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Note to self:
kin = 1 day
uinal = 20 days
tun = 360 days (approx. solar year)
katun ≈ 20 years
baktun = 400 years
"Mayanists write out the Long Count as a series of numbers separated by periods running from right to left (the Maya themselves tended to write them in paired columns). For example, a date of 1 day, 12 uinal, 3 tun, and 2 katun would be written as 2.3.12.1."
— Jan 10, 2013 02:59PM
kin = 1 day
uinal = 20 days
tun = 360 days (approx. solar year)
katun ≈ 20 years
baktun = 400 years
"Mayanists write out the Long Count as a series of numbers separated by periods running from right to left (the Maya themselves tended to write them in paired columns). For example, a date of 1 day, 12 uinal, 3 tun, and 2 katun would be written as 2.3.12.1."
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"Millenarianism is the belief that an impending transformation will dramatically change society; millennialism expects such transformations to happen every thousand years; chiliasm...is the specifically Christian version of these beliefs, rooted in the biblical Book of Revelation; the destructive, end-of-world (or eschatological) manifestation of this transformation is often called the Apocalypse."
— Dec 21, 2012 08:38PM
