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Hello!! It's me again. I had some serious problems with my pc. Problems were caused my that stupid adware software that sometimes get installed on your pc while using the internet. First of those „masterpieces“ did not allow me to use the internet...as kind of punishment for the fact that I erased it. And the second one created true chaos in opening folders on my pc. Luckily, after several hours, I managed to find two programmes that solved my problems.
New month has started. Here in Croatia the name for November is „studeni“. Word „studeni“ means a cold one. In next few posts I'll write about different calendars that exist today or used to exist in the past.
Mayas are members of indigenous nation who live in southeast Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. Mayan civilization reached its highest level around A.D. 300–900. The population of Mayan nation today is over 4 million.
Mayan ritual calendar had 260 days. There were 20 names for days of the week. Let me mention just few examples....Imix (waterlilly), Chikchan (snake), Ix (jaguar), Ok (dog), Men (eagle) etc. Each name had a special symbol. The days were numbered from 1 to 13. After the count of thirteen was reached, the next day was numbered 1 again.
Mayas also followed a vague solar year in which they counted 365 days per year. The 365 day year had months which also had different names like for example Pohp, Wo, Sip, Keh, Mak etc. They had 18 regular months and 1 extra month. This special five-day month was called Wayeb. These days were considered unnamed and unlucky.
One more detail. Mayas also used special glyphs (symbols, characters) for certain time periods. For example „kin“ represented one day, „winal“ is a period of 20 days etc.
That's all for today. See you next time. Have a wonderful weekend. Take care.
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