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Understanding the Mayan Long Count Calendar by \ is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses the Mayan Long Count calendar, which organized time into a 5,125 year cycle divided into units of tuns (360 days), katuns (7,200 days), and baktuns (144,000 days). The Long Count aligned with astronomical cycles like the precession of the equinoxes and was likely meant to represent one fifth of the full precession cycle of around 25,770 years. It began on August 11, 3114 BCE and ends on December 21, 2012, with the dates seen as transition points between ages rather than absolute endin
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