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Made by Diego Diaz, Working individually.

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This is a short video that explains what is the Mayan Calendar, how it worked and all the animals that are on them.

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This short video connects with the red flags we have learned in class, such as Ancient Wisdom because you can see how people believe what the Maya calendar said.

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This image clearly shows what the Maya calendar looks like.

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This image has a connection with the red flag Ancient Wisdom because we can see how society nowadays has studied so much the Mayan Calendar that they can even reconstruct the Mayan calendar to show clearly how do the signs looked like.

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This website describes how did the Mayan calendar worked and when was the last time that it was used.

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This website connects with the red flags we have learned in class, such as Ancient Wisdom because people believe in the Mayan calendar said years ago.

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Civilization.ca - Mystery of the Maya - Maya calendar

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The Maya calendar in its final form probably dates from about the 1st century B.C., and may originate with the Olmec civilization. It is extremely accurate, and the calculations of Maya priests were so precise that their calendar correction is 10,000th of a day more exact than the standard calendar the world uses today.

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This short video from History explains how many calendars the Mayas create, and how they work, and they even explain how people from these days have not understood how to do some of these calendars work.

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This short video connects with the red flags we have learned in class, such as Ancient Wisdom we can see how the Mayan calendar has influenced our society nowadays.

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Ancient Aliens: The Mayan Calendar Mystery (Season 14) | Exclusive | History

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This image shows what are the symbols shown on the calendar called.

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This image has a connection with the red flag of Ancient wisdom because it shows how people have studied the Mayan Calendar to understand how did they keep so much information for long periods of time, and we can see how it influence on our society now a days.

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This website explains how the Mayas were able to measure long periods of time and how they thought that a year was a little bit longer than 365 days.

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This website has a connection with ancient wisdom because it let us know the influence that the Mayan calendar had on our society, nowadays they know how Mayas called a year and how many days it will last.

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This short video is impressive and it lets us know how did Mayas measured time and how they were so precise in every detail about time, it even explains how their time measurement is better than ours in 2012.

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This short video connects with the red flags we have learned in class, such as Ancient Wisdom because people believe that the information from Mayan calendar was better than this years information.

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This image shows the differences between the Aztec and Mayan calendar.

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This image has a connection with Ancient Wisdom and Patternicity because people nowadays can be confused between the Aztec and Mayan calendar, thinking that they are the same, but as we can see in the picture, they are totally different.

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This Website explains how did the Maya calendar system work out.

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This website has a connection with the red flag Ancient Wisdom, we can see how the Mayan calendar influence our society so much that we know how did Mayas call a month, a day, a decade, etc.

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The ancient Maya were accomplished observers of the sky. This image shows Maya animal constellations found in the Paris Codex. Using their knowledge of astronomy and mathematics, the ancient Maya developed one of the most accurate calendar systems in human history. The ancient Maya had a fascination with cycles of time. The most commonly known Maya cyclical calendars are the Haab, the Tzolk'in, and the Calendar Round. Aside from these, the Maya also developed the Long Count calendar to chronologically date mythical and historical events. The 13 baktun cycle of the Maya Long Count calendar measures 1,872,000 days or 5,125.366 tropical years. This is one of the longest cycles found in the Maya calendar system. This cycle ends on the winter solstice, December 21, 2012.

The Haab cycle is 365 days, and approximates the solar year. The Haab is a nineteen month calendar. The Haab is composed of 18 months made of 20 days, and one month, made of 5 days. This 5-day month is called "Wayeb." Thus, 18 x 20 + 5 = 365 days. This image shows the hieroglyphs corresponding to the nineteen months of the Haab calendar. The Maya represented some of these months using more than one glyph. These glyphs are referred to as "variants." Variants of the same glyph are framed in a turquoise background.

The Maya farmers of the Yucatan conduct offerings and ceremonies on the same months every year, following a 365-day Haab cycle. These ceremonies are called Sac Ha', Cha'a Chac and Wajikol. The Maya in the highlands of Guatemala perform special ceremonies and rituals during the Haab month of Wayeb, the short month of five days.

The Maya sacred calendar is called Tzolk'in in Yucatec Mayan and Chol Q'ij in K'iche' Mayan. This calendar is not divided into months. Instead, it is made from a succession of 20 day glyphs in combination with the numbers 1 to 13, and produces 260 unique days. Multiplying 20 x 13 equals 260 days. This image illustrates how the numbers 1 to 13, cycle through the 20 glyphs to form dates in the Tzolk'in calendar. Any such combination, such as 1 Imix', repeats only after 260 days have passed. The length of the Tzolk'in matches nine cycles of the Moon and the gestational period of humans. The Tzolk'in is also related to the movements of the zenith Sun and the growing cycle of corn.

Every 260 days, the Ajq'ijab' in the highlands areas of Guatemala, celebrate a new year ceremony called Wajxaqib' B'atz', and welcome another cycle in the sacred Chol Q'ij or Tzolk'in Maya calendar. During this ceremony, new calendar Day Keepers are initiated. This image shows Roberto Poz Pérez, K'iche', a calendar Day Keeper in a village near Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. He has been a calendar Day Keeper for more than 30 years.

Printed Tzolk'in calendars are popular in the Yucatán. The Chol Q'ij printed calendar is used daily by many people in the highlands of Guatemala.

The Calendar Round is made from the interweaving of the Tzolk'in and Haab calendars. In the Calendar Round, any given combination of a Tzolk'in day with a Haab day will not repeat itself, until 52 periods of 365 days have passed. The Maya believe that when a person reaches 52 years of age, they attain the special wisdom of an elder. The image shows a contemporary representation of the Calendar Round, interlocking the Tzolk'in (left) with the Haab (right).

Any historical or mythical event spanning more than 52 years required the ancient Maya to use an additional calendar, the Long Count. The Long Count calendar is a system that counts 5 cycles of time. This is very similar to the Gregorian calendar system that counts days, months, years, centuries and millennia. The Maya system also does this, but the difference is in the name and magnitude of the various cycles. Like Maya mathematics, the Long Count calendar system counts by 20s. The exception is in the third cycle, because 18 x 20, which equals 360, more closely approximates a Haab cycle or solar cycle of 365 days, rather than multiplying 20 x 20, which equals 400.

In addition to the five cycles, a complete Long Count calendar date includes Haab and Tzolk'in dates. For example, January 1, 2000 is written 12 baktun 19 katun 6 tun 15 uinal 2 kin 11 Ik' 10 K'ank'in using the Maya system, or 12.19.6.15.2 11 Ik' 10 K'ank'in. The Gregorian calendar counts days chronologically, beginning with the birth of Christ. The Maya Long Count calendar also counts days in chronological order, beginning with the mythical creation date of 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ajaw 8 Kumk'u. This date corresponds to August 11, 3114 BCE. This image shows the creation date drawn in hieroglyphs as it appears on Stela C in Quiriguá, Guatemala. On this date, the Sun was at its zenith at midday; and the Maya constellation of the Turtle (Orion) was in the nadir position, which is considered the Underworld.

The current Long Count calendar cycle will again reach 13.0.0.0.0, during the winter solstice, on 21 December, 2012 when the Calendar Round date will be 4 Ajaw 3 K'ank'in. The image shows three consecutive Long Count dates bracketing the winter solstice (from left to right) 20 December, 21 December, and 23 December, 2012.

A more detailed explanation of the Maya Calendar System can be found here.
Images used in this page and the videos can be downloaded in the Resources Section of the site.

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Click on image to view larger The ancient Maya were accomplished observers of the sky. This image shows Maya animal constellations found in the Paris Codex. Using their knowledge of astronomy and mathematics, the ancient Maya developed one of the most accurate calendar systems in human history.

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1. I learned that the Mayan calendar influenced a lot in our society nowadays, and even though we learned a lot from them our calendar is not as good as their calendar, they were able to measure a long periods of time.
2. As a real live example it surprised me how the Mayan Calendar described two periods of time as "new era" meaning that they thought that the world ended 2 times already.
3. I found one YouTube video that was pretty interesting because it was short and concise, it had a lot of information explaining about how the Mayas thought that the end of the world happened two times. It also explains how are the signs on the calendar called and how are the year, month, decade, etc called by the Mayas.
4. I will most likely remember how there is not much different information, most of it is pretty much the same, some website and videos allow you to understand a bit more about it but most of the research that I did had the same information, pretty redundant, I did not find anything that gave me another point of view.
5. I believe that the most harmful pseudoscience belief is the faith healing and the ideology as a red flag, this two actually hurt people and make them think that medicine will not help them but god, this could end up in people dying from not receiving the proper treatment.
I also think that the least harmful pseudoscience belief is the Astrology, the practice of astrology and believing in Astrology is not harmful and will not make people die.
6. I believe that the most important thing to pass on is the red flags, so they have knowledge about it and they can be aware of them when doing a research. This information can help them to have a better understanding of pseudoscience and how to make a proper use of it.