December 21, 2012 has officially passed and with it another apocalyptic myth has been dispelled. The Maya Long Count calendar continues, now with a 13 in its bak'tuns position for the next 394 years. At least for this year, its 2013 and the dawn of the 13th Bak'tun, creating a temporary moment of synchronicity between the Gregorian and Mayan calendars.
This calendar is authored by Dr. Ed Barnhart, an archaeologist with over 20 years of experience studying Maya mathematics, astronomy and hieroglyphics. It reads like a normal Gregorian calendar, but each date block also includes the Maya "calendar round", a pair of hieroglyphs providing the dates in the sacred Tzolk'in and solar Haab calendars. The Long Count, the ancient Maya linear count of days, appears at the bottom of each month.
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