In the library of the Assyrian tyrant Ashurbanipal (669-626 BC), which housed around 30,000 clay tablets inscribed with wedge-like cuneiform, there was one tablet which contained huge, preposterously large numbers. One of the numbers contained fifteen digits: 195,955,200,000,000.
A French communications scientist named Maurice Chatelain, who worked for the US government as an aeronautics engineer, and who had learned about the incredibly complex Mayan calendar, found himself wondering if there could have been any connection between the Assyrians of Nineveh and the Maya. He eventually realised that the Nineveh number was not as arbitrary as it looked: it was 70 multiplied by 60 to the power of seven.
The Assyrians inherited their culture from the Babylonians, who in turn inherited theirs from the Sumerians. Chatelain subsequently wondered if the Nineveh number could express time in seconds. He calculated it to be 2,268 million days, just over 6 million years.
Chatelain then recalled that the precession of the equinoxes takes just under 26,000 years to complete its cycle. This period is known as the 'Big Year'. He then tried dividing this number into the Nineveh constant and found that it was an exact number of precessional cycles - exactly 240 Big Years.
Chatelain then wondered if the Nineveh number was what astrologers and occultists had called 'the great constant of the solar system', which would correlate to the revolution of all the cosmic concentrations of the solar system, including satellites. He then calculated the cycles of the planets in seconds, (no doubt using the NASA computer), and found that each was an exact fraction of the Nineveh constant.
Chatelaine was intrigued by two huge Mayan numbers that had been found on steles at Quiriga, in Guatemala. Translating these into years, he found that one number was just under 93 million years, while the other was 403 million years. He subsequently discovered that 93 million years is exactly 15 times larger than the Nineveh constant, while 403 million is 65 times larger.
The Mayan cycle of 942, 890 days, or 2582 years, turned out to be 130 Saturn-Jupiter conjunctions. Twice this cycle, or 5163 years, is 260 Saturn-Jupiter conjunctions, which gives a grand cycle with the same number as the 260-day Mayan sacred year. (It also covers other cycles of conjunctions: 15 Neptune-Uranus, 1555 Jupiter-Mars, 2284 Mars-Venus, 6522 Venus-Mercury, and 2720 Saturn-Mars)
We now plug in the ‘original’ sacred length of the Earth year as 360 days instead of 365.2422. If our "perfect Precession cycle" for Earth would be exactly 25,000 years of exactly 360 days in length, how many days total would be in that "perfect cycle?" In order to get this number, we would simply multiply 360 by 25,000.
From this calculation, we can quite clearly show that the number of "perfect days" in a "perfect cycle" would be exactly 9,000,000 days.
Yes, folks, it reduces down to a straight nine. Nine is the penultimate number to the Maya, the cornerstone that underlies all other harmonic numbers in the Mayan Calendar, such as 36, 72, 144. In later chapters, we will see these same Mayan numbers show up, interestingly enough, as the frequencies of vibration that produce musical sound.
These are the types of numerical synchronicities that lend serious credibility to the notion that these sacred measurements were at one time accurate. The harmonic number 9 has long been considered in numerology to be indicative of "perfect perfection," or the number 3, which means "perfect", multiplied by itself.
