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OK, I know it's more than two years away, but the turn of the b'ak'tun only comes around once every five millenia or so, right? I know (or I think, anyway) that a lot of you over in Europe probably don't care quite as much about this, but here in the Esperias we are already quite beside ourselves with anticipation. Some friends and I are talking about heading to Tolan, where the official imperial festival will be complemented nicely by some more fringe parties... either way, quite a scene.

Do any of you buy into the apocalyptic stuff people are throwing around? It seems strongest among the devoutly religious, which is odd - like I tell everybody, the calendar was invented way before Christianity made its way over here... like so many "Christian" ritual elements, it was co-opted by the early missionaries and put to different uses. The first Christians used the Hebrew calendar, and a little later used the Roman one (that's the basis of the anno domini count used in most European churches today.)

I certainly did not mean to add to what looks like a flood of DB threads. I swear I had the idea for this earlier today before it was trendy (embarrased face)
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