Re: the 144000 in the Revelation of John
I'm intrested in the Maya-Calendar to Galactic center thesis. However can't tell much about it, only the picture below and more about that pic. Certainly people have been and are aware of the crossing of the galactical plane in one or annother way. Possibly Maya or other time masters even knew the actual shape of the galaxy and what it is but this is not astronomy which I would like to tell now.
I know the 13 only to be a factor of the Maya Tsolkin-Haab Calendar. Perhaps 13 Baktun should be a multiple of these two measures.
144000 are ~ a solar year multiplied by the synodic period (visibility cycle) of Jupiter (~ 400 days). Possibly also other cycles are contained so that teh 144000 is a common component or junction point of many cycles. A handy measure at all.
Recently I received the following:
Even a term such as "people that die or remain living" can mean days that passed or have not passed. It's the question whether you are at the start of a time-cycle or at it's end. If you are at the start, the cycle just has to be counted on. If you are at the end, usually an intercalation has to be made, this means, add some days or omit some days, to get the artificial cycle aligned with the planets again. Such an intercalation has a tradition to be thought to be evil or "Armageddon" in some kind. Armageddon, because the usually familiar "rules of cosmos" (the calendar) are set off from effect for some time. A time without guides. The Maya for example called the remaining five days in their 360-day year a Wuayeb, a void or abyss. Also the Bible has a 360-days so called "prophetic" year. The Revelation reads, that "at the end of time" a great dragon will be free for some time. By "end of time" the end of a calendric cycle is meant and this dragon is the astronomical sign of Draco, the dragon, that is always at the north pole of the heaven. Around the north pole of heaven do our main time-cycles rotate. The day, the year and - what only a few know - the cycle of precession of the equinoxes. Latter means, because the earth axis is tilted, the spring sign of the star signs will be another every ~ 2150 years. After ~ 25780 years (often mentioned as 26000 years) one round fulfills. The 144000 days multiplied by 13 (a Maya factor) are ~ 5200 years and hence a fifth of that cycle. People yell that in 2012 our world will come to an end. But this is crap and not better than taking the Revelation literally. The truth is, that whenever a calendar of some sort comes to an end, it has to be righteously restarted or made anew by specialists. But specialists always have been few and people were afraid to loose their alignment with the seasons and hence their food income from the fields and such. Loosing food means death panic and grave danger. This natural fear has been utilized by the Church. The truth is indeed VERY simple and once you have grasped it, you will see our entire world VERY clearly. Especially it's lack of education. A lack that is maintained by the establishment through the Church so that people are still afraid of the heaven falling unto them. The Church knows this, the establishment knows this and the Diego-De-Landa-guys viz Dragon-slayers who sing to us "there is no dragon but the Lord" are still doing their kind of work today, doing a great job to keep the people dumb and dependent from Church and State as the 'greatest tits of universe' (expression coined after how certain buildings look like). In fact there IS a dragon and that dragon is in our hearts and in our heavens and in our center.