The Maya Almanac

By Drew Douglass on AppTrack Ninja.

Day signs and the living count

The Maya Almanac is a field guide to Maya cosmology, told in 125 cards arranged the way the Maya arranged the world: four realms at the four directions, and a center that holds today. The center is a real calendar. Each day the app computes the true day of the Tzolk'in count, the same 260-day round that daykeepers in highland Guatemala still keep, using the standard scholarly correlation (GMT 584283). It is not a shuffle. Everyone who opens the app sees the same day, because there is only one. The Haab' date, the trecena, and the nine-night cycle appear alongside it, each marked with how firm…

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