 Those who lived to see four (or five) kʼatuns would take the title 4-(or 5-)kʼatun ruler.In the Postclassic period when the full Long Count gave way to the Short Count, the Maya continued to keep a reckoning of kʼatuns, differentiating them by the Calendar Round date on which they began.Each kʼatun had its own set of prophecies and associations.