• The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca...
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    Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar used by pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya. For this reason...
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    Long Count calendar, and festivities took place on 21 December 2012 to commemorate the event in the countries that were part of the Maya civilization...
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    its art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system. The Maya civilization developed in the Maya Region, an area that today comprises...
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    Mayan numeral system was the system to represent numbers and calendar dates in the Maya civilization. It was a vigesimal (base-20) positional numeral...
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  • convert Maya calendar dates into the proleptic Gregorian calendar. In this calendar, Julian calendar dates are revised as if the Gregorian calendar had been...
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    is that the calendar came from mathematical operations based on the numbers thirteen and twenty, which were important numbers to the Maya. The numbers...
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  • Mesoamerican calendar used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.[citation needed] The tzolkʼin, the basic cycle of the Maya calendar, is a preeminent...
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    Maya codices (sg.: codex) are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper. The...
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  • defined as the period during which the lowland Maya raised dated monuments using the Long Count calendar. This period marked the peak of large-scale construction...
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    Lords of the Night (category Maya calendars)
    lords of the night are known in both the Aztec and Maya calendar, although the specific names of the Maya Night Lords are unknown. The glyphs corresponding...
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    codified as an academic webpage in 2023. Aztec New Year Maya calendar Mesoamerican calendars Muisca calendar Hill Boone, Elizabeth (2016). Ciclos de tiempo y...
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  • Guatemala The month Zotz or Sotz of the Haab' Pre-Columbian Maya calendar Camazotz, bat god in Maya mythology Zot!, comic book created by Scott McCloud Zot...
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    The traditional Maya or Mayan religion of the extant Maya peoples of Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and the Tabasco, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Campeche...
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    that the Maya practiced human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism came much later (e.g. by the murals of Bonampak). Writing and the Maya calendar were quite...
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    Ajaw (category Maya calendars)
    pre-Columbian Maya political title attested from epigraphic inscriptions. It is also the name of the 20th day of the tzolkʼin, the Maya divinatory calendar, on...
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    Chilam Balam (category Maya calendars)
    indigenous Maya and early Spanish traditions have coalesced. They compile knowledge on history, prophecy, religion, ritual, literature, the calendar, astronomy...
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  • 1100 BC—Tiglath-Pileser I of Assyria conquers the Hittites. c. 1100 BC—Maya Calendar counts time from this point. c. 1100 BC—The Dorians invade Ancient Greece...
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    presented evidence for the earliest known calendar notation in the Maya region, the 260-day ritual calendar date of "7 Deer," from the mural fragments...
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  • its Romanised form (~ton) e.g.: Southampton Tun (Maya calendar), a unit of 360 days on the Maya calendar Tun (unit), an antiquated measurement of liquid...
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  • Haabʼ (category Maya calendars)
    Haabʼ (Mayan pronunciation: [haːɓ]) is part of the Maya calendric system. It was a 365-day calendar used by many of the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica...
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  • time in the Maya calendar equal to 20 tuns or 7200 days, equivalent to 19.713 tropical years. It is the second digit on the normal Maya long count date...
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  • Baktun (category Maya calendars)
    cycles of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar. It contains 144,000 days, equal to 394.26 tropical years. The Classic period of Maya civilization occurred...
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    Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican...
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  • Month (redirect from Calendar month)
    Assyrian calendar Chinese calendar Egyptian calendar Ethiopian calendar French Republican calendar Kurdish calendar Lunar month Maya calendar Month of...
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    possibilities would go against everything else that is known about the Maya calendar and Maya written history, and asserted that the texts clearly state that...
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    dates are converted using the GMT+2 correlation and the Julian Calendar. In the Maya calendar, acceded 9.9.14.17.5, 6 Chikchan 18 K'ayab; died 9.13.3.5.7...
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    Howler monkey gods (category Maya calendars)
    half-brothers, the Maya Hero Twins, a conflict which led to their humiliating transformation into monkeys. In the mantic calendar, howler monkey (Batz[pronunciation...
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  • Cival (category Maya sites in Petén Department)
    have added to knowledge of the Pre-Classic Maya, including revealing the earliest inscriptions with Maya calendar dates and showing dynastic succession of...
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    attributed the origins of the calendar to "Galactic Mayas," who he believed were ancient astronauts that had visited the ancient Mayas and taught them elements...
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