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7 Come 11- or 12?

August 5, 2008

Unless you’ve been to Las Vegas or have a gambling spirit somewhere, you probably don’t get the title. Seven come eleven is a crap table mantra. They are winning numbers out of the chute. However, seven and eleven have something to do with 2012- maybe! At least the numbers 7 and 11 should cause us to pause in our thinking about what’s has gone on in the world and what may go on!

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More than 6,000 years ago the Sumerians had the number 12 in mind!

Skip forward some 4,000 years and we come to a man named Ptolemy. This Alexandrian astronomer in the second century CE was into the number 7. Now, let’s take a look at what was behind these two numbers 7 and 11.

Ptolemaic Astronomy ruled the world’s thinking until Copernicus (Father or modern astronomy) came along in 1500CE and turned the universe upside down. But, before we go there, let’s stay with Ptolemy’s number (7) which stood for the Sun, moon, and the five planets (Mercury, Mars, Earth, Venus, and Jupiter). They were what we could SEE. Ah, but there’s more to man’s understanding than what can be SEEN!

Besides, what can seen is only temporal anyway. Right? :-)

We all NOW know that the number is not 7 but 11 since we’ve recently discovered Saturn, Unanus (1781), Neptune (1846), and Pluto (1930). Nine planets with the Sun and moon added equals 11. Are we okay with the math so far?

Then how was it that the Sumerians came up with the number 12 more than 6,000 years ago? Why did they think there were TEN planets + the Sun and the moon? Where’d they get a 12th body- a planet X maybe? And where did Diodorus Siculus (first century BCE historian) speak of the “three ways” or thirty six celestial gods that were divisible by three giving us TWELVE- the twelve signs of the zodiac as well.

Coincidence?

Maybe 2012 will have an answer for us. :-)

Written by Ernie · Filed Under 2012 

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