The Sacred Number 432,000=....9
Joseph Campbell, in his essay The Mystery Number of the Goddess, notes that:
- The number of years in the Hindu Kali Yuga (the current chaotic stage of the cosmic cycle of existence) is 432,000.
- The number of fighters said by the Norse Poetic Edda to go to war against chaos at the end of the world is 432,000.
- The number of years between the founding of the city of Kish and the arrival of a great flood, in the mythological history of ancient Sumeria, was 432,000.
- The number of the years in one full circuit of the Zodiac, multiplied by 60, is 432,000.
- The number of times that a healthy human male’s heart beats in 12 hours is 432,000. |
