Word origin · etymology
Yucatec Maya calendar name in modern spelling.
Tzolk’in is the Yucatec name used for the 260-day calendar. The apostrophe marks a glottalized consonant; no first coiner is established here.
How we know · epistemology
Historical and living calendar count
The thirteen-number and twenty-name cycles make the day sequence reproducible once an anchor is fixed. A converted date alone does not reproduce the community-specific language, ritual authority or interpretive practice associated with the count.
Connected concepts
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Sources & provenance
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