[time-nuts] MesoAmerican calendars, Solstice, etc.

Chris Albertson albertson.chris at gmail.com
Tue Dec 18 05:27:04 UTC 2012


> But just like other time scales, how did those mesoAmericans reconcile
>> their 360 day cycle to 365.25... day intervals between solstices?
>>
>
They had a five day ong party wherethey didn't work.  They took those days
off.  Not kidding, they resync'd every year.   Kind of like leap days all
stuck on the end of the year.








>
>> I've been rummaging through my ION CD of time and celestial nav papers,
>> but didn't find anything at first on the whole issue (plenty on other
>> astronomically derived scales).
>>
>> Anybody have any decent links to go hunting for?
>>
>> 5000 years is plenty long for significant precession of the equninoxes,
>> for instance.. Maybe those Maya astronomers did a bang up job measuring,
>> but hey, they probably didn't account for those higher order effects.
>>
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