Newly found Mayan records of astronomical phenomena in Dresden Codex

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0344471" target="_blank" >https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0344471</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/SAJ2306029V" target="_blank" >10.2298/SAJ2306029V</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Newly found Mayan records of astronomical phenomena in Dresden Codex

Original language description

The rich culture of old Maya gave birth to a very complicated and complex calendar, they also recorded important historical events and many significant astronomical phenomena. The main source of information is represented by Dresden Codex (DC), one of the four preserved Mayan hieroglyphic literal legacies. DC roughly covers the interval between 280 and 1325 AD. The old problem of precise Mayan dating with respect to our calendar is traditionally called correlation, it expresses the difference in days between the Long Count of the Mayan calendar and the Julian Date, used in present-day astronomy. There exist more than fifty published correlations that differ one from the other by as much as several centuries. Historians mostly accept the so called Goodman-Martínez-Thompson (GMT) value of 584 283 days, which is based mostly on historical events extracted from the sources of a post-classical period of Mayan history. On the contrary, brothers Böhm used precisely dated astronomical data from classical period to derive the Böhm correlation (BB) of 622 261 days. Unlike the GMT correlation it is in excellent agreement with the astronomical phenomena recorded in DC. Since then we published several papers supporting the validity of BB correlation and its advantage over GMT in the classical period of Mayan history. To this end, we used more records of astronomical phenomena discovered in DC. This study describes six records of planetary conjunctions that we found recently on p. 37 of DC that concern planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. All of these records coincide with the real occurrences of these phenomena within several days, if BB correlation is applied.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Serbian Astronomical Journal

ISSN

1450-698X

e-ISSN

1820-9289

Volume of the periodical

206

Issue of the periodical within the volume

June

Country of publishing house

RS - THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

29-37

UT code for WoS article

001025510100003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85168846495