THE M-A-Y-A-N-S
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Poetic Form: Concrete
Inspired: 2024 January 16
Image: Chichen Itza by Cancun Adventure
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[ a time before the birth of the Christ child ]
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few folks gathering wood in the untamed
woods while death made them know of it
timing coming to terms be demonstrated
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[their] [digit'] [made] [their] \ _
[lives] [cited] [being] [total] \ \
[fend] [safer] [belief] [gods]\ \ \-
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[Maya villages became great cities and their] \ \\
[temples grew focal to be vocally embarked.] \ \\
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[Mayan civilization built Chichen Itza, known for its] \\
[evolved astronomical and mathematical knowhow] \\
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[left behind one of the most intricate and intriguing time]\
[keeping approaches in a narrative: the Mayan Calendar.] \
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[The calendar was a complex framework entwined with their]\
[cosmology, culture, and daily life. The Mayans used several] \
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[calendar systems simultaneously. The two most significant were]\
[the Tzolk’in (the Sacred Round or Divine Calendar) and the Haab] \
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[(the Vague Year or Civil Calendar). The Tzolk’in was a 260-day kinda]\
[calendar that consists of 20-day cycles, every day represented by a ] \
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[combination of 13 numbers and 20 names. 'Twas for ceremonial purpose,] [divination, and determining the timing of religious and agricultural affairs.]
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[The Haab is a solar calendar of 365 days, made up of 18 months and 20 days
each, tracked by a short month of 5 days, called Wayeb. The Haab was used
for more secular, simple actions and was akin to the modern Gregorian calendar.]
[The Calendar Round is a 52-year period in which the Tzolk’in and Haab rotations, would align.]
[The period is notable as it was a full cycle of seasonals and ceremonials.]
[The Long Count was used to track longer periods and cited for the 2012 phenomenon where a cycle (Baktun) in the Long Count calendar ended, ushering to end-of-the-world speculations.]
[A Baktun is 144,000 days, but there are smaller units like K’atun 7,200 days,
Tun (360 days), Winal (20 days), and K’in (1 day).]
[Astronomical factual foretold solar eclipses]
[Mayan calendar more precise than the Julian calendar accounts a solar year.]
[Writers of book so they had libraries and schools.]
[The South American Aztec artisans were sculptors and statue makers.] [Central American Mayan artisans took craftworks carving and painting walls.]
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|Nine centuries after |
|the Christ child had |
|risen and ascended |
|Mayans end a riddle|
|Six centuries passes|
|Aztecs fell to Cortez|
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|Multiple beliefs none|
|thought to be of war|
|internally nor foreign|
|maybe overcrowding|
|land too rich to need|
|or a malignant illness|
|an unexplainable tilts|
|an absence and leave|
|a magnificent culture|
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Copyright © Hilo Poet | Year Posted 2024
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