432 Babylonian, Biblical and Norse references to time.
“Oriental Mythology” by Joseph Campbell
Mesopotamian Numerology
Sumerian, Babylonian, et al
decimal (base 10) & sexigesimal (base 60)
60 seconds = 1 minute
60 minutes = 1 degree
360 degrees = 1 circle
60 seconds = 1 minute
60 minutes = 1 hour
- time and space are in numerical accord.
- numerology was associated with the cosmic order
Babylonian Harmonic Number 12, 960, 000 = 60 x 60 x 60 x 60
see Mayan Harmonic Number 13 66 560
60 (soss)
600 (ner)
3 600 (ser)
216 000 (great sar) = 60 x 3 600
2 x great sar = 432 000
Precession of the Equinoxes
1 degree every 72 years
= 30 per 2, 160 years
= 360 per 25, 920 years
25, 920 / 60 = 432
Mesopotamian year = 360 days + 5 days = 72 x 5-day weeks + 5 days
as day : year
so year : great year
360 x 72 = 25, 920 calendar days in 72 years
72 years = 1 degree precessed by equinoxes
In 72 years, the Mesopotamians measured:
1 degree change in the Precession of Equinoxes
25, 920 calendar days
x 360 = 25, 920 years, the complete Precession
Babylonian & Biblical Numerological comparison
According to Berossos, a Babylonian scholar, a particular arrangement of 10 antediluvian kings (as listed previously on Babylonian tablets under different names and times), and the duration of their reigns, totalling 432, 000 years.
In Genesis 5 (King James), the 10 Patriarchs from Adam to Noah at the Flood lasted 1, 656 years.
432, 000 / 72 = 6, 000
432, 000 = 86, 400 x 5-day weeks
vs
1, 656 / 72 = 8, 400
8, 400 days = 1, 200 x 7-day weeks
72 x 1, 200 = 86, 400
86, 400 7-day weeks in 1, 656 years
86, 400 5-day weeks in 432, 000 days
Norse Mythology
and “in the Icelandic Poetic Edda it is told that in Odin’s heavenly warrior hall there were 540 doors:
Five hundred doors and forty there are,
I ween, in Valhall’s walls;
Eight hundred fighters through each door fare
When to war with the Wolf they go.
540 x 800 = 432 000
Indian Divine Years
1 200 x 201 = 241 000
1 200 x 380 = 456 000
1 200 x 360 = 432 000
Cosmology and Numberology
“history interpreted as a manifestation of myth.”
“Theindication would seem to be, therefore, that the highest concern of the mythology from which these kin lists derived [was based on] some sort of mathematically ordered, astronomically referred notion about the relationship of man and the rhythms of this life on earth, not simply to the seasons, the annual mysteries of birth, death and regeneration, but beyond those to even greater, very much larger cycles: the great years.”
“The mathematical law united botht [the lunar rhythm of the womb and celestial-terrestrial circumstance].”
