While reading Ignatius Donnelly's Atlantis: The antidiluvian world, I came across this curious part that mentions Assyrian lunar calendar cycles and Egyptian solar calendar cycles and how both civilizations were able to point to a specific year in prehistory where humans existed and were able to calculate the length of a year with accuracy by doing some simple astronomical observations. That may not be overly impressive to some but it becomes interesting in 2012 terms when a specific date is added to the equation. The year is 11,542 BC.
According to the story, the Egyptians calculated in solar cycles of 1460 years (zodiacal cycles) which is the equivalent of 4 periods of 365 days on a solar calendar. The Egyptians knew that their sun cycle of 365 days count was off by a quarter day. At year 1460 a full cycle ends and thus begins a new cycle. The Assyrians on the other hand used the moon for their cycles and one full lunar cycle was 1805 years which equalled 22,325 lunations.
How do these two cycles manage to point to 11,542 BC ?
" In that year 11,542 BC the two cycles came together, and consequently they had on that year their common origin in one and the same astronomical observations."
To get to this calculation the author states that that an Egyptian cycle began in 1322 BC and an Assyrian cycle began in 712 BC. Going backwards cycle by cycle gives different results until at one point both cycles meet at 11,542 BC, the common year of origin of both invention of the counts.
This makes for mystery and in the case of Donnelly involves the Atlantean civilization who are advanced and able to make such observations and who go on to pass the knowledge to the later Assyrians and Egyptians.
Interestingly enough, 11,542 is inline with when Cayce claims the last of three apocalyptic events destroys the remainder of the Atlantis continent.
Also interesting is that 13000 is the mid point of the great Mayan cycle or great year of 26000 years which is a full cycle of the precession of the equinoxes. 11542 and 2012 don't had up to exactly 13000 but it still remains interesting.
If you are reading this then you are likely interested in this type of mystery or just plain bored out of your Calaveras Skull( also mentioned in the Donnelly text as evidence that humans have been roaming the earth for a very long time, much longer than anthropologists of Donnelly's time claim. However, soon after the discovery of the Calaveras Skull, stories of a hoax began to surface and the truth of the matter got buried in mystery).
Either way let me continue.
Donnelly is using the above not only to present the probability that the Atlanteans were indeed active before the Holocene period which began approximately 12000 years ago but that the Chaldeans, those neo-Babylonians who took over after the fall of Assyrian power in Mesopotamia, could trace the roots of their first dynasty to some 39 thousand years before the great flood.
In the year 712 BC when the Assyrian lunar cycle mentioned above begins Babylon was filled with Semitic people ( Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabian, Amharic, Afro-Asiatic ) who were highly oppressed by Assyrian rulers. Semites are sometimes referred to as descendents of Shem who is one of the sons of Noah of the deluge story in biblical holy text.
Nabopolassar ( the shepherd called by Marduk and created by Ninmenna ), is historically documented as restoring the Neo Babylonian state by revolting against the Assyrians. He was born in 658 BC and ruled from 625 to 605 BC. He was the father of Nebuchadnezzar, (Nebu = favoured of Marduk) who was born in 634 BC. Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean is the king who influenced the hanging gardens. As king he had the military support of the Aramean, the Maobite, and the Ammonite when he invaded and destroyed the city of Judah and then Jerusalem. This was a Jewish bloodbath and those who weren`t massacred were brought to justice in other ways or turned into slaves. Nebuchadnezzar takes all of the wealth of Jerusalem, all of which King Solomon had made.
This story can go in different directions. If you have read of or heard the story of the Mormons or LDS church then you probably know that at this time an Aramean named Laban is about to get attacked by the son of the Mormon prophet Lehi who`s name is Nephi. The LDS church believes that Nephi is led by divine inspiration in a mission to recover the authentic geneological histography of the Israelites and a few god idols to later decipher the plates. Nephi Gazi ( gazi being a term for ``warrior of the faith``, sounds like gaza and probably somehow related ) ends up killing Laban. This is a major point in LDS conviction since the Christian Bible only states that Laban the Aramean was the father of Rachel and Leah and that both daughters go on to marry Jacob. This Jacob later wrestles with an Angel and wins. His name is then changed to Israel. Christian text doesn`t state how Laban dies, only that he is an Aramean who becomes the arch enemy of his son in law Jacob. ( Could this be the angel battle ?).
It looks obvious that what we have here is a war for religious supremacy where Nebuchadnezzar is building hanging gardens that reach into the heavens and where Jacob's ladder is competing. Of course there is a problem here, in that the ladder is a vision of ascension, while the hanging gardens are the real thing. Babylonians had a long history of building skyscrapers that could lead them to heaven. It might have begun in the years before the first great Babylonian empire was destroyed by the confusion of tongues events. At this time the Tower of Babel was an attempt to reach the gods (Marduk, etc....maybe the Annunaki) and the gods did reply with thunderbolts and with confusion. (the confusion was likely the introduction of new languages and the revolts against tyrrant lords guided by the supreme Marduk pantheon.)
Again if you are read up on LDS, or high on LSD, you might agree with the Joseph Smith, founder of Mormons, that the Jaredites were a sect that broke away from the Babylonians during this confusion of tongues (LSD will do that ) event and they were led by Jared who's visions were inspiring him to build ships and head towards the Americas. Year. Sometime in 3000 BC or so.
As Franklyn Graham, son of Billy, so finely puts it when asked about Barack Obama and his true convictions to Christianity as opposed to his birth religion of Islam, "Who am I to judge ?", so say I about the LDS possibility.
Getting back to the Chaldean and the possibility that they could prove the roots of their first dynasty going back to 39 thousand years before the age on Noah.
This is interesting to the mystery of Atlantis and one Atlantean believer, namely Edgar Cayce, the sleeping prophet gave 3 apocalyptic periods for the full sinking of the now lost continent. The first was about 50 thousand years ago which correlates closely to the Chaldean first dynasty claim. The second Cayce Atlantis sinking comes in about 24 thousand BC which correlates closely with the beginning of a new cycle of the precession of the equinoxes. The third and final sinking of Atlantis according to Cayce correlates with the beginning of the vast melting of ice and the beginning of the Holocene period which leads to the great floods and the argument of whether or not Noah and his cast were the only survivors of such an apocalypse.
Who are we to Judge ?
Given a guess I would certainly say "PHOOEY". The floods did happen but has Donnelly and others state, they happened all over the planet in cycles of thrust and torrents where you either headed for the mountains by divine inspiration or by fast running or you died with the herd.
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