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Maya Haab / Long Count / Calendar Round

The Maya calendar combines cycles with a count of elapsed days.

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Word origin · etymology

A Maya name and two English scholarly labels.

Haab is the retained Maya calendar-name; Long Count and Calendar Round are English labels describing extended counting and cyclic combination.

Smithsonian NMAI: Maya Calendar Converter ↗

How we know · epistemology

System-specific sources and conventions

This entry covers Maya Haab / Long Count / Calendar Round. Its cited texts document the methods or teachings being compared; any computed result depends on the stated inputs and rules. Historical attestation and reproducible arithmetic do not by themselves test a personal interpretation.

Maya Calendar Converter — Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian ↗2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya, Part 4 — Mark Van Stone / FAMSI ↗

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  1. Maya Calendar Converter — Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian ↗
  2. 2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya, Part 4 — Mark Van Stone / FAMSI ↗