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THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC 121
lestial vault. Again, we have here the same magic number, 28, or
4 times 7, that we find all over the world, as in the 28 parts of
the Maltese cross of the Aegean, the 28 sectors of the Medicine
Wheel of Wyoming, or the 28 inches of the cubit of Giza,
Tiahuanaco, and Cuenca.
Thirteen was a sacred number for the Mayas, and I believe
they divided the zodiac in thirteen parts, even though so far I
have not been able to prove it. The Mayan calendar consisted of
13 baktuns of 20 katuns each, representing 260 conjunctions of
Jupiter and Saturn.
Some modern astrologers have already begun to use thirteen
signs of the zodiac. Generally they place a new sign between
Scorpio and Sagittarius, but it seems more logical to me to insert
a new sign between Leo and Virgo. More available space is
found there than after Scorpio, and so a new sign called "Triangle"
could very conveniently be created by taking the bright star
Denebola from the very tip of the lion's tail in Leo.
When I started to write this book I had no intention to devote
a whole chapter to astrology. It seemed to be outside my subject
matter for this account of my discoveries. If at all, only ancient
astrology interested me, but my effort to discover as much as
possible about the knowledge of our ancestors in all things astronomical
forced me to become an expert in astrology. Doing all
this research in a factual and precise manner, I could not help
but notice the pitfalls and empty gaps of the old astrology, and
this, in turn, made me seriously question the validity of the
whole operation of our modern astrologers and their esoteric
merchandise. Either the astrologers did not have the faintest
idea themselves what it was that they were doing or they did not
care what kind of product they were producing, as long as it
sold. However, to make the public believe that high-grade value
was offered, today's astrologers have given the old hoax a new
twist. The ancient book of the Chaldean Magis is transferred to
magnetic tape and from this data a computer can produce a
This illustration shows the present positions of the thirteen zodiac
signs on the ecliptic and in the solar year. Each of them represents
28.09 days or 27.69 degrees. It also shows the relative positions of
three major stars. Such a zodiac seems to have been used a long time
ago by the Mayas who divided everything into thirteen and twenty.