Mayan Calendar Calculator

Mayan Calendar Calculator-Long Count

The Mayans employed three calendars, all organised as hierarchies of cycles of days of various lengths. The Long Count was the principal calendar for historical purposes, the Haab was used as the civil calendar, while the Tzolkin was the religious calendar.

All of the Mayan calendars are based on serial counting of days without means for synchronising the calendar to the Sun or Moon, although the Long Count and Haab calendars contain cycles of 360 and 365 days, respectively, which are roughly comparable to the solar year.

Dates before about 1582 AD are usually given in the Julian count, as this count was replaced by the Gregorian around that time. This calculator shows both Julian and Gregorian dates.

Mayan Calendar Calculator-Solar Year

The Maya also tracked a vague solar year in which they counted 365 days per year. Because they could not use fractions, the "quarter" day left over every year caused their calendar to drift with regard to the actual solar year. The 365-day year contained months were also given names. numbers 0-19 before they changed, so that the count goes Zero Pohp to 19 Pohp, then continues with Zero Wo.

Day Cuetzpalin (Lizard) is governed by Huehuecoyotl, the Trickster, as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. Cuetzpallin signifies rapid reversals of fortune. It is a good day to work on your reputation through actions, not words.

The Long Count keeps track of the days which have passed since a starting date in the Gregorian Calendar of September 6, 3114 B.C. Currently the Long Count is above 1,868,000 days. Long count calendar started with a date that is equivalent of August 10 3113BC, the beginning of a huge cycle of 13bakhtuns (394.5 years) cheeringly forecast to end on December 24 2011 with the destruction of the world.

Mayan Calendar Calculator-Aztec calendar

The Aztec calendar was an adaptation of the Mayan calendar. It consisted of a 365-day agricultural calendar, as well as a 260-day sacred calendar. By the time of the Conquest they had abandoned this system to adopt the short-count, a confusing calculation placing history and prophecies in recurring cycles of time which firmly governed their lives, predicted eclipses and even planned pyramid construction.

The Maya used special glyphs to indicate time periods, the kin represented one day. Winals are periods of 20-days which we now call a month. The Tun was a year of 360 days and the K'atun was a time period of 20 years of 360 days each.

The Maya also counted 400-year periods called Baktuns. The Maya used these time periods in a special day count which is now called the Long count. Today a typical long count date is written thus: 9.14.12.2.17. This represents 9 baktuns, 14 k'atuns, 12 tuns, 2 winals and 17 k'ins.

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