User blog comment:Dolten/Whats up!?!?!/@comment-1915350-20100512011717

@Slowrider It was the Mayans, and they only said that the 13th Baktun would end around that date. The number 13 was sacred to the Mayans and so people think that the end of the Baktun was the end of the world. It is no more significant than New Years Eve