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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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elementary astronomical observations.
December 2012
marked the
conclusion of a
bʼakʼtun—a time
period in the
Mesoamerican Long
Count calendar, used in Mesoamerica...
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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...
- 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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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...
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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...
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revitalize Mayan languages among children. Rene Dionisio, a.k.a.
Tzutu Baktun Kan is the main
rapper of the group. He had been an
artist while doing rapping...
- date had many
apocalyptic ****ociations, as it was the end of a
cycle (
bʼakʼtun) in the long
count in the Maya calendar.
Several writers published books...
