[Aztlan] No Apocalypse Maya in 2012

[vgray (gotsky)]

To Sid and others

I misquoted the interval - the Izapa transit to winter solstice interval is 
in fact 130d. The 134d factor is the tropical period residual of the 
13-baktun cycle interval - namely it is 5125 tropical years + a 134d 
fractional year residual. Assuming 29 calendar rounds constitutes a complete 
haab seasonal round of 365 leap days.

The 4d offset for lack of a better term I was referring to is the difference 
between these two. It simply means that if the 13-baktun cycle terminates at 
a winter solstice sunset, then by definition the Izapa vertical sun transit 
occurs 4d after the start of the Long Count using sunset to mark a day's 
ending.

Sorry for the confusion.

Cheers Cliff



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sid Hollander" <sid.hollander at gmail.com>
To: "AZATLAN" <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] No Apocalypse Maya in 2012


> To Vgray
>
> In your latest post you said in part..
>
> snip .....That 134d period residual is the interval from an Aug 13 Izapa
> vertical sun transit and a December 21st winter solstice in any given 
> solar
> year with a 4d offset. That is one of the primary keys in establishing how
> the Long Count was originally inaugurated. ...end snip
>
>
> I am confused as to why you have the words "with a 4d offset" in the above
> quote and what it (an offset) has to do with the distance between any two
> calendar dates.  To my mind, if the distance between Aug 13 and December 
> 21
> is 134 days (I did not check)then it is 134 days and no 'offset' can
> possibly effect that fact just as no offset can affect the distance 
> between
> Monday and the next Wednesday.
>
> I ask only because you said " That is one of the primary keys in
> establishing how the Long Count was originally inaugurated."  Would you
> please explain the reasoning behind the inclusion of the words "with a 4d
> offset"?
>
> -- 
> Sid Hollander
> Merida, Yucatan
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