Motif
calendar adoption at a calendrical turning point
calendar_adoption_at_a_calendrical_turning_point
A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
maya
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The Maya Chronicles II. THE SERIES OF THE KATUNS. / TEXT. / TRANSLATION. / NOTES.; lines 3966-4005 confidence: medium
The note identifies Pop as the first Maya month and suggests the phrase may mean Pop was counted in regular succession, implying calendar adoption at the beginning of an Ahau Katun, thirty Katuns or 600 years after traditions began.
The note suggests that regular counting of Pop and adoption of the calendar occurred at the beginning of an Ahau Katun.
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