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146 OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
Sirius, or Sethis. The Sothic year of 365 Vi days was used in ancient
Egypt as a year of 365 days, repeated in cycles of 1,460
consecutive years. But even here it seems that the conjunctions
of Jupiter and Saturn played a role. After an interval of 56 Sothic
cycles, or 81,760 years, the start of the ancient Egyptian calendar
coincides with a conjunction of the two planets. Again, we
note that the number 56 has been mentioned several times
before.
Besides the Sothic cycle, our ancestors had two methods at
their disposal for calculating time, the solar-lunar system and the
Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions. The first method was used for time
periods rarely extending beyond 100 years.
Ancient astrologers
had noticed that the lunar month coincided with the solar year
every 19 years, or after 235 lunar months, a period of time they
called a "Metonic cycle.*' They also knew that the lunar month
coincided with a solar ecHpse every 18.03 years, or 18 years, 11
days after nineteen solar eclipses, or 223 lunar months, a period
they named the "saros."
Using these two periods, the Metonic cycle and the saros, our
ancestors formed longer time periods, like the Celtic Triangle
used in Stonehenge that consisted of 2 Metonic cycles and 1
saros, equal to 56 years. The Mayas combined 2 Saroses and 3
Metonic cycles to make a period of 93 solar years. In my opinion,
there must have been many other such combinations or solarlunar
cycles that have not been explored so far. Our ancestors
must have noticed that after every 521 years, an eclipse of the
sun took place during the same day of the year and in the same
place in the zodiac. Also, that the saros and the Metonic cycle
coincided after 235 saroses or 223 Metonic cycles and that 599
saroses represented exactly 10,800 years. This particular number
10,800 was a sacred one for all ancient cultures.
There can be little doubt that it took thousands of years of
careful observations and notations to assemble this knowledge.
Such important information had to be transmitted to futiure generations
and not forgotten. This is why our ancestors built their
calendars in stone. The most famous one is perhaps the megalithic
temple of Stonehenge.
Its age is estimated to be about 4,000 years and its location is
in the Salisbury Plain of southern Wiltshire, England. The geo-