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The Maya Calendar is perhaps the world’s most mysterious. Meanwhile, Nefertiti was Egypt’s most famous and mysterious queen. Married to the rebel Pharaoh Akhenaten and living in the 14th century BCE, her mummy has never been found, and she disappeared from history with no further mention in any records, royal or otherwise. How could there possibly exist any connection between Egypt’s most beautiful queen and a mysterious ancient calendar developed an ocean away? How could the glamour of Egypt’s richest and most opulent queen, married to history’s first religious revolutionary, have inspired a strange 260-day sacred calendar developed somewhere in the jungles of Mexico over three thousand years ago?
What is the Maya Calendar?
A man, his face lined with age, ponders the horizon. He begins to burn incense, just like Nefertiti did in ancient Egypt. He is a Maya “Daykeeper” living in the highlands of Guatemala. Day by day, he counts, millennia later, the names of the sacred 260-day calendar of his ancestors. Far from disappearing into the jungles and becoming extinct, the Maya culture continues to survive and thrive in Mesoamerica. They continue to observe their original religious calendar of rituals, a calendar unique in the world. It was originally called the Tzolk’in or Cholq’ij (“counting of the days”).
Maya Village Daykeeper Burning Copal Incense, by Ann Wuytts. (Ann Wuyts/CC BY-NC 2.0)