Calendars and the Mayan time: an astronomical and sociocultural aspects based analysis in Book of Abstracts, 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology By Carolina de Assis

Calendars and the Mayan time: an astronomical and sociocultural aspects based analysis in Book of Abstracts, 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology By Carolina de Assis https://www.academia.edu/49056463/Calendars_and_the_Mayan_time_an_astronomical_and_sociocultural_aspects_based_analysis_in_Book_of_Abstracts_25th_International_Congress_of_History_of_Science_and_Technology?rhid=38302077890&swp=rr-rw-wc-33849161&nav_from=1d24f3c1-1289-4e76-bd94-34ac428f891d Of all the abstract concepts that pervade human existence, time is perhaps the one that has been studied diversely. Referenced from the movement of the stars, its perception is unique to each society, shaped by its various social facts, having been incorporated into the time registers designed 23 by the cultures. Among the greatest civilizations in human history, the Mayas, inhabitants of a area known as Mesoamerica, were those who most has used their conception of time in all sectors of society, creating a dependency relationship with this concept wich is rarely found in other culture. Interestingly, the literature on the study of the Mayan calendar, although plentiful, has treated generally about the origin and description of the functioning of these calendars without contextualizing them with multiple cultural aspects. Thus, although the structure of the Mayan calendar has been well known for centuries, issues intrinsic to its operation, as the source of its annual period and the absence of its assessment to natural cycles, for example, remain subject of intense debate in the literature. This works investigates how the notion of historicity, the religion and agriculture as means of livelihood worked together with Astronomy in the construction of the Mayan conception of time which is reflected in their time registers. The results demonstrate that a collaborative analysis of these factors allows the construction of a scenario that not only justifies the specifics of the Mayan calendar, but allows the establishment of a new hypothesis for the origin of the oldest and least known of the three calendars, the Tzolkin. ...