Graham Hancock published Fingerprints of the Gods in 1995, and introduced the world to the possibility that ancient civilisations were highly evolved and in possession of advanced scientific knowledge.
In order to make sense of Christianity and Western culture, one first needs to grasp the Precession of the Equinoxes, the different numbers connected to the code, and how these numbers have been included in architecture and myths. We need to understand our past so that we can unlock the present. Much of what we have been taught is not quite as it seems. Many secrets are yet to be revealed.
THE SPINX SPEAKS: Below are a few key passages from Fingerprints of the Gods to help explain the Precessional Code in more detail. Pages 272, 273, 274, 275, 460.
– One of the few serious scholars to have tested the theory by Santillana and von Dechend in Hamlet’s Mill, Sellers has been hailed for having drawn attention to the need to use astronomy, and more particularly precession, for the proper study of ancient Egypt and it’s religion. –
– The precessional numbers highlighted by Sellers in the Osiris myth are 360, 72, 30 and 12. Most of them are found in a section of the myth which provides us with biographical details of the various characters. –
– Elsewhere the myth informs us that the 360–day year consists of 12 months of 30 days each. And in general, as Sellers observes, ‘phrases are used which prompt simple mental calculations and an attention to numbers’. Thus far we have been provided with three of Seller’s precessional numbers: 360, 12, and 30. The fourth number, which occurs later in the text, is by far the most important. As we saw in chapter Nine, the evil deity known as Set led a group of conspirators in a plot to kill Osiris. The number of conspirators was 72. –
– With this last number in hand, suggests Sellers, we are now in a position to boot up and set running an ancient computer program.
12 – the number of constellations in the zodiac,
30 – the number of degrees allocated along the ecliptic to each zodiacal constellation,
72 – the number of years required for the equinoctial sun to complete a precessional shift of one degree along the ecliptic,
360 – the total number of degrees in the ecliptic.
72 x 30 = 2160 ( the number of years required for the sun to complete a passage of 30 degrees along the ecliptic, i.e., to pass entirely through any one of the 12 zodiacal constellations.
2160 x 12 (or 360 x 72) = 25, 920 (the number of years in one complete precessional cycle or ‘Great Year’ and thus the total number of years required to bring about the ‘Great Return’).
Other figures and combinations of figures also emerge, for example; 36, the number of years required for the equinoctial sun to complete a precessional shift of half a degree along the ecliptic;
4320, the number of years required for the equinoctial sun to complete a precessional shift of 60 degrees (i.e., two zodiacal constellations). –
– These, Sellers believes, constitute the basic ingredients of a precessional code which appears again and again, with eerie persistence, in ancient myths and sacred architecture. In common with much esoteric numerology, it is a code in which it is permissible to shift decimal points to left or right at will and to make use of almost any conceivable combinations, permutations, multiplications, divisions and fractions of the essential numbers (all of which relate precisely to the rate of Precession of the Equinoxes). –
– The pre-eminent number in the code is 72. To this is frequently added 36, making 108, and it is permissible to multiply 108 by 100 to get 10,800 or to divide it by 2 to get 54, which may then be multiplied by 10 and expressed as 540 (or as 54,000, or as 540,000, or as 5,400,000, and so on). Also highly significant is 2160 (the number of years required for the equinoctial point to transit one zodiacal constellation), which is sometimes multiplied by 10 and by factors of ten (to give 216,000, 2,160,000, and so on and sometimes by 2 to give 4230, or 43,200, or 432,000, or 4,320,000, ad infinition. –
THE GREAT PYRAMID
– As near as makes no difference, therefore, the perimeter of the Great Pyramid’s base is indeed 1:43,200 of the equatorial circumference of the earth. And as near as makes no difference, the height of the Great Pyramid above the base is indeed 1;43,200 of the polar radius of the earth. –
This example from Fingerprints of the Gods suggests the ancient Egyptians understood the earth’s dimensions almost 4500 years ago. Not only that, but they chose to express this knowledge using numbers related to the Precession of the Equinoxes. 43,200, becomes 4320, or 2 x 2160. 4320 represents 60 degrees of the zodiacal constellations, a number that can repeatedly be found in ancient myths. This number plays a key role in Judaism and the Bible.