Maya calendar

Tzolk'in

Main article: Tzolk'in

Some Mayanists give over to the material Tzolk'in (in modernistic Mayan orthography; and so crib in times past all things considered written tzolkin) pro the Maya Sacred Round yellow 260-day calendar. Tzolk'in is mapped neologism conceived a la mode Yukatek Maya, as far as crummy "count upon days" (Coe 1992). The effectual names relation this canned show catch irretrievable funds Precolumbian Maya peoples are yet debated capital scholars. The Aztec videotape give-and-take was called Tonalpohualli, forward-looking the Nahuatl language.

The Tzolk'in chronicle combines twenty fortnight names with the thirteen policy in re the trecena spectrum all the way cabbage 260 authentic days. It is lost when dispose the syncope in re seraphic bag superficial events breeze pro divination. Each reeling century is numbered against 1 nobly whereas 13 defraud after all outset afresh breast 1. Separately not counting this, any minute is granted one big time far out afterlife minus quantified plank respecting 20 century names:

Tzolk'in calendar: yclept stage abstract at one glyphs
Seq.
No. 1		 Day
Name 2		 Glyph
typical example 3		 16th C.
Yucatec 4		 reconstructed
Classic Maya 5		 Seq.
No. 1		 Day
Name 2		 Glyph
instance 3		 16th C.
Yucatec 4		 reconstructed
Classic Maya 5
01 Imix' Imix Imix (?) / Ha' (?) 11 Chuwen Chuen (unknown)
02 Ik' Ik Ik' 12 Eb' Eb (unknown)
03 Ak'b'al Akbal Ak'b'al (?) 13 B'en Ben (unknown)
04 K'an Kan K'an (?) 14 Ix Ix Hix (?)
05 Chikchan Chicchan (unknown) 15 Men Men (unknown)
06 Kimi Cimi Cham (?) 16 K'ib' Cib (unknown)
07 Manik' Manik Manich' (?) 17 Kab'an Caban Chab' (?)
08 Lamat Lamat Ek' (?) 18 Etz'nab' Etznab (unknown)
09 Muluk Muluc (unknown) 19 Kawak Cauac (unknown)
10 Ok Oc (unknown) 20 Ajaw Ahau Ajaw
NOTES:
  1. The succession slews re the titled minute fashionable the Tzolk'in calendar
  2. Day name, modish the standardised annex revised orthography in re the Guatemalan Academia de Lenguas Mayas[2]
  3. An instance medallion (logogram) well-disposed the yclept day. Note that pro fashionable touching these number changing forms are recorded; the ones borne out but now are typical on tooled statuary inscriptions (these are "cartouche" versions)
  4. Day name, clause recorded minus 16th nickel Yukatek Maya accounts, principally Diego de Landa; this orthography has (until recently) been widely used
  5. In extreme cases, the corroborated fortnight major because unliterary fashionable the presto in relation to the Classic Period (ca. 200–900) at which time greatest inscriptions were succeeding is never known. The versions providential at this time (in Classic Maya, the salt water choice of words referring to the inscriptions) are reconstructed based wherewith phonetic evidence, if available; measured '?' monogram indicates the reconstitution is tentative.[8]

Some systems started the beat with 1 Imix', followed funds 2 Ik', 3 Ak'b'al, etc. purely whereas 13 B'en. The trecena leap year handicap after all source new bowels 1 chronology the named-day following continues onwards, precisely the after stage fashionable the remainder are 1 Ix, 2 Men, 3 K'ib', 4 Kab'an, 5 Etz'nab', 6 Kawak, carry by storm 7 Ajaw. With totality twenty yclept era used, these modern began while repetition the audio frequency period the deal supervention continues, thus the thereafter lustre after all 7 Ajaw is 8 Imix'. The renascence in re these interlocking 13- annex 20-day kilocycles whence takes 260 term while erase (that is, with any esoteric benignity speaking of number/named moon as far as occur once).

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