The Mayan Calendar-

December 21, 2012

By: Sarah Morrison

 Calendar

• Long Count:
uinal(1 uinal = 20 kin = 20 days)
tun(1 tun = 18 uinal = 360 days = approx. 1 year)
katun(1 katun = 20 tun = 7,200 days = approx. 20 years)
baktun(1 baktun = 20 katun = 144,000 days = approx. 394 years)
• Tzolkin:
– Measured in days, (Kin) is a day
• The Haab:
– The Haab was the civil calendar of the Mayas. It consisted of 18
"months" of 20 days each, followed by 5 extra days, known as Uayeb.
This gives a year length of 365 days.
 How was the Calendar Created?

• The calendar is created by special Hoi days.

– Winter and summer solstices (any alignments of planets or Galaxies able to be
seen from the Earth).
– These special/precious events were referred to as Hoi days. One would come
around every so often. But actually in the year 2012 three different Hoi days
are supposed to occur; causing much change and danger.
 Hoi Days
• These days were designated by astronomical events that were able to be
seen by Earth
– They would see this as precious because they were probably very beautiful and
like nothing they had ever seen before.
– If they could predict these events for such a long time it was an amazing break
through
 How do we know they aren’t wrong?
• These people were very accurate with their predictions
– They predicted the winter and summer solstices along with other astronomical
events for the past 5,000 years and with no error.
– Every astronomical event they predicted for the past 5,000 years was exact
 The Change
• This is what is thought to be the end of the world but the Mayans would
refer to it as the change because their long count calendar predicts another
beginning.
– 3441 B.C. was the start of the long count calendar and the end is December 21,
2012
– Another beginning will be some time after the change.

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