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elementary astronomical observations.
December 2012
marked the
conclusion of a
bʼakʼtun—a time
period in the
Mesoamerican Long
Count calendar, used in Mesoamerica...
- 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...
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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...
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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...
- 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...
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unlucky number in some countries. The end of the
Mayan calendar's 13th
Baktun was
superstitiously feared as a
harbinger of the
apocalyptic 2012 phenomenon...
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Tortuguero (or El Tortuguero) is an
archaeological site in
southernmost Tabasco,
Mexico which supported a Maya city
during the
classic period. The site...
- (December 5, 2006), the
number 19 is the kʼatun.
There are 20 k'atuns in a
baktun. The end of a kʼatun was
marked by
numerous ceremonies and, at Tikal, the...
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calculate the
number of Holy
Innocents m****acred to have been 144,000. A
Baktun is 20
Katun cycles of the
ancient Maya Long
Count calendar,
which contains...
