User talk:Juan g. regino

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Yuchitown (talk) 17:46, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Juan g. regino. Thank you for your work on Tohcok. Another editor, Rosiestep, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

I really enjoyed reading about this archaeological Maya site. Thanks for creating the article.

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Rosiestep}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Rosiestep (talk) 15:43, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Your edit to the Maya astronomy page citing Vincent Malmstron should be removed

In order to avoid the great confusion caused by the use of the proleptic Gregorian Calendar by mayanists the page is tagged with use astronomical dating. This is because astronomers use the Julian calendar for dates before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1582. Malmstrom is converting dates to a calendar that is NEVER used by astronomers. The page is also tagged with use the GMT correlation. Malmstrom converted Long Counts using the 584,285 day Thompson correlation. The reason that this is wrong is explained carefully in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar article in the Correlations between Western calendars and the Long Count section. Even worse, his conversions to the fictitious calendar, using a bogus correlation, are wrong by one day. All of this is explained in the first two paragraphs of the article.

Sadly, when one studies the Maya calendar and astronomy he will encounter lots of complete bullshit. Much of this has been written by supposed scholars. There is no better example of this than Vincent Malmstrom. His book Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the Moon is complete crap.

A solar eclipse did occur on Friday July 16th, 790 - maximum eclipse at 13:49 in time zone -6, the time zone of the Maya. The reason that the date on the stela is July 13th is because the eclipse dates on the stelae and in the Codices are eclipse warnings. The Maya didn't have the theoretical or mathematical knowledge to predict the exact time of eclipses or if they would be visible in the Maya region, so these inscriptions are warnings for their priest/astronomers to look for an eclipse. This is explained in the article.

The July 16th total eclipse was visible in Central America, see: https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCSE/5MCSE-Maps-07.pdf plate 335. Since there is so much crap out there about this subject you should always check everything that you read with a good Maya calendar and/or astronomy computer program. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.183.181.238 (talk) 17:02, 15 March 2025 (UTC)