexico after the conquest describes the standard Mesoamerican calendar consists of 52 years divided into four parts in 13 years. The time was not a continuous endless as conceived Western man, but was a cycle of fixed duration (eg different for Maya and for Mexica), which is eternally happening again and again. The cyclical conception of time that had Mesoamerican peoples, had a decisive influence in the way they perceive the past, present and future.
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