Mayyan Calender : Presented by Shri Venkatraman Subramaniam :

Presented by Shri Venkatraman Subramaniam : (astrological researches group page ) : Mayans were living south east of Mexico some time before 4000 B.C. However, we are finding them to be well versed in Astronomy, astrology and ganitha. They have shown their skills in architecture too. An example to this is still available. EL Castilo Pyramid is an example throwing their knowledge in this area even to-day. In this pyramid they have made a total of 365 stairs representing the movement of earth around the sun. Presently in astrology we say the sun crosses 360 degrees in 365+ days. (+ denotes 0.25 days.) Present day calender was originally made by Julius Ceaser in 45 B.C. Pope Gregory made some changes in 1582. We are following this calender from 1752. Mayans were using three calenders i.e. Tzolk'in, haab' and Long Count. The Tzolk'in calender consisted for 20 days in first part and 13 days in another part. The total days are 260 days. I am beginning to feel that this calender must have been introduced by the Mayans for calculating the period of pregnancy. Presently the doctors say 273 days calculating the moon's movement. The moon is moving over 27 stars. For ten months period of stay in the womb 270 days. The Mayans were using 20 days in a month and may be the development of embryo to a full grown baby may only take 260 days only. The haab' calender consists of 365 days. They are covering these 365 days into 18 months of 20 days each plus one month consisting of 5 days. These five days have been considered inauspicious by the Mayans. The third calender is also known Choltun . The Mayans have started their calender from the year 3114BC August 11 (this date is as per present calender) This calender starts as 0.0.0.0.0. The first day is denoted as above. They follow 20 days. An exoiry of 20 days is denoted in their calender as 0.0.0.1.0 In this calender Mayans have taken 360 days for one year and the same is denoted 0.0.1.0.0. This calender will end at 13.0.0.0.0 and they call one round. In this way they complete five rounds after which they were feeling the world will end. In this one round, they calculate 13 multiplied by 394.25. This when added to the starting date will reach 21st December 2012. A few days ago one member has advocated the theory of 360 days in Vimsotari dasha. I intend to compare this third calender to that view and my reasoning. Since I am approaching the load shedding hours of my broad-band connection I would like to post this much right now and the balance will be continued as comments and my reasonings on certain observations I have seen. Going backward to the first calender of Mayan having 260 days, I am getting one more feeling . I have said in the beginning of the post that they were living south east of Mexico in Central America. Presently we can say that they were living in the vicinity of Latiude 15 deg north. It is needless to point out that Sun transits over this particular degree twice in a year with a gap of 260 days. It shows the intelligence of Mayans in this field. This calender had been christened as chol q' ij. I said earlier that they were following 20 days. These 20 days have been named as follows: 1. Imix,2. Ik 3. Akbal 4. Kan 5. Chicchan 6. Cimi 7. Manik 8. Lamat 9. Muluc 10. Oc 11. Chuen 12. Eb 13. Ben 14. Ix 15. Men 16. Cib 17. Caban 18. Etznab 19. Cauac and 20. Ahau. While dealing with the first calender in the post I have said they were following the days in two parts (parts have not been named) one consisting of 20 days. The other consisted of 13 days. The 13 days have also been named from the above. Going to the second calender christened as Haab' or Chol'ab', it has 365 days consisting of 18 months of 20 days each and another 5 days in the nineteenth month. I have already covered these aspects earlier. I will complete by furnishing the names of the months: 1. Pop 2. Wo' 3. Sip 4. Sotz' 5. Sek 6. Xul 7. Yaxk'in' 8. Mol 9. Ch'en 10. Yax 11. Sak' 12. keh 14. K'ank'in 15. Muwan' 16. Pax 17. K'ayab 18. Kumk'u 19. Wayeb' I will not go further on these two calenders any more. Let me concentrate on the third calender. This third calender, as I have said earlier, is being taken to study the basis of 360 days in a year. However, others may also be interested to know what is in store for us by the end of this year.