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Maya Linear and Cyclical Time: A Review Maya Linear and Cyclical Time: A Review
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Postclassic Cycles of Time: Counting K’atuns Postclassic Cycles of Time: Counting K’atuns
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K’atuns 8 Ajaw K’atuns 8 Ajaw
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K’atuns 11 Ajaw K’atuns 11 Ajaw
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The Importance of K’atuns 11 Ajaw: Chichén Itzá The Importance of K’atuns 11 Ajaw: Chichén Itzá
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Early Chichén Itzá and Its Founding Early Chichén Itzá and Its Founding
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The Decline of Chichén Itzá The Decline of Chichén Itzá
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Short Counts and Classic K’atun Cycling Short Counts and Classic K’atun Cycling
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K’atuns 11 Ajaw Elsewhere in the Lowlands K’atuns 11 Ajaw Elsewhere in the Lowlands
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Discussion and Conclusions Discussion and Conclusions
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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Notes Notes
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17 “How Much May They Not Have Written?”: K’atuns 11 Ajaw and the Itzá
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Published:January 2024
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Abstract
The Maya materialized historical time anchored into their calendars. The Long Count of days from creation day (11–13 August 3114 BCE) was used through the Classic Period in the southern lowlands. In that Calendar, k’atuns (20 360-day years) were marked with Ajaw named days with cycling numbers. Some Ajaw dates, such as 8 Ajaw, were particularly momentous historically. Here the author focuses on k’atun 11 Ajaw dates and suggests that the Itza of Chichen Itza established their city in an 11 Ajaw k’atun and abandoned it as a major capital in another 11 Ajaw k’atun one cycle of 13 k’atuns later. The cycle of 13 k’atuns was important at least in the northern lowlands and as the author has proposed was also probably of significance to southern lowland Classic Maya realms as well. The author reviews the significance of Maya use of calendar prophecy, clearly documented in the sixteenth century and later texts called the Chilam Balam books that were based in transliterated glyphic texts of the Precolumbian era. She proposes that calendar prophecy based in k’atun cycles played a significant role in the history of the Itza and other Classic period Maya peoples.
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