Ancient Long-Age Dating Bible Zodiac Egyptian Sumerian and Mayan history compared.
Carrie Kozikowski
11/26/2003
Establishing the Zodiac Dates
Precession causes the stars to drift very slowly. The 12 Zodiac constellations drift through the vernal equinox over a period of about 26,000 years. I used the Red Shift software and Curve Expert software to find the exact start dates for each zodiac age. Red Shift was used for dates back to 4713 BC, and then Curve Expert was used to extrapolate the dates back to 36,693 BC.
Below is a table. The negative numbers represent BC. The assumption that is made to make this work is that the center of the Milky Way is the start “line”. This is different from the currently assumed system which not everybody agrees with. Books will imply that the Age of Aquarius starts around 2100 AD. This calculation method (from George Flory’s website) implies it started in 1999 AD. A Saptarishi calendar in northern India starts in 6676 BC which is very close to my calculated 6682 BC for the Age of Gemini. The Mayan calendar ends 2012 AD which is very close to my calculated 1999 AD for the Age of Aquarius. Notice the interval lengths (age lengths) are at a maximum around 11,000 BC.
Zodiac | ||||
age # | Age | Date | Interval | Interval x12 |
1 | 8307 | 2077 | 24927 | |
2 | 6230 | 2104 | 25246 | |
3 | 4126 | 2127 | 25528 | |
4 | Aquarius | 1999 | 2148 | 25771 |
5 | -149 | 2165 | 25977 | |
6 | -2313 | 2179 | 26144 | |
7 | Taurus | -4492 | 2189 | 26273 |
8 | -6682 | 2197 | 26365 | |
9 | -8879 | 2202 | 26418 | |
10 | Leo | -11080 | 2203 | 26434 |
11 | -13283 | 2201 | 26411 | |
12 | -15484 | 2196 | 26351 | |
13 | Scorpio | -17680 | 2188 | 26252 |
14 | -19867 | 2176 | 26115 | |
15 | -22044 | 2162 | 25941 | |
16 | Aquarius | -24205 | 2144 | 25728 |
17 | -26350 | 2123 | 25478 | |
18 | -28473 | 2099 | 25189 | |
19 | Taurus | -30572 | 2072 | 24863 |
20 | -32644 | 2042 | 24498 | |
21 | -34685 | 2008 | 24095 | |
22 | Leo | -36693 | ||
Christian symbols is the fish
The Age of Pisces started around 150 BC. One of the Christian symbols is the fish. There are many stories in the New Testament involving fish. I suggest that this may be due to the Age of Pisces. The Old Testament has a lot of goat sacrificing. Moses was upset with the people for worshiping a golden calf and eventually taught them to sacrifice goats (I need to check this for accuracy). I suggest that this may be due to the Age of Aries. Also, the line which marks the beginning of the Age of Aries cuts exactly through the center of the Pleiades, a famous, easily identified constellation. In Job, there is mention of the binding of the chains of the Pleiades.
Bull worshipping and sacrifices
Bull worshipping and sacrifices were extremely common before 2000 BC. It was all over the Mediterranean area, in Egypt, and in India. Evidence of this has even been found in southern Egypt dating to between 4500 and 4000 BC! I suggest that this was certainly due to the Age of Taurus. Taurus is also one of the more important Zodiac constellations because it is at the Milky Way which is the “line” used to calculate all the Ages. There are myths which have twins which may imply the Age of Gemini, but this is less clear. There are no references to crabs so there is no evidence of the usage of this Zodiac system during the Age of Cancer. There are, however, stories of lions which may represent the Age of Leo. The Sphinx with the head of a man and the body of a lion is most likely a Zodiac constellation. The Ages of Leo and Aquarius (man) are directly opposite each other on the Zodiac Circle and 90 degrees from Taurus.
The Mayan Calendar
The Mayan calendar has several different counting systems. One is called the long count and counts 13 segments of 144,000 days (about 394 years) for a total of 5125 years (3113 BC to 2012 AD). Five of these ages, or 65 of these segments, would equal 25,625 years which is the approximate length of the Great Zodiac Circle. There is an Aztec document called the Vaticano-Latin Codex (probably Mayan in origin) which lists the 5 ages and their lengths of time. There is a very curious feature in the list below. The last two ages represent approximate fifths of the Circle, but the first three ages are only about 4000 years long. The change in age duration could be because they wanted to count to a certain event in time or else they switched to an older counting system. Sixths of the Circle would be about 4000 years. The date for the end of the fifth age (2012 AD) corresponds closely with the date for the Age of Aquarius.
Sun / Age | Start Date | End Date | Duration (Years) |
5th | 3113 BC | 2012 AD | 5125 |
4th | 8139 BC | 3113 BC | 5026 |
3rd | 12,220 BC | 8139 BC | 4081 |
2nd | 16,230 BC | 12,220 BC | 4010 |
1st | 20,238 BC | 16,230 BC | 4008 |
Genesis Dating System Decoded
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In Genesis, Chapters 5 and 11, the family lineage is given with extraordinarily long ages for the men. Using the years given for the man’s lifetime age minus the age he was at the time of the birth of his first son, a chart was made and is shown below. An assumption was made to set the absolute dates for the years. Terah and Abraham, who left the city of Ur in Sumeria, mark the beginning of the Jewish calendar which started in 3760 BC.
Genesis 5 and 11 | Years lived after birth of son | Date (BC) | Zodiac (Software Calculation) |
13250 | Virgo 13283 | ||
Adam | 800 | ||
12450 | Leo 11080 | ||
Seth | 807 | ||
Enosh | 815 | ||
Kenan | 840 | ||
Mahalalel | 830 | ||
Jared | 800 | ||
8358 | Cancer 8879 | ||
Enoch (didn't die) | 300 | ||
8058 | |||
Methuselah | 782 | ||
Lamach | 595 | ||
6681 | Gemini 6682 | ||
Noah | 450 | ||
500 | |||
403 | |||
403 | |||
430 | |||
4495 | Taurus 4492 | ||
209 | |||
207 | |||
200 | |||
119 | |||
3760 | Jewish 0 | ||
Terah | 135 | ||
Abraham | 75 |
Notice how the lengths of years fall into groupings separated by the Zodiac Ages. Taurus and Gemini line up quite well with the list, but Cancer does not. Enoch gets special mention in the Bible because he did not die, but went to Heaven instead. This may indicate some kind of change in the calendar since this chapter in the Bible is completely calendar based. Nobody can live over 900 years, can they?
If this list is compared to the Mayan age list, one can see a pattern. The time that the Mayan age lengths change was at the same time that Enoch did not die (during the Age of Cancer). Prior to that date, the Bible uses segments of time of approximately 800 years instead, five of which would equal the approximately 4000 years that the Mayans counted. Both systems count back to approximately 8000 BC using different counting methods, and then both systems switch to 4000 year ages or sixths of the Circle.
Genesis 5 and 11 | Years lived after birth of son | Date (BC) | Zodiac (Software Calculation) | Maya Ages (BC) |
16230 | ||||
13250 | Virgo 13281 | (interval 4010) | ||
Adam | 800 | |||
12450 | Leo 11079 | 12220 | ||
Seth | 807 | |||
Enosh | 815 | |||
Kenan | 840 | (interval 4092) | (interval 4081) | |
Mahalalel | 830 | |||
Jared | 800 | |||
8358 | Cancer 8878 | 8139 | ||
Enoch (didn't die) | 300 | |||
8058 | ||||
Methuselah | 782 | |||
Lamach | 595 | |||
6681 | Gemini 6681 | |||
Noah | 450 | |||
500 | ||||
403 | ||||
403 | (interval 5026) | |||
430 | ||||
4495 | Taurus 4492 | |||
The Egyptian Zodiac
A diagram of the Zodiac found in Egypt is shown below. The Zodiac constellations are marked in green. Notice Cancer is small and off the Circle. There is a pole with a bird in the middle of Gemini marked in gold. The symbols marked in maroon along the Circle are planets. The Moon and the Eye of Horus, marked in orange, fall on the Circle at about the time the Zodiac painting was made.
Segments of the Zodiac Circle
There are several places in the Bible that talk about four animals: a lion, a bull, a man, and an eagle. These are in Job, Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelations and are the 4 main markers on the Zodiac Circle. The lion is Leo, the bull in Taurus, the man is Aquarius, and the eagle must be Scorpio. Perhaps the eagle was changed to a scorpion sometime in the past. These constellations divide the Circle into 4ths which last a little over 6000 years. The Mayans divided the Circle into 5ths which last a little over 5000 years. Each of the 5ths were divided into 13ths each lasting 144,000 days (about 400 years), for a total of 65 segments. The current Zodiac system divides the Circle into 12ths, each lasting a little over 2000 years. We know that modern math divides the circle into 360 segments called degrees. A movement of 1 degree would equal about 72 years. Between the Age of Taurus and the Age of Gemini, the year count segments in Genesis are about 400 years, similar to the Mayan segments. Since they would have been using the 360 degree system, these segments must represent 60ths of the Circle. The Circle can also be divided into 24ths of about 1000 years each. It should be noted that 1000 years is defined as “a time” or God’s day in the Bible (in other words, Creation lasted 7000 years).
Revelations Dating System Decoded
The Book of Revelation is normally considered a book which predicts a disastrous end of the world in the near future. A careful reading reveals the Zodiac system in chapters 4 through 7. With the Zodiac in mind, the book seems to be talking about events in the past and perhaps up to the current time of the writer. The only real prediction is that there will be a new Earth and Heaven at the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. The New Jerusalem is probably the new Great Cycle and the River of Life is the Milky Way at Taurus. Also, there is a count of 144,000 before things can continue. The Maya count 144,000 days in each segment of time when counting the Ages. Another mention of the Zodiac is in the description of the 4 creatures around the throne, a lion (Leo), an ox (Taurus), the face of a man (Aquarius), and a flying eagle (Scorpio?). These 4 signs are every third sign in the Zodiac.
Zodiac Sign | Event |
Aquarius, Capricorn | No obvious mention |
Sagittarius (definitely) | Seal 1 – a white horse, rider holds a bow, conqueror bent on conquest |
Scorpio (or Eagle)? | Seal 2 – fiery red horse, rider given power to take peace from Earth and to make men slay each other |
Libra (definitely) | Seal 3 – black horse, rider holding a pair of scales |
Virgo? | Seal 4 – pale horse, rider named Death and Hades follows close behind, kills over ¼ of Earth |
Leo or a calendar adjustment? | Seal 5 – those who had been slain were told to wait a little longer |
Leo and Cancer? | Seal 6 – Earthquake, falling stars to Earth, sky recedes like a scroll rolling up, people hide in caves |
Gemini | Seal 7 – all kinds of disastrous things including two candlesticks (Gemini) |
Taurus | New Heaven, new Earth, new Jerusalem, old order of things will pass away, God will make everything new, river through city is water of life, new city has 12 gates |
I shall translate some of the features here. The 24 thrones and elders are the 24,000 years of the Circle (the Circle is actually a little longer than that). The 7 flaming torches or spirits are the planets. The sea of glass, like crystal, is outer space. The four creatures (lion, bull, man, and eagle) have 6 wings (6000 years). They have eyes all around and inside (stars). The lion (Leo) opens the scroll. During the opening of the 6th seal, there is a disaster and the scroll rolls up. I suggest this is when they changed the Zodiac counting system, at the end of Leo but before Gemini, around 8000 BC. At this point, the counting of 144,000 starts (in Chapter 7). In Chapters 10 and 11 the scroll is opened again and the two witnesses, two olive trees, 2 lamp stands, 2 prophets went to Heaven in a cloud (Gemini).
There appears to have been an event during Gemini, probably celestial. The dragon or serpent is probably Draco, a constellation in the north that circles the North Star. There is a woman in the wilderness (outer space) for a time, times, and a half a time. I suggest a time is 1000 years and “times” is a quarter of the Circle or 6000 years. Therefore, she is in the wilderness for 7500 years. It should be noted that Creation lasts for 7 days with the 7th day being a day of rest. In other words, I believe that the Bible implies that Creation lasted more than 7000 years but less than 8000.
The Beast’s number, 666, is simply a calendar adjustment. Going from Leo to Taurus, a quarter of the Circle, there would be 15 segments of 144,000 days (15 is ¼ of 60 segments). Using the Red Shift software and the Curve Expert software, there are 6588 years during this quarter. Fifteen segments of 144,000 days equal 5914 years. The difference is 674 years, which is very close to the 666. The number 666 is a calendar adjustment. It is similar to using 360 days for our year and adding 5 or 6 days for adjustment. The Egyptians used 12 months of 30 days and had an extra 5 days (I need to check this for accuracy). After this event, the song of 144,000 starts again. The dragon is tied up for 1000 years. Either they are referring to an event 1000 years before the start of Taurus (5500 BC) or they are referring to the approximately 1000 extra years needed to make the Circle complete (24,000 years plus another 1000 years).
The Book of Life is man’s history written in the stars. The New Heaven and Earth, the New Jerusalem which descends from Heaven with 12 gates, is the new Zodiac. The River of Life flowing through the New Jerusalem is the Milky Way. The Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, is the zero point on the Circle, the start of Taurus. This implies counting since the previous Age of Taurus, which occurred about 30,000 BC!
Discussion of How Old the Counting Is
Both the Genesis count and the Mayan count imply a counting system change around 8000 BC. Even Revelations talks about the scroll rolling up at about that time. References can be found for Taurus and Gemini, but not Cancer. Genesis counts back to about 13,000 BC with a possible 300 year calendar adjustment at Enoch, around 8000 BC. Revelations starts its story with Sagittarius (between 20,000 and 22,000 BC). The Mayan ages start around 20,500 BC. The Alpha and Omega in Revelations is 4500 BC and 30,000 BC. A cave in France dating to 17,000 BC has a painting of Taurus on the wall complete with dots for the Pleiades above it. The Zodiac system in the Bible and the age system of the Maya clearly have common roots. The date for the Mayan age starts in 3113 BC. A calendar in India starts in 3102 BC. Both systems could not be using 144,000 days for a count if they never had contact with each other. Since both switch to segments of 4000 years before 8000 BC, it seems there was an older system used. I suggest the oldest system used twenty four 1000 year segments or thirty 800 year segments. When the zodiac constellations got too far out of alignment (probably there were only six constellations), a new system with 60ths and 12ths was created. Notice the Revelations story mentions only every other zodiac constellation instead of each one. The new system, which is similar to what we use today, also had its problems. Adjustments were needed each quarter. Now we do not use the 60ths and make the Ages 2160 years long instead. The Maya seem to have made a further improvement. Instead of having the 144,000 days be 60ths of the Circle they made them 65ths of the Circle which would cause much less error. However, they also seem to have changed the zero point of the Circle from Taurus to Aquarius for unclear reasons. If you count 24,000 years from the previous Age of Aquarius, you would come close to our year zero, at the Birth of Christ.
The Flood
There is a Sumerian myth which claims the Flood occurred under the gaze of the Lion. A Sumerian tablet dating to about 2500 BC counts the years since the flood on a King’s list. The number of years since the flood exceeds 32,000 years! The lengths of the reigns vary considerably, but the first one is over 24,000 years. This sounds like a full cycle of the Zodiac. Assuming the Age of Leo lasted 4000 years instead of the 2000 years it represents now, the Age of Leo was between 36,700 BC and 32,600 BC.
Noah’s Flood story in the Bible talks about the Nefilim. These were people who were on this Earth before the Flood, and after but are not on this Earth anymore. The only people archeologists know about from that time are the Neanderthals. They are also described in the Bible as Sons of God who took our daughters. Neanderthals were not animals, they were people. They buried their dead ceremonially with flowers and hunted with tools. There is still debate about whether we share any genes with them.
Unsolved Calendar Mysteries
1 What the Mayan 260 day calendar count is for
2 Star maps in ancient cave paintings
3 Using Red Shift found pyramid shafts align at 30,000 BC and the layout on the ground corresponds to 24,000 BC
4 Geological signs of flooding or Earth axis change around 35,000 BC
5 What the 7500 year count is for
