WSU Planetarium: Mayan Archeoastronomy
Sloan Hall, 305 NE Spokane Street, Pullman, WA 99163
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WSU Planetarium: 231 Sloan Hall
About the event
A docent will point out night sky highlights and upcoming astronomical events. The docent will also introduce the basics of Mayan culture and seasonal sun-watching before showing a fulldome video presentation.
“Mayan Archeoastronomy: Observers of the Universe” explores the mythological and practical aspects of Mayan astronomy near the zenith of their civilization, circa 500 CE. One clear conclusion is that myth and reality blended together. For example, to look upon the moon was to look upon the face of Ixchel. But their advanced mathematics (base-20 numbering system) and timekeeping (their largest unit of time was the Hablatun: approximately 461 billion days) had no equal the world over.