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katun|ˈkɑːtuːn|
[Maya.]
A period of twenty years, each with 360 days, in the calendar of the Mayan Indians.
1902Amer. Anthropologist Jan.–Mar. 135 Moreover, in A3 we find the Katun sign with the number 1, which may be a declaration that the date is in a first Katun or beginning Katun, for I can see no reason why the beginning Cycle, Katun, Tun, Uinal and Kin should not have been called the first. 1934A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 212 Each stela marks the close of one of the shorter of the chronological periods, in terms of which they [sc. the Mayas] reckoned their position in endless duration—the close of a Katun of 7200 days. 1950Caribbean Q. II. ii. 28 Each altar is in fact a huge day glyph marking the end of a Katun (7,200 days). Ibid., The ancient inhabitants..set up beside the altars stelae bearing Long Count glyphs including the altars' Katun numbers, thus setting the Katun dates into their correct positions. 1968D. Bagley Vivero Let. vii. 179 It's a stele—a Mayan date-stone. In a given community they erected a stele every katun—that's a period of nearly twenty years. |