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246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Maya Never Said the World Would End
The Maya never said the world would end. What happened was that there was a turn of a period in the Maya calendar, a switchover called a bachtun. And this is roughly a 400 year period of time. The interpretation of this as the end of something was really just on us because for the Maya, it was the beginning of something too.
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