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	Mayan Calendar
		To have a calendar is a world-wide necessity and in this aspect the Maya has excelled: one small example is that our calendar, which is known as the Gregorian calendar, accumulates an error of one day every 4000 years, however the Mayan calendar accumulates one day every 5000 years.
		The Mayan calendar, considered one of the most exact in the world, is noted for the accomplishment of using the vigesimal system of base twenty.
		This is a Mayan Stela as used by the ancient Maya.
	www.mayanworld.com (1361 words)

	Maya calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These different calendars tracked observable phenomena such as the solar year, the lunar year, and the synodic period of the planet Venus; others had a divinatory or ritualistic purpose without any known association to natural cycles.
		Although the Mesoamerican calendar did not originate with the Maya, their subsequent extensions and refinements to it were the most sophisticated.
		A different form of calendar was used to track longer periods of time, and for the inscription of calendar dates (i.e., identifying when one event occurred in relation to others).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mayan_calendar (3200 words)

	History & info - the Mayan calendar
		The pyramid was used as a calendar: four stairways, each with 91 steps and a platform at the top, making a total of 365, equivalent to the number of days in a calendar year.
		The Maya calendar was adopted by the other Mesoamerican nations, such as the Aztecs and the Toltec, which adopted the mechanics of the calendar unaltered but changed the names of the days of the week and the months.
		The Haab was the civil calendar of the Mayas.
	webexhibits.org /calendars/calendar-mayan.html (1295 words)

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		The Mayan Calendar - The Mayan Prophecy for 2012
		The Mayan Calendar is not predicting the end of the world 2012, but the start of a new era; the golden age.
		The Mayan Calendar is a gateway to the worlds of consciousness which the majority of humanity has been blinded to through the use of false or delusory calendars.
	www.experiencefestival.com /mayan_calendar (2556 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| 2012 Calendar Convergence \| apocalypse Aztec dreamspell calendar 2012 ...
		Mayan cycles describe the Earth's Great Year (a 24,000-year cycle caused by the Earth's wobble) as well as an additional rotation of our sun and galaxy around Alcyon, central star of the Pleiades.
		The Castillo is part of the Mayan calendar's Path of the Sun (solar calendar) with 4 stone stairways of 91 steps each plus an upper platform for a total of 365.
		The Julian calendar, standardized in 46 BCE, was revised by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 CE.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /converg.html (2843 words)

	Mayan Calendar Code
		Yes, there's more to it and the bottom line is the Mayan calendar is tracking the evolution of consciousness through 9 sequentially ordered cycles of creation.
		The Mayan calendar is tracking the alternating energies of the Universal Intelligence, through 9 ordered steps which are 9 major creation cycles.
		Mayan Calendar Code teaching programs present ideas to participate in your own evolving.
	www.mayan-calendar-code.com (1142 words)

	Mayan Calendar
		The Mayan's have been described as a "classical" civilization: this is, they created great architectures, arts, and sculptures, developed complex economies and trade, and possessed advanced systems of learning based on observational knowledge.
		The basic structure of the Mayan calendar consists of a ritual cycle of 260 named days and a year of 365 days.
		To identify a date of the Calendar Round, they designated the day by its numeral and name, and added the name of the current month, indicating the number of its days that had elapsed by prefixing one of the numerals from 0 through 19.
	www.math.sfu.ca /histmath/calendars/mayan.html (1527 words)

	Mayan calendar
		Since a date in the sacred calendar has no year component, it is not possible to convert a date like “5 Ix” to (for example) the Gregorian calendar.
		Like the sacred calendar, it is not possible to convert a date like “5 Kankin” to, for example, the Gregorian calendar, since it has no year component.
		Using astronomical events recorded both by Mayan and European astronomers, and historical events whose dates were recorded both by Spaniards and civilizations using the Mayan calendar, scholars have sought to correlate the Mayan and Gregorian calendars.
	www.sizes.com /time/cal_mayan.htm (373 words)

	Why 2012?
		Scholars have known for decades that the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan "Long Count" system of timekeeping was set to end precisely on a winter solstice, and that this system was put in place some 2300 years ago.
		The Mayan scholar Munro Edmonson believes that the Long Count was put in place around 355 B.C. This may be so, but the oldest Long Count date as yet found corresponds to 32 B.C. We find Long Count dates in the archeological record beginning with the baktun place value and separated by dots.
		Drawing from an impressive amount of iconographic evidence, and generously sharing the process by which she arrived at her discovery, the Sacred Tree is found to be none other than the crossing point of the ecliptic with the band of the Milky Way.
	www.levity.com /eschaton/Why2012.html (4477 words)

	World Mysteries - Strange Artifacts - Mayan and Aztec Calendars
		It was during the reign of the 6th Aztec monarch in 1479 that this stone was carved and dedicated to the principal Aztec deity: the sun.
		The most widely accepted correlation of the calendar of Tenochtitlan with the Christian Julian calendar is based on the entrance of Cortez into that city on November 8, 1519, and on the surrender of Cuauhtzmoc on August 13, 1521.
		The Hebraic calendar acquired by Enoch after he was translated in a beam of light intercalated solar and lunar cycles in a fashion similar to the Maya.
	www.world-mysteries.com /sar_3.htm (8742 words)

	Introduction to the Mayan Calendar
		The term Sacred Calendar, however, is often used to denote the multiple interrelated systems, ie., the entire framework of cycles.
		The calendar system known as the Julian calendar was established by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C., which was the year 709 of the Roman Empire.
		In the new Gregorian calendar a year which is divisible by 4 is a leap-year unless it is divisible by 100 but not by 400.
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	Civilization.ca - Mystery of the Maya - Maya calendar
		The 260-day calendar was used to determine important activities related to the gods and humans.
		The secular calendar of 365 days had to do primarily with the seasons and agriculture, and was based on the solar cycle.
		One of the most important roles of the calendar was not to fix dates accurately in time, however, but to correlate the actions of Maya rulers to historic and mythological events.
	www.civilization.ca /civil/maya/mmc06eng.html (1277 words)

	Mayan Calendar
		The time keeping system of the Mayans was a combination of several cycles that meshed together, marking the movement of the Sun, Moon and Venus.
		Therefore, the calendar is not only an exceptionally accurate map of the cycles of the cosmos, but is also a tool for accelerating and activating our memory of who we are in relationship to the truth behind the mystery of the cosmos.
		In this article, the history and meaning of the Mayan calendar is explored, as well as its impact on civilization today and in the future.
	www.thewildrose.net /mayan_calendar.html (777 words)

	Calendar Converter
		The Gregorian calendar was proclaimed by Pope Gregory XIII and took effect in most Catholic states in 1582, in which October 4, 1582 of the Julian calendar was followed by October 15 in the new calendar, correcting for the accumulated discrepancy between the Julian calendar and the equinox as of that date.
		All of the Mayan calendars are based on serial counting of days without means for synchronising the calendar to the Sun or Moon, although the Long Count and Haab calendars contain cycles of 360 and 365 days, respectively, which are roughly comparable to the solar year.
		The Bahá'í calendar is a solar calendar organised as a hierarchy of cycles, each of length 19, commemorating the 19 year period between the 1844 proclamation of the Báb in Shiraz and the revelation by Bahá'u'lláh in 1863.
	www.fourmilab.ch /documents/calendar (5229 words)

	Mayan Calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Mayan calendar round is based upon two important cycles: the 260 ritual cycle and the 365 day vague year.
		To complete the calendar round the date as given by the 260 day cycle is matched with the day given by the solar year, the Mayan Vague Year.
		The Mayans, while recognizing that this was not quite correct and correcting for the fact in important astronomical calculations, used only whole days in their calendar.
	www.hanksville.org /yucatan/mayacal.html (324 words)

	Welcome to Mayan Majix - Mayan Calendar Products, Mayan Astrology, Mayan Jewelry, Mayan Books, Mayan Links, Ancient ...
		Traditionally this is labeled as the Death of the 4th period of the Sun and the Birth of the new 5th Sun.
		Don Alejandro, in behalf of the Mayan Council of Indigenous Elders in Guatemala, has commissioned a film to be made to reveal visions, concepts, and subject matter previously concealed from the masses.
		According to Mayan prophecy, we have entered into a period when it is safe to release this information to the public.
	www.mayanmajix.com /infocenter.html (1327 words)

	Mayan Calendar
		The Mayan sacred calendar blends these frequencies into a ratio of 13:20.
		By simply following the days on the Mayan calendar, you become entrained or synchronized with the natural cycles that are timed by this calendar.
		The Mayan calendar was left here for us to use.
	www.astrology-charts-books.com /mayancalendar.html (435 words)

	The Maya Civilization, Maya Numerals and Calendar - BY LUIS DUMOIS
		By using different means and correlations, it has been established that the year zero for the Maya calendar corresponds to the year 3113 B.C. Taking all this into account, it is clear that we now have all the necessary elements to translate long count Mayan dates to Christian dates.
		The date was engraved or painted on the stone, and it invariably contained the same elements: an introductory glyph to the long count (meaning, "A long count date follows"), and the five numerals for the long count itself.
		One of the most ancient dated Mayan artifacts found to this day is the renowned Leyden plate, thought to be handcrafted in Tikal, though it was found in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, in 1864.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/ldumois/maya/ldmayanumbers.html (970 words)

	The Classic Maya Calendar and Day Numbering System
		The lunisolar calendar, in which the ritual month is based on the Moon and the agricultural year on the Sun, was used throughout the ancient Near East (except Egypt) and Greece from the third millennium BC.
		Early calendars used either thirteen lunar months of 28 days or twelve alternating lunar months of 29 and 30 days and haphazard means to reconcile the 354/364-day lunar year with the 365-day solar year.
		This amounts to (a) selection of an origin for the initial long count, (b) selection of the calendar round corresponding to that count, and (c) correlating a specific long-count date on the Maya calendar with the corresponding date on the Gregorian calendar.
	www.eecis.udel.edu /~mills/maya.html (1340 words)

	Maya Calendar
		The ritual calendar that developed in Mesoamerica used a count of 260 days.
		The 260-day or sacred count calendar was in use throughout Mesoamerica for centuries, probably before the beginning of writing.
		Because they could not use fractions, the "quarter" day left over every year caused their calendar to drift with regard to the actual solar year.
	www.michielb.nl /maya/calendar.html (544 words)

	Mayan Calender-Why 2012 ?
		This article is written for the Everyday Earthling who may be hearing a lot about the Mayans, their calendars, hieroglyphs and mysterious temples scattered throughout the jungles of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.
		Their calendar acted as a harmonic calibrator, linking and coordinating the earthly, lunar, solar and galactic seasons in an aesthetically simple and elegant manner.
		The Mayan calendar does not really "end" in 2012, but rather, all the cycles turn over and start again, vibrating to a new era.
	www.crawford2000.co.uk /maya.htm (1194 words)

	THE MAYAN CALENDAR - WHY 260 DAYS?
		The Mayan Ritual year of 260 days was successful for one major reason - after a cycle lasting 59 Ritual years, the tropical year and the Ritual year lock together in step.
		The most important Mesoamerican ritual period was the Tzolkin, a calendar of great age in Mesoamerica, with a period of 260 days; made up of a repeating sequence of the numbers one to 13, and 20 day names.
		The ritual significance of the 52 year Calendar Round and the ceremonial binding of the years is now explained, because it was at these times that calendrical corrections were noted and the solar and Venus calendars, within the Calendar Round, were again exactly locked together.
	www.spiderorchid.com /mesoamerica/mesoamerica.htm (4563 words)

	The Mayan Calendar - Mayan Majix - Ian Xel Lungold - Mayan Astrology
		The Mayan Calendar - Mayan Majix - Ian Xel Lungold - Mayan Astrology
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	Mayan Calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Believing that time repeated itself in cycles, they devised two calendars, one ritualistic, which was used for religious celebrations and astrological predictions, and the other a solar calendar.
		Both calendars were based on the calculation that a year had a little more than 365 days, a more precise system than the Gregorian calendar.
		The sources of Mayan mythology are found in the sky, and the timetable of Creation Day is pinpointed by the end date of the Mayan Great Cycle.
	www.saxakali.com /historymam7.htm (1471 words)

	Research on the Mayan "Calendar"
		The Mayans believed that after 13 Baktuns after the "Birth of Venus" now known to be 13 August 3114 BC, there would be a great reawareness of time and space.
		The Mayans also had a "Magic Number" of 1366560, which is exactly 73 percent of 1872000.
		I have found that each of the two BIG numbers in the Mayan civilization are nice duration's of orbits in the base-13 model (1872000 = 400 orbits, and 1366560 = 292 orbits) The problem is that these two numbers are not defined numbers in any of the cycles of the calendar.
	www.mufor.org /maya (1257 words)

	The Mayan Prophecies
		By a process of extraordinary detective work he cracked the code of the Mayan calendar making it possible for other scholars and explorers to translate the many dated inscriptions to be found on buildings, stelae and other ancient Mayan artefacts.
		This calendar was divided into "months" or uinals of twenty days, "years" or tuns of 360 days and longer periods of 7200 days, the katun and 144,000 days, the baktun.
		Adrian Gilbert, Cotterell's co-author for the Mayan Prophecies, is the co-author of the number one international best-seller The Orion Mystery, regarded by many as the greatest breakthrough in Egyptian, pyramid research this century.
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	Mayan Calendar
		The Mayans were skilled mathematicians, and this shows in their calendar; besides having a concept of zero, they also had a firm grasp of modular arithmetic; they also worked extensively in base 20.
		The Mayans were aware of this discrepancy; they simply didn't feel the compelling need to synchronize their calendar with the sun that Old World civilizations did.
		For one thing, this is a theoretical reconstruction of the Mayan calendar, since it hasn't been in use for hundreds of years.
	www.sacred-texts.com /time/cal/mayacal.htm (874 words)

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