Mythic history resists objective mathematical timescales entirely

Evidence

For the author both history and prehistory belonged to myth. There are innumerable myths narrating themes like the creation of the world or the origin of the clan or the tribe. If such narrations and orally transmitted traditions were fit into a mathematical timescale, they would appear to cover only a few centuries, whereas in reality they stretch much further back. These traditions in the form of myth defied any attempt to describe them on an objective mathematical timescale. In conclusion, the African vision of history, according to sasa and zamani, does not foresee that the world might come to an end, and there is nothing which might suggest that history would have an end either. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 273