Baktun could be the Mayan community’s saving grace or, at the very least, an example of how to preserve tradition in a constantly changing society.

"What is destroying us is pollution, not the 13th Baktun," said Perez Oxla, who this year went to India, Pakistan, Colombia and Kyrgiztan. "Forus, this is a time of reflection in which to call for ...

Dec. 21 is our winter solstice, but in Mayan terms, it’s also the end of the 13 th baktun, a 400-year unit in the pre-Columbian culture’s intricate system for keeping track of time.

That belief is very much in dispute. The Mayan "long count" calendar progresses using a cycle of approximately 394 years known as a baktun; the calendar ends after the 13th baktun, which closes on ...

Dec. 21, 2012, marks the end of the 13th baktun on the Long County calendar, which reads 13.0.0.0.0. This date has conjured up a fair amount of apocalyptic, end-of-the world predictions, ...

YUCATAN, MEXICO—Across the Maya world, people gathered to mark the end of a cycle of the Maya long count calendar. Some thought that the end of the 13 th Baktun meant the end of the world ...

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A Baktun is a period of almost 400 years. The date has been misinterpreted as the heralding end of the world, but descendants of the Mayans have insisted the calendar merely resets and there will ...

Mayan priests are starting off ceremonies designed to mark the end of the current era in the Mayan long-count calendar, but say they are barred from performing rituals at their ancestral temples.

MEXICO CITY - Mayan priests started off ceremonies aimed at marking the end of the current era in the Mayan long-count calendar Thursday, with dancing, incense and rituals designed to thank the gods.