The Maya civilization is a culture that has not been given the credit it deserves in reality. With a calendar more accurate than ours, and mathematical skills (the use of 0 that even the Romans discovered) and astronomy, the Mayan culture is on par with such great civilizations like Egypt.
With the approach of 2012 and all the speculation that has been done about it, a number that wherever you look is going to be popping up, the number is a Maya date: 13.0.0.0. 0.
In this post, I'll talk just a little on the subject in 2012, but my goal for this post is rather to show how to convert dates of the Mayan calendar to the Gregorian calendar so they can understand why he has assigned the December 21, 2012 the date of the end of the world. " Before
should know some things. Our calendar we perceive in a linear fashion, ie, "infinite" because as they pass the years just add 1 to the account and apparently only move without an end. The Mayan calendar is a cyclical calendar, where every few minutes, the countdown to 0 and then restart the cycle.
why it's a bit difficult to make exact matches because of that difference must be added the fact that our Gregorian calendar has an error of about 4 years from the date you start counting the time. With this very much and we can begin.
time count of the Mayan calendar begins about 5000 years ago. Convert to Gregorian date, the day is the Aug. 13, 3113 BC The Maya calendar dates are expressed with 5 digits separated by dots. Each of these numbers has a name and a numerical equivalent. Here I present the list on which all:
Baktun - 20 katun - 144.000 days or about 400 years (394.52 of ours)
Katún - 20 Tunes - 7,200 days or about 20 years (19.73 for our )
Tun - 18 Uinales - 360 days or about 1 year (less than 5 of one of ours)
Uinal - 20 Kin - 20 days or 1 month
Maya Kin - 1 Day - 24,017 hours
These 5
names correspond to the 5 numbers in the Mayan dates from left to right respectively. You see, the whole system is an equivalence and they can turn any Maya date to Gregorian date. As I said, accuracy is limited to the years, calculate the months and days is much more complicated.
'll show 2 examples of conversions to clarify the use of this system. Let's first try with an important date, for example, 356 BC, the year in which Alexander the Great was born. Maya is the date 8.15.19.8.2.
First we take the first digit, the Baktun, ie "8" and multiply it by its equivalent in the Gregorian calendar which is 144.000.
8 x 144,000 = 1,152,000 days.
Now, we turn to the Katun and multiply it by its equivalent:
15 x 7.200 = 108.000 days. Tun
follows:
19 x 360 = 6.840 days.
The Uinal:
8 x 20 = 160 days. And finally
Kin:
2 x 1 = 2 days.
Now, take the five results and add:
1,152,000 + 108.000 + 6.840 + 160 + 2 = 1,267,002 days.
The next step is to convert the previous result to years. To do this, divide the number by 365.25 (the .25 comes from the extra 6 hours "left over" every year and every 4 years gives us an extra day: 24 hours / 6 hours per year = 4 years = 1 / 4 = .25):
1,267,002 / 365.25 = 3468.86
For example issues, I will round the number to 3469. And there is, the last thing left to do is take the initial date of the Mayan calendar, ie 3113 BC and subtract the years we have just calculated. If we wish to calculate the date is before Christ, it must make a subtraction. If the date is AD, do the "3113" negative and add up the years to calculate.
3113 - 3469 = -356
And there you have it, a precise calculation of years between Mayan and Gregorian dates.
Finally, we calculate the famous 13.0.0.0.0. The steps are the same as in the example above, the only thing that changes is the numbers:
Baktun - 13 x 144,000 = 1,872,000
Katún - 0 X 7.200 = 0
Tun - 0 X 360 = 0
Uinal - 0 x 20 = 0
Kin - 0 x 1 = 0
The sum is obviously = 1,872,000 .
Now we turn to years
1,872,000 / 365.25 = 5125.25.
the round to 5125. Finally we make the calculation with the original Maya. AD to be a date, do the "3113" negative and add years to calculate:
-3113 + 5125 = 2012
Once again it is a perfect and precise calculation as regards the years.
The latter calculation is just to show the basis for whole theory about 2012 because as I mentioned, the Mayan calendar is cyclical and based on these calculations, in 2012 completes a cycle (12) and begins a new (13). So, speaking of the "end times" type Armageddon or Apocalypse is vague in regard to the Maya, as more than a destruction and annihilation of the world, the "end times" I would describe more as the "end of a cycle "refers rather to a change in humanity that is being repeated (as in every cycle), together with natural phenomena that we are living.
The Mayans made no mistake when measuring the cycle time as the experts suggest we learn from the Maya so that history does not repeat. The Maya lived in the ecological edge since indiscriminately exploited their environment and had a huge population base, as we do today. All that remained for the entire system disappeared, it was a sudden imbalance, as was the colonial invasion. Now, any war breaks out, along with time and circumstances in which we live, it could be a dangerous combination that could lead to a rapid decline and the collapse of civilization.
Although the date 2012 is etched sharply in the ancient stone, most modern scholars suggest that the Maya left us a warning and not a prophecy. And it's true or not, I suggest you listen.
With the approach of 2012 and all the speculation that has been done about it, a number that wherever you look is going to be popping up, the number is a Maya date: 13.0.0.0. 0.
In this post, I'll talk just a little on the subject in 2012, but my goal for this post is rather to show how to convert dates of the Mayan calendar to the Gregorian calendar so they can understand why he has assigned the December 21, 2012 the date of the end of the world. " Before
should know some things. Our calendar we perceive in a linear fashion, ie, "infinite" because as they pass the years just add 1 to the account and apparently only move without an end. The Mayan calendar is a cyclical calendar, where every few minutes, the countdown to 0 and then restart the cycle.
why it's a bit difficult to make exact matches because of that difference must be added the fact that our Gregorian calendar has an error of about 4 years from the date you start counting the time. With this very much and we can begin.
time count of the Mayan calendar begins about 5000 years ago. Convert to Gregorian date, the day is the Aug. 13, 3113 BC The Maya calendar dates are expressed with 5 digits separated by dots. Each of these numbers has a name and a numerical equivalent. Here I present the list on which all:
Baktun - 20 katun - 144.000 days or about 400 years (394.52 of ours)
Katún - 20 Tunes - 7,200 days or about 20 years (19.73 for our )
Tun - 18 Uinales - 360 days or about 1 year (less than 5 of one of ours)
Uinal - 20 Kin - 20 days or 1 month
Maya Kin - 1 Day - 24,017 hours
These 5
names correspond to the 5 numbers in the Mayan dates from left to right respectively. You see, the whole system is an equivalence and they can turn any Maya date to Gregorian date. As I said, accuracy is limited to the years, calculate the months and days is much more complicated.
'll show 2 examples of conversions to clarify the use of this system. Let's first try with an important date, for example, 356 BC, the year in which Alexander the Great was born. Maya is the date 8.15.19.8.2.
First we take the first digit, the Baktun, ie "8" and multiply it by its equivalent in the Gregorian calendar which is 144.000.
8 x 144,000 = 1,152,000 days.
Now, we turn to the Katun and multiply it by its equivalent:
15 x 7.200 = 108.000 days. Tun
follows:
19 x 360 = 6.840 days.
The Uinal:
8 x 20 = 160 days. And finally
Kin:
2 x 1 = 2 days.
Now, take the five results and add:
1,152,000 + 108.000 + 6.840 + 160 + 2 = 1,267,002 days.
The next step is to convert the previous result to years. To do this, divide the number by 365.25 (the .25 comes from the extra 6 hours "left over" every year and every 4 years gives us an extra day: 24 hours / 6 hours per year = 4 years = 1 / 4 = .25):
1,267,002 / 365.25 = 3468.86
For example issues, I will round the number to 3469. And there is, the last thing left to do is take the initial date of the Mayan calendar, ie 3113 BC and subtract the years we have just calculated. If we wish to calculate the date is before Christ, it must make a subtraction. If the date is AD, do the "3113" negative and add up the years to calculate.
3113 - 3469 = -356
And there you have it, a precise calculation of years between Mayan and Gregorian dates.
Finally, we calculate the famous 13.0.0.0.0. The steps are the same as in the example above, the only thing that changes is the numbers:
Baktun - 13 x 144,000 = 1,872,000
Katún - 0 X 7.200 = 0
Tun - 0 X 360 = 0
Uinal - 0 x 20 = 0
Kin - 0 x 1 = 0
The sum is obviously = 1,872,000 .
Now we turn to years
1,872,000 / 365.25 = 5125.25.
the round to 5125. Finally we make the calculation with the original Maya. AD to be a date, do the "3113" negative and add years to calculate:
-3113 + 5125 = 2012
Once again it is a perfect and precise calculation as regards the years.
The latter calculation is just to show the basis for whole theory about 2012 because as I mentioned, the Mayan calendar is cyclical and based on these calculations, in 2012 completes a cycle (12) and begins a new (13). So, speaking of the "end times" type Armageddon or Apocalypse is vague in regard to the Maya, as more than a destruction and annihilation of the world, the "end times" I would describe more as the "end of a cycle "refers rather to a change in humanity that is being repeated (as in every cycle), together with natural phenomena that we are living.
The Mayans made no mistake when measuring the cycle time as the experts suggest we learn from the Maya so that history does not repeat. The Maya lived in the ecological edge since indiscriminately exploited their environment and had a huge population base, as we do today. All that remained for the entire system disappeared, it was a sudden imbalance, as was the colonial invasion. Now, any war breaks out, along with time and circumstances in which we live, it could be a dangerous combination that could lead to a rapid decline and the collapse of civilization.
Although the date 2012 is etched sharply in the ancient stone, most modern scholars suggest that the Maya left us a warning and not a prophecy. And it's true or not, I suggest you listen.
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