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There are 365.24219 days in a solar year and 365 days in a calander year. A Maya year is 360 days long. Notice how all three are different? There are also sidereal and anomalistic years. Most people do not understand the concept of measuring time as it can be confusing.
You are also ignoring the fact that their 360 day count equaled 1 solar year (not calendar year).
Not having done the math myself I don't disagree with your scepticism here but I can't follow your argument. I think the best way to calculate this would be to convert the total Maya calander time into days/hour/min/sec in decimals, which is a sexagesimal system, then convert it back to a corrosponding date on our current calader so we can predict its arival. I am assuming that this is what the OP is talking about.
You can't divide the number of days by 360, and then turn around and say that it's our calendar year 2087, because, our calendar year is based on a 365.25 system. You have to divide it by that number. If you don't you end up with a "Mayan" date.
Originally posted by Devino
Actually the end of this asrological year, Pisces, is 2160. I have often thought the Maya end date of 2012 is wrong because of this astrological alignment, or the coming of the age of Aquarius. The Maya were brilliant time keepers, i.e. astronomers. they would often use alignments with other planets, such as Venus, to measure time which happens to be more accurate than how we do it today. They did not need leap years/min/sec to adjust their calanders.
That is why I used the alignment of the stars to determine the astrological ages. We currently are close to the upcoming age of Aquarius, but not quite.
I agree that the next age may start in another 148 years. But we have to remember some time was lost 2000 years ago. What if it was up to 100 years lost? Just because we put events in certain years, doesn't mean it is entirely correct.... We could of lost heaps of time along the way and still haven't realised it.
Originally posted by Devino
reply to post by DarknStormy
That is why I used the alignment of the stars to determine the astrological ages. We currently are close to the upcoming age of Aquarius, but not quite.
I agree that the next age may start in another 148 years. But we have to remember some time was lost 2000 years ago. What if it was up to 100 years lost? Just because we put events in certain years, doesn't mean it is entirely correct.... We could of lost heaps of time along the way and still haven't realised it.
Originally posted by Devino
reply to post by gnosticagnostic
It appears as if you believe understanding and converting these times is easy. The question I have is how they figured the start date of August 11, 3114 BCE? Could this date be incorrect?
There are many calanders in the past that have a 360 day year. I think the time at which these calanders existed, found around the world, and the times in which these calanders started using the addition of 5 "Unlucky" days seems to correspond. This gives evidence that the Earth might have went through some event that slowed down its rotation slighly increasing the number of days per year. Biological evidence of the life cycles of coral and other cridders seem to dissagree with this theory.
As for the days in the year, is it possible that the planet slightly slowed down somewhere in the past which gives us the 365 day calendar
Originally posted by Devino
reply to post by gnosticagnostic
It appears as if you believe understanding and converting these times is easy. The question I have is how they figured the start date of August 11, 3114 BCE? Could this date be incorrect?
Originally posted by Devino
reply to post by phroziac
I suppose it depends upon which day of the year is being used to detrimne alignment. The Egyptians used the first day of spring which puts us at the end of Pisces. You can see for yourself using any good astronomical program.