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I am extremely fascinated by the ancient 360-day calendars that are said to have been used globally until the 8th century BCE. In fact, http://360dayyear.com/ suggest that the Mayan Empire, Egypt, Aztec Empire, India, Sumeria, Babylonia, Armenia, Greece, Rome, China and Hebrews had all used 360-day calendars.
For what purpose?
For agricultural-based societies, the accurate timing of seasons is essential to life as well as prosperity. A 360-day calendar would be out of sync by a full month after just 5-years and would have been discarded. But, that is not what happened. 360-day calendars are said to have been in use for at least 1500-years.
Recently, an article titled "Solving the mystery of the ancient 360-day calendar" was recommended by a colleague and, after reading the article, it was obvious that its author is not from academia. However, I felt that its conclusions may open important new areas of discovery. The article is copyrighted material and with the author's written permission and the approval of ancient-astronomer.com, I have inserted significant parts of his narrative.
Enjoy,
Author: Ron Messick ((c)copyright 2018 by Ronald G. Messick--all rights reserved)
"By 3,100 BC, the ancient Sumerians had already become a highly advanced and sophisticated civilization. They had a writing system (cuneiform script) and a library containing hundreds of thousands of historical documents. They also had a governmental structure and legal system and were building bridges, dams, aqueducts and irrigation systems. They also invented the wheel and plow. Mathematics appeared to be their Forte as they could perform advance arithmetic calculations and solve quadratic equations. They developed (apparently from scratch) the science of astronomy-- dividing the heavens into a circle of 360 degrees, which they subdivided into 12 intervals of 30 degrees each. They also developed the Sexagesimal structure for measuring time--using sixty-second minutes and sixty-minute hours (like we use today). Furthermore, they created our current measure of distance based of miles, feet and inches. They mastered geometry, calculating areas of rectangles, triangles and trapezoids (as well as their volumes) and were using Pythagorean therm over a thousand years before Pythagoras was even born. And, there is solid evidence that sophisticated geometrical calculations were being used to track the movement of planets (estimating the area under a curve by drawing a trapezoid or four-sided figure underneath). Using this method, they could track the position, speed and the distance of planets--a technique that is fundamental to physics and was previously believed to have originated only about 600-years ago in 14th century Europe."
"Unraveling the puzzle
Over the next several years an original concept slowly began to emerge.
I discovered right away that the Sumerians divided the the day into intervals of 4-minutes (1440-minutes÷4 = 360). The resulting 360, I assumed, were degrees of rotation. They also had reckoned that the Earth’s circumference is 21,600 nautical miles (about the same value we use today). Dividing 21,600 nautical miles by 360 told me that the Earth traveled 60-nautical miles in 1-degree of rotation and that 60÷4 = 15-nautical miles per-minute (15 X 1440 = 21,600)..
The sacred cube
At that point I had discovered that 4 X 360 = 1440-minutes or 1-day (in minutes). Then, I discovered that 4 X 360 X 360 = 518,400-minutes or 1-year (in minutes). The next major breakthrough was learning that 4 X 360 X 360 X 360 is 186,624,000 (the same value described in the canonized book of ancient numbers as the Earth's orbital diameter or major axis. (360 cubed x 4 = Earth's orbital diameter)
At that point and time I hypothesized that 186,624,000 was the Earth's orbital diameter (expressed in miles) and when the miles were divided by an orbital velocity of 360-miles per-minute the value was converted to minutes (518,400÷1440 = 360-days). In other words, to the Sumerians, minutes were synonymous with miles."
"To test that supposition I did the following:
186,624,000-miles÷360 = 518,400-minutes÷24-hours = 21,600-nautical miles per-hour÷60-minutes = 360-nautical miles per-minute÷60-seconds = 6-nautical miles per-second (The same as the frequency described by Nicola Tesla).
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In other words, the sacred cube (4 X 360 X 360 X 360) produces the Earth's orbital diameter and reversing that value (using the structure of an Earth day) identifies the harmonic structure of the ancient Sexagesimal system and the source of the 360-day calendar systems."
Continued at ancient-astronomer.com
I hope you enjoyed this article as much as I did.
Jess
I am extremely fascinated by the ancient 360-day calendars that are said to have been used globally until the 8th century BCE. In fact, http://360dayyear.com/ suggest that the Mayan Empire, Egypt, Aztec Empire, India, Sumeria, Babylonia, Armenia, Greece, Rome, China and Hebrews had all used 360-day calendars.
For what purpose?
For agricultural-based societies, the accurate timing of seasons is essential to life as well as prosperity. A 360-day calendar would be out of sync by a full month after just 5-years and would have been discarded. But, that is not what happened. 360-day calendars are said to have been in use for at least 1500-years.
Recently, an article titled "Solving the mystery of the ancient 360-day calendar" was recommended by a colleague and, after reading the article, it was obvious that its author is not from academia. However, I felt that its conclusions may open important new areas of discovery. The article is copyrighted material and with the author's written permission and the approval of ancient-astronomer.com, I have inserted significant parts of his narrative.
Enjoy,
Author: Ron Messick ((c)copyright 2018 by Ronald G. Messick--all rights reserved)
"By 3,100 BC, the ancient Sumerians had already become a highly advanced and sophisticated civilization. They had a writing system (cuneiform script) and a library containing hundreds of thousands of historical documents. They also had a governmental structure and legal system and were building bridges, dams, aqueducts and irrigation systems. They also invented the wheel and plow. Mathematics appeared to be their Forte as they could perform advance arithmetic calculations and solve quadratic equations. They developed (apparently from scratch) the science of astronomy-- dividing the heavens into a circle of 360 degrees, which they subdivided into 12 intervals of 30 degrees each. They also developed the Sexagesimal structure for measuring time--using sixty-second minutes and sixty-minute hours (like we use today). Furthermore, they created our current measure of distance based of miles, feet and inches. They mastered geometry, calculating areas of rectangles, triangles and trapezoids (as well as their volumes) and were using Pythagorean therm over a thousand years before Pythagoras was even born. And, there is solid evidence that sophisticated geometrical calculations were being used to track the movement of planets (estimating the area under a curve by drawing a trapezoid or four-sided figure underneath). Using this method, they could track the position, speed and the distance of planets--a technique that is fundamental to physics and was previously believed to have originated only about 600-years ago in 14th century Europe."
"Unraveling the puzzle
Over the next several years an original concept slowly began to emerge.
I discovered right away that the Sumerians divided the the day into intervals of 4-minutes (1440-minutes÷4 = 360). The resulting 360, I assumed, were degrees of rotation. They also had reckoned that the Earth’s circumference is 21,600 nautical miles (about the same value we use today). Dividing 21,600 nautical miles by 360 told me that the Earth traveled 60-nautical miles in 1-degree of rotation and that 60÷4 = 15-nautical miles per-minute (15 X 1440 = 21,600)..
The sacred cube
At that point I had discovered that 4 X 360 = 1440-minutes or 1-day (in minutes). Then, I discovered that 4 X 360 X 360 = 518,400-minutes or 1-year (in minutes). The next major breakthrough was learning that 4 X 360 X 360 X 360 is 186,624,000 (the same value described in the canonized book of ancient numbers as the Earth's orbital diameter or major axis. (360 cubed x 4 = Earth's orbital diameter)
- As a side note, the orbital diameter of 186,624,000 divided by two makes the orbital radius 93,312,000-miles. A google search of the phrase “93,312,000 + distance” has 394 listings. That means that others before me have gone down this same path. And, as author Thomas Karl Dietrich pointed out in his book (The Culture of Astronomy), the number 108 is sacred in Vedic science, which says that 108 X the diameter of the Sun equals the average radius of the Earth’s orbit—our average distance from the Sun (108 X 864,000 miles = 93,312,000 miles.)
At that point and time I hypothesized that 186,624,000 was the Earth's orbital diameter (expressed in miles) and when the miles were divided by an orbital velocity of 360-miles per-minute the value was converted to minutes (518,400÷1440 = 360-days). In other words, to the Sumerians, minutes were synonymous with miles."
"To test that supposition I did the following:
186,624,000-miles÷360 = 518,400-minutes÷24-hours = 21,600-nautical miles per-hour÷60-minutes = 360-nautical miles per-minute÷60-seconds = 6-nautical miles per-second (The same as the frequency described by Nicola Tesla).
In other words, the sacred cube (4 X 360 X 360 X 360) produces the Earth's orbital diameter and reversing that value (using the structure of an Earth day) identifies the harmonic structure of the ancient Sexagesimal system and the source of the 360-day calendar systems."
Continued at ancient-astronomer.com
I hope you enjoyed this article as much as I did.
Jess