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Fis.9.23<br />

Fig. 9.23<br />

Interlock<strong>in</strong>g rycles of the Maya calendar<br />

260-day cycle at left (<strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>g 20 day names on the outer wheel and 13<br />

days on the small <strong>in</strong>ner wheel) and 365-day calendar (composed of j.g<br />

months, each with 20 days numbered 1--L9 or 1.-20) at right. There are S<br />

e¡tra "unlucky" days. As the 20 day calendar rotates together with the L3<br />

day circle, it will take 260 days for all comb<strong>in</strong>ations to ôccur. When the<br />

365-day wheel rotates with the 20 day circle, it witl take 52 x 365 days (52<br />

years, called the calendar round) for a given comb<strong>in</strong>ation to recur.<br />

Draw<strong>in</strong>g after ].E.S. Thompson, as Fig. 2I,p.4i. <strong>in</strong><br />

Miller, 1,993, The Art of <strong>Mesoamerica</strong> from Oltnec to Aztec.

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