Astronomy
Old the Mayans used observatories and observations
of the horizon and shades to track the complex movements of the sun, the whole
stars, planets and constellations.
Of these observations, the Mayan developed the calendars to keep the track from
the celestial movements and the passage of the time. Using solely manual methods
and the naked eye, the Mayan astronomers made the observations and calculated
the way of Venus and other bodies of the space. They could accurately calculate
the events like the solar eclipses and the important alignment of Venus and other
planets.
The
celestial events were predicted with much anticipation and they became part from
the spiritual platform, by which the greater rituals and events were governed
and commemorated. For example, the transference of the real powers, seems to be
cronometrado by the solstice of summer to certain centers. The rituals were cronometraron
to agree with the alignments different from Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and the Moon.
The Mayans also went to fight advised by the sky, activated again by the planet
of Venus. The ceremonial objects of the war of Venus see in the wakes and other
engravings of excursions and captures that were catched in the cronometradas time
to the being in these.
Mayan
mythology and astronomy are interlaced to form a system of belief or religion.
The Mayan observed the sky and kept the calendars to predict the solar and lunar
eclipses, the cycles of the planet of Venus and the movements of constellations.
The observatory at night, watching the depths of the space, seems to really represent
the church of the Mayan town.
