The 819-day count appears on Palenque's Tablet of the Sun and at Yaxchilan. Originally read as 4 stations (3,276 days—matching no known cycle). In April 2023, Linden and Bricker at Tulane extended it to 20 stations: 20 × 819 = 16,380 days aligns Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn synodic periods with the sacred calendar!
819-day Maya calendar tracks all five visible planets over 16,380-day cycle
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- The 819-day count appears on the Tablet of the Sun at Palenque and at Yaxchilan
- Eric Thompson identified the count in 1943
- Heinrich Berlin and David Kelly published an interpretation through Tulane in 1961
- Original reading identified four stations, four directions, and four colors (red, yellow, black, white)
- Four stations total 3,276 days, about 9 years, which matched no known astronomical cycle
- 819 divides evenly into 7 periods of approximately 117 days, matching Mercury's synodic period
- In April 2023, John Linden and Victoria Bricker at Tulane extended the count to 20 stations
- 20 cycles of 819 days create a master timeframe of 16,380 days, almost 45 years
- The extended cycle aligns synodic periods of Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn with different station points
- The extended cycle loops seamlessly into the 260-day sacred calendar
- Venus can also be incorporated into the extended system
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