Within the highlight Mayan culture as his greatest achievement in his life to the center of Mayan calendar. The schedule guided the Mayan existence through knowledge of their ancestors; from the moment they were born with nothing escape the influence of this powerful element called Calendar.
The timing of the Mayan culture is regarded as the most sophisticated and complete with respect to other civilizations developed by the age of the Meso-American region, where he developed high-precision schedules writings. That focused his life, thus making it his greatest cultural achievement. This is an account uninterrupted and successive days, which are called Kin in Mayan language, and this is how and where highlights based on its accuracy.
With the passage of history coexisted with the purpose and need for a fixed point where they start their calculations relating to time, which identified a starting point using a relevant fact in history to mark it, as is the launch Christ, or a hypothetical, as is the date of creation of the world.
The Mayans, the share is also need for a start date, they established this day the August 13, 3114 BC, possibly based on an astronomical relevant. In the life of the Maya was very little that was outside the scope of the influence of the calendar, because his life was guided by the ancestral knowledge of this calendar from born.
The Maya maintained several accounts beyond the so-called Kin, which we know were synchronized, and therefore are of the 260 and 365 days that have greater relevance. To write accounts of Mayan day numbers are combined with glyphs. The following are written the first twenty issues of the Mayan calendar:
THE TIMING OF 260 DAYS - TZOLKIN
The timing of greater use to them is the Mayan Tzolkin calendar, which consists of 260 days, since it was used to organize the times that used in religious ceremonies, in their customs and their family farm. This is how the life of the Maya was predestined for the day Tzolkin day for the day he was born. It is a calculation relating to the numbers 1 through 13 and 20 names for the days that are represented by individual glyphs. When it comes to the fourteenth day, returns to the number 1 of the day continuing from 1 to 13 in succession over and over again. On the day 21 becomes to make the succession of names of the days and well read in sequence. The two cycles are continuing in this way until the 260 days without repeating the combination of number and name used, since 260 is the least common multiple of numbers 13 and 20. Then repeats turn the cycle of 260 days. The glyphs and Kin or days are as follows:
THE TIMING OF 365 DAYS - HAAB
That timetable called Haab is based on the annual journey that makes the Earth around the sun in 365 days. The Maya divides 365 days in 18 months called Winal, each consisting of 20 days and 5 days to spare callers Wayeb. Write each day using a number ranging from 0 to 19 and a name Winal which is represented by a glyph, except on Wayeb that are accompanied with numbers from 0 to 4. The so-called glyphs and are Mayan or months Winal.
CYCLE OF 18.980 DAYS - THE WHEEL CALENDAR
It develops a greater cycle of 18980 days (the least common multiple of 260 and 365), created from the combination of the calendars of 260 and 365 days, and then calling this combination as Wheel Calendar. The wheel consists of four components, numeral-glyph Kin and numeral Winal-glyph, which together are repeated only every 18980 days. It is in this way we can distinguish a large number of Mayan monuments that only show recorded date Wheel Calendar. Here are observed reflected the four elements of Wheel Calendar for Wuinal Maya called Pop belonging to the dates ranging from 7 to 26 April 2000 and the first day of the following Winal Maya called Uo.
ACCOUNT OR STARTING LONG SERIES
Within the Mayan culture also keep records of days from a date they stipulated as the beginning of the era Mayan today. In those records or account is called Series Initial or Long.
The current account has long their initial date on August 13, 3114 a. C. Gregorian calendar, based on the correlation Goodman - Martinez - Thompson (GMT) 584285.
According to the Long Count the beginning of the year 2001 is expressed as explicit Stela Mayan custom carried out by the scientific center Mayan of the world.
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