The number 72 is linked to the Earth's precession of the equinoxes, where the Earth's axis wobbles at a rate of 1 degree every 72 years. Also the number is a large factoring component in Divine Geometry.
The scale factor of the pyramids is 600 x 72.
In Jewish mysticism, the 72-letter name of God represents the ultimate creative and redemptive power of the universe
Jesus sent out 72 disciples (recorded in Luke 10:1-12) to prepare towns for his arrival, heal the sick, and spread the message that the kingdom of God was near.
Esotericism: In Western occultism and Freemasonry, the number 72 acts as a bridge between the material realm and the divine, often represented geometrically by the compass set to 72 degrees.
Because it is easily divisible by many numbers (including 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 18, 24, and 36), 72 was revered by ancient mathematicians as a highly versatile and "perfect" foundation for building calendars and spiritual systems.
The number 72 is linked to the Earth's precession of the equinoxes, where the Earth's axis wobbles at a rate of 1 degree every 72 years.
1 degree is a unit of angle that was invented relatively recently, with invention of trigonometly with all that sin(), cos(), tg() stuff. In the distant past, people measured and accounted angles as elevation/offset on some length/distance. Like 1 inch per foot. It was much more practical and obvious for them. So, this "1 degree in 72 years" hardly could come to someone head at the time when all that babylonian things happened. Angle unit in itself was useless for them without trigonometric functions. It's today we could use angle to find out lengths, heights and widths of trinalge and other shapes using calculator, but babylonians hardly know what f.e. sin() is.
This theory that babylonians could assume that there are approx 360 days in a year and so circle could be divided into 360 sectors with 1 modern degree angle, ruins myth about high precision of ancient measurements. If babylonians couldn't properly measure duration of a year in days as 365, then there can't be talks about some precise ratios they probably knew, and 72 will be just 70 for them.
Not agruing against other number "72" history, you wrote, but exactly this case is highly doubtful.
My theory is much simpler and much more boring. "72" is not something mistique. "72" is just a half dozen of dozens. Many tribes used 12-based scale of notation at the time, so 72 is a "round" number in 12 base. It was just a "round" number for them. Exactly like number "50" for us, who use 10 base now. So, there are no any magic that 72 appear often in ancient texts and ratios. Just a "round" number of the time, same as "50" now.
On the opposite, I overestimate them here, closing my eyes on many inconsistencies and utter indifference of our ancestors to many interesting things around. If I began to dig into real, practical results of that ancient knowledge praised here, the picture will be much, much worse.
Very simple question - humanity know lenses and concave mirrors from a very ancient times. How comes, nobody of that ancient geniuses never tried to compbine few lenses and or concave mirrors to create a telescope, until Galileo times?
If ancients was so interested in cosmology, who prevent them to try to use lenses/concave mirrors to look deeper into sky? Isn't that obvious to try to use well-known effect of lenses or concave mirrors to magnify objects in the sky if ancients was so interested in them. But somehow it took few millenias to finally do that.
So, don't even try to think that I underestimate ancients. I have a tons of questions like above about why they was so indifferent for studing the universe around, when many things to do was absolutely technically possible even at a very ancient times.
Just think, how our world could look like, if telescope was invented not by Galileo, but by Archimedes, f.e. And if you immidiately didn't come up with the question who prevented that, and how many similary simple things is not invented yet for that reason, you are not anywhere near anybody who could be called "conspiracy theorist".
The sky was more visible in the past, telescopes were eventually invented when technology and invention finally allowed. People aren't born with complete understanding, it takes a lifetime. There was no organized school system or tech teams other than what could be assembled by a person of means. Yet the stars and their motions were observed and recorded to great degree. Today, we have modern telescopes that can see far into space, yet the average person, even some astronomers are ignorant of many of the concepts that the ancients pulled from it. I just discussed Greek mythology and its influence on astronomy with an astro-physicist this afternoon. Also discussed was astro-archeology (aka acheo-astrology) and how it determined the placement of temples and other influencial buildings. Things lost to the majority of modern thinking/understanding.
Modern man, using both microscopes and telescopes continually discovers that nothing is new under the sun.
In fact, they await the thread that binds both the micro and macro worlds that also has been discovered and expressed to little effect until that day of Great Awakening.
The number 72 is linked to the Earth's precession of the equinoxes, where the Earth's axis wobbles at a rate of 1 degree every 72 years. Also the number is a large factoring component in Divine Geometry.
The scale factor of the pyramids is 600 x 72.
In Jewish mysticism, the 72-letter name of God represents the ultimate creative and redemptive power of the universe
Jesus sent out 72 disciples (recorded in Luke 10:1-12) to prepare towns for his arrival, heal the sick, and spread the message that the kingdom of God was near.
Esotericism: In Western occultism and Freemasonry, the number 72 acts as a bridge between the material realm and the divine, often represented geometrically by the compass set to 72 degrees.
Because it is easily divisible by many numbers (including 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 18, 24, and 36), 72 was revered by ancient mathematicians as a highly versatile and "perfect" foundation for building calendars and spiritual systems.
1 degree is a unit of angle that was invented relatively recently, with invention of trigonometly with all that sin(), cos(), tg() stuff. In the distant past, people measured and accounted angles as elevation/offset on some length/distance. Like 1 inch per foot. It was much more practical and obvious for them. So, this "1 degree in 72 years" hardly could come to someone head at the time when all that babylonian things happened. Angle unit in itself was useless for them without trigonometric functions. It's today we could use angle to find out lengths, heights and widths of trinalge and other shapes using calculator, but babylonians hardly know what f.e. sin() is.
This theory that babylonians could assume that there are approx 360 days in a year and so circle could be divided into 360 sectors with 1 modern degree angle, ruins myth about high precision of ancient measurements. If babylonians couldn't properly measure duration of a year in days as 365, then there can't be talks about some precise ratios they probably knew, and 72 will be just 70 for them.
Not agruing against other number "72" history, you wrote, but exactly this case is highly doubtful.
My theory is much simpler and much more boring. "72" is not something mistique. "72" is just a half dozen of dozens. Many tribes used 12-based scale of notation at the time, so 72 is a "round" number in 12 base. It was just a "round" number for them. Exactly like number "50" for us, who use 10 base now. So, there are no any magic that 72 appear often in ancient texts and ratios. Just a "round" number of the time, same as "50" now.
You under estimate the genius of the past.
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On the opposite, I overestimate them here, closing my eyes on many inconsistencies and utter indifference of our ancestors to many interesting things around. If I began to dig into real, practical results of that ancient knowledge praised here, the picture will be much, much worse.
Very simple question - humanity know lenses and concave mirrors from a very ancient times. How comes, nobody of that ancient geniuses never tried to compbine few lenses and or concave mirrors to create a telescope, until Galileo times? If ancients was so interested in cosmology, who prevent them to try to use lenses/concave mirrors to look deeper into sky? Isn't that obvious to try to use well-known effect of lenses or concave mirrors to magnify objects in the sky if ancients was so interested in them. But somehow it took few millenias to finally do that.
So, don't even try to think that I underestimate ancients. I have a tons of questions like above about why they was so indifferent for studing the universe around, when many things to do was absolutely technically possible even at a very ancient times.
Just think, how our world could look like, if telescope was invented not by Galileo, but by Archimedes, f.e. And if you immidiately didn't come up with the question who prevented that, and how many similary simple things is not invented yet for that reason, you are not anywhere near anybody who could be called "conspiracy theorist".
The sky was more visible in the past, telescopes were eventually invented when technology and invention finally allowed. People aren't born with complete understanding, it takes a lifetime. There was no organized school system or tech teams other than what could be assembled by a person of means. Yet the stars and their motions were observed and recorded to great degree. Today, we have modern telescopes that can see far into space, yet the average person, even some astronomers are ignorant of many of the concepts that the ancients pulled from it. I just discussed Greek mythology and its influence on astronomy with an astro-physicist this afternoon. Also discussed was astro-archeology (aka acheo-astrology) and how it determined the placement of temples and other influencial buildings. Things lost to the majority of modern thinking/understanding.
Modern man, using both microscopes and telescopes continually discovers that nothing is new under the sun. In fact, they await the thread that binds both the micro and macro worlds that also has been discovered and expressed to little effect until that day of Great Awakening.