[Aztlan] No Apocalypse Maya in 2012

[vgray (gotsky)]

Geoff and others

That was exactly my point. It gives a better perspective of the actual date
of the Izapa vertical sun transit relative to the start of the Long Count.
Namely, the Long Count's first day starts at sunset 4d prior to the Izapa
vertical sun transit, where the transit ends at day's end at sunset on
(0.0.0.0.3) or ends at day's start at that same sunset on (0.0.0.0.4) a
moment later. Assuming of course that (0.0.0.0.0) constitutes the first day
of the next cycle rather than the last day of the previous cycle.

Of course (0.0.0.0.0) is synonymous with (13.0.0.0.0) - being equivalent for
arithmetical purposes.

Applying the Herschel Correction or some equivalent correction (I prefer
dropping a leap day every 3,200y) gives a Long Count start on Aug 9, -3113
CE rather than Aug 11th basis the '83-GMT, and hence must start 4d prior to
the Izapa vertical sun transit. For the '85-GMT the Long Count starts 2d
prior to that vertical sun transit.

Cheers Cliff



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GEOFF STRAY" <gstray at btopenworld.com>
To: <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] No Apocalypse Maya in 2012


> Cliff and Marcos,
>
> The Gregorian calendar was inaugurated in 1582. Any
> back-calculation with it over 4.6 thousand years or
> so, using the 83-GMT correlation, surely means that
> the 1.5 - 2 days error should be added to the
> 13-baktun start-date, doesn't it? In other words, in
> actual tropic years, with 83-GMT, the start-date would
> be 9th August 3114 BC (using the astronomical protocol
> of an extra year to compensate for no "year zero"),
> and still ends on 21st December 2012.
>
> Geoff
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