MEXICAN CALENDARS—SPINDEN 403 
Ficure 4.—The Seven Caves of the Mexican origin myth. These seven caves are the 
7 x 144,000 days after Maya zero and before Baktun 7, August 6, 613 B. C. Quetzalcoatl 
rearranged Maya chronology which allowed 20 x 144,000 days for the duration of the 
universe. He called the four historical periods of the Maya after Baktun 7, four suns or 
ages each ending in a general destruction. A fifth sun or age was in progress. He estab- 
lished the Toltec era departing from August 5 A. D. 1168, just 1,781 years after Baktun 7. 
In this illustration, from a Toltec history, the Year 1 Knife initiating the Toltec year 
count is in the cave. 
