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Maya cosmology (ref. Maya Cosmos) defined the present Creation to have occurred on August 13, 3114 B.C.:

 

"In three magnificent texts at the site of Koba, scribes recorded it as one of the largest finite numbers we humans have ever written. According to these inscriptions, our world was created on the day 4 Ahaw 8 Kumk'u. On this day all the cycles of the Maya calendar above twenty years were set at thirteen - that is to say, the cycles of 400 years, 8,000 years, 160,000 years, 32,000,000 years, and so on, all the way up to a cycle number extending to twenty places (2021 * 1360-day year). In our calendar, this day fell on August 13, B.C. 3114 (or September 20, -3113 in the Julian calendar).

To understand what this means, we need a little scale. The thirteens in this huge number act like the twelve in our cycles - the next hour after twelve is one. Thirteen changed to one as each of these cycles in the Maya calendar was completed, therefore, we have the following sequence:

 

13. 13. 13. 0. 0. 0. 1. 5 Imix 9 Kumk'u (Aug. 14, 3114 B.C.)
13. 13. 13. 0. 0. 1. 0. 11 Ahaw 3 Pop (Sept. 2, 3114 B.C.)
13. 13. 13. 0. 1. 0. 0. 13 Ahaw 3 Kumk'u (Aug.7, 3113 B.C.)
13. 13. 13. 1. 0. 0. 0. 2 Ahaw 8 Mak (May 1, 3094 B.C.)
13. 13. 1. 0. 0. 0. 0. 3 Ahaw 13 Ch'en (Nov. 15, 2720 B.C.)
13. 13. 13. 0. 0. 0. 0. 4 Ahaw 3 K'ank'in (Dec. 23, A.D. 2012)
13. 1. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 10 Ahaw 13 Yaxk'in (Oct. 15, A.D. 4772)
1. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 7 Ahaw 3 Zotz' (Nov. 22, A.D. 154587)

Each of the years, called a tun by the Maya, in these dates is composed of 360 days. If we return to the Creation date with its twenty cycles set at thirteen, we see that it will take 41,943,040,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 tuns for the highest cycle to change from thirteen to one."