Remember way back in the days and months leading up to the year 2012, when everyone was sure the world would end all based on this: the Mayan calendar. Well, it’s been more than a decade since and we’re all still here and now researchers say they may have finally figured out how to actually read the Mayan calendar.
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00:00Remember way back in the days and months leading up to the year 2012, when everyone was sure
00:08the world would end based on this?
00:10The Mayan calendar?
00:11Well, it's been more than a decade since and we're all still here, and now researchers
00:15say they may have finally figured out how to actually read the Mayan calendar.
00:18The calendar includes an 819 day cycle, but since its discovery, experts were never able
00:23to match it up with anything, like certain seasonal astronomical or meteorological events.
00:28Now anthropologists say it's not actually an 819 day calendar, but rather a 45 year
00:34one, pointing to cosmic phenomena that appear in the sky over that time period, with the
00:38researchers writing in their study, quote, by increasing the calendar length to 20 periods
00:43of 819 days, a pattern emerges in which the synodic or conjunctive periods of all of the
00:48visible planets commensurate with station points in the larger 819 day calendar.
00:53For years, experts have been on the trail of what this all means.
00:56In fact, they have discovered prior that Mercury, which has a conjunctive period every
01:00117 days, fit well with the calendar.
01:03Just multiply that period by 7 and it fits into the 819 day calendar perfectly, but the
01:08rest of the visible planets don't work out so well.
01:10But when the 819 day count is multiplied to a factor between 4 and 20, all of the planet's
01:15synodic periods start to line up, revealing the calendar's purpose and the Mayan civilization's
01:20insight into the cosmos above.