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Book 2: Maya Numbers and the Maya Calendar CHAPTER 1 – WRITING NUMBERS WITH BARS AND DOTS • The Basics: The Number Zero and Base 20 • Numbers Greater Than 19 • Numbers Greater Than 399 • Numbers Greater Than 7999 CHAPTER 2 - WRITING NUMBERS WITH GLYPHS • Maya Head Glyphs • The Number 20 CHAPTER 3 – THE SACRED AND CIVIL CALENDAR OF THE MAYA • Overview of the Maya Calendar • An Example • The Sacred Calendar and Sacred Year (Tzolk’in) • The Civil Calendar and Civil Year (Haab) • The Calendar Round CHAPTER 4 - COUNTING TIME THROUGH THE AGES • The Long Count • How to Write a Date in Maya Glyphs • Reading Maya Dates • The Lords of the Night • Time and The Moon • Putting It All Together Appendix 1 – Special Days in the Sacred Year Appendix 2 – Maya Dates for 2004 4
Appendix 3 – Haab Patrons for Introductory Glyphs Resources Online Bibliography Sources of Illustrations Endnotes 5
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Page 7 and 8: THE BASICS: THE NUMBER ZERO AND BAS
Page 9 and 10: Our Number The Maya Number 1 = 2 =
Page 11 and 12: to the left. For example, they coul
Page 13 and 14: . 18 = 19 = . Note that you never u
Page 15 and 16: NUMBERS GREATER THAN 19 19? So far,
Page 17 and 18: 20 = (because 20 = 1x20 + 0x1) Now,
Page 19 and 20: Now, as before, when we want a digi
Page 21 and 22: 35 = (because 35 = 1x20 + 15x1) 39
Page 23 and 24: In the upper position we have two d
Page 29 and 30: 400 = (because 400 = 1x20x20 + 0x20
Page 31 and 32: NUMBERS GREATER THAN 7999 When we g
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Page 35 and 36: MAYA HEAD GLYPHS The Maya usually h
Page 37 and 38: Six (wak) - Identified by the hatch
Page 39 and 40: Fourteen (chanlajun) - Same as the
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Chuwen Chuwen represents a monkey.
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Kaban Kaban represents the Earth. (
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year, i.e. day 8 Chuwen occurs two
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Sek (Kasew) Xul (Chikin) Yaxk’in
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Muwan (Muwan) Pax (Paxil) K’ayab
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So, the day after 19 Pop is not 20
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THE CALENDAR ROUND Okay, now you kn
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The number that will be in effect i
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Chapter Chapter 4. . Counting Count
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a date given by the ancient Maya. K
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The simple glyph for Winal resemble
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tells of events that happened about
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So, here is the day April 12, 1997
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• The Long Count usually starts r
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Now see if you can read the date fr
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So, you are ready to start reading
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G3 G4 G5 G6 G7 G8 G9 G9 The followi
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TIME AND THE MOON 89 Ixchel, the Mo
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o The position of the current lunar
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We are now at the end of our study
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According to Maya traditions, the f
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7 Ajaw / 7 Ajpu’: Day to ask prot
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(Correlation = GMT) Appendix 22. 2
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Gregorian Date Tzolk’in Haab Long
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Appendix Appendix 3. 3. Haab Haab P
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Bibliography Bibliography Bibliogra
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• Except as noted, all individual
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• Stela with Date of 13.00.00.00.
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