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156 OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
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Byzantines, Scandinavians, and Hebrews. Most of these ancient
dates have been known for centuries but nobody dared to use or
publish them because Irish Archbishop Ussher of Armagh, who
propounded a biblical chronology in the seventeenth century,
had established that the world was created in the year 4004 B.C.
at nine o'clock in the morning of October 26, and for centuries it
seemed imprudent to doubt such Bible wisdom.
Now the times have changed and the oldest known dates are
used by quite a few people. Different authors publish them, and
sometimes their dates differ slightly because they use varying
methods of calculation. Nevertiieless, when all the data are
sorted out by computer, only three systems of counting time
emerge: the lunar-solar method, the method using the sun and
Sirius, and the reckoning by the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn.
We can see now that the universal calendar did exist many
thousands of years ago. We have only rediscovered it. It was
based on the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn, and the Mayas
could start their calendar with the year 18,633 B.C. by continuing
the same system that started the Egyptian time-counting or the
time-counting of the Egyptian predecessors 49,214 years
before
our era—always in whole number of the two-planet conjunctions.
Out of sheer curiosity, I wanted to calculate intermediary
dates by intervals of ten Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions of 198.6
years each. Since I am convinced that we will continue to discover
older documented dates as we progress in our research and
probably reach and surpass the date of the Nineveh Constant
64,800 years ago, I made up a calendar of thirteen great Mayan
cycles counting back from the end of the present one which will
end in the year 2020. The thirteen cycles of 5,163 years each
brought me to 65,100 years b.c.