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Haab

Also called Haab’

A 365-day Maya calendar with eighteen twenty-day months plus a five-day period.

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Word origin · etymology

Yucatec Maya calendrical name.

Haab, also written Haab’, names the solar-year calendar. Its language form is retained rather than replaced by the English calendar label.

Smithsonian NMAI: The Calendar System ↗

How we know · epistemology

Historical solar-year count

The month structure defines a 365-day sequence that can be converted using a chosen correlation. Its year is not identical to the tropical year, so seasonal alignment cannot be assumed constant merely from the label solar calendar.

Smithsonian NMAI: the Maya calendar system ↗

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  1. Smithsonian NMAI: the Maya calendar system ↗