Moon charts are similar to Kosara’s (2019) 1 “circular slice” chart. Note also that because the sections of a moon chart are swept from one or the other side of the circle, they are generally only appropriate for depicting one or two groups. The motivation behind using a moon chart instead of a pie chart is primarily one of aesthetic choice. A moon chart, similarly, divides a circle into sections where the areas represent proportions of a whole, but in a moon chart the areas are drawn as crescent or gibbous portions of a circle-like the phases of the moon. Thus, glyphs at B1 is 9 of something, and glyphs at B2 is 19 of something at glyph A2, we have a trefoil, and neither dots nor bars, and so we have zero of something.A pie chart divides a circle into multiple sections where the arc lengths (and so also the areas) of the sections represent proportions of a whole. All Maya numbers, and all whole numbers for that matter, may be represented with a combination of three characters: a dot with a value of 1, a bar with a value of 5, and a Zero, with extreme importance as a "place holder", often pictured as a football-shaped element, or, as here, pictured as a sideways trefoil at the left side of Glyph Block A2. I should emphasize that while this is a typical order and format, many texts from other times and locations, while retaining the order, may greatly differ in representation of Glyph Blocks you will not always find the Haab Month Name at A7.Īs you go through the glyphs in the accompanying drawing, keep in mind the Maya vigesimal (base 20) numbering system. More on the Supplementary and Lunar Glyphs at B4 through B6 later. This particular set of calendrics is typical of Classic Maya monumental inscriptions, with a generalized format of: ISIG at A1, Long Count Date (9.0.19.2.4) at B1 through B3, Tzolkin Day Number and Day Name (2 Kan) at A4, and Haab Month (2 Yax) at glyph A7. The content of this article can be found on the World Wide Web on the Maya Astronomy Page. This calendrics recap is a review of Dawn Jenkins’ document "Maya Astronomy" which appeared in the Fall 1995 OTAA issue of "Asteroid Belt", where she treats in more detail these calendric specifics. ![]() Let us spend a few paragraphs on the basics of the Maya calendar before forging on to the core of this paper, the even more exciting Lunar glyphs, here at B4 through B6. It is the date it is adorned with the patron deity of the month of Initial Series Introductory Glyph), and it announces that following when the bottom of column B is reached, the text wouldĬontinue with the next two columns, not drawn here, at C1 and D1,Īnd so forth. Left to right, in the first row, then two Glyphs Blocks in the second Note the order of reading of glyphs, which is two Glyphs Blocks, Of lunar notations, are that portion sandwiched between glyphs A4Īnd A7 they are, left to right, the five glyphs B4, A5, B5, A6 andī6. The "Supplementary Glyphs", most of which consists This specific date of the event is read at Glyph Blocks B1, A2, B2, A3, B3, A4Īnd then A7 as 9.0.19.2.4 2 Kan 2 Yax, and is generally accepted to be 16 My sketch of Yaxchilán Lintel 21, after Eric Von Euw (1977), is theīeginning of a Maya text which describes, carved in stone, a significantĮvent enacted by an ancestor of the royal ruler Bird-Jaguar my sketchĬomprises only of the date portion of the text, a specific day in A.D. ![]() Great importance in carefully meshing the Lunar status within theirĮlaborate day-count and day-keeping system. Was paid to the state and status of the moon, and that the Maya placed Invent lunar calendars before solar calendars, that substantial attention Portion of their calendar which expresses the status of the moon for theĭate recorded this follows the observation that early cultures often The purpose of this short paper is to explore that ![]() Turn of the twentieth century, and most, but not all of its glyphs are Maya, that is, their calendars, have been studied by scholars since the Lunar Glyphs in the Maya Celendrics The Lunar Glyphs in the Maya Calendrics Supplemental
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