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THE UNIVERSAL CALENDAR
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junctions of Jupiter and Saturn, or 4,01 1V2 years and ended in a
fantastic deluge that drowned everything and everybody. The
second cycle of equal duration ended again in
a catastrophe of
violent cyclones that brought total destruction. The third period
of the Aztec calendar lasted 242 conjunctions of the two planets,
or 4,805 years and was finished by volcanic eruptions that
burned everything to a crisp. The fourth cycle of 253 conjunctions
or 5,024 years ended in general famine and starvation. We
live now in the fifth Aztec time cycle which began in 781 b.c.
and should end in our year 2020, significantly the same date as
given by the Mayan calendar, though not telling us what to expect
at that time. If we take the starting date of 781 B.C. and go
back 17,852 years, the sum of the first four Aztec periods, we arrive
at the same first year of the Mayan calendar— 18,633 B.C.
Further, we have the date that is common in two different and
widely separated cultures, the Mayan and the Hindu. It is the
year 11,654 b.c. The Hindus counted time in periods of 2,850
years or 150 Metonic cycles of nineteen solar years each. According
to my calculations their calendar started in 3104 b.c. If
we go back three Hindu time-counting periods of 2,850 years
each we arrive at the year 11,654 b.c. The Mayas counted time
by several different methods, one of them being cycles of 2,760^^3
years that started in the year 3373 b.c. Three such cycles bring
us back by exactly one year less than the date of the Hindu timecounting—the
famous year 11,653 b.c.
Then there is the date of 11,540 b.c. that is common to the
Egyptians and the Assyrians. The Egyptians counted by periods
of 1,460 years and started one of their cycles in the year 5700 b.c.
Four of these Egyptian cycles bring us back to 11,540 b.c. The
Assyrians counted in periods of 95 Metonic cycles
of nineteen
solar years each, or cycles of 1,805 years starting in 710 b.c.
of these periods result in the same date—the year 11,540 B.C.,
with the start year of the last cycle in 710 b.c.
The date for the creation of the world, according to Zoroaster
the year 9657 b.c, is very close to the year 9564 B.C., the year
when, according to the Tibetans, Atlantis sank.
After that we arrive at more recent dates like the Mayan date
of 8307 B.C., opening year of the Mahabharata, the great epic of
ancient India, in 7116 B.C. Then there are the calendars of the
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