OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 52744

bʼakʼtun

/ˈbɑkˌtun/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
baktun • baktún
In the Maya calendar, a period of 144 000 days (20 k’atun periods): 394.25 solar years.
Because this "long count" had a fixed beginning point and identified b'ak'tuns and each of their 20 k'atuns in numerical sequence, scholars can correlate long-count dates with the…
We would create the same problem that the Mayas did in omitting the b’ak’tun if we were to drop the number that indicates where a century falls in relation to a fixed point in our…
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