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> >The Norse said that 432,000 fighters from
> Valhalla fought "the wolf."
> Your source for this information is....?
>

I'd like this too. Oh, the number is there, 450 doors, 800 warriors in each door or is it room, see "The Lay of Grimnir", (in Norse, "Grimnismal"

> >There are 10,800 stanzas in the Rig Veda, and
> each stanza has 40 syllables
> >(10,800 x 40 = 432,000).
> Your source for this information is....?

Some massaging here of the numbers, the number I find easily is 10,600, and as for syllables, " A total of 15 different poetic metres are employed, the Tristubh metre (4 lines x 11 syllables), the Gayatri metre (3 x 8), and the Jagati (4 x 12), being the most commonly used"
[acharya.iitm.ac.in]

Use the right numbers and you come up withs omething quite different.
>
> >The Chinese Triads use base six numbers like
> 18, 36, 72, and 108.
> Your source for this information is....?

Waiting for an answer here.

Anyway, isn't this Base 6? You don't have '18' in Base 6 as a numberal.


Base 6 Base 10

1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
10 (1 six and 0 ones) 6
11 (1 six and 1 one) 7
12 (1 six and 2 ones) 8
13 9
14 10
15 11
20 (2 sixes and 0 ones) 12
21 (2 sixes and 1 one) 13
22 14
23 15
24 16
25 17
30 18
31 19
32 20
33 21
34 22
35 23
40 24
41 (4 sixes and 1 one) 25

>
> >From Hinduism, the yugas' lengths in "divine
> years" are 1,200 (Kali), 2,400
> >(Davpara), 3,600 (Treta), and 4,800 (Krita).
> And one Mahayuga is 4,320,000 >years.
> Your source for this information is....?

Ok for the Mahayuga, but I find 1000 years for the Kali-yuga on some sites much more on others, and as for the Dvpara (the correct spelling, he's way out.
[www.harekrsna.com]
But you will find his figures here!
[www.mcremo.com] hmmm.
>
> >In the Rig Veda I:163 it reads "...the 12
> spoked wheel in which 720 sons of >Agni are
> established."
> Your source for this information is....?
The quote is "11 Formed with twelve spokes, by length of time, unweakened, rolls round the heaven this wheel of during Order.
Herein established, joined in pairs together, seven hundred Sons and twenty stand, O Agni."
>
> >The Orion constellation is called "Time-Man"
> (Kal-Purush) by the Hindus.
> Your source for this information is....?

Looks right.
>
> >The Mayans have the necessay numerals for
> calculating precession for their Long >Count
> calendar: 1 Tun = 360 days, 2 Tuns = 720 days, 5
> Baktuns = 720,000 days, >6 Katuns = 43,200
> days, etc.
> Your source for this information is....?

Hermione dealt with this.

>
> >And of course, the precession-calculation
> numerals are in the Book of the Dead, >as well
> as in the Great Pyramid and ancient mapping
> finding.
> Your source for this information is....?
>
No idea.




Doug Weller

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