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THE FOUR MOONS 1/3
Sumerian foot of 0.319723 m, out of 57.6 million clay bricks, each
with a volume of 0.25 cu ft. The volume of the whole tower
was 14.4 milHon cu ft, or 432,000 cu m, six times smaller than the
Cheops pyramid. The tower was 264 ft tall, and on its top stood
the 24-ft-high Temple of Marduk, making the total height of the
tower 288 ft. The statue of Marduk was cast in solid gold and
weighed 800 Sumerian talents, or 24 metric tons.
It really seems that the Tower of Babel was built with the
Tiahuanaco proportion of 264:288 because not only its measurements
in height but also the proportion of the two first terraces is
such. Its total volume of 432,000 cu m ties it in with the metric
system and with the number of 432,000 years, which is used even
today by the descendants of the ancient Hindus as an astronomical
and rehgious time cycle. The Babylonians used the same
cycle, but divided it by 40, creating the time cycle of 10,800
years, which is found in many cultures. As for the Ziggurat of Ur,
its volume is % of the Tower of Babel, or Ysq of the Great
Pyramid of Cheops. Also, the surface of its first terrace was
2,268 sq ml
We must recognize here, whether we like it or not, that widely
separated cultures used similar systems for measuring length,
volume, weight, and time, standards whose original sources have
disappeared without recognizable trace. Yet the common heritage
seems incontestable, and if we want to beHeve the Egyptian,
Tibetan, and many other legends, the common source of all
culture was a great island in the middle of the Atlantic
ocean
that disappeared in the waves 12,000 years ago, the fabled
Atlantis, which we will discuss next