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The Maya have many calendars
that are used to calculate time. One is the Haab
or monthly calendar.
It is a yearly cycle comprised of 18 months of
20 days in length plus one 5 day period
that marks the end and beginning of the cycle
for a total of 365 days.
Because it does not include a “leap year”, its
correspondence to our Gregorian calendar
shifts over time. In 2006 the Haab calendar will
return to its starting point of 0 Pop on April
4.
These exquisite, perfectly-scaled, durable
Hydro-Calcite reproductions of ancient Maya
carvings are hand cast from molds
of hand-carved limestone reproductions created
by modern Maya artists in the Chiapas highland
rain-forests in Palenque, Mexico.
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