What's the difference between the Mayan's concept of time to the Europenas concept of time?

Question

What's the difference between the Mayan's concept of time to the Europenas concept of time?

Answer 1

Concept? Nothing. How they measured it. That is in answer above.

Answer 2

the mayas were 8 hrs behind europe

Answer 3

The mayans calendar is based on the lunar cycle, the European is based on the Roman calendar, which is based on the sun.

Answer 4

Only the way they chose to measure it.

Sun, pyrimids, calendar

Answer 5

Mayans were functioning with a different type of mathematical concepts, their whole world was structured and built with just two shapes, Square and Circle.

The Europeans base their year on the concept of seasons and the Mayan on cylces. Cycles would be more acurate and useful than seasons. Seasons can be longer shorter or disrupted but the heavans could be counted on to be consistent. The Mayan built the calender and the Codex off of many astronomical phenomnon and not justs a single point like Europeans so theirs ia more accurate. The Chinese Calender is also impressive.

Answer 6

Mayan's is more accurate.

Answer 7

The Mayans regarded time as cyclical while western tradition regards time as linear.  The Mayans believed that events would cycle and occur over again.  Like the phases of the moon, the seasons, el nino events, things repeat.  Europeans see time as a line going from the past and stretching to the future.  The Mayan calender was circular for this reason while calenders based on the Roman system are arranged in rows and columns.