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Mayan long count calendar
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Tiberian Fiend
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That completely arbitrary date wasn't doomsday? I'm so shocked and disappointed!
eeguru
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Please contain yourself. Seek counseling and don't do anything foolish like throw yourself off a mountain at 11:11 am.
Ole Juul
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As if I'm even going be up that early.
I miss a lot of stuff - like the end of the world. Oh well ...carlsson
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As for the Mayan calendar, in theory it is good for 1.2 billion years:
1 kin = 1 day (count 0-19)
1 uinal = 20 days (count 0-19)
1 tun = 360 days (count 0-17)
1 katun = 7200 days ~= 19.7 years (count 0-19)
1 baktun = 144,000 days ~= 394 years (count 0-19) <- this is what recently turned from 12 to 13
1 pictun = 2,880,000 days ~= 7885 years (count 0-19) <- still zero
1 calabtun = 57,600,000 days ~= 157,704 years (count 0-19) <- still zero
1 kinchiltun = 1,152,000,000 days ~= 3.1 million years (count 0-19) <- still zero
1 alautun = 23,040,000,000 days ~= 63 million years (count 0-19) <- still zero
However the historicans debate exactly how many of those cycles of counting were actually in back in its day. If the Mayan culture lasted for at least 394 years, they obviously needed to use baktun to keep historic dates apart. What apocalyptic minded people in modern times have based December 21 on was that the baktun count suddenly didn't exist anymore, and that the Mayan calender was invented ... 394 years ago. If that had been the case, the counting would have reset the other day. In practise, we just moved onto the 13th baktun.
It will be more interesting on September 8, 4772 when the calender goes from (0).19.19.19.17.19 to 1.0.0.0.0.0. That could very well be a day of apocalypse, but for completely different reasons than that an ancient calender would go into a new cycle.
1 kin = 1 day (count 0-19)
1 uinal = 20 days (count 0-19)
1 tun = 360 days (count 0-17)
1 katun = 7200 days ~= 19.7 years (count 0-19)
1 baktun = 144,000 days ~= 394 years (count 0-19) <- this is what recently turned from 12 to 13
1 pictun = 2,880,000 days ~= 7885 years (count 0-19) <- still zero
1 calabtun = 57,600,000 days ~= 157,704 years (count 0-19) <- still zero
1 kinchiltun = 1,152,000,000 days ~= 3.1 million years (count 0-19) <- still zero
1 alautun = 23,040,000,000 days ~= 63 million years (count 0-19) <- still zero
However the historicans debate exactly how many of those cycles of counting were actually in back in its day. If the Mayan culture lasted for at least 394 years, they obviously needed to use baktun to keep historic dates apart. What apocalyptic minded people in modern times have based December 21 on was that the baktun count suddenly didn't exist anymore, and that the Mayan calender was invented ... 394 years ago. If that had been the case, the counting would have reset the other day. In practise, we just moved onto the 13th baktun.
It will be more interesting on September 8, 4772 when the calender goes from (0).19.19.19.17.19 to 1.0.0.0.0.0. That could very well be a day of apocalypse, but for completely different reasons than that an ancient calender would go into a new cycle.
eeguru
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You should start sending out 'save the date's now then!