Each of Mayan calendars has different time period of cycle, different days and different ways of

counting days. One can say that Mayans calendar system is a very complex calendar because
they used three calendars simultaneously with different period of cycles. There exists some
difference in method of counting days between Mayans and present age. The main possible
reason is culture differences. There are many reasons behind developing their own calendar. As
Mayans were very superstitious so they need to know which day is corresponding to which god
so it would help them to praise their god. It is also found that Mayan calendars help them in
planting and harvesting. Correlation of 260 days cycle with gestation period, it expresses Mayans
deep knowledge about and advance level of calendar making .One of the major reason to use
three calendars simultaneously is that they want to achieve more accuracy and to keep records
and dates of important events for their convenience. The Uayeb days considered unlucky days;
this may be any assumption or depreciating external speculation or superstition. These days
acquired a very derogatory reputation for bad luck; known as "days without names" or
"days without souls," and were observed as days of prayer and mourning. Fires were
extinguished and the population refrained from eating hot food. Anyone born on those
days was "doomed to a miserable life."Considering last 5 days of haab calendar that as
unlucky days indicates that they were very superstitious. Cycle of 365 days of haab calendar
shows their knowledge of revolution of earth around the sun.
Each of the 20 day names has its own soul and meaning. Its each 13 number tells weakness and
strength on that given day. Each 20 days signs has its own divinity and every particular day have
personality of their specifically god or goddess. The day on which they were born defines their
soul, character and destiny. It indicates Mayans rituals and religious.
The date 13.0.0.0.0 may have been the Mayas idea of the date of the creation of the world.
That Gregorian date is denoted as 13.0.0.0.0 on the Long Count, signaling the end of the
current Great Cycle.
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Some scholars believes that the count have been reset to 0.0.0.0.1 that corresponds to 22
December, 2012 AD and others believes that it have been continued 13.0.0.0.1, 13.0.0.0.2 and
then so on until the 14 baktun has been reached .Eric Thompson believed than baktun was cycle
of 13 not 20. He explained his logic in this way.
"I have throughout assumed that the bak'tuns were grouped, not in 13's, but in 20's, for the
evidence supporting a vigesimal count of baktuns in the Dresden and at Palenque and
Copan is too strong to be overridden. I assume that at an early date, when the LC was first
invented, the highest period was the baktun and that baktuns were arranged in re-entering
series of 13, but that a subsequent desire to extend the range of time led to the invention of
the pictun and still greater periods. With that expansion of time, it was essential to fit the
baktuns into a vigesimal count. Consequently, 20 baktuns were made the equivalent of one
pictun, but by then 4 Ahau 8 Cumku was so strongly established as the cycle ending of a
round of 13 baktuns that it continued to be given that designation, although reckoned as
the end of a cycle of 20 baktuns for the purposes of calculation.


The Uayeb days considered unlucky days; this may be any assumption or depreciating external
speculation or superstition. These days acquired a very derogatory reputation for bad luck;
known as "days without names" or "days without souls," and were observed as days of
prayer and mourning. Fires were extinguished and the population refrained from eating
hot food. Anyone born on those days was "doomed to a miserable life."

Mayan are very ritu
One theory for the significance of its cycle length is that the 260 days correlate to
pregnancy source
Differences between our modern way of counting the passage of the days and the method the
Mayans used abound. The first difference is ideological and arose because of cultural
differences. It concerns how the passage of time is viewed. In our modern age we perceive it as a
one-way processes.