Destroying Numerology, Or, The Pythagoreans

Destroying Numerology, Or, The Pythagoreans

Roberto da Silva Rocha, university professor and political scientist

Destroying Numerology, Or, The Pythagoreans

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In the Jewish calendar today is Tisha B'av, the 9th day of the month Av, which is marked by two sad historical events: the destruction of the 1st and 2nd Temples in Jerusalem.

Today is July 6, 2022 in the Western Gregorian calendar.

In the Muslim calendar today is the 6th of Dhu-Hijja Yawm al'-arb`a' 1443.

The year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar corresponds to the year 4720, Year of the Tiger, in the Chinese calendar. This year starts on February 1st and ends on January 21st, 2023.

According to this form of calendar, the year 2022 corresponds to year 33 of the 平成 era, as it has been 33 years since Emperor Akihito assumed the Japanese throne.

What day is today in the Mayan calendar? The “creation date” for the current cycle we are in today is 4 Ahaw, 8 Kumku. According to the most common conversion, this date is equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the Gregorian calendar, or September 6 in the Julian calendar.

So, see what year we are in on some of the most important calendars in the world and how they started their count:

JEWISH

Year: 5782

Beginning of the count: a year before what would be the creation of the world

ISLAMIC

Year: 1443

Start of count: Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina

CHINESE

Year: 4718

Start of count: beginning of the reign of Huang Di, known as the Yellow Emperor. There are other adopted counts, the most used puts us in the year 105 (from the beginning of the Republic of China, version adopted in Taiwan)

ETHIOPIAN

Year: 2014

Start of count: birth of Jesus, but based on a different dating than used in the Gregorian calendar

PERSIAN

Year: 1400

Start of count: Mohammed's flight from Mecca to Medina. As the Persian calendar is solar, the year is longer than the Islamic (lunar) year, which explains the difference in dates even taking the same starting point.

JAPANESE

Year: 34 of the Heisei Era

Start of count: Ascension to the throne of Emperor Akihito (“Heisei” is the name of the era corresponding to the current emperor)

BENGALI

Year: 1428

Beginning of count: Beginning of Shashanka's reign in Gauda (kingdom that unified the region of present-day Bangladesh and eastern India)

NORTH KOREAN

Year: 110

Countdown begins: birth of Kim Il-Sung, leader of North Korea

ARMENIAN

Year: 1470

Start of count: split between the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Roman Catholic Church

THAI

Year: 2565

Start of Count: Death of Buddha

ASSYRIAN

Year: 6771

Start of count: founding of the city of Assur

BERBER

Year: 2971

Start of count: rise of Shoshenk I (because of Libyan origin, he would be the first prominent Berber) to the rank of Pharaoh of Egypt

BYZANTINE

Year: 7530

Start of count: estimated date for the creation of the world (among the most important calendars, this is the one that puts us in a higher year count)

COPTA

Year: 1738

Beginning of the count: Diocletian's accession to the Roman throne (a martyrdom mark, as the emperor persecuted many Christians, especially in Egypt)

KOREAN

Year: 4354

Beginning of count: beginning of the Gojoseon period (one of the eras of the Kingdom of Korea). The calendar was official in South Korea until 1961, when it was replaced by the Gregorian calendar.

JULIAN

Year: 2021

Start of count: birth of Christ. The difference from the Gregorian calendar is only 13 days. In other words, the New Year is coming.

As it turns out, numbers by themselves have no kabbalistic meaning, because they are just symbols, and they do not carry any intrinsic absolute meaning, they are just measurements, with a measurement of a screw it can be represented precisely by 2.57 cm which is just one number in the metric decimal system in the International System of Measurements, but in the American system it would only be 1 inch, so measuring things is just associating a symbol in a particular system of symbols, such as decimal, logarithmic, binary number bases , octal, hexadecimal, are as representative and as good as any number base, such as hexagesimal or sexagesimal combined as the measure of angles from 0 to 360 degrees, and so on.

Every form of measurement is arbitrary and deserves no other intrinsic meaning which destroys all sinister correlation with astronomical, geodesic, personal, systemic, atmospheric, psychological, genetic, or anything else related to numbers themselves.

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político