单词 | tzolkin |
释义 | tzolkinn. The cycle of two hundred and sixty days constituting the sacred calendar of the Maya. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > in other cultures tzolkin1931 1931 T. W. F. Gann & J. E. Thompson Hist. Maya viii. 208 After giving the position of a day in their sacred calendar or Tzolkin, as it was probably called, they proceeded to give the position in their 365-day year. 1948 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) 549 The 260-day tzolkin..had heavy religious and astrological import. 1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) viii. 374 The Maya maintained two distinct counts. For religious purposes they used a sacred year (tzolkin) made up of thirteen twenty-day units. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1931 |
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