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1. What I learned about the topic that surprised me the most was the fact that the Mayan's used the calendar to help their crops grow throughout the year.
2. I think this is an interesting topic because it correlates with the Chinese calendar very similarly. My birth year is a monkey in the Chinese calendar and is also a monkey in the Mayan calendar which I found very interesting.
3. I found the research about how if the calendar ended than so did the world which was very interesting for me. It shows how something as ancient as the Mayan calendar is still believed and practiced to this day.
4. I will most likely remember the fact that there are 20 different zodiac signs that a person has the potential of having. Where as the modern calendar only has 12 different zodiac signs.
5. I think the most harmful piece of information is the anti-vaccination movement. It is dangerous to everyone and especially those that can't be vaccinated. I think the least harmful is the topics discussed about mediums and there impact they have on people.
6. I would pass on to my family member that not everything that once was is said to be true. For instance, the world was supposed to end on the 21st day of December in 2012. But, the world is still full of life and it hasn't ended for what we know o

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This connects to Proof by Verbosity. It shows the quantity of the calendar and how much planning and detail went into the calendar. It also shows how the 360 day calendar rotated around itself to allow the farmers to know when to plant their crop which I found interesting.

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Developing a Calendar

How would know what day of the week or month of the year it was if you didn't have a calendar? Would you know what day your birthday was? How about important holidays? Calendars help us keep track of time, but did you know that the Mayas, an ancient civilization, developed one the most accurate calendar systems of all time?

Who Were the Mayans?

The Mayas lived in Mesoamerica, or Middle America, known today as Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico. This ancient civilization is known for its art, mathematical system, architecture, and writing as well as knowledge of astronomy and calendars!

Although people from America are called Americans and people from Europe are called Europeans, the Maya people aren't called Mayans, even though that's what many people call them today. The word 'Mayan' only refers to the language spoken by the Maya people. Another name for the language spoken by the Maya is Maaya.

If you were to travel through time to visit a Maya village, you would find homes made of poles and plastered earth, with thatched roofs of palm leaves. You might see an outdoor kitchen with corn tortillas cooking on a hearth, or beans and squash simmering in clay pots. And if you were lucky enough, you might arrive in time for a monthly religious celebration, festival or banquet!

Yes, religion and agriculture, or farming, were important to the Mayas. Maybe that's why they made two calendars for these important life practices.

The Mayan Calendars

The Mayas had three separate calendars, but they could all be used at the same time! The Mayas had a writing system consisting of signs, or glyphs. Each month of the calendar had its own unique glyph.

The first calendar was created for religious purposes and consisted of 260 days. The shaman, or spiritual leader similar to a priest, would decide the luckiest dates for religious events and ceremonies to occur.

The second calendar, most similar to our own, had a 360-day cycle that aligned with the sun. This calendar helped the farmers to know when to plant crops.

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How would know what day of the week or month of the year it was if you didn't have a calendar? Would you know what day your birthday was? How about important holidays? Calendars help us keep track of time, but did you know that the Mayas, an ancient civilization, developed one the most accurate calendar systems of all time?

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This website is an ancient zodiac sign calculator. It tells you what your zodiac sign is by entering in your birthdate and will give you your Mayan calendar zodiac sign.
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This website connects to the red flag of confirmation bias. This shows the fact of how identical that the Mayan calendar is to the Chinese Calendar. For example, if you're not a believer in the Mayan calendar then you will have raised concern towards the calendar. My sign in the Chinese calendar is a monkey and the Mayan calendar says that my sign is also a monkey.

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This video shows an interview with a Mayan elder. He describes the calendar in detail of how the calendar goes through different cycles and phases.
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This website summarizes the use of the Mayan calendar. It explains how to create a calendar and the terminology used on the calendar. It also briefly describes the 2012 phenomenon of the world ending.
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The Maya calendar is a system of three interlacing calendars and almanacs which was used by several cultures in Central America, most famously the Maya civilization.

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The 2012 Phenomenon

The Mayan calendar rose to fame in 2012, when a "Great Cycle" of its Long Count component came to an end, inspiring some to believe that the world would end at 11:11 UTC on December 21, 2012. The media hype and hysteria that ensued was later termed the 2012 phenomenon.

Of course, the predictions did not come true-just like hundreds of other doomsday prophecies that fizzled out in the past.

Not a Mayan Invention

The Mayan calendar dates back to at least the 5th century BCE and it is still in use in some Mayan communities today. However, even though the Mayans contributed to the further development of the calendar, they did not actually invent it. The same system was used by most cultures in pre-Columbian Central America-including those predating the Maya.

Wheels Working Together

The Mayan Calendar consists of three separate corresponding calendars: the Long Count, the Tzolkin (divine calendar), and the Haab (civil calendar). Each of them is cyclical, meaning that a certain number of days must occur before a new cycle can begin.

The three calendars are used simultaneously. The Tzolkin and the Haab identify the days, but not the years. The Long Count date comes first, then the Tzolkin date, and last the Haab date. A typical Mayan date would read: 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ahau 8 Kumku, where 13.0.0.0.0 is the Long Count date, 4 Ahau is the Tzolkin date, and 8 Kumku is the Haab date.

The Haab

The Haab is a 365-day solar calendar which is divided into 18 months of 20 days each and one month which is only 5 days long ( Uayeb). The calendar has an outer ring of Mayan glyphs (pictures) which represent each of the 19 months. Each day is represented by a number in the month followed by the name of the month. Each glyph represents a personality associated with the month.

The Haab is somewhat inaccurate as it is exactly 365 days long. An actual tropical or solar year, the time it takes Earth to orbit the Sun, takes about 365.24219 days on average. In today's Gregorian calendar, we adjust for this discrepancy by making almost every fourth year a leap year, when an extra day- a leap day-is added on the 29th of February.

The Tzolkin

The Tzolkin, meaning "the distribution of the days," is also called the Divine Calendar and the Sacred Round. It is a 260-day calendar with 20 periods of 13 days, and it is used to determine the time of religious and ceremonial events. The days in each period are numbered from 1 to 13. Each day is also given a name (glyph) from a sequence of 20 day names.

The Long Count

The Long Count is an astronomical calendar which is used to track longer periods of time. The Maya called it the "universal cycle." Each such cycle is calculated to be 2,880,000 days long (about 7885 solar years). The Mayans believed that the universe is destroyed and then recreated at the start of each universal cycle. This belief caused the 2012 phenomenon described above, and it still inspires a myriad of prophecies about the end of the world.

The "creation date" for the current cycle is 4 Ahau, 8 Kumku. According to the most common conversion, this date is equivalent to August 11, 3114 BCE in the Gregorian calendar and September 6, 3114 BCE in the Julian calendar.

How to Set the Date

A date in the Mayan calendar is specified by its position in both the Tzolkin and the Haab calendars. This creates a total of 18,980 unique date combinations, which are used to identify each day within a cycle lasting about 52 years. This period is called the Calendar Round.

In practice, the date combinations are represented by two wheels rotating in different directions. The smallest wheel consists of 260 teeth with each one having the name of the days of the Tzolkin. The larger wheel consists of 365 teeth and has the name of each of the positions of the Haab year. As both wheels rotate, the name of the Tzolkin day corresponds to each Haab position.

The date is further identified by counting the number of days from the "creation date", using the Long Count calendar. A typical Long Count date has the following format: Baktun.Katun.Tun.Uinal.Kin.

The kin, tun, and katun are numbered from 0 to 19; the uinal are numbered from 0 to 17; and the baktun are numbered from 1 to 13. The Long Count has a cycle of 13 baktuns, which will be completed 1.872.000 days (13 baktuns) after 0.0.0.0.0. This period equals 5125.36 years and is referred to as the Great Cycle of the Long Count.

Mayan Culture Today

The Maya still form sizable populations that include regions encompassing present-day Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and parts of Mexico. They maintain a distinctive set of traditions and beliefs, which was inspired by a combination of pre-Columbian and post-conquest ideas and cultures.

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The Maya calendar is a system of three interlacing calendars and almanacs which was used by several cultures in Central America, most famously the Maya civilization. The Mayan calendar rose to fame in 2012, when a "Great Cycle" of its Long Count component came to an end, inspiring some to believe that the world would end at 11:11 UTC on December 21, 2012.

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This Padlet is about the Mayan Calendar. I will be working alone