Sacred Number is about the effect in myth and history of numbers considered as sacred, that is, influential in a spiritual sense. This is the subject of articles in this section, whilst an developing archive is also available of past articles.
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This was the starting point for what came to be a theme for Sacred Number concerning ancient myths regarding landscape features and the transition of culture that occured to make Classical Greece.
It was an adage of the classical world (i.e. Greek onwards) that "All Cretans are Liars" because they said that: Not only was Zeus born on Crete, but also he died leaving Mount Yiochtas. The new immortal, and male, head of the sky gods could not die, whilst the old adjunct to the Goddess cultures, the year godling, as the vegetative god of the Year, did just that, only to be reborn.
It seems no coincidence that the Minoan matriarchal society flourished 'til 1500BC (end of Stonehenge cycle) on Crete and must have generated this tradition that needed to be filtered out as patrilineage began to displace the Goddess, that had emerged from paleolithic times, seeing the creation as female in character.
Throughout Scotland and the Scottish islands there are in excess of 200 major broch sites. The following analysis is taken from, what I believe to be, the accurately measured inner diameters of 49 of them as supplied by Professor Euan MacKie. The modules are expressed in English feet although the original measurements were taken in metres and converted to feet at the rate of 3.2808427 feet to the metre. The range of diameters extends from the smallest, at Mousa, 18.897654ft, to the greatest at Oxtrow at 44.816311ft.
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