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48 OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
The date of this Mayan disk had been estimated as a.d. 587 but it
could be much older. It actually shows, since the origin of the calendar,
an elapsed time of 11 days, 14 months, 12 years, 17 katuns, 7
baktuns, and 9 Grand Cycles. That seems to indicate the year 14 b.c.
for the disk and the year 49,611 b.c. for the origin of the Mayan calendar
(estimated by others as 18,633 B.C.). After all, it is only 1 bak-
^tun before the start of the Egyptian calendar in 49,214 B.C.
gested that one of these mysterious numbers represented a
cycle of 23,040 miUions of days, or 64 milhons of Mayan years of
360 days each, called an "alautun." But still nobody paid any attention,
and the huge Mayan numbers were forgotten once more.