Talk:Mayan calendar
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE OF ONE YEAR HERE. IT WOULD BE UNIMPORTANTS SOMEWHERE ELSE, BUT THIS IS THE STARTING POINT OF A CALENDAR. PLEASE TRY TO HELP IN RESOLVING THIS PROBLEM THANKS! (user: zasimon =zasimon@hotmail.com)
- Oh boy. This article need a lot of work to make a decent article about the Maya calendar.
For more information on 2012, see 2012:Dire Gnosis at http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk
For more information on Mayan Calendar, see Maya Links at http:www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/mlink.htm
It is intriguing that the founding of Egypt's first historic dynasty is also dated to 3114 BCE, based on the Turin Canon (The Cambridge Ancient History, I, 1, 1970: 174). Please note that J. Eric. S. Thompson, member of the team who has worked out the Goodman-Martínez-Thompson correlation, mentions 3113 BC and not 3114 BCE. This minor difference shall be solved, unless it is a typo in his book entitled "Grandeza y decadencia de los mayas" (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1992). Another remark is that Z.A. Simon (1984: 7) considers the possibility that the biblical Adam, the first historical ruler may have been the same as Etana on the Sumerian list. (The son of the latter was Balih, who may correspond to Abel.) He paces the birth of Adam to 3113 BCE.
From Diagnosis2012:
Thompson originally used 3113 BC intending it to be understood as a "Gregorian astronomical" date. The Gregorian astronomical start-date can also be written as "year -3113". This protocol allows calculations to be made across the AD/BC divide without worrying about "year zero", since it assumes a theoretical year zero. In recent years, the use of "Gregorian historical" dating has become more popular, in which the start-date is written as 3114 BC. Thus, in calculating forward 5125 years to the end-date, we must subtract one year because of the missing "year zero". 3114 + 2012 = 5126. 5126 - 1 = 5125. See http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/new7.htm#feedback2
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