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Maya Haab Calendar Wheel
The Maya have many calendars that are used to calculate time. One is the Haab or monthly calendar. It is a yearly cycle comprised of 18 months of 20 days in length plus one 5 day period that marks the end and beginning of the cycle for a total of 365 days. Because it does not include a “leap year”, its correspondence to our Gregorian calendar shifts over time. In 2006 the Haab calendar will return to its starting point of 0 Pop on April 4.
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