Mayan Calendar

The Maya elite developed a complicated calendar system. There are two main cycles in their calendar; one was made up of 260 days and the other 365. Each day is named from both the 260 and 365-day calendars. Because of this each full day name could only repeat every 18,980 days or once every 52 years. The Maya didn’t discover metallurgy until late in the Classic period and used it only to produce jewelry and decorations for the elite.

There is not very ... ... middle of paper ... ...depth, it is amazing the facts I found out about them and how they became the culture they are. Their beliefs are the most fascinating to me just because their beliefs are so unique compared to other cultures and it made me find out the truth that how most Americans believe they thought the world was going to end isn’t true and really the Mayans didn’t believe the world was going to end. Now, I know that they are much more than that. I hope that they can survive and continue a culture that has been around for centuries making it unbelievably historic and rich in culture. I hope someday I can visit the Mayan culture because that would be fascinating to see in person this diverse and enrich myself in a different culture that I believe to be one of the most interesting ones I have learned about.

There will probably never be a document or Constitution that fully represents the views and the conditions of today’s society, although the Constitution now does not accurately reflect the views of society today. The Constitution was drafted in the late 1700’s, so it reflects the views and problems that were ongoing during that time period (Constitution Government). The problems facing the newly formed nation during its founding aren’t the same problems that the nation is facing today. Changes can be made to the constitution, but they are very difficult to actually get changes or additions approved. There have been almost 11,000 attempts to change the constitution, but only 27 changes/amendments have actually been made and with each change the constitution loses its value (Constitution Government).

When the event did not happen in 2003, Lieder and her followers decided it would happen in 2013. This was in line with the end of the Mayan calendar. Many language experts think that that Zecharia Sitchin got it all wrong when he translated ancient text that he claimed a group of people called Sumerians didn’t think there were so many pla... ... middle of paper ... ...ogy to prove that Planet X either exists or it does not exist. I think it is a way for people to continue to write and sell a lot of books about the subject. I admit that I knew nothing about Planet X before writing this paper.

There has been many predictions about when the world will end or how it would end but no one believes it and no one knew whether they true or not. This time is true and you have to believe it. Now there are more and more information to support Mayans' prediction. According to the Mayan's calculation the longest calender only goes up to December 21,2009. It takes a long time in order for a calendar to go through one cycle.

“Birthdays are important they tell people when they were born and when they came into the world. People turn one year older every year, so we celebrate it when you turn older” ("Science Project Note Cards", 2011). Based on a definition from the dictionary, a paradox is a self-contradicted (absurd) statement, but, in reality, embeds truth. Many types of paradoxes exist. Most paradoxes are based on contradiction, but others, such as the birthday paradox are given the term “paradox”, because they defy common sense.

Cycles were used by the Babylonians which consisted of 12, sometimes 13 months depending on the harves... ... middle of paper ... ... in the early 20th Century. Kugler’s work ‘Babylonische Mondrechnung’ (1900) was the first publication to contain procedure texts and it remains the most important procedure text for the lunar system A, to this day. Moving on to phase two of the development into deciphering the Babylonian tablets came with Otto Neugebauer (1899-1990). Neugebauer spent twenty years interpreting and analysing the tablets and created the Astronomical Cuneiform Texts in 1995), the first standard edition of the corpus of mathematical astronomy. These procedure texts contain 108 tablets and fragments, including all published and unpublished tablets and fragments from the British Museum.

History of time: Records of time keeping are found 25,000 years ago, but of course, they weren't as accurate as now a days. Man used nature to indicate time e.g. Full Moons. It is widely suggested today that time was kept in a "Calendar"' way. This means that they divided the time into big units and could only tell the time in specific occasions.

Before the calendar we use now was put into place, a solar calendar called the Julian calendar was used. The Julian calendar worked well, but it had two flaws: First, it ran on the assumption that a year was exactly 365.25 days long, and it did not account for the fact that the Earth's axis actually rotates. The calendar worked as if the axis stayed in one position (Comins). Because of this, the Julian calendar began to run a bit off-kilter, and the calendar system that we know today as the Gregorian calendar was put into use. The Gregorian calendar makes better use of a process called intercalation that the Julian calendar.

He cannot predict their fate, but he does a good job of clarifying how they have prepared. Mr. Kingwell talks of how in hundreds of years past, people believed in superstition, spirits, and psychic abilities. The author new watches as society turns back down that road. Unfortunately, Kingwell seems to talk at length about everything for an end result of nothing. His arguments and facts are well thought out and researched, but they do not clarify any explanations about the preparation for the millennium.