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Katherine Reece Wrote:
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> The Sumerians had the Venus cycle figured at 587
> days (according to the Ammizaduga Tablet).... not
> the actual figure of 584 .. so those children the
> Maya got right and your Sumerians got wrong. The
> Sumerians got the time of disappearance wrong too
A bit more detail, again from Aveni's "Stairways" (184):
"I find it remarkable that two cultures on opposite sides of the globe chose to structure Venus events in an almost identical way. And I do not think this coincidence has anything to do with cultural contact. I think both the Babylonians and the Maya did it because cycles of time manifest in the heavens, though they be many in number, are plainly visible to everyone the world over ...
"The goal of the Babylonian priest who invented the 587-day Venus formula, like that of his counterpart who followed the course of Venus in the skies over Yucatan, seems to have been to establish an orderly and unified method of making future predictions based on past observations."
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