Prime Number Notation: The numbers we first thought of

(This article is part of a future book on megalithic science)

A basic thesis of my book Sacred Number was that,

The Stone Age peoples, through observing the celestial environment (the sky), and how it is time-structured numerically, came to understand the structure of number itself as a cosmic principle that was central to the Creation.

This was the path whereby the Stone Age became the megalithic culture that clearly used large stones in meaningful ways to capture celestial events and express numerical relationships important to this worldview.

Some of the effective techniques, including right angled triangles and counting techniques, developed in the megalithic, leave their own records in the organisation of the megaliths themselves -their alignments and the distances between them. This means that whilst we today take notes of our measurements with pen, paper and our number notation system, the megalithic specialists might have had less need for a system of notation apart from the objects of measurement themselves.

However, it is almost certain that they did develop notation systems, especially with regard to the recording and manipulation of the large numbers of feet, cubits, steps, yards, miles of whatever type required to, for instance, achieve angular measures and trigonometrical functions, without the type of equipment or analytical algebra we have today. We don’t have to re-invent modern systems of mathematics so that the megalith builders could have done what they did – and people who try strain credibility and their theories are roundly rejected. But there does have to be a way for ancient science to achieve what it did.

Even the way we write number down today, in decimal notation, is effectively a sophisticated piece of equipment and the way this evolved within the historical period is perhaps indicative of a prehistoric system of notation that, like so many other elements of our culture, was inherited but in a distorted form relative to the original version....

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The Mary Latitude

 

Our Lady of Medjugorje - by a young boy near MedjugorjeIn the last century, the “manifestations” of Mary at Garabandal and more recently Medjugorje in Bosnia have involved the same, highly specific latitude of 43.2 degrees. Lourdes is close to this latitude also.

This has at its heart the canonical 432 and all the range of other canonical numbers such as 72, numbers made only from multiplying only 2 and 3. However, it is divided by 5 just as Delphi and Thebes were divided by 7. If we see what proportion of 72 degrees, 43.2 is the answer is 5/8. This is exactly the (Fibonacci) relationship of the Earth year of 365 days and the Venus synod of 584 days. The latitude appears to function with a numerical proportion belonging to the relative time periods between Earth and another adjacent planet. However, if it does, it does so at right angles to the rotation of the Earth and relative to the Equator.

The Virgin Mary can then be equated to the planet Venus (as one does) since the Virgin clearly came to occupy the place of the sacred feminine after the arising of the patriarchal culture of Rome. In any case, the energy related to the feminine takes many guises, such as the triple goddess of Earth, Moon and Venus, woman, hag and maiden.

One of the most interesting aspects of such a Mary line is its meaning with regard to both native American and later history as it passes through the land of the Iroquois nation, Niagara Falls, Battles of Saratoga and of Wounded Knee. It crosses the Apollo Line in Genova, Italy which is near Assisi (St Francis of), Sienna (St Catherine of) and Lake Tresimere where Hannibal defeated the Roman Legions for Cathage.

 The Mary Line in the old world of Europe

We have already noted that Washington DC is on the same latitude as the Delphic oracle and that the latitude of Jerusalem passes through Texas. Adding the Mary line, one gets an impression of these three latitudes “bracketing” the United States as if to delimit a nation for the New World.

The mysticism of Delphi might well connect with Washington D.C. whilst the divine feminine relates more to the initially positive “indian” relations of the Iroquois League to the Constitution and  Enlightenment altruism of the Founding Fathers. It was an ancient tradition that parallels of latitude were significant or sacred in the locating of spiritual sites, whilst the myth of a New Jerusalem in the West seems to correspond to a geodetic relationship of the Mediterranean to the continental United States.

Mary crosses to the New World

 A friend, John Kirby, has kindly allowed me to place his PDF document on The Day of Mary which lists some more information on the Mary line-of-latitude, after the identical latitude of Medjugorje and Garabandal had been noticed. His paper comes from the sensibility of someone who has spent much time in Medjugorje and contemplation upon the meaning of Mary as a manifestation.

Click to view The Day of Mary by John Kirby

The Hypothesis of Sacred Latitudes

We can say that studying the meaning of the Earth can be aided by the straight lines sometimes called ley lines. The effect of placing a line upon the earth is that places become connected by it so as to correspond with how information can be worked with. The idea that the places are actually connected in some mystical way will always be contested but as an operational technique for learning things and then possibly seeing some unusual things, the technique proves very successful.

Some lines on the landscape form sightlines to astronomical events on the horizon, often involving megalithic monuments since these usually took account of the relation of the sky to the landscape, for reasons that are again contested especially by people who don't observe the sky to form a longer term impression of its meaning. It appears that the fact based cultural norm is in conflict with the study of phenomena as meaningful in a human sense.

Other lines appear to relate to the spherical nature of the earth. The direction of the nearest pole, the directly east west direction or the strange Michael lines that ascend and descend in a helical spiral of 30 degrees to east-west, referred to in Sacred Number and the Origins of Civilization. The hypothesis has developed that in some way historic/ spiritual events emerge due to such frameworks so that then the meaning of such lines is that they are active in enabling what happens on earth.

Some grand concept of history is possible with regard to the precessional movement of the earth since the resulting changes in its orientation are associated with ages such as the coming Age of Aquarius - a concept now embedded into popular culture as a harbinger of change. The last two thousand years have been symbolically linked to Jesus as Lord of that Age of Pisces using symbols associated with fish. Could a real history be unfolding through some sorts of mechanism involving these lines?

Latitudes

The east-west line at any place is a line of latitude and as such, anywhere on that line rotates once under the same stars, the stars that have the same declination as the latitude. The stars on the equator have zero degrees declination just as the Equator is defined as zero degrees latitude, north or south, the poles being +/- 90 degrees in latitude.

There is therefore a definite connection between places of the same latitude. Their climate can be approximately similar in respect of the lengths of seasons, power of the sun and so on, and they pass through a similar set of points relative to the spherical earth. The horizon calendar to east and west of risings and settings are identical. In Guns, Germs and Steel, much is made of the fertile crescent's latitudinal connections being good so as to found the culture of "the west" and east based on the neolithic revolution.

Latitudes therefore have a certain interest. The Bush family home is at Midland, Texas and few are aware that this has the same latitude as Jerusalem. also passing through Iran, Iraq and Afganistan. Obama was born in Hawaii, on the same latitude as Mecca. Such parallels are interesting and more complex correlations can emerge. The previous post about Washington D.C. noted the similarity in latitude with Delphi, the Omphalos of ancient Greece.Later posts could cover a few others.

So the latitude hypothesis is that places on the same latitude could have strange connections - and as with ley-lines, at the very least a lot of new facts emerge as a by product of such study and, at the very most, one could discover how the world works. The only caveat is to try and avoid going mad or boring, but that applies to all studies involving the ancient/ earth mysteries.

To study latitudes or other alignments, Google Earth and Wikipedia can be very useful.