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mayan calendar

The Mayan calendar was used to represent the amount of days past from the mythical day of creation.

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The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya. For this reason, it is sometimes known as the Maya or Mayan Long Count calendar. Using a modified vigesimal tally, the Long Count calendar identifies a day by counting the number of days passed since a mythical creation date. The Long Count calendar was widely used on monuments.

Among other calendars devised in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, two of the most widely used were the 365-day solar calendar the Maya version is known as the Haab and the 260-day calendar, with 20 periods of 13 days.

The Haab' and the Tzolk'in calendars identified and named the days, but not the years. The combination of a Haab' date and a Tzolk'in date identifies a specific date in a combination which did not occur again for 52 years. The two calendars based on 365 days and 260 days repeat every 52 Haab' years, a period generally known as the Calendar Round. To designate dates over periods longer than 52 years, some Mesoamericans utilized the Long Count calendar.

The Mayan calendar predicted that the world would end in 2012, and Hollywood has used the possible end of the world as a convenient marketing timetable for the release of 2009's 2012 movie, starring John Cusack.

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