Maya calendars

system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

eschatological beliefs surrounding 21 December 2012

literary work

Ajaw or Ahau ('Lord') is a pre-Columbian Maya political title attested from epigraphic inscriptions. It is also the name of the 20th day of the tzolkʼin, the Maya divinatory calendar, on which a ruler's kʼatun-ending rituals would fall.

The tzolkʼin (, formerly and commonly tzolkin) is the 260-day Mesoamerican calendar used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

thumb|90px|Baktun glyph A baktun (properly bʼakʼtun ) is 20 kʼatun cycles of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar. It contains 144,000 days, equal to 394.26 tropical years. The Classic period of Maya civilization occurred during the 8th and 9th baktuns of the current calendrical cycle. The current baktun started on 13.0.0.0.0 – December 21, 2012 using the GMT correlation.

thumb | right | alt=Katun Glyph | Katun Glyph A kʼatun (, ) is a unit of time in the Maya calendar equal to 20 tuns or 7200 days, equivalent to 19.713 tropical years. It is the second digit on the normal Maya long count date. For example, in the Maya Long Count date 12.19.13.15.12 (December 5, 2006), the number 19 is the kʼatun. There are 20 ''k'atuns in a baktun''.

thumb | right | alt=alt=Refer to caption | Full-figure variant of uinal sign on Stela D, Copan A winal (), uinal is a unit of time in the Maya Long Count calendar equal to 20 days (or kʼin). It is the 4th digit on the Maya Long Count date.

The Haabʼ () is part of the Maya calendric system. It was a 365-day calendar used by many of the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica.

set of nine gods in Mesoamerican mythology

A Kʼin () is a part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to one day. It is the smallest unit of Maya time to be counted as part of the long count and it usually appears as the last glyph in a long count date. Such long count dates can be seen on many inscriptions in the Mayan area at the start of the initial series which usually occurs at the beginning of an inscription.

patron of the artisans among the Classic Mayas

Aztec mythology belief

Mayanism is a non-codified eclectic collection of New Age beliefs, influenced in part by Pre-Columbian Maya mythology and some folk beliefs of the modern Maya peoples.