Baktun
A baktun is a cycle in the ancient Mayan calendar . A Baktun consists of 20 Katun , each with 7200 days, for a total of 144,000 days (394.26 tropical year ).
The thirteenth Baktun ended on December 21, 2012 (13.0.0.0.0, December 20, 2012: 12.19.19.17.19), with which the fourteenth Baktun began (December 22, 2012: 13.0.0.0.1, December 23, 2012: 13.0.0.0.2 etc.). Interest in this date may be due to a. Hence the fact that the Mayan creation day also falls on this date (August 11, 3114 BC: 13.0.0.0.0; the first baktun of the calendar was called 13 baktun instead of 0 baktun) and this number combination became the first in 2012 Times repeated.
20 baktun result in a pictun , which means that after completing 19 baktun the calendar does not jump to 20 baktun, but back to 0 baktun.
Although the end of a baktun was often accompanied by religious rituals and the erection of a memorial stone, there are remarkably few memorial stones from the end of the tenth Baktun (10.0.0.0.0 according to the Long Count or 830 AD). Stones were only found in Oxpemul , a town of little importance, and Uaxactún , a town on the rise.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Linda Schele , David Freidel: The unknown world of the Maya. Albrecht Knaus, Munich 1991, pp. 67-76.