Maya calendar | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-14

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Maya calendar


00:00:50 1 Overview
00:03:35 2 Tzolk'in
00:05:29 3 Haab'
00:07:41 4 Calendar Round
00:09:00 4.1 Year Bearer
00:11:15 5 Long Count
00:13:49 6 Supplementary Series
00:14:16 6.1 Lords of the Night
00:14:38 6.2 Lunar Series
00:14:59 6.2.1 Moon age
00:15:43 6.2.2 Count of Lunations
00:16:22 6.2.3 Lunation length
00:17:24 7 819-day count
00:17:49 8 Short count
00:18:57 9 See also
00:20:16 10 Notes



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The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico.The essentials of the Maya calendar are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout the region, dating back to at least the 5th century BCE. It shares many aspects with calendars employed by other earlier Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Zapotec and Olmec and contemporary or later ones such as the Mixtec and Aztec calendars.By the Maya mythological tradition, as documented in Colonial Yucatec accounts and reconstructed from Late Classic and Postclassic inscriptions, the deity Itzamna is frequently credited with bringing the knowledge of the calendar system to the ancestral Maya, along with writing in general and other foundational aspects of Maya culture.