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According to the Mayan Calendar<\/strong> (known as the Haab), which follows the cycle of the earth in relation to the movement of the Sun, the New Year<\/strong> begins not on January 1st, but July 26th. Unlike our Gregorian calendar, which dominates the way the majority of the world calculates its progression through the year in time with a Roman system used to calculate when taxes were due, the Mayan calendar is made up of 17 cycles. Each of the series of 17 cycles was linked to the movements of the Sun and Moon, as well as the transitions of planets or even constellations like Pleiades.<\/p>\n

For the Mayan people, the start of each New Year on the 26th of July marked the beginning of a new cycle, and a new \u201cpersonality\u201d for the year ahead. These essences would be signalled by their own glyph or sign, such as Storm, Seed, and Monkey. For the Maya, however, July 25th was El D\u00eda Fuera del Tiempo (Day out of time), and was much more important than 26th; it was a day to give thanks and reflect on the year that had passed, and what could be learned from its events.<\/p>\n

So, if you\u2019re visiting the Yucatan Peninsula<\/strong> at this time of year you should definitely take a trip to one of the Mayan Archaeological<\/strong> sites to witness one of the commemorative rituals which mark this special date. We would highly recommend Tulum<\/strong><\/a>, Chichen Itza<\/strong>, and Uxmal<\/strong> at this time of year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the Mayan Calendar (known as the Haab), which follows the cycle of the earth in relation to the movement of the Sun, the New Year begins not on January 1st, but July 26th. Unlike our Gregorian calendar, which dominates the way the majority of the world calculates its progression through the year in time with a Roman system used to calculate when taxes were due, the Mayan calendar is made up of 17 cycles. Each of the series of 17 cycles was linked to the movements of the Sun and Moon, as well as the transitions of planets or even constellations like Pleiades. For the Mayan people, the start of each New Year on the 26th of July marked the beginning of a new cycle, and a new \u201cpersonality\u201d for the year ahead. These essences would be signalled by their own glyph or sign, such as Storm, Seed, and Monkey. For the Maya, however, July 25th was El D\u00eda Fuera del Tiempo (Day out of time), and was much more important than 26th; …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.siankaanvillage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mayan-new-year.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nMayan New Year<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"According to the Mayan Calendar (known as the Haab), the New Year begins not on January 1st, but July 26th.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.siankaanvillage.com\/blog\/lifestyle\/mayan-new-year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mayan New Year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to the Mayan Calendar (known as the Haab), the New Year begins not on January 1st, but July 26th.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.siankaanvillage.com\/blog\/lifestyle\/mayan-new-year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Paradise Blogging\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SianKaanVillage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-12T20:23:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-07-12T20:34:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.siankaanvillage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mayan-new-year.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SianKaanVillage\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@SianKaanVillage\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Social Media\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siankaanvillage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siankaanvillage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siankaanvillage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siankaanvillage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siankaanvillage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.siankaanvillage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/www.siankaanvillage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siankaanvillage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siankaanvillage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siankaanvillage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siankaanvillage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}