Most of what we know about ancient time calculation is derived from (a) monuments such as stone circles and alignments in the landscape, (b) the calendars that have passed into our age through later writings and lastly (c) time-keeping practices still used today. But a humbly presented “perforated vessel” in the Heraklion Museum records, within its “perforations”, a numerical system of time recording that concurs with the most inexplicable unit of time still in use today: the week.

This article reveals this counting device as capable of tracking the periodicity of the lunar month, the eclipse seasons and the planet Saturn as an interrelated and whole phenomenon which is the only strong reason for the practice of counting days in seven day weeks. Saturn was the god of time and whilst this article follows up on the material in Sacred Number, it is part of the Matrix of Creation material that explores numerical astronomy, seen from the Earth and related to the prehistoric view of the sky.

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p.s. The destruction of Santorini, mentioned in Sacred Number as related to the downfall of the "Minoans", was explored in detail by J. G. Bennett in his article: