<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon" id="mwATA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2012 phenomenon">2012 phenomenon</a>: Festivities are held in parts of Mesoamerica to commemorate the conclusion of b’ak’tun 13, a roughly 5,126-year-long cycle in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_Calendar" id="mwATE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar">Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar</a> whose passing many <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age" id="mwATI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New Age">New Age</a> spiritualists had earlier held to portend a variety of cataclysmic or transformative events.<sup about="#mwt82" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_21#cite_note-13" id="mwATM" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwATQ">[13]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"><cite about="#mwt79" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFAlper2012">Alper, Alexandra (21 December 2012). <a class="external text" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE8BJ16Q/" id="mwBh0" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Celebrations in Mexico as world survives Maya "end of days"<span class="cs1-kern-right" id="mwBh4"></span>"</a>. <i id="mwBh8"><a href="./Reuters" id="mwBiA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Reuters">Reuters</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBiE">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBiI">21 December</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt79" class="Z3988" id="mwBiM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Reuters&amp;rft.atitle=Celebrations+in+Mexico+as+world+survives+Maya+%22end+of+days%22&amp;rft.date=2012-12-21&amp;rft.aulast=Alper&amp;rft.aufirst=Alexandra&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2FidUSBRE8BJ16Q%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+21"></span></span>