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The following section on Math and the Cosmos is a stub that might go after the stub section on Etymology proposed for Chapter 7 but could use some improvements/fleshing out. Can you help us expand the following text and work it into the body of Chapter 7 after the Introduction section? There is a transition set up in the previous proposed stub section on Etymology, but that could use some improvement too. And can you also help us answer the queries below?
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Knowledge accumulated in Athens—the home of Plato, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Hippodamus, etc.—from India and the Mediterranean basin. Aristotle described Athens’ form of government: “And they divided themselves into four tribes as in the seasons of the year, and each tribe was subdivided into three parts so that altogether the parts numbered 12 as in the months of the year; each house was divided into three parts to yield the number of a circle 36(0).”Missing Quotation MarkWhere does the quotation end? We guessed at where the close-quotation mark belongs.Citation NeededCan you help us identify the source material details for citation (ideally with a link) and verify the quotation?
Aristotle’s description could apply just as well to the original structure of the Icelandic chieftain administration.Citation NeededCitation needed. Over a thousand years later Iceland was divided into 36 chieftainships in accordance with the Circle of Heaven.Add ContextContext and/or explanatory source link needed.
A law-based creation or universe was “cosmos,” a word with a gematria value of 600. The concept worked as both an image someone could visualize—the geometry of a perfect sphere—and a mathematical property. If the gematria value of kosmos were cubed for the purpose of creating a law-based cosmology, the world’s number would be 216,000,000 (600 x 600 x 600).
The classical Greek conceptions of creation of the world they believed in were of course inherited from earlier periods starting with the Bronze Age. They naturally used the archaic zodiac signs, including Cancer, opposite Capricornus, and Taurus, opposite Scorpion, in the Circle of Heaven, which was naturally 216,000 feet in diameter.
