The Mayan Calendar

The key aspect discussed in this essay is focused on how to have different peoples created calendars to reflect time within their cultures. Over the years calendars have helped us keep track of things in the past and in current time. This includes important days like for example; based on the time we are aware when World War one occurred in the United States and when women gained the right to vote in 1920. Calendars have helped us keep track of time but the question is, are the calendars today accurate? Does it have to do with culture? Religion? Or the origin you come from? The information present below will justify for Ancient Calendars, How 1582 Lost Ten Days and at last, and for the Oldest Known Mayan Calendar Debunks December 2012 Myth.

Ancient civilisation had concluded that ancient calendars determined time by relying on the earth's motions to determine seasons months and year. This included celestial bodies, which are the sun, stars, moon and planet motion. “ We know little about the details of timekeeping in prehistoric era, but wherever we turn up

records and artificial, we usually discover that in every culture, some people were preoccupied with measuring and recording the passage of time”(Source 1). This passage from the article helps understand that although the ancient civilisation had the same type of calendar, not all agreed with it. Some thought differently due to their cultures and what their culture believed was turn about the earth's motions.
“Before 2000 BC, the Babylonians (in today’s Iraq) used a year of 12 alternating 29 day and 30 day lunar months, giving a 354 day year.

In contrast, the Mayans of Central America relied not only on the sun and moon, but also the planet Venus, to establish 260 day and 365 day calendars. This culture and its related predecessors spread across Central America between 2600 BC and AD 1500, reaching their apex between AD 250 and 900”(Source 1). Because of their culture and their different beliefs conflict between what was right occurred for many years these ancient calendars existed throughout many years. Their calendars later became positions of the great Aztec calendar stones. The Mayans believed that the earth was the center of all things, fixed and immovable. The stars, moons, sun, and planets were gods; their movements were seen as them going between the earth, the underworld, and other celestial

destinations.
In the 16th century, most of Europe was using the Julian calendar, created in the first century B.C. The Julian calendar operated on a four-year-cycle, with 365 days in the standard year and a 366-day year every fourth year.”The council of Trent (1545-1563) recognized that this growing deviation affected the liturgical calendar of the catholic church. Religious feast days no longer conformed to the guidelines established by the Council of Nicaea, AD 325. For example, Easter, intended as a spring observance, would ultimately occur in the summer” (Source 2). As identified by this passage, people created calendars to reflect time within their religious beliefs like menshioned above about the Catholic Church.