Unit of time in the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar
For the telenovela, see Baktun (telenovela). For the 13th bʼakʼtun, see 2012 phenomenon.
Baktun glyph
A baktun/ˈbɑːktuːn/[1] (properly bʼakʼtun[ɓakʼtun]) is 20 kʼatun cycles of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar. It contains 144,000 days, equal to 394.26 tropical years. The Classic period of Maya civilization occurred during the 8th and 9th baktuns of the current calendrical cycle. The current baktun started on 13.0.0.0.0 – December 21, 2012 using the GMT correlation.
Archaeologist J. Eric S. Thompson stated that it is erroneous to say that a Long Count date of, for example, 9.15.10.0.0 is in the “9th baktun”, analogous to describing the year 209 AD as in the “2nd century AD”. Even so, the practice is so well established among Maya epigraphers and other students of the Maya, that to change it would cause more harm than its perpetuation.[2] The current practice of referring to the current baktun as ”baktun 13” or “thirteenth baktun” may stand, even though it is properly the fourteenth baktun. Alternatively, the first baktun could instead be referred to as the 0th or null to avoid this ambiguity.[citation needed]
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Count (4 Ahau 8 Cumku), following upon the completion of thirteen previous baktun eras, is thought to have been the focus of specific acts of creation. Through...
date had many apocalyptic associations, as it was the end of a cycle (bʼakʼtun) in the long count in the Maya calendar. Several writers published books...
later correlation proposals are now discounted. The end of the thirteenth baktun was either on December 21 or 23 of 2012 (supposed end of the world). 3102...
place to prevent the end of the world from happening at the end of the 13th Baktun and the Mayan Calendar. A Mayan Homer, who has been fattened up, showing...
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...
Room" Nicky da B 4:02 7. "Implants & Yankee Candles" Kitty 3:13 8. "Blue Baktun" Electric iLL 3:46 9. "Xmas Woes" David "Moose" Adamson and Oreo Jones 2:41...
[citation needed] December 8 – On the Mayan calendar, the era of the 9th Baktun begins. There is a change in political alliances just preceding the event...
in mid-November 2012. When he later discovered that the end of the 13th baktun in the Maya calendar had been correlated by Western Maya scholars as December...
served as producer and lead actor in the first ever Maya-language telenovia Baktun in 2013. http://secqr.gob.mx/index.php/index.php/?option=com_content&ta...
also the concluding day of all vigesimal periods, including the katun and baktun. The head of Xbalanque is used as a variant for the number nine (balan being...
Principio de Una Nueva Era (2012) which represents the end of the indigenous Baktun 5,125 cycle. Additionally, Corazon del Maiz (2004) is an oil on the wood...
the MediaWiki software used by Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Baktun, the "first ever Mayan telenovela," premiered in August 2013. Jesús Pat...
Bay, southern Chile, claiming the territory for Spain. 1618 – The twelfth baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins. 1714 – George I arrives...
September 3, 32 BCE, although there was some controversy over the missing baktun, the first digit, which Marion Stirling, Matthew's wife, had contended was...
of Piuro, claiming 2,427 victims. September 18 – Beginning of the 13th Baktun, in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar (12.0.0.0.0). September 19 – The...
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...
similar monuments from Uaxactun (Stela 10) or Jimbal (Stela 2) date to Baktun 10 Dedication date of 10.1.10.0.0 – AD 859 Erected by K’inich Joy Kawiil...
1988. Becerra, Longino. Evolución histórica de Honduras. Tegucigalpa: Baktun Editorial. 1983. Bertrand Anduray, María Luisa Soto de. Historia de la mujer...
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