Mayans meet for ritual ball games as new era looms

A Mayan shaman performs a purification ritual during a ball game between Honduras' Chorti and Guatemala's Quirigua groups in Copan Ruinas, some 400 kms west of Tegucigalpa. The Mayan "Long Count" calendar says an era of more than 5,000 years ends on December 21 -- doomsday for some but a reason to rejoice for many others in Mexico and central America, where the civilization once flourished. Duration: 00:39