这个日期是玛雅人长计数周期的结束，但以后，就像你的日历1月1日重新开始，玛雅历法的另一个长期计数周期也会重新开始。

This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then, just as your calendar begins again on January 1, another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar.

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最初，这一理论认为2003年5月降爆发大灾难，结果什么都没发生，他们就把日期推迟到2012年冬至，与古玛雅历法中的循环结束相符。

Initial theories set the disaster for May 2003, but when nothing happened the date was moved forward to the winter solstice in 2012, to coincide with the end of a cycle of the ancient Mayan calendar.

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玛雅人称为Caana的寺庙和“天空之城”的宫殿（图，人们寺庙废墟上搭起了一个未注明日期的照片）。

The Maya called the Caana temples and palaces the "sky place" (pictured, people sit atop the temple ruin in an undated photograph).

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