It interests me for cosmological reasons. First of all the
likeness between Sumerian and Chinese scripture as shown here:
http://www.creationism.org/csshs/v07n4p24.htmIt intrigues me because the most educated person regarding Incas’
quipus is professor of anthropology, Gary Urton, who has studied 450 out of 600 quipus available in Peru, Chile, USA and Germany ; and he discovered
the binary code of the Incas makes a total of 1536 unities based upon number 7 just like Sumerian scripture with 1500 signs. It surprises me because proto- Sumerian scripture has been discovered both in Peru and Sumeria:http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_8.htmhttp://www.atlantisbolivia.org/atlantisboliviapart4.htmhttp://www.atlantisbolivia.org/boliviaandthesumerianconnection.htmSpecially the comparison between
units of measurement used by Sumerian and people from the Andes, Sumerian cubits:
http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/tiwanakucalendar.htmMostly because the Sumerian number is related to cycles of precession and they didn’t start counting or learning the numbers like we do, beginning with 0, 1, 2 until 10 fingers of the hand but started out in a number which is more than 12 million in sexagesimal system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SexagesimalAn example quoted by Th.G. Pinches (Some Mathematical Tablets of the British Museum) began with the following lines at the top:
1.
12960000 its 2/3 part 8640000
2. its half part 6480000
3. its third “ 4320000
4. its fourth “ 3240000
...and
continued all the way down through
“its 80th part 180000” to the 400th part “[which is] 32400.”
Other tablets carried the procedure down to the 16,000th part (equals 810), and there is no doubt that this series continued
downward to 60,
the 216,000th part of the initial number 12,960,000. H. V. Hilprecht (The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania), after studying thousands of mathematical tablets from the temple libraries of Nippur and Sippar and from the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, concluded that
the number 12,960,000 was literally astronomical—that it stemmed from the phenomenon of Precession, which retards the zodiac constellation against which the Sun rises by a full House once in 2,160 years. The complete circle of the twelve Houses, by which the Sun returns to its original background spot, thus takes 25,920 years; the number 12,960,000 represented five hundred such complete Precessional circles.
Now, considering the procession of the equinoxes
"was discovered" by watching the sun shift every year by some Greek philosopher who copied that idea from Middle East older people...
Well it takes 72 years for the sun to shift 1% I don't think ancient people would get the number 12.960.000 by making a generational line of observation, the son waits for the father observation about 72 years and then tells another man from the generation of the grandson and going on...