The Mayan Calendar: The Mystery of Its Accuracy

  

Report: #0087

Who brought the Maya people – overnight – a calendar with the same accuracy as our current one?

 

How did they know about the missing hours in a 365-day year? How did they know that adding one day every four years would complete the measurement of Earth's path around the Sun?

 

To observe, find, and discover that the same day from the previous year lags by six hours requires many years of observation.

More years – possibly entire lifetimes of astronomers – to confirm such a discrepancy in the measurement. Then, convincing colleagues, seeking a solution to the discovered problem with the application of a filler day every four years. Implementing a radically new calendar means convincing the political and religious class of the change. Approving such a rectification can take lifetimes of astronomers. No law, no scientific discovery is introduced instantly. There always has been – and is – people who defend and defended the previous teaching.  These astronomers who discovered the irregularity surely didn't see the change in their lifetime.

Where did they record their observations? All in stone? Another enormous sacrifice for a scientist or astronomer: Drawing a diary on hard stones. Did they have time, strength, and money left to achieve their observation?

Did they have another way to write? Paper made from banana plant paste? Not the fruit – the tree; the banana trunk is better than wood cellulose for making paper. It could be. But another modern science 1,500 years ago?

Something doesn't match. There's more: The calendar wasn't simply for the few years of a human life. No, they calculated a bit more. An astronomical cycle takes 56,000 years. Observing and correcting afterward would take at least 100,000 years. More credible is thinking that a scientist from another planet – already more advanced – handed them, on a sunny day like today, a floppy disk,

a memory stick, a CD, and showed them on a notebook or giant screen how it all works, and ordered them to use it from now on – period. That's how it was done. When you have the formula, it's easy – or easier – to continue observing. We know, from the Church itself, that a calendar correction was necessary. Now we have the legendary Gregorian calendar. But from the Maya, we know nothing of a previous imperfect calendar. No: A stone calendar was made, and the first time, it had to work and be exact. And so it was. Until today. Until the year 2012! But that's another story in another message.  Enjoy the day and don't look at the clock so much – neither like the Anunnaki nor the Maya.  Greetings,

Josef Bauer

 Notice to Readers:

This report was re-edited on 09-10-2009.  Complete change of the original images because they were incorrect. The previous images presented showed the calendar of the Aztec people, which is different. I clarify and apologize, though there seems to be total confusion in the information presented in over 90% of different blogs and websites. 

Thanks to a reader's alert, I reviewed this report and had to search for hours to find some blogs that present and clearly differentiate these two calendars correctly. Even books are being published with the name of the Mayan calendar but images of the Aztec calendar. 

There is absolutely, as the reader pointed out in his short but totally fair comment, a total ignorance on this topic. 

There is total hysteria about the end of the world in 2012, but no one cares about correct data and images. 

In my defense – if there is one (I myself doubt it, because a publication must be analyzed more than once and go to the source of the information) – I want to say that more than 22 years ago in Santiago de Chile, I bought a beautiful copper replica of the Aztec calendar. Since then, I've had it proudly as a memento in my home, always thinking it was the same one the Maya used. That's why I didn't seek special information, supposedly knowing what it was about. 

Now, the correct images of the Mayan calendar are in place of the previous one – the Aztec calendar.

 

This image shows a replica of the Aztec calendar. 

Josef Bauer