Happy New B'ak'tun

[swan_tower]

The world does not appear to have ended, though depending on your time zone it still has a few hours in which to get that done.

Of course, we're making use of the Long Count thing in a game I'm playing in, because fantasy can deliver the things reality fails to follow through on. Since I've been pointing my fellow players at it, this seems as good a time as any to remind the world that I once wrote an article on Mesoamerican calendars for Strange Horizons. It's been eight years since I really studied the topic, but as an introductory article goes I think it holds up pretty well. (Barbara Tedlock, one of the anthropologists I cite, actually e-mailed me to say she thought I had done an excellent job of summarizing the part about Mayan daykeepers -- I'm still pretty proud of that.)

Anyway, happy new b'ak'tun to you all, and may the next sun bring good things and joy.

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Heh. I once knew somebody who'd been struck by lightning three times, and would show you the scarring on various parts of his body. Maybe he was an untrained Daykeeper, and the gods were really really trying to get his attention...? (Seriously: that was very interesting, so thanks for the link.)

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Belatedly: glad you enjoyed it!