Did the Mayan Calandar have leap years?, page 1
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reply posted on 27-3-2008 @ 12:35 PM by groingrinder
reply to post by rtcctr



Absolutely.

The lunar calendar keeps track naturally, while the Gregorian one is like shoving a square peg into a round hole.


reply posted on 27-3-2008 @ 12:57 PM by stumason
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From what I've read, that isn't true. The Maya had various calenders for measuring different lengths of time, from the 260 day Tzolkin to the Long count which worked over millenia.

It was using a different numbering form than we had in the West, so I do not think just scrubbing it down to a "lunar" calendar does it justice:


The most important of these calendars is one with a period of 260 days. This 260-day calendar was prevalent across all Mesoamerican societies, and is of great antiquity (almost certainly the oldest of the calendars). It is still used in some regions of Oaxaca, and amongst the Maya communities of the Guatemalan highlands. The Maya version is commonly known to scholars as the Tzolkin, or Tzolk'in in the revised orthography of the Academia de las Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala.[2] The Tzolk'in is combined with another 365-day calendar (known as the Haab, or Haab' ), to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haabs, called the Calendar Round. Smaller cycles of 13 days (the trecena) and 20 days (the veintena) were important components of the Tzolk'in and Haab' cycles, respectively.


Mayan Calendar


reply posted on 27-3-2008 @ 12:59 PM by stumason
reply to post by groingrinder



Not true, a Lunar calendar, from one full moon to the next, is out of step with the seasons and will drift by 10-13 days a year. Saying it is in synch is a complete fabrication.



reply posted on 24-7-2008 @ 07:36 PM by Anonymous ATS
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2012 is the end of a "mayan" era, established by GMT (Goodman, Matinez, Thompson), creators of the GMT correlation between the mayan calendar and the julian-gregorian's.

The mayan calendar has no end. It never stops.

Wiseman, July 24, 2008


reply posted on 24-7-2008 @ 07:50 PM by Incarnated
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Awwweee... Isn't that cute?! You're trying to think! How sweet. You should really try thinking alot more about the topic before posting as this is too simple to answer.



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