The starting date of the Long Count was registered by Mayan in several monuments, where we can point
out the Quirigua Stela C. The date was not registered as 0.0.0.0.0, it was registered as 13.0.0.0.0 and it corresponded to the ajaw’s 4th day on the tzolkin calendar and 8 kimk’u according to the ja’ab.
According to the Quirigua inscription, the initial event of the Long Count can be interpreted as a creation, metaphorically expressed as the positioning of three sacred stones by a couple of creator gods.
The fact that the initial date is 13.0.0.0.0 shows that this is also the date in which a previous cycle ends. Having this fact, it is considered that the Long Count is the measuring of cycles of 13 b’aktunes, in other words, 11872,000 days (5,125.26 Gregorian years).
Then, the end of the cycle that started on August 11th, 3,114 B.C., will be December 21st, 2012, that in Mayan connotation will be 13.0.0.0.0 4 ajaw 13 kankin. Now a day, it is only known one register of that date written by the Mayan, which is in a monument on the site named Tortuguero.
Many things have been spoken about the end of this cycle, when the bak’tun 13 fulfills, constantly with apocalyptic ideas. However, for the old Mayas this date did not represent the end of the Long Count or the end of the world.
This can be proved by the nature of the interpretations of the monument that is on the Tortuguero, and for two inscriptions on the Cobá site, where Long Count dates were registered, greater than the cycle of the13 b’aktunes.
The b’aktun 13 must not be mistaken with the catastrophes that were part of the mythology of other Mesoamerican cultures, such as the Aztecs “suns age”, or the failed creations narrated on the Popol Vuh.
Anyway, the meaning of these myths is focus on human beings transformations and not on catastrophes that end with them.
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