Breaking the Maya Code #4: The Maya Calendar

In the late 19th century, Ernst Forstemann works out the many cycles of the Maya calendar. This is one of 8 scenes available on YouTube from the 2-hour documentary film Breaking the Maya Code, a 400-year history of the Maya decipherment that has won 5 Best Documentary awards at international film festivals. For more on the film and the Maya script go to http://www.nightfirefilms.org/breakingthemayacode/ or to buy the film on DVD go to http://www.nightfirefilms.net/store/store.htm

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[NightFireFilms]

Not sure what your question means, or where the "6 tuns" come in. Author of the Dresden included a very large number at start of his Venus table to indicate: "I am starting this table X days after the beginning of the current large cycle." Forstemann, who worked out the meaning of the table in 19th century, reverse-engineered the same number as a count back to the 4 Ahau 8 Cumku date given below the number.

[MrTacpans]

i decode codes its easier as there is a reason behind this as creator is before creation as a thought before its manuel action

[MrTacpans]

wow line up on 52 year cle on a cube are opposites and these number in square design are the same this is a passag..e comepare thus 52 is the numberologic letter count of the number six=52 and man is 1/4 and the long mayan count of 6 man is 25625 same number and crete onthe cube design tringle

[pfl95]

So what other cataclysmic events did the mayans predict? Nothing.

[thexBooten]

It really makes me mad when people say the end of the mayan calender is the end of the world. People dont do enough research; the spanish were colonizing south and central america around the time that the calender was thought to have 'ended'. Even if this theory is off by a little, the mayans were also losing resources to quickly and population was growing to fast and that caused many to die of hunger of die of lack of basic survival fundamentals.

[iphone863]

what makes it move??

[hakanutz]

2:07 sounds liek she says the long cunt ha

[d11btv]

Invergeddon - Die Serie zur Maya Weltuntergangs Apokalypse gibts bei uns im channel.

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