The Last Day Of The Mayan Calendar
The Ancient Maya
The Maya refer to both modern day people who are found all over the world today, as well as their ancient ancestors who built an ancient civilizations that stretched throughout much of Central America. The Ancient Mayans are renowned among historians and archaeologists as being an incredibly advanced culture that excelled at mathematics, astronomy and arts. With their star-based calendar predicting the end of the world in 2012. Much of Mayan history is under mystery and yet is still to be discovered in the future like the Lost Mayan City of Mirador that is located in the middle of the jungle of northern Guatemala which was discovered in 1926. The Mayan started to settle in the …show more content…
‘The Mayan calendar moves in cycles with the last cycle ending in December 2012.’ (The Mayan Calendar, Predicting the End of the World.) This was interpreted as The end of the world or doomsday or however you would want to call it. Last day of the Mayan calendar corresponds with the winter solstice (December solstice ), which plays a huge role in the lot of cultures throughout the time and all over the world. The Mayan did not invent the calendar, it was used by most cultures in pre-Columbian central America – including the Maya from around 2000 BC to the 16 …show more content…
It is a 260-day calendar, with 20 periods of 13 days used to determine the time of religious and ceremonial events. Each day is numbered from one to thirteen, and then repeated. The day is also given a name (glyph) from a sequence of 20 day names. The calendar repeats itself after each cycle. The Long Count is an astronomical calendar which was used to track longer periods of time, what the Maya called this the “universal cycle”. Each cycle is calculated to be 2,880,000 days (about 7885 solar years). The Mayans believed that the universe is destroyed and then recreated at the start of each universal cycle. This belief still inspires a myriad of prophecies about the end of the world. The Mayan Calendar was linked to astronomy. The ancient Mayan you working astronomers, recording and interpreting every aspect of the sky. They believed that the well and actions of the gods would be read in the stars, moon, and planets. They dedicated a lot of time in doing that, because of astronomy, they were able to build many of their important buildings. The sun, moon, and planets, especially being as were studied by the Maya very
The Maya refer to both modern day people who are found all over the world today, as well as their ancient ancestors who built an ancient civilizations that stretched throughout much of Central America. The Ancient Mayans are renowned among historians and archaeologists as being an incredibly advanced culture that excelled at mathematics, astronomy and arts. With their star-based calendar predicting the end of the world in 2012. Much of Mayan history is under mystery and yet is still to be discovered in the future like the Lost Mayan City of Mirador that is located in the middle of the jungle of northern Guatemala which was discovered in 1926. The Mayan started to settle in the …show more content…
‘The Mayan calendar moves in cycles with the last cycle ending in December 2012.’ (The Mayan Calendar, Predicting the End of the World.) This was interpreted as The end of the world or doomsday or however you would want to call it. Last day of the Mayan calendar corresponds with the winter solstice (December solstice ), which plays a huge role in the lot of cultures throughout the time and all over the world. The Mayan did not invent the calendar, it was used by most cultures in pre-Columbian central America – including the Maya from around 2000 BC to the 16 …show more content…
It is a 260-day calendar, with 20 periods of 13 days used to determine the time of religious and ceremonial events. Each day is numbered from one to thirteen, and then repeated. The day is also given a name (glyph) from a sequence of 20 day names. The calendar repeats itself after each cycle. The Long Count is an astronomical calendar which was used to track longer periods of time, what the Maya called this the “universal cycle”. Each cycle is calculated to be 2,880,000 days (about 7885 solar years). The Mayans believed that the universe is destroyed and then recreated at the start of each universal cycle. This belief still inspires a myriad of prophecies about the end of the world. The Mayan Calendar was linked to astronomy. The ancient Mayan you working astronomers, recording and interpreting every aspect of the sky. They believed that the well and actions of the gods would be read in the stars, moon, and planets. They dedicated a lot of time in doing that, because of astronomy, they were able to build many of their important buildings. The sun, moon, and planets, especially being as were studied by the Maya very