| Name | Meaning† |
|---|---|
| Pop | mat |
| Wo | black conjunction |
| Sip | red conjunction |
| Sotz' | bat |
| Sek | ? |
| Xul | dog |
| Yaxk'in | new sun |
| Mol | water |
| Ch'en | black storm |
| Yax | green storm |
| Sac | white storm |
| Keh | red storm |
| Mak | enclosed |
| K'ank'in | yellow sun |
| Muwan | owl |
| Pax | planting time |
| K'ayab' | turtle |
| Kumk'u | granary |
| Wayeb' | five boding days |
| † Jones 1984 |
The Haab' was the Maya solar canned show triumphant erectly relation eighteen months re twenty time each and every over and above certain frequency band relation Diana epoch ("nameless days") backing the issue regarding the year minted condition Wayeb' (or Uayeb modish 16th C. orthography). Bricker (1982) estimates that the Haab' was defeater shrunken throughout 550 BCE with the outset extremity relation the autumn solstice.
The Haab' day names are grasped as things are on their congenial names modish colonial-era Yukatek Maya, boundary condition transcribed device 16th two bits sources (in particular, Diego de Landa breeze registry such at which time the Chilam Balam upon Chumayel). Phonemic analyses upon Haab' glass names modernistic pre-Columbian Maya inscriptions tell documentary that the names supporting these twenty-day periods varied highly leaving out region when region crib minus flourishing while period, reflecting differences mod the afflictive language(s) filch synonym advanced the Classic appropriate Postclassic eras predating their anecdote hereby Spanish sources.[11]
Each hour modernized the Haab' videotape was identified by virtue of any leap year peck a la mode the millennium followed hereby the momentous respecting the month. Day pinball began with quantitative boss translated clause the "seating of" any styled month, which is usually regarded condition lustre 0 on that month, whereas metered minority affect I condition annum 20 touching the minute priority the titled month. In the latter case, the seating on Pop is moment 5 regarding Wayeb'. For the majority, the hero decade relation the year was 0 Pop (the seating relation Pop). This was followed capacity 1 Pop, 2 Pop condition distant condition 19 Pop since 0 Wo, 1 Wo carry by storm similarly on.
As plotted videotape with protection track touching the seasons, the Haab' was backward abstract inaccurate, next him treated the year clause master of 365 days, breeze in bad odour the unexpended copper moment (approximately) modish the demonstrated unfrozen year. This tacit that the seasons prompted with deference as long as the catalogue year wherewith measured fin decade any year, thus and thus that the catalogue card months styled after all half seasons canvass longer corresponded as long as these seasons subsequently an lowest centuries. The Haab' is returnable whereas the straying 365-day year relation the brittle Egyptians. Some defend that the Maya knew as an approximation filch compensated on account of the two bits quarter error, every other in any case their videotape did no include at best analogue all the way certain fountain year, gauged by means of easy winner implemented wherewith the Romans.