Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

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Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

NATEleg 20 Dec 2012 12:29

I have read online that the Mayan calendar has more than 13 baktuns that were just discovered recently (?) and that the cycle apparently continues longer. I have also read that there is only 13 much more often.. Either way, I know the cycle continues from start once it reaches it's end.. My question is, is there 13 baktuns, or is there more? o.O I'm so confused!!

Re: Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

desmond148 20 Dec 2012 12:30

Jokes-

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Re: Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

odo77 20 Dec 2012 12:32

Ignore desmond. But the calender will start over, so yes it keeps going

Re: Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

desmond148 20 Dec 2012 12:34

Whaa whaa i'm just joking it's not ended hasn't it been proven a cruel LIE already?

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Re: Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

odo77 20 Dec 2012 12:35

People are scared. you just keep posting dumb jokes that might freak people out who are having bad anxiety.

Re: Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

NATEleg 20 Dec 2012 12:38

haha it's cool guys, don't worry about it.

I'm aware that it continues, but I would like to know how many baktuns there really are!

Re: Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

desmond148 20 Dec 2012 12:41

Well sorry NATEleg if i've *freaked you out

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Re: Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

NATEleg 20 Dec 2012 12:49

You're fine, I enjoyed the humour :)

Re: Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

Artelis 20 Dec 2012 12:38

more than 13 baktuns that were just discovered recently

Not discovered, no. For a long time there was some debate over whether the current piktun ended after 13 or 20 b'ak'tuns, but more recently those studying it have been leaning towards 20.

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Re: Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

NATEleg 20 Dec 2012 12:39

Really! that's interesting, I have not heard that yet! can you point me in the direction of an article about this?

Re: Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

wazman_nz 20 Dec 2012 15:47

@ Nateleg: here is the website: http://phys.org/news/2012-06-maya-archaeologists-unearth-monument.html

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Re: Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

metalangel 20 Dec 2012 16:08

It's beautiful <3.

Re: Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

metalangel 20 Dec 2012 15:38

Wow, that is so cool :).

Re: Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

Cr4sh Dummy 20 Dec 2012 19:41

This summer, they found a calendar that records 17 baktuns. Additionally, on the tomb of Pakal the great, there is a date that corresponds to over 4000 AD! So, what we can infer is the Mayans actually had a longer calendar and unequivocally that they did not believe in the end anytime soon. This makes the whole "the Mayan calendar ends" pseudo theory utter nonsense.

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Re: Another question regarding the Mayan calendar!

Chez86 20 Dec 2012 23:59

No calendar 'ends'. Our Gregorian calendar doesn't end on January 1st, it just moves the year into the next one, so on December 31st at midnight, the calendar will change the year to 2013, all you do is take down your 2012 calendar, and put a 2013 one up. The Mayan calendar system is no different, the Mayans just measured their time in a different way. A baktun would go the same way as a year, even if the Mayans stopped making calendars like that, which they did when the Spanish arrived and forced them to adopt a new timekeeping method. This doesn't mean the theory of it changed though, the Mayan tribes which made the calendar simply don't exist anymore sadly, but the baktun system simply carries on in the cycles it was intended to, which means baktun 13 becomes baktun 14 when that time period moves into the next. It's pretty simple really.