The Maya Number of Time: Intervalic Time Reckoning in the Maya Codices, Part II

…all things and acts and symbols — or the whole of human experience — consist of replicas, gradually changing by minute alterations more than by abrupt leaps of invention…. The little changes separated by infinitesimal alterations like the changes appearing in copies of the same document prepared by different scribes, are dismissed as trivial … large-interval changes are similar to small interval changes. Furthermore, many changes assumed to be large are really small when seen in full context.