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| |  | EGYPTIAN FURNITURE | Home » » Maya Calendar Round Wall Relief | | | | | | | Description: | | The Maya Calendar depicted here was called "the Haab", the Maya solar calendar of 365 days. It was divided into 18 months of 20 days each with a period of 5 days left over at the end of the year. This short 5 day month is called Uayeb, "the resting or sleep of the year". The Maya also used another calendar of 260 days called the sacred round or Tzolkin composed of 13 months of 20 days. A cycle of 52 solar years, called the calendar round was also used. The calendar round of 52 years included both the Haab and Tzolkin calendars intermeshing with each other. Any specific day in the 260 day calendar had a unique corresponding position in the 360 day calendar but that corresponding position would not repeat itself again for 52 solar years. This calendar sculpture shows the Maya God of Time at the center, supporting the burden of time on his back. He is surrounded by the hieroglyphs of the 19 months. | | | Features: | |
• Size: 10.5"H (27cm)
• Material: bonded stone
• Type: Precision Museum Store Company replica/reproduction wall plaque
• Weight: 4 lbs, ship wt: 6 lbs, ship box: 21x16x9
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Height:
| 10.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 4.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1 reviews |
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An attractive preColumbian decorationApr 08, 2010
This plaque is a replica copied from a high civilization in Central American that was lost in the conquest. It's a calendar depicting Itzamna bearing the weight of civilization. It was Itzamna that gave mankind maze, a grain domesticated in ancient America that yields more food than any other grain and is credited with saving early New England settlers from starvation in their early years. Itzamna also taught people writing, how to make calendars and medicine. Mayan scholarship was lost in the conquest, but their science and mathematics were ahead of the West at the time (for example, they discovered zero at the same time it was first described in India). Little remains of their once great civilization. This plaque appealed to me as a reminder of their many accomplishments. This plaque depicts the yearly calendar used in agriculture not the astrological calendar the priests used for divination.
The wall plaque is solid--it weighs 4 pounds--and has a hanger screwed securely to the back near the top. The color is a light tan with darker accents along the edges. The pictographs of the months are in the Mayan language that was only deciphered in the 1990s.
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