Mayan Calendar  Blotter Art

Perforation: 500 Perforated Squares (0.9×0.9 cm)

Paper: 250 grs. cotton

Printed double sided

Size: 22.5x18cm

Acid free, aluminium free and chloride free BLOTTER paper.

The Maya calendar

The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Colombian Mesoamerica and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico.

The essentials of the Maya calendar are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout the region, dating back to at least the 5th century BC. It shares many aspects with calendars employed by other earlier Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Zapotec and Olmec and contemporary or later ones such as the Mixtec and Aztec calendars.

By the Maya mythological tradition, as documented in Colonial Yucatec accounts and reconstructed from Late Classic and Post classic inscriptions, the deity Itzamna is frequently credited with bringing the knowledge of the calendrical system to the ancestral Maya, along with writing in general and other foundational aspects of Mayan culture