considered but as incarnations of Buddha or Taurus. When he got
into Aries, they were in like manner considered but as
incarnations of Cristna or Aries, and even Buddha and Cristna
were originally considered the same, and had a thousand names in
common, constantly repeated in their litanies--a striking proof
of identity of origin. Of these Zodiacal divisions the Hindoos
formed another period, which consisted of ten ages or Calpas or
Yugs, which they considered the duration of the world, at the end
of which a general renovation of all things would take place.
They also reckoned ten Neroses to form a period, each of them
keeping a certain relative location to the other, and together to
form a cycle. To effect this they doubled the precessional
period for one sign-- viz: 2160 years--thus making 4320, which
was a tenth of 43,200, a year of the sun, analogous to the 360
natural days, and produced in the same manner, by multiplying the
day of 600 by the dodecans 72 = 43,200. They then formed another
great year of 432,000 by again multiplying it by 10, which they
called a Cali Yug, which was measurable both by the number 2160,
the years the equinox preceded in a sign, and by the number 600.
They then had the following scheme:
A Cali Yug, or 600 (or a Neros) 432,000
A Dwapar, or Duo-par Age. . . .864,000
A Treta, or tree-par Age. . . 1,296,000
A Satya, or Satis Age . . . .1,728,000
---------
4,320,000
altogether 10 Ages, making a Maha Yug or Great Age. These were
all equimultiples of the Cycle of the Neros 600, and of 2160, the
twelfth part of the equinoctial precessional Cycle, and in all
formed ten ages of 432,000 years each."[62]
[62] Anacalypsis, vol. i., p. 232.
The two great religious festivals of the ancients occurred the
one in the spring, at Easter, when all Nature was renewed, the
other in the autumn, after the earth had yielded her bounties and
the fruits were garnered in. It was at these gatherings that the
Great Mother Earth received the devout adoration of all her
children.
It is supposed that the Neros, or cycle of 600, is closely
connected with this worship, and that it was invented to regulate
the season for these festivals. In process of time it was
|
