Mayan Calendar

I've been doing a bit of reading on the Mayan calendar's, the Haab, Tzolkin and the Long Count calendar.

I thought that I'd get all the dates together for a few special occasions such as our birthdays and our visit to Palenque.

The Long Count number is the number of days since the start of the Long Count system, 11 August 3114 BC.

The Tzolkin Calendar is based on a 13 and 20 count. There are 20 glyphs and they are presented with a number between one and 13 before them to pin point the day. At the beginning on the cycle the first Glyph has a one in front, then the second a 2, the third a three and so on until you get to 13 in front of the thirteenth glyph. The fourteenth glyph then has a 1 one in front of it, fifteenth a 2 and so on. By the time you get back to the first glyph it has an 8 in front of it.

This calendar runs for 260 days, which is the number of days required for every possible glyph and number combination.

The Haab calendar works on there being 18 months of 20 days, 360 days, followed by one month of 5 days, to make up 365. In the calendars which I have seen engraved on leather they set dates against each glyph like star signs. For instance, from the 27th April until the 16th May is Yankin, which I am apart of, however if you look at the Haab calendar over the years it will vary each 4 years because it does not take into account the leap year.

The glyphs and numbers below for Haab represent the day number of the month (0-19 or 0-4 for the last month) followed by the month name for the year that we were born, not the original calendar. For instance the 30th April with the original calendar represtents 3 Yankin, whereas in 1980 it represents 0 Uo.

But enough nerdy number stuff, lets have a look at some pictures and dates.

Visit to Palenque
11 Kan

Long Count
12.19.14.10.4

Haab
12 Yaxkin

Tzolkin
11 Kan

Holly
6 Manik

Long Count
12.18.9.15.7

Haab
0 uayeb

tzolkin
6 manik

Liza
4 Imix

Long Count
12.18.8.2.1

haab
19 Tzec

tzolkin
4 Imix

Justin
2 Caban

Long Count
12.18.6.15.17

Haab
0 Uo

Tzolkin
2 Caban

Vinni
7 Ahau

Long Count
12.18.4.17.0

Haab
13 Zip

Tzolkin
7 Ahau

Bags
1 Chuen

Long Count
12.17.18.13.11

Haab
14 Pop

Tzolkin
1 Chuen



The final date in the Long Count Calendar is 13.0.0.0.0 which falls on the 21st December 2012.......... what happens then no one knows.....