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Av 15 Tubeab, a minor festival to celebrate the feast at Shiloh and the reconciliation of the tribe of Benjamin (Judges xxi 1323). |
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Av 22 A commemoration of the wood offering to burn on the Altar (Nehemiah x 34; xiii 31). This festival is also called Xylophoria by the Greeks. |
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Av 30 First Rosh Hodesh of Elul. |
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Elul is the 12th month of the civil year and sixth month of the sacred year. |
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Elul 1 Rosh Hodesh, the second day. |
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Elul 7 A fast for the death of the Spies who brought an evil report of the promised land to Moses (Numbers xiv 3638). Some authorities state that this day should be observed on the 17th of the month. Al-Biruni (p. 277) states that some Jews place this fast on the Monday or Thursday that falls within the last seven days before the beginning of the next year. If this statement is true, the rule for this day would be uniquely different from any other in the calendar. |
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The calendar of the Maya civilization represents a Weltanschauung very different from that of many of the cultures discussed in this book. Because of the similarities in their cultures and the problems presented by a mysterious hieroglyphic language which remained untranslated for years, the ancient Egyptians and the Maya present similar situations. |
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For two reasons, this section is different from most of the other sections in this book: |
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The Maya calendar is organized along rather different lines than Old World calendars. |
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Chronologically, the Maya calendar was one of the first calendars to be addressed in what later became the SCDTL project. The techniques and approaches used with this calendar are different because the methods used in its implementation predate the development of certain standard methods and strategies. If it were done again today, the SCDTL code would more resemble the code of some of the other calendars. |
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Several caveats and general guidelines should be mentioned to help you through this section and its material: |
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1.) Garbage in, garbage out. Following the essentially military conquest of most of Mexico, the Spanish friars proceeded to systematically and deliberately destroy every vestige of Maya culture they could lay their hands on, in the belief that virtually every aspect of that culture represented the works of the Devil. |
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