The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating, base-20 and base-18 calendar used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya. For this reason, it is sometimes known as the Maya (or Mayan) Long Count calendar.
Mayan Calendar is not cyclic as our 365 Day yearly cycle calendar.
It starts the count from 0 starting from a mythical creation date.
The creation date was considered from August 11, 3114 BCE (as per our modern day calculations).
Mayan calendar is based on Long Count Periods as 0.0.0.0.0
There are five digits and the Long Count days were tallied in a base-20 and base-18 scheme
that is, we have to count from last 0.
0.0.0.0.1 = 1 day
0.0.0.0.2 = 2 day
0.0.0.0.3 = 3 day
and so on up to 20...
once it reaches 20 the previous digit gets incremented
i.e 0.0.0.0.20 == 0.0.0.1.0
so
0.0.0.1.1 = 1+1*20 = 21 days
but this second digit rolls over to zero when it reaches 18
i.e 0.0.0.18.0 == 0.0.1.0.0
so
0.0.1.0.0 = 0 + 0.18 + 1*360 = 360 days
its translated to
0.0.0.0.1 - 1 kin - 1 day
0.0.0.1.0 - 1 winal = 20 kin - 20
0.0.1.0.0 - 1 tun = 18 winal - 360
0.1.0.0.0 - 1 katun = 20 tun - 7,200
1.0.0.0.0 - 1 baktun = 20 katun - 144,000
The previous creation ended on a long count of 12.19.19.17.19. Another 12.19.19.17.19 will occur on December 20, 2012, followed by the start of the fourteenth baktun, 13.0.0.0.0, on December 21, 2012.
There is no known findings or inscriptions to support the view that Mayans believed December 21, 2012 as a end of an era...
If it does, I only wish that some of us are born as kings in the new era....
But not like this african king
