The Mayan calendar was a calendar of the Mayan civilization with different cycles used either separately or concomitantly.

Major cycles of the Mayan calendar

For the Maya, the most important cycles were enrolled in the original series ^{Correspondence with other calendars}

Eric Thompson proposed in 1950 , based on the overlap of various data, the following correlation, which is now the most widely adopted (and which was confirmed by various other data later), these calendars in sync between the Western calendar and current :

• 0.0.0.0.0 the date of the Long Count Mayan corresponds to 11 August -3 114 (Maya date 4 Ahau 8 cumuk) or the Julian date 584283 (substantially from the sunrise from a timezone for America).
• 9.12.11.5.18 the date of the Mayan long count corresponds to Wednesday 29 August 683 of the Gregorian calendar.

Another correlation shifts it two days .

2012: An interpretation of New Age

The Mayanism and other currents of New Age , including the relentless millenarian , predict radical changes if the end of the world for 2012 based on Tzolk'in , placing it generally more precisely on December 21 (Others Announce As of 12 December 2012 (12/12/12) (and others, still evoke a miscalculation that would move the date to October 28, 2011 ). These dates correspond to the end one cycle of the Mayan calendar and mark, according to proponents of the theory, a change in global consciousness and the beginning of a new age.

This prophecy is rejected by most scientists for his character pseudo-scientific.

"The prophecy of the end of the world in 2012 is based on a miscalculation. In fact, the announced date is 2220 (208 years later), said scientists in the November issue of the journal NWT (Natuurwetenschap & Techniek). By typing the date 2012 on Google, you get millions of results, most of which deal with the end of the world or the dawn of a new spiritual period. The alarmists were based on the Mayan calendar that stops December 21, 2012, and have deduced that date would be the end of the world. Also according NWT, recent research of archaeologists, astronomers and scientists has shown that this date is frivolous because the Mayan calendar ends two centuries later . "

- Natuurwetenschap & Techniek, 2012-IS eindtijd not in 2220

References

See also

Bibliography

• (Es) Corta o Cuenta Cuenta de los Katun Rolando Alaniz Serrano, 1997 , in inscripcin monumentos in Maya, Ch. VIII, Plaza y Valds Editores, Mexico , ISBN 968-856-554-7
• (En) Arithmetic, Astronomy and Calendar, Sylvanus Morley , George Brainerd, Betty Bell, Robert Sharer, 1994 , in The Ancient ^Maya, 5th edition, chap. XII, Stanford University Press, Stanford , ISBN 0-8047-2310-9
• (In) converstion Of The Mayan and Gregorian Chronologies, Sylvanus Morley , George Brainerd, Betty Bell, Robert Sharer, 1994 , in The Ancient ^Maya, 5th edition, Appendix, Stanford University Press, Stanford , ISBN 0-8047-2310-9
• The Mayan Prophecies 2012, John Lee Fox, 2009, Ed.Exclusif, ISBN 978-2-84891-080-2

Related articles

• Maya civilization
• Mayan Numeration
• Long Count
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• Tzolk'in

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