#cosmic time

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Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered if you were seeing the same Moon that someone did decades ago? Well, you kind of are! The 33-year lunar-solar cycle is a fascinating cosmic rhythm that brings the Moon’s phases back to almost the same dates every 33 years. It’s like the universe’s way of rewinding the clock, letting us relive a piece of the past.

This cycle happens because the Moon’s phases and the solar calendar sync up in a way that, after 33 years, the Moon’s cycle falls on nearly the same dates. It’s not perfect, but it’s close enough to feel like a celestial déjà vu!

By Midtowns : July 2025 What if you left for a short trip and returned to find hundreds of years had passed? Sounds like a modern sci-fi plot, right?But this story is over 5,000 years old — and it’s tucked inside the Mahabharata. We’re talking about King Kakudmi and his daughter Revati, and what might just be one of the oldest time travel tales in human literature. But what’s more astonishing?…

EXISTENTIAL DURATION MEASURED BY MAYAN TIME

Duration is all that plants and animals experience. They last as long as either possible or necessary. When the phylogenic target of bringing in the next generation of life is fulfilled, the plant or the animal can die or wither away. Homo Sapiens, and probably most Hominins developed from experience the need to measure this duration, at first in days and nights, and then in clusters of days and nights. Then they can coordinate their observations and notice some cosmic items go through regular existential cycles, first of all, the sun rising or lowering in the sky with shortening or lengthening days and nights. Second, the moon and its phases are numbered as two, four, or three, but systematically waxing and waning. You can easily measure all that in solar days and that is the beginning of time: a human invention quantifying the duration of anything in observable regular elements.

From what we know the Mayas were among the most advanced people for such time-quantification and they developed all sorts of calendars to do this. But they were neither the first one nor the last one. They were not the best either, though they were very good. I will even say that all the lines of dots or check marks or squares or other geometric forms we can find in all the caves in the world in which Hominins and Homo Sapiens lived and that they decorated in many ways are the quantification of various phenomena, though we don’t always know which ones.

This book by Hunbatz Men concentrates on Mayan calendars but in modern language and modern terms, not necessarily in the real Mayan terms at the time, up to 3,000 years ago. It assumes the Mayas were aware of the leap years, though we do not seem to have any real reason to believe so. The author does not work on any serious lunar hypothesis, maybe a calendar. It vaguely mentions but does not explore the Venus cycles as Morning Star and as Evening Star. To work on the Pleiades, why not, yet one question does not concern such a long cycle but the simple working of the ritualistic 260-day Tzolk’in Calendar that is out of sync with the solar calendar, the 365-day Haab Calendar, and even more so if we consider the 360-day Haab Calendar, and how the ritual activities dictated by the Tzolk’in Calendar can be prescribed and predicted and performed when their Tzolk’in dates can fall at any time, in any season in the Haab Calendar. It is hard enough to coordinate the 12-and-a-half moon cycles over a solar calendar, but many civilizations are dealing with it and managing it with cyclical corrections.

That’s why it would have been good to give us some elements on this very same problem with the Tzolk’in calendar when we can compare with the difficult adaptation of the Muslim Lunar ritualistic calendar to the Gregorian calendar. The floating Ramadan is the result of this necessary adaptation. In other words, the present book is slightly short.

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2024

Maya Art,  *  Time Perception,  *  Cosmic Rays,  *  Calendars,  *  Pleiades