If these eight terms all belong to one and the same numerical series, a fact the writer believes he has established in the foregoing pages, it means that Cycle 9, the first historic period of the Maya civilization, was Cycle 9 of Great Cycle 19 of Great-great Cycle 11 of Great-great-great Cycle 1. In other words, the starting point of Maya chronology, which we have seen was the date 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu, 9 cycles before the close of a Cycle 9, was in reality 1. 11. 19. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu, or simply a fixed point in a far vaster chronological conception.
Furthermore, it proves, as contended by the writer on page [113], that a great cycle came to an end on this date, 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu. This is true because on the above date (1. 11. 19. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu) all the five periods lower than the great cycle are at 0. It proves, furthermore, as the writer also contended, that the date 4 Ahau 8 Zotz, 13 cycles in advance of the date 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu, did not end a great cycle—
| 1. | 11. | 19. | 0. | 0. | 0. | 0. | 0. | 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu |
| 13. | 0. | 0. | 0. | 0. | ||||
| 1. | 11. | 18. | 7. | 0. | 0. | 0. | 0. | 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu |
but, on the contrary, was a Cycle 7 of Great Cycle 18, the end of which (19. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu) was the starting point of Maya chronology.
It seems to the writer that the above construction is the only one that can be put on this text if we admit that the eight periods in A2-A9, figure [60], all belong to one and the same numerical series.
Furthermore, it would show that the great cycle in which fell the first historic period of the Maya civilization (Cycle 9) was itself the closing great cycle of a great-great cycle, namely, Great-great Cycle 11:
| 1. | 11. | 19. | 0. | 0. | 0. | 0. | 0. |
| 1. | 0. | 0. | 0. | 0. | 0. | ||
| 1. | 12. | 0. | 0. | 0. | 0. | 0. | 0. |
That is to say, that when Great Cycle 19 had completed itself, Great-great Cycle 12 would be ushered in.
We have seen on pages [108]-[113] that the names of the cycles followed one another in this sequence: Cycle 1, Cycle 2, Cycle 3, etc., to Cycle 13, which was followed by Cycle 1, and the sequence repeated itself. We saw, however, that these names probably had nothing to do with the positions of the cycles in the great cycle; that on the contrary these numbers were names and not positions in a higher term.
Now we have seen that Maya chronology began with a Cycle 1; that is, it was counted from the end of a Cycle 13. Therefore, the