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UPDATE: One-day discrepancy now cured. Thanks to Clare DaSidhe for help on this.

The calendrical system of the Maya was older and more complex (and accurate) than that of the Aztecs, who had forgotten the Long Count system. The Mayan "Great Cycle", or 13-Baktun cycle, which is part of the Long Count, is 1,872,000 days long, and the start date is given as August 11th 3114 BC or August 13th 3114 BC according to the 2 most popular correlations, (known as the GMT 584283 and GMT 585285 respectively). The end-date is given either as 21 December 2012 AD or 23 December 2012 AD respectively. There are many other alternative start & end-dates that I have come across since first writing this page, especially in 2011 and 2013. There is now a special 2012: Dire Gnosis article about these : End-Date Confusion Explained.

In order to work out leap-years, the rule is a leap year must be divisible by 4, unless it is divisible by 100 - then it is not a leap year - unless it is divisible by 400, in which case it is a leap-year. The exception is 1 BC which is a leap year - plus the BC years have to converted to "astronomical years" by subtracting one year, to make up for the missing year zero, before calculation.

To work out the termination point using the GMT 584283 correlation:

The "zero-day", or Day of Creation; 0.0.0.0.0 in The Long Count, is 11th August 3114 BC in Gregorian calendar. This is the same as the year -3113 in "astronomer's jargon" which inserts an extra "year zero" to make BC-AD calculations simpler. Since the Gregorian calendar didn't exist then, and has to be back-calculated, it is should be more efficient to use a Julian Day number system - in this case, JD 584283. The only trouble is, the JD starts at midday, so often leads to confusion see another special 2012: Dire Gnosis explanation on the Maya Links and calculators page.

After 0.0.0.0.0 there are 1,872,000 days until the next Day of Creation, which is 13.0.0.0.0.

We know this is 5125 years (3114 + 2012 = 5126; subtract 1 for the missing "year zero" = 5125) 3114 + 2012 - 1 = 5125

Multiply the 5125 years from 3114 BC to 2012 AD by 365, to get 1870625; 5125 x 365 = 1870625

then dividing 5125 by 4 to get the number of "simple" leap days; (=1281-1282), 5125 / 4 = 1281.25. To determine 1281 or 1282, see yellow figs

then calculating how many century years from 3114 BC to 2012 AD are NOT leap years, by the century rule above (=39);

Century Years astronomical (+ 1 to convert to Gregorian for BCE years) LEAP YEAR? (divisible by 400) Non-leap year tally Simple leap years total

3113 BC, 3109 BC, 3105 BC, 3101 BC 4 4

-3100 (3101 BC) NO 1

25 29

-3000 (3001 BC) NO 2

25 54

-2900 (2901 BC) NO 3

25 79

-2800 (2801 BC) YES -

25 104

-2700 (2701 BC) NO 4

25 129

-2600 (2601 BC) NO 5

25 154

-2500 (2501 BC) NO 6

25 179

-2400 (2401 BC) YES -

25 204

-2300 (2301 BC) NO 7

25 229

-2200 (2201 BC) NO 8

25 254

-2100 (2101 BC) NO 9

25 279

-2000 (2001 BC) YES -

25 304

-1900 NO 10

25 329

-1800 NO 11

25 354

-1700 NO 12

25 379

-1600 YES -

25 404

-1500 NO 13

25 429

-1400 NO 14

25 454

-1300 NO 15

25 479

-1200 YES -

25 504

-1100 NO 16

25 529

-1000 NO 17

25 554

-900 NO 18

25 579

-800 YES -

25 604

-700 NO 19

25 629

-600 NO 20

25 654

-500 NO 21

25 679

-400 YES -

25 704

-300 NO 22

25 729

-200 NO 23

25 754

-100 NO 24

25 779

0 (1BC /"year zero") YES -

25 804

100 NO 25

25 829

200 NO 26

25 854

300 NO 27

25 879

400 YES -

25 904

500 NO 28

25 929

600 NO 29

25 954

700 NO 30

25 979

800 YES -

25 1004

900 NO 31

25 1029

1000 NO 32

25 1054

1100 NO 33

25 1079

1200 YES -

25 1104

1300 NO 34

25 1129

1400 NO 35

25 1154

1500 NO 36

25 1179

1600 YES -

25 1204

1700 NO 37

25 1229

1800 NO 38

25 1254

1900 NO 39

25 1279

2000 YES -

2004, 2008, 2012 3 1282

Total

and subtracting that from 1282 (=1243). 1282 - 39 = 1243

Then 1243 was added to 1870625, 1243 + 1870625 = 1871868

and the result (=1871868) was subtracted from 1,872,000 – the number of days in the Great Cycle, to get 132 – the number of days left until termination of the cycle.

1872000 - 1871868 = 132

If the cycle began at dawn on August 11th 3114 BC, 5125 years later would bring us to dawn on 11th August 2012 AD; the 132 days would consist of the remaining 21 days of August, (including the 11th), the 30 days of September, the 31 days of October, the 30 days of November, and 20 days of December 2012. So the termination point is midnight to dawn between 20th December 2012 and 21st December 2012, since the 21st December is 13.0.0.0.0 and also 0.0.0.0.0 - the start of the next cycle, as well as the completion of the current one.

August 11th 2012 + 132 = December 20th-21st 2012

so... August 11th 3114 BC 00.00 hrs + 1,872,000 = 21st December 2012 AD 00.00 hrs

JD 584283 + 1,872,000 = JD 2456283 = midday 11/8/3114 BC - midday 21/12 2012.

Here is a much simpler way to work it out, from John Major Jenkins:

Anyone with a Julian Day ephemeris can make the following simple calculation. December 21, 2012 is Julian Day 2,456,283. Subtract from this the number of days in 13 baktuns (1,872,000). The result is 584283, the Julian Day number of the Long Count's zero day back in 3114 BC, thus confirming the end-date as December 21, 2012.

For more info on correlation, Jenkins’ article, The Correlation Debate http://www.alignment2012.com/fap3.html

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