Did You Know: Solstices are defined as the times at which the sun is furthest from the celestial equator, the length between night and day is at its greatest. The winter and summer solstices usually occur around the 21st December and 21st June respectively, but do change due to the earth's orbit being slightly longer than our 365 day calendar.
Equinoxes occur when the sun is closest to the celestial equator, day and night being of almost equal duration. This 2013 the equinox will occur on the 20th of March (the vernal equinox) and the 23rd. of September (the autumnal equinox). The solstice each year, such change is due to our solar orbit day count. Solstices of summer and winter will be on the 21st. of June and 21st. of December.
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Mayan Calendars
300 years after the Maya accomplished their impressive numeric system; only The Hindu great ancient civilization was able to acquire such important numeric understanding.
DID YOU KNOW: The Elder J-Men or Mayan Shamans and Wiseman Healers suggest that if you visit Chichen Itza during 2014 you participate in one of their mystical KAY NIKTE' monthly ceremony to renew your intimate connection with Life, the Moon and Cosmos. (see dates)
The most important calendar cycle for the Maya is Tzolkin, a ritual calendar of 260 days also known as the Sacred Almanac and J'Men Elder Mayan Priests (Shamans) continue using its count to celebrate their Mayan sacred rituals and ceremonies. It is composed of 13 months, each with 20 days. Every day in the 260 day calendar has a unique corresponding position in time as well as in the “Haab” or the solar 360 + 5 day Maya calendar. Each day’s position in the calendars only repeats itself every 52 solar years.
A cycle of 52 solar years, called the Sacred Calendar Round
intermeshes with both Haab and
Tzolkin
calendars to form a calendar system of the Maya’s Cosmo-vision and
time. The Mayan Solar Calendar or
Haab has a cycle of 360 days plus 5 purification and rebirth days +
hours (a period of uneven
The Holographic Mayan Calendar System includes the Long Count Mayan Calendar cycle with its fifty two thousand solar calendar year periods, counted as units of time/space cycles. The Maya interlocking calendar Cosmo-vision and interpretation of time and space was perfected during the 1st millennium A.D. by ancient Mayan Wiseman and still fascinates even today's scholars for its accuracy and hologram simplicity of a complex mathematical calculation and interpretation of time/space.
THE MAYA LONG COUNT: The Maya calculated dates millions of
years in the past and the future for ritual purposes with the use of
their “Long Count,” or date calendar, which records the total number
of days that have elapsed since their zero day 0.0.0.0.0 that can be
correlated to August 2nd, 3114 B.C. in our Gregorian
calendar. The present Haab calendar cycle will end on
13.0.0.0.0 or December 21st, 2012 A.D. in our Gregorian
calendar which will mark the winter equinox. The slow wobbling
of the earth's polar axis causes the precession of equinoxes, also
known today as the Platonic Year, this was well known by ancient
Maya timekeepers, or sky-watchers, and played an important part in
ancient Mayan
gods,
sacred ceremonies, Cosmo-vision and
Mayan mythology.
Mayan
mythology foretells the creation
story of the Hero Twins and the end of the present Haab or Long
Count calendar cycle; this rare cosmic event, the cross formed by
the intersecting Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic path of our
solar system, was symbolized with a Ceiba
Sacred Tree of Life
by
ancient Maya and marked the end of a cycle and the beginning of a
new era. · A day is called “kin” · Each set of 20 kin (days) is called uinal · Each set of 360 days is known as tun · Each set of 20 tuns (almost 20 years) is known as katun · Each set of 20 baktuns (almost 400 years) is known as baktun
English Meaning:
English Meaning:
Mayan
Name: Mayan
Name: Day # Day #
You may wish to learn how to find current dates in any of the Mayan
Calendars
A Maya Calendar Cycle Ending and the beginning of a New Maya Long Count Cycle.
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