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Tzolkʼin

The tzolkʼin (Mayan pronunciation: [t͡sol ˈkʼin], formerly and commonly tzolkin) is the 260-day Mesoamerican calendar used by the Maya civilization of...

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Maya calendar (section Tzolkʼin)

different lengths. The 260-day count is known to scholars as the Tzolkin, or Tzolkʼin. The Tzolkin was combined with a 365-day vague solar year known as the...

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Mesoamerican Long Count calendar (section Calculating the Tzolkʼin date portion)

and a Tzolkʼin date identifies a day in a combination which does not occur again for 18,980 days (52 Haabʼ cycles of 365 days equals 73 Tzolkʼin cycles...

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Ajaw

from epigraphic inscriptions. It is also the name of the 20th day of the tzolkʼin, the Maya divinatory calendar, on which a ruler's kʼatun-ending rituals...

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260 (number)

numbers from a corner to the center give 260. There are 260 days in the Mayan sacred calendar Tzolkin. 260 may also refer to the years AD 260 and 260 BC....

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