Who was 18 Rabbit? Stela of 18 Rabbit 18 Rabbit, or Waxaklajuun UbAah Kawiil (his name in Maya) was one of the most important rulers of Copán. He was crowned in the year 695 during the most glorious period of the kingdom, when the custom was to crown the oldest son, but in this case, they broke with tradition. 18 Rabbit was one of the younger sons. He was intelligent, curious, and had traveled a lot to different places in the Mayan world. He liked art and ordered the construction of many famous statues. We can see that every one of these statues is dressed as a different god. He did this to emphasize the he, too, was divine. There is a very beautiful statue of 18 Rabbit with depictures still in tact on both sides of his body. On the east side (where the sun comes up, a symbol of a new day and new life), we see a very young ruler, but on the other side, 18 Rabbit is looking to the west (where the sun goes down at the end of the day and at the end of life), depicted with a beard and as much older. 18 Rabbit also built the last ball court in Copán, which is the one we see today, but a few months after finishing its construction, 18 Rabbit was captured by the warriors from Quiriguá, a neighbouring Mayan city very close to the present-day border between Guatemala and Honduras. In the year 738, after being ruler for 43 years, 18 Rabbit died when the ruler of Quiriguá cut off his head. Double faced stela of 18 The equivalence of 14 synodic months is an approximation that will accumulate an error of one synodic month after 18 cycles: 18×FC = 251×SM = 269×AM whereas 18×14 = 252 The equality of 269 anomalistic months to 251 synodic months was already known to Chaldean astronomers (see Kidinnu). A good longer period spans 55 cycles or rather 767 synodic months, which is not only very close to an integer number of synodic and anomalistic months, but also when reckoned in synodic months is close to an integer number of days and an integer number of years: 767×SM = 822×AM = 22650 days = 55×FC + 2 days = 62 years + 4 days There are 13.944335 synodic months in a full moon cycle, the 251-month cycle approximates the full moon cycle to 13.944444 synodic months and the 767-month cycle approximates the full moon cycle to 13.9454545 synodic months.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 01:59:34 +0000
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