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50 OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
ber, only sixty-five times smaller and expressed in seconds instead
of days, has been used by Sumerians, a nation on the opposite
side of the globe. This fact seems to indicate that the Mayas
and the Sumerians must have had direct connections with each
other or that they shared a common origin.
I would Hke to emphasize here that the first
constant which
the Mayas used equals exactly 3,600 Sumerian cycles of precession
of the equinoxes of 9,450,000 days each. The reader can
draw his own conclusions. But the number 3,600 certainly seems
to be the root of all the astronomical calculations our ancestors
made, as it is a basic number in the geometry of our planet. We
have exactly 3,600 tenths of one degree in the circumference of
the globe and at the equator each of these parts is equal to
36,000 Babylonian feet.
Most of the calendars of antiquity, no matter where, have
been calculated from the movements of the celestial bodies and
the Mayan calendar is certainly not the only one that has been
worked out from the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn. It is certainly
interesting to observe how many important religious and
political events coincide with the alignments of these two
planets.
The conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn behind the
sun take
place quite rarely. The last such event happened in 1881 and the
one before that in 503 B.C. Yet this cycle of 2,383 years was
known to the astrologers many thousands of years before our era,
as it repeated itself in the years 10,035; 7,652; 5,269; and 2,886
before Christ. The oldest date comes close to the time when the
fabled Atlantis disappeared and the second oldest seems to indicate
the time of the Great Flood described in the Bible.
Among other ancient calendars, some were based on relative
motions of the moon and sun and the most frequently used cycle
was 10,800 years, common to the Hindus, the Sumerians, and the
Babylonians. Forty of these cycles made the great cycle of the
Hindus and the great year of Berossus, high priest of Babylon.
The figure 10,800 also repeats itself in many other places. Multiples
or fractions of this number can be found in sacred texts
from all around the world. The Rig-Veda, the most important sacred
book of the Hindus, has 10,800 verses and the altar of the