He concluded that the Pointer was emplaced so as to mark a very specific date. Could it be the date of some major event from which the Mechanism’s count began?
Figure 130
With meticulous and methodical detail, Dr. Price reached in his book the conclusion that the Pointer marked a date in 586 B.C. (which he deemed “beyond an archaeological possibility,” having been of the opinion that the mechanism was made in the first century B.C.).
But as I was researching for The End of Days, it became evident that crucial events in the first millennium B.C. were predicated on celestial phenomena, and first and foremost on solar eclipses; and one of the most significant occurred in 584 B.C.—a date that, with all the calendrical changes, adjustments, and revisions over two and a half millennia, can be considered to be the very solar eclipse indicated on the Mechanism. That celestial omen, it will be noted, occurred right within the crucial departure period of 610–560 B.C.
According to Dr. Price (Gears from the Greeks, p. 19), if the quarter-day adjustment is applied to the gradations with the Pointer, it suggests that the predicted FUTURE dates can occur in intervals of 120 years. Starting in 86 B.C., when the Mechanism was set, it means that the Predictor pointed to dates in A.D. 34, A.D. 154, and so on, Dr. Price wrote.
This timetable, when extended into our present time, results in a celestial omen predicted by the Mechanism in A.D. 2074.
Is this a date in the realm of Prophecies of the Return?
One ought to read in The End of Days not just my conclusions, but also what Sir Isaac Newton had calculated, to appreciate that the Antikythera Mechanism was a gift by the Craftsman of the Gods to all those who believe that biblical prophecies will come true.
Also by Zecharia Sitchin
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The Stairway to Heaven
The Wars of Gods and Men
The Lost Realms
When Time Began
The Cosmic Code
Genesis Revisited
Divine Encounters
The Lost Book of Enki
The Earth Chronicles Expeditions
The End of Days
About the Author
Zecharia Sitchin (1920-2010), an eminent Orientalist and biblical scholar, was born in Russia and grew up in Palestine, where he acquired a profound knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archaeology of the Near East. A graduate of the University of London with a degree in economic history, he worked as a journalist and editor in Israel for many years prior to undertaking his life’s work--The Earth Chronicles.
One of the few scholars able to read the clay tablets and interpret ancient Sumerian and Akkadian, Sitchin based The Earth Chronicles series on the texts and pictorial evidence recorded by the ancient civilizations of the Near East. His books have been widely translated, reprinted in paperback editions, converted to Braille for the blind, and featured on radio and television programs.
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Sitchin, Zecharia.
Journeys to the mythical past / Zecharia Sitchin. — 1st pbk. ed.
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1. Sitchin, Zecharia. 2. Archaeologists—Biography. 3. Civilization, Ancient. 4.
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