El tiempo vuela: el uso de aves y otros animales para representar las unidades de tiempo de la cuenta larga maya
The zoomorphic images used to represent the different periods that form the Mayan Long Count have never been explained in a global way and their meaning remains poorly understood. This paper argues that the animals used to represent the periods of the Long Count have a common characteristic: all of...
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| description | The zoomorphic images used to represent the different periods that form the Mayan Long Count have never been explained in a global way and their meaning remains poorly understood. This paper argues that the animals used to represent the periods of the Long Count have a common characteristic: all of them show a very strong relationship with the natural phenomenas associated with rain. Some represent the water currents generated by downpours, others announce the arrival of the storms, or are associated with the winds that bring them. This relationship lets us infer that, in the Maya area, the calendric year was fixed in association to the rainy season and not to the solar transit. This hypothesis clarifies the origin of the word, haab’, “year”, which even nowadays has the meaning of “rain”, or “storm” in some Mayan languages. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1697a5b5d33d4d3e8ffbe9e07e1d448d2025-02-05T15:54:07ZengSociété des américanistesJournal de la Société des Américanistes0037-91741957-78422017-12-0110.4000/jsa.15310El tiempo vuela: el uso de aves y otros animales para representar las unidades de tiempo de la cuenta larga mayaRogelio Valencia RiveraThe zoomorphic images used to represent the different periods that form the Mayan Long Count have never been explained in a global way and their meaning remains poorly understood. This paper argues that the animals used to represent the periods of the Long Count have a common characteristic: all of them show a very strong relationship with the natural phenomenas associated with rain. Some represent the water currents generated by downpours, others announce the arrival of the storms, or are associated with the winds that bring them. This relationship lets us infer that, in the Maya area, the calendric year was fixed in association to the rainy season and not to the solar transit. This hypothesis clarifies the origin of the word, haab’, “year”, which even nowadays has the meaning of “rain”, or “storm” in some Mayan languages.https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/15310monkeyMaya calendarLong Counthaab’rainy seasontoad |
| spellingShingle | Rogelio Valencia Rivera El tiempo vuela: el uso de aves y otros animales para representar las unidades de tiempo de la cuenta larga maya Journal de la Société des Américanistes monkey Maya calendar Long Count haab’ rainy season toad |
| title | El tiempo vuela: el uso de aves y otros animales para representar las unidades de tiempo de la cuenta larga maya |
| title_full | El tiempo vuela: el uso de aves y otros animales para representar las unidades de tiempo de la cuenta larga maya |
| title_fullStr | El tiempo vuela: el uso de aves y otros animales para representar las unidades de tiempo de la cuenta larga maya |
| title_full_unstemmed | El tiempo vuela: el uso de aves y otros animales para representar las unidades de tiempo de la cuenta larga maya |
| title_short | El tiempo vuela: el uso de aves y otros animales para representar las unidades de tiempo de la cuenta larga maya |
| title_sort | el tiempo vuela el uso de aves y otros animales para representar las unidades de tiempo de la cuenta larga maya |
| topic | monkey Maya calendar Long Count haab’ rainy season toad |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/15310 |
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