Crowds gather at Mayan sites

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TUCKED away in thick forest, an exquisite site of Mayan ruins have begun hosting winter solstice ceremonies as the region’s indigenous people marked the end of an era.
Or perhaps the end of the world, depending on your point of view.

At the site, there were no signs that doomsday the stark scenario conjured by proponents of one minority reading of the ancient Mayan calendar that underlies the festivities was imminent.

At sunset, Guatemalan President Otto Perez was to kick off a long night of Mayan dance and other rituals, lasting until dawn, when Mayan natives will greet the rising sun on December 21, 2012 – a date feared by some.

Around the world, superstitious people have fretted over a quixotic, not to say apocalyptic, interpretation of the calendar – taking refuge in mountains or bunkers, with some stockpiling guns and survival rations.

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