The Mayan Calendar, Solar - Agricultural Year, and Correlation Questions

Appendix 4:   The Two Parts of U Xoc Kin:

An interesting facet of the U Xoc Kin is that it is clear that it is composed of two separate parts. One part is the actual U Xoc Kin, more commonly called U Tzol Kin by Mayanists, which is clearly copied from a 260 day almanac. The other part is the correlation of a bear bones Christian calendar with the Mayan calendar. Thus, the first part is:

After 260 days the day 10 Oc appears again on September 18th, and the cycle of good and bad days and also of day prognostications, with some minor variations, begins again for the remaining 105 days, showing that the basis for this material is a 260 almanac.

The second part is:

It should be noted that the original writer of this combined calendar set 10 Oc equal to January 1 whereas Landa set 12 Ben equal to January 1. It is thus clear that the writer of this material was not working from the Landa calendar.

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