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In 2012, the national tourism agency expected to attract 52 million visitors just to the regions of Chiapas, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Campeche. [167] A Maya activist group in Guatemala, Oxlaljuj Ajpop, objected to the commercialization of the date.
The Maya calendar consists of several cycles or counts of different lengths. The 260-day count is known to scholars as the Tzolkin, or Tzolkʼin. [5] The Tzolkin was combined with a 365-day vague solar year known as the Haabʼ to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haabʼ called the Calendar Round.
In the Maya Long Count, the previous creation ended at the end of a 13th bʼakʼtun. The previous creation ended on a Long Count of 12.19.19.17.19. Another 12.19.19.17.19 occurred on December 20, 2012 (Gregorian Calendar), followed by the start of the 14th bʼakʼtun, 13.0.0.0.0, on December 21, 2012.
The current baktun started on 13.0.0.0.0 – December 21, 2012 using the GMT correlation. Archaeologist J. Eric S. Thompson stated that it is erroneous to say that a Long Count date of, for example, 9 .15.10.0.0 is in the “ 9th baktun”, analogous to describing the year 2 09 AD as in the “ 2nd century AD”.
A date inscription in the Maya Long Count on the east side of Stela C from Quirigua showing the date for the last Creation, usually correlated as 21 or 23 December 2012 Items portrayed in this file depicts
The Maya version of the 260-day calendar is commonly known to scholars as the Tzolkin, or Tzolk'in in the revised orthography of the Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala. [23] The Tzolk'in is combined with the 365-day calendar (known as the Haab , or Haab' ), to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haabs, called the Calendar Round .
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