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But how does the Maya calendar work, anyway? It's not as confusing as it might seem.
The ancient Maya kept time in a very different way than we do today, and their hieroglyph-heavy calendar can seem daunting at first glance. But the basic principle is simply that the Maya were counting the days. Three calendars The first thing to understand is that the Maya used three different calendars. The first was the sacred calendar, or Tzolk'in, which lasted days and then started over again, just as our day calendar refreshes once it hits Dec.
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This calendar was important for scheduling religious ceremonies. The second calendar was the Haab', or secular calendar, which lasted days but did not account for the extra quarter-day it takes the Earth to revolve around the sun. The modern calendar accounts for this fraction by adding a day to February every four years, the reason we have leap years. That means the calendar wandered a bit in relation to the seasons. The final calendar was the Long Count Calendar — the recording method that has caused all of the doomsday brouhaha of The Mayan Apocalypse Not ].
The Maya shared our culture's fascination with calendar mile-markers and would have likely considered the date important, Witschey told LiveScience. But they did not make any doomsday predictions about the date.
The only two carvings ever found referring to the date depict contemporary kings and their predicted long-lasting legacies, Witschey said. Here's how it works: Dates are written out as five numbers separated by four periods, such as The ancient Maya represented these not with numerals, of course, but with their own hieroglyphs.
The right-most position is called the k'in, which counts single days: The k'in counts up to 19 and then flips back to zero, with counting picked back up by the next position, the uinal.
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Mayan Calendar Carvings ]. Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Each uinal is thus a block of 20 days. The k'in position then picks back up, counting up to that 20, which then gets added to the uinal. So, why do you think this mother of all coincidences just happened?
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Why would CNN decide to run this news report now? Do you think it might be the same reason why every media outlet will be pulling apart every aspect of for most of November?
I think mayans haven't written about doomsday officially. Their calender ends up on dec. We should be remembering the Mayans for the physical treasures they left us, not a redundant calendar! The transition from life to new life always requires a 'shift' and this is death — not an ultimate end, but a gateway to a new experience. Ask any oak tree — does it fear the loss of it's leaves in the fall? Does it even fear it's fall to the ground where it's trunk will be consumed by the earth?
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This entire thing of is getting more and more scary and horrifying day by day. It was a great relief coming to this post.
Because its the first place where I have read that nothing of such kind is gone a happen. As such nothing is in our hands.
It's hieroglyph heavy, but they were just counting the days — and not until doomsday
Mio Navman Spirit V The whole obsession with doomsday and 'end of the world' is simply this: The ego's fear of it's own inescapable end. Death is a natural and inevitable part of the cycle of life, as all of us know. The Mayan calendar gracefully, scientifically charts many such 'great cycles' in the life cycles of the greater cosmos.