Humanity is said to have experienced four catastrophes during the period which we designate today as the Bronze Age. At least if we follow Plato's reference in his account of "a mighty flood, the third since the cataclysm of the time of Deucalion" (Critias, 112a). The Aztecs of Central America too, in their Anales de Cuauhtitlan, as well as in the Balam de Chumayel, know of "four world-ages," respectively of four "suns" before the present - i.e: the fifth, which following today's European jargon would have to be designated as the Iron Age (Leòn Portilla 1986, 35-37; 49-51). This fifth sun would be identical to the one which, after the catastrophe of Deucalion, was still warming the Greece of Plato.
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