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Mesoamerican Long Count calendar: Cultures, Correlations between Western calendars and the Long Count & 2012 and the Long Count

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar used by pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya. For this reason, it is often known as the Maya Long Count calendar. Using a modified vigesimal tally, the Long Count calendar identifies a day by counting the number of days passed since a mythical…

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Mesoamerican Long Count calendar topic overview

The analysis highlights Cultures, Correlations between Western calendars and the Long Count and 2012 and the Long Count as prominent areas in the source structure around Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. 1 topic appears in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.

Related topics: 75
Source areas: 10
Connected nodes: 86
Extracted relationships: 33
Concept neighborhoods: 27
Bridge connections: 86

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Correlations between Western calendars and the Long Count · 25 topics

2012 and the Long Count · 10 topics

Earliest Long Counts · 9 topics

Overview · 7 topics

Background · 6 topics

Latest Long Counts · 6 topics

Converting between the Long Count and western calendars · 4 topics

Long Count periods · 4 topics

Piktuns and higher orders · 3 topics

Mesoamerican numerals · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Armenian: Other calendars Armenian 4 Hoṙi 1476 Aztec Atemoztli 5, 5 Ācatl Babylonian 9 Abu, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Kajeng, Jaya, Paing, Urukung, Redite of Matal, Guru, Gigis, Sri… · 4 Hoṙi 1476
Aztec: Atemoztli 5, 5 Ācatl
Babylonian: 9 Abu, 2337 SE
Balinese pawukon: Menga, Kajeng, Jaya, Paing, Urukung, Redite of Matal, Guru, Gigis, Sri
Bengali: 8 Bhadro, BS 1433
Chinese: Yin Earth Snake・Room Mansion 11 Qīyuè, Bǐngwǔnián (Chushu, 15 days until Bailu)

Suggested research paths

A focused starting point derived from the topic graph, ranked independently of the source article order.

Start with these areas

Connections across areas

Dresden CodexLatest Long Counts · Piktuns and higher orders

Less obvious directions

Long Count periods

Bʼakʼtuns Kʼatuns Short Count Yucatán Peninsula

Piktuns and higher orders

Coba Dresden codex Förstemann

Mesoamerican numerals

Zero concept in history Below

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Base-20 Vigesimal
Pre-Columbian
Mesoamerican Mesoamerica
Maya Maya civilization
Mythical creation date Mesoamerican creation myths
BCE Common Era
Proleptic Gregorian calendar

Background

Long Count periods

Bʼakʼtuns Baktun
Yucatán Peninsula
Kʼatuns Kʼatun
Short Count Maya calendar

Mesoamerican numerals

Zero concept in history 0 (number)
Below Mesoamerican Long Count calendar

Earliest Long Counts

Chiapa de Corzo Chiapa de Corzo (Mesoamerican site)
Chiapas
Takalik Abaj
Guatemala
Epi-Olmec Epi-Olmec script
Izapan Izapa
Tikal
San Bartolo San Bartolo (Maya site)
El Palmar El Palmar (Maya site)

Latest Long Counts

Correlations between Western calendars and the Long Count

Julian day number
Ajaw
Goodman Joseph T. Goodman
Thompson J. Eric S. Thompson
Julian date Julian calendar
Michael D. Coe
Diego de Landa
Relación de las cosas de Yucatán
Chilam Balam
Annals of the Cakchiquels
Tenochtitlan
Tonalpohualli
Sahagún Bernardino de Sahagún
Durán Diego Durán
Copernican Nicolaus Copernicus
Solar System
Descending Ascending node
Eclipse
Venus
Heliacal risings Heliacal rising
Isotope dated Isotope dating
University of Pennsylvania
Carbon date Carbon dating
Lounsbury Floyd Lounsbury
UTC

2012 and the Long Count

Popol Vuh
Creation accounts Mesoamerican creation accounts
Kʼicheʼ Maya Kʼicheʼ people
Tortuguero Tortuguero (Maya site)
Temple of Inscriptions
Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal
Florida Museum of Natural History
Crystal River, Florida
Doomsday event
Tulane University

Converting between the Long Count and western calendars

Gregorian Gregorian calendar
Proleptic Julian calendar
Julian day
Meeus Jean Meeus

Piktuns and higher orders

Coba
Dresden codex
Förstemann Ernst Förstemann

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Mesoamerican Long Count calendar connects Entity context

The extracted context around Mesoamerican Long Count calendar shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Mesoamerican Long Count calendar → 4 Hoṙi 1476, Other calendars Armenian 4 Hoṙi 1476 Aztec Atemoztli 5, 5 Ācatl Babylonian 9 Abu, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Kajeng, Jaya, Paing, Urukung, Redite of Matal, Guru, Gigis, Sri… Another extracted example is Mesoamerican Long Count calendar → Atemoztli 5, 5 Ācatl. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar

Top relations

Armenian · 2

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar → 4 Hoṙi 1476, Other calendars Armenian 4 Hoṙi 1476 Aztec Atemoztli 5, 5 Ācatl Babylonian 9 Abu, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Kajeng, Jaya, Paing, Urukung, Redite of Matal, Guru, Gigis, Sri…

Aztec · 1

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar → Atemoztli 5, 5 Ācatl

Babylonian · 1

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar → 9 Abu, 2337 SE

Balinese pawukon · 1

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar → Menga, Kajeng, Jaya, Paing, Urukung, Redite of Matal, Guru, Gigis, Sri

Bengali · 1

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar → 8 Bhadro, BS 1433

Chinese · 1

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar → Yin Earth Snake・Room Mansion 11 Qīyuè, Bǐngwǔnián (Chushu, 15 days until Bailu)

Common Era · 1

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar → 23 August 2026 CE

Coptic · 1

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar → 17 Mesori, AM 1742

Egyptian · 1

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar → 9 Tybi, 2775 NE

Ethiopian · 1

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar → 17 Naḥasē, 2018 Amätä Məhrät

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

date count long calendar days day correlation maya gmt julian number gregorian using tzolkʼin haabʼ 13 11 dates inscriptions 10

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 33 structured relationships around Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Examples in this analysis include Mesoamerican Long Count calendar → Armenian → Other calendars Armenian 4 Hoṙi 1476 Aztec Atemoztli 5, 5 Ācatl Babylonian 9 Abu, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Kajeng, Jaya, Paing, Urukung, Redite of Matal, Guru, Gigis, Sri… and Mesoamerican Long Count calendar → Armenian → 4 Hoṙi 1476. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Armenian	Other calendars Armenian 4 Hoṙi 1476 Aztec Atemoztli 5, 5 Ācatl Babylonian 9 Abu, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Kajeng, Jaya, Paing, Urukung, Redite of Matal, Guru, Gigis, Sri…	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Armenian	4 Hoṙi 1476	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Aztec	Atemoztli 5, 5 Ācatl	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Babylonian	9 Abu, 2337 SE	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Balinese pawukon	Menga, Kajeng, Jaya, Paing, Urukung, Redite of Matal, Guru, Gigis, Sri	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Bengali	8 Bhadro, BS 1433	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Chinese	Yin Earth Snake・Room Mansion 11 Qīyuè, Bǐngwǔnián (Chushu, 15 days until Bailu)	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Common Era	23 August 2026 CE	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Coptic	17 Mesori, AM 1742	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Egyptian	9 Tybi, 2775 NE	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Ethiopian	17 Naḥasē, 2018 Amätä Məhrät	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	French Republican	Décade I, Sextidi de Fructidor de l'Année 234 de la République	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Gregorian	23 August, AD 2026	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Hebrew	10 Elul, AM 5786	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Hindu	5127 KY・1,872,810・Rāudra Solar: 7 Bhādrapada, 1948 SE Lunisolar: Ekādaśī, Śukla pakṣa of Śrāvaṇa, 2083 VE	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Icelandic	Sunnudagur, 29 Heyannir 2026	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Islamic	9 Rabi' al-awwal, AH 1448 (using tabular method)	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	ISO week date	2026-W34-7	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Japanese	11 Fumizuki, Reiwa 8 (Shosho, 15 days until Hakuro)	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Julian	10 August, AD 2026 (AM 7534)	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Julian day	2461276	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Maya	13.0.13.15.13 6 Mol, 5 Ben	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Roman	ante diem IV Idus Augustas, MMDCCLXXIX AUC	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	Solar Hijri	1 Shahrivar, SH 1405	1.00	infobox
Mesoamerican Long Count calendar	is a	non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar used by pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures	0.90	text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Mesoamerican Long Count calendar bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Long, Date and Calendar. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
- Long
- Date
- Calendar
- Count
- Maya
- Days
- Gregorian
- Astronomical
- Year
- Proleptic
- Correlation
- Number
mesoamerican long count calendar
- Long
- Gregorian
- Date
- Proleptic
- Julian
- Calendar
- Count
- Maya
- Days
- Day
- Astronomical
- August
maya
- Calendars
- Creation
- Stela
- Date
- Gregorian
- Day
- Julian
- Using
- August
- Ce
- Time
- First
mythical creation date
- Long
- August
- Bce
- Number
- Julian
- Day
- Days
- Gregorian
- Tzolkʼin
- Maya
- Proleptic
- Ajaw
bce
- Proleptic
- Astronomical
- Gregorian
- Julian
- Creation
- Calendar
- Using
- Time
- Example
- Number
- Days
- Long
proleptic gregorian calendar
- Gregorian
- Proleptic
- Julian
- Astronomical
- Long
- Ce
- Count
- Date
- Example
- Year
- Number
- Day
calendar round
- Gregorian
- Proleptic
- Long
- Julian
- Count
- Date
- Day
- Maya
- Astronomical
- August
- Bce
- Example
short count
- Long
- Date
- Calendar
- Maya
- Days
- Gregorian
- Proleptic
- Number
- Dates
- Julian
- Using
- Inscription

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Mesoamerican Long Count calendar with Correlations between Western calendars and the Long Count. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar — Correlations between Western calendars and the Long Count · splits 61 ⟂ 26

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar — 2012 and the Long Count · splits 76 ⟂ 11

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar — Earliest Long Counts · splits 77 ⟂ 10

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar — Overview · splits 79 ⟂ 8

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar — Background · splits 80 ⟂ 7

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar — Latest Long Counts · splits 80 ⟂ 7

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar — Long Count periods · splits 82 ⟂ 5

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar — Converting between the Long Count and western calendars · splits 82 ⟂ 5

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar — Piktuns and higher orders · splits 83 ⟂ 4

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar — Mesoamerican numerals · splits 84 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar

Nodes87

Edges86

Triples33

Avg. degree1.98

Density0.022989

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Mesoamerican Long Count calendar to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Cultures, Correlations between Western calendars and the Long Count & 2012 and the Long Count, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Mesoamerican Long Count calendar · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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