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Recovering the Lost World - The Maya Calendar (8156 words) |
 | The date of 3114 BC is actually a reasonable estimate for the start of the current era, that is, as the date for the close of the "Age of the Gods." The Olmecs must have had a knowledge of the number of solar years which had lapsed since various world-wide cataclysms. |
| When the Long Count was established in 747 BC by the Olmecs, they added six Baktuns (counts of 400 tuns) to a base date of 0.0.0.0, based on the assumption that the year (the tun) had always consisted of 360 days. |
| In 747 BC the Olmec also started to count days, perhaps to recalculate the length of the year after the Earth shock of 747 BC and the change in the night-time skies. |
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