00:03Remember way back in the days and months leading up to the year 2012, when everyone was sure the world
00:08would end based on this, the Mayan calendar?
00:11Well, it's been more than a decade since, and we're all still here, and now researchers say they may have
00:15finally figured out how to actually read the Mayan calendar.
00:18The calendar includes an 819-day cycle, but since its discovery, experts were never able to match it up with
00:24anything, like certain seasonal astronomical or meteorological events.
00:28Now, anthropologists say it's not actually an 819-day calendar, but rather a 45-year one, pointing to cosmic phenomena
00:35that appear in the sky over that time period.
00:38With the researchers writing in their study, quote,
00:40By increasing the calendar length to 20 periods of 819 days, a pattern emerges in which the synodic, or conjunctive
00:47periods of all of the visible planets, commensurate with station points in the larger 819-day calendar.
00:53For years, experts have been on the trail of what this all means.
00:56In fact, they have discovered prior that Mercury, which has a conjunctive period every 117 days, fit well with the
01:02calendar.
01:03Just multiply that period by 7, and it fits into the 819-day calendar perfectly.
01:08But the rest of the visible planets don't work out so well.
01:10But when the 819-day count is multiplied to a factor between 4 and 20, all of the planets' synodic
01:15periods start to line up, revealing the calendar's purpose and the Mayan civilization's insight into the cosmos above.
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