Remember way back in the days and months leading up to the year 2012, when everyone was sure the world would end all based on this: the Mayan calendar. Well, it’s been more than a decade since and we’re all still here and now researchers say they may have finally figured out how to actually read the Mayan calendar.
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00:00Remember way back in the days and months leading up to the year 2012, when everyone was sure the
00:08world would end based on this, the Mayan calendar? Well, it's been more than a decade since and we're
00:13all still here, and now researchers say they may have finally figured out how to actually read the
00:17Mayan calendar. The calendar includes an 819 day cycle, but since its discovery, experts were never
00:23able to match it up with anything, like certain seasonal astronomical or meteorological events.
00:28Now, anthropologists say it's not actually an 819 day calendar, but rather a 45 year one,
00:34pointing to cosmic phenomena that appear in the sky over that time period, with the researchers
00:39writing in their study, quote, by increasing the calendar length to 20 periods of 819 days,
00:44a pattern emerges in which the synodic or conjunctive periods of all of the visible planets commensurate
00:50with station points in the larger 819 day calendar. For years, experts have been on the trail of what
00:55this all means. In fact, they have discovered prior that Mercury, which has a conjunctive period
01:00every 117 days, fit well with the calendar. Just multiply that period by 7 and it fits into the
01:05819 day calendar perfectly. But the rest of the visible planets don't work out so well. But when
01:10the 819 day count is multiplied to a factor between 4 and 20, all of the planet's synodic periods start
01:16to line up, revealing the calendar's purpose and the Mayan civilization's insight into the cosmos above.