Definition of Baktun. Meaning of Baktun. Synonyms of Baktun

- A baktun /ˈbɑːktuːn/ (properly bʼakʼtun [ɓakʼtun]) is 20 kʼatun cycles of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar. It contains 144,000 days, equal to 394...
- elementary astronomical observations. December 2012 marked the conclusion of a bʼakʼtun—a time period in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used in Mesoamerica...
- Baktun is a telenovela in Maya broadcast on Quintana Roo public television in August 2013. A bʼakʼtun is a megacycle of the Maya calendar. Produced for...
- but rather only 360 days and 0.0.0.17.19 represents 359 days. The name bʼakʼtun was invented by modern scholars. The numbered Long Count was no longer...
- make one tun. Twenty tuns are known as a kʼatun. Twenty kʼatuns make a bʼakʼtun. The Long Count calendar identifies a date by counting the number of days...
- commemorate it as the first site where an inscription dating from the 8th Baktún of the Maya calendar was discovered (making it then the earliest known Maya...
- ended in 3114 BC had only 13 bakʼtuns, but others used a cycle of 13 + 20 bakʼtun in the current piktun. Additionally, there may have been some regional...
- Sandy; people gather at a Mayan temple to commemorate the end of 13th bʼakʼtun in the Mayan calendar on December 21, when it was predicted a doomsday...
- Count (4 Ahau 8 ****ku), following upon the completion of thirteen previous baktun eras, is thought to have been the focus of specific acts of creation. Through...
- of monuments to mark the 19th Kʼatun in 810. The beginning of the 10th Bakʼtun in 830 p****ed uncelebrated, and marks the beginning of a 60-year hiatus...