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The Mayan Calendar

The Tzolkin, Haab, Calendar Round, and the Mayan Long Count, in relation to the Cycles of History

This section on the Mayan Calendar is presented to offer just some basic information about calendar because of a correlation that exists between Mayan Calendar and Kalarhythms, namely, the 52-year Cycle. The Mayan calendric system consists of many calendars that covers a wide range of durations. These could apparently be used for for their daily lives, the turning of the seasons, and the calculation of great eras of time.

The Mayan numerical system did not use a base-ten method that is commonly used today. Instead, they used base-twenty, or vigesimal system. The numerals that they used were not the ten digits of 0-9 of the base ten system, they only three digits to represent the value of: 0, 1 & 5.

The Tzolkin is a 260-day calendar that was constructed with the Mayan’s base-twenty, It has 13-day “weeks” and 20-day “months” that will repeat their pattern every 260 days

The Haab is a 365-day calendar that combines a tun, which consists of 360 kin, or days, with a 5-day vayeb at year’s end that aligns it with the solar year.

The Calendar Round is a 52-year span derived from the relation between the tzolkin and the haab. Every combination of days that will align between the 260-day tzolkin and the 365-day haab will take place within 52 years, then repeat. This 52-year duration functions as a cycle of calendric alignment and may have significance of its own, though much of the Mayan teachings have been lost.

The Long Count is a span slightly greater than 5,125 years. This count of 1,872,000 days (or kin runs independent of the tzolkin, haab and calendar round. It is this count that will end on December 21, 2012, according to the wide majority of scholars, and it has been the subject of speculation as to what this end date will mean in the turn of events. The last time that this long count ended was on August 31, 3113 B.C., a date which the world survived.

THE HORIZONTAL NAVIGATION AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE points to sections to the site that in some way relate to the Mayan calendar, and to other pages in this section on the Mayan calendar

I: THE MAYAN CALENDAR points to the next page in this section that lists some of the different segments and counts of various Mayan calendars.

II: KALARHYTHMS and MAYA points to a page in this section that offers a brief comment on the correlation and possible connection between KalaRhythms and the Mayan Calendar.

III: THE 52-YR. SPIRITUAL CYCLE points to the 52-year Spiritual Cycle of KalaRhythms in the United States. This is the fourth KalaRhythm (after the Physical, Emotional & Intellectual Cycles.

IV: INTRO. TO KALARHYTHMS is quick reference to the general theory of KalaRhythms.

The 52-year Calendar Round correlates with the 52-year Spiritual Cycle of KalaRhythms in terms of duration. It is for this reason that the Mayan Calendar is included here. What the Maya ascribed to dynamic influence of this repetitive cycle cannot be said with certainty, however, it is the theory of KalaRhythms that a tidal influence on social tendencies and development of spiritual perspectives and teachings recur every 52 years. Any correlation with significant schools of thought that follow this duration are therefore worth noting.

Note to Readers About the End of the Mayan Calendar: When Mayan Long Count ends on December 21, 2012 it will complete another another revolutions of its of 5,125+-year cycle. The theory of KalaRhythms has not discovered other cycles that correlate with this duration and not much is known about the year 3113 B.C. when the Mayan Long Count last ended. Since no predictions or prophecies are left by the Maya about the next end date of this calendar we are left with little to interpret or to forecast as a possible influence on events on or around December 21, 2012. However, there is another advent occurring in the position of world cycles of KalaRhythms at this time.

The Theory of KalaRhythms does hold that we are currently experiencing a rare event in the cyclic position of MegaRhythms, which are the KalaRhythmic cycles of world influence that are hundreds of years long. These consist of the 336-year Physical Cycles, the 432-year Emotional Cycles and the 528-Intellectual Cycle. At two points of each cycle there is a brief period of crisis and transition as the cycle passes between the high half and the low half of its undulating energy levels. These transitional points are referred to as Crossovers. Upward Crossover happen as the cycle is ascending into the high half, and Downward Crossovers happen as the cycle is descending into the low half. The frequency with which of any one of these cycles will cross over in either direction is such that it will occur a little more often than once in a century. The frequency by which any two of the cycles will cross over at the same time in either direction is such that is will happen about once every seven hundred years. This is a Double Crossover, which is a particularly turbulent time.

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The World is in a Double Crossover of Crisis and Transition from 2000 to 2012 Right Now according to the theory of KalaRhythms. Currently, the 432-year World Emotional Cycle and the 528-year World Intellectual Cycle are both crossing out of the low half and into the high half simultaneously with a Double Upward Crossover of the Emotional and Intellectual Cycles! The frequency by which the Emotional Cycle and the Intellectual Cycle will cross up into the high half together is something that will happen only one every 4,752 years, so it is a rare event. This accounts for the emotional and intellectual upheavals we have seen such as the attacks in America on September 11, 2001, and the global economic meltdown that included the housing market crisis of 2008 in the United States. Since this rare period of crisis and transition is not yet over, be prepared for more surprises.

Kalarhythms & the

The Mayan Calendar

Mayan Calendar Durations

Chiccan
The Serpent
Earth / East

Oc
The Dog
Air / North

Men
The Eagle
Water / West

Ahaw
The Solar Lord
Fire / South

The Mayans followed the 52-year Spiritual Cycle. They used ideographic writing in glyphs and a three-digit, base-20 (vigesimal) numerical system (shown left). Their 260-day Tzolkin Calendar (below) with 13-day weeks & 20-day months worked with the 365-day solar year. The time required for any weekday to recur with both the same month and year days is 18,980 days, or 52 years. This is the Calendar Round (below right).

Tzolkin 260-day Calendar
Tzolkin = 260 days = 20 wks. = 13 mos.
13-day wk., 20-day mo., 52-dy. 1/5, 65-dy. qtr.

Mayan Calendar Counts

( 1 kin = 1 day )		Mayan Numerals
time cell =	4 kin
wave spell	13 kin
vinal =	20 kin
castle =	52 kin
Tzolkin =	260 kin
tun =	360 kin	5k vayeb = 365k haab
vayeb =	5 kin
haab =	365 kin	( 1 tun = 360 kin )
tun =	360 kin	1 tun	yrs.+/- < 1
holtun =	1,800 kin	5 tun	< 5
Cal.Rnd.qtr.	4,680 kin	13 tun	> 13
katun =	7,200 kin	20 tun	< 20
Cal.Round	18,980 kin	73 tzolkin	< 52
Ahaw =	93,600 kin	260 tun 13 katun	> 256
baktun =	144,000 kin	400 tun 20 katun	> 394
Long Count (Great Yr.)	1,872,000 kin	5,200 tun 13 baktun 20 Ahaw 260 katun	> 5,125
pictun =	2,880,000 kin	8,000 tun 20 baktun	> 7,885
calabtun =	57,600,000 kin	160,000 tun 20 pictun	> 157,704
kinchiltun=		3.2 mil. tun 20 calabtun	> 416,162
alatun =		64 mil. tun 20 kinchiltun	>63,080,082

The Calendar Round takes 52 years for the same week day, month day and haab day to realign together (18,980 kin). A Tun has 360 kin, almost a solar year. To complete the 365-kin year, they added a 5-kin Vayeb at year’s end for a 365-Haab.
Hence 400 tun (or 20 x 20 tun) = 20 katun = 1 baktun.

The Tzolkin has 260 days/kin = 20 weeks (13 kin each) = 13 months (20 kin each). Its 13 columns for weeks and 20 rows for months form a time matrix. The first day of each 13-day week falls on a different row for 20 times, then it begins a new Tzolkin.

Hence 13 x 20 kin = 260-kin Tzolkin.

The Ahaw Cycle has 260 tun = 20 Calendar Round Qtrs. = 13 katun (= 7,200 weeks = 46,800 months = 360 Tzolkins). It is just more than 256 years (93,600 kin). The Ahaw cycle is a greater fractal of the 260-unit Tzolkin matrix that substitutes tun for kin.
Hence 13 x 20 tun = 260-tun Ahaw.

The Long Count has 260 katun = 20 Ahaw = 13 baktun = 52,000 tun, (= 7,200 Tzolkins = 93,600 months =144,000 weeks). It is just more than 5,125 years (1,872,000 kin). It too is a greater fractal of the Tzolkin that substitutes katun for tun.
Hence 13 x 20 katun = 260-katun Long Count.

The Mayan Calendar Date is written with a five-decimal count to show a day’s position within the; baktun (400 tun), katun (20 tun), tun (360 kin), vinal (20-kin month), and the kin. The Great Year has 13 baktun, so we write 13.0.0.0.0 for day one, and, for example, 12.9.6.1.0 for January 1, 2000.

The Long Count Cycle will end in Dec. 21, 2012 when it will again be 13.0.0.0.0, according to anthropologists who begin our current Count of just more than 5,125 years from in Aug. 31, 3113 B.C.

The Mayans followed the 52-year Cycle and Fractal Time.

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