There are two ways of dividing the year: the Gregorian calendar, with 12 unequal months, and the 13 Moon Calendar, with 13 equal months of 28 days. This page explains the difference and shows the current year in both calendars.
The clock divides the day into twice 12 hours and the hour into 60 minutes; the Gregorian calendar divides the year into 12 months. José Argüelles called this way of measuring time the 12:60 frequency. Counting in base 60 goes back to ancient Mesopotamia, and the twelve months came to us through the Roman calendar, reformed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582.
The 13:20 frequency is that of the 13 tones and 20 seals: 13 × 20 = 260, the cycle of the Tzolkin. The 20 recalls the Maya count in base 20; Argüelles links the 20 to the fingers and toes and the 13 to the thirteen main joints of the body.
In the Law of Time, Argüelles proposes the 13 Moon Calendar as a practical way of living the year in this frequency. The Calculation Board on this site works entirely with 13 Moon dates.
13 × 28 = 364. Every moon has exactly four heptads of seven days, and the year always begins on July 26. This is why every 13 Moon date falls on the same day of the heptad each year: day 1 of every moon is always Dali, day 28 always Silio. The calendar is perpetual.
In the Gregorian calendar the months have 28, 29, 30 or 31 days, and the weekday of the same date changes from one year to the next.
Each ring is named after the Kin of July 26, its year bearer. Because the year has 365 days and the Tzolkin 260, the bearer advances 105 Kin each year; that is why the year bearers rotate among four seals: Seed, Moon, Wizard and Storm.
| Ring | Start (July 26) | Year bearer |
|---|---|---|
Calculation: the Kin of July 26 from the core of the Calculation Board (NS 1.0 = 26.07.1987, Kin 34; +105 per year, modulo 260). Glossary: year bearer, ring (NS).
Along with the Dreamspell, the 13 Moon Calendar and the Law of Time, the Telektonon is part of the Synchronotron. It follows the 28-day circuit of the moon.
Each 28-day moon is made of four heptads of seven days. The seven days of the heptad carry the seven radial plasmas – Dali, Seli, Gamma, Kali, Alpha, Limi and Silio – and each plasma opens one of the seven heptad gates on the central axis V11 of the 441 Matrix. So the 28 days pass four times through the seven gates.
The number of the Telektonon is 140 = 7 × 20 = 5 × 28: every 140 days the 7-day cycle coincides with the 20-day count. This Telektonon unit organizes the 28-day cycle, the 20-day count and the 7-day cycle of the heptad gates. Each year has two relative units, moons 1 to 5 and moons 6 to 10, of 140 days each; 85 days remain (moons 11 to 13 and the Day Out of Time). Together with the 260 of the Tzolkin, 140 completes 400 = 20 × 20.
Source: Intergalactic Bulletin, Issue 9 – Archetypes, Time Lenses and Telektonon Units, p. 6 (Library 4.9); glossary: Telektonon, heptad.
On top, the current 13 Moon year with the Gregorian months; below, the same days as 13 moons, each with its four colored heptads. Move the pointer over the chart or tap it to see any day in both calendars; with the keyboard, use the arrow keys.
Thirteen moons of 28 days add up to 364 days. The missing day is July 25: it closes the year, belongs to no moon and no heptad, and on the next day, July 26, the new year begins. The Kin count simply continues through it.
February 29 in leap years is called 0.0 Hunab Ku. It receives no 13 Moon date and does not advance the Kin count. This way every moon keeps its 28 days and the 13 Moon year keeps its form.
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