Maya Aztec Calendar

Pictured here, is the logo for the Sun in Time program. The foreground consists of the famous Aztec calendar, while the background is an image of the solar corona taken from the ISAS/NASA Yohkoh spacecraft. The Aztec calendar incorporates a mythological and calendrical system derived from earlier Mesoamerican cultures, including the Maya.

The calendar was developed by observing the Sun's motions in the sky over a long period of time.

The Maya/Aztec calendar, which is extremely accurate, began on August 13, 3114 B.C.E1 or 4 Ahaw 8 Kumk'u in the Mayan language. The Maya concept of time was of circles within circles which only appeared to be linear. The calendar stone shows that we are in the fifth creation, with the four previously destroyed ones surrounding the central figure. The end of the fifth creation of the Maya calendar is on December 23, 2012 of the Current Era (C.E.2).

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