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SUMERIAN ORIGIN OF ARYAN NUMERALS 241
Persian Car, Latin Quatuor, Fr. Quatre, Sanskrit Catur, Gaelic Ceithoy and our English Quart and Quarter). Six is As and in Akkad Sissw; Seven is Sissina (or “ Six” plus “ One’’) and Sibi in Akkad; and Eight is Ussu, which equates with the Breton Eich, Eiz* and fairly with the Sanskrit Asfa and Scot and Gaelic Acht. And the Sumerian names of other numerals may also prove, on reexamination, to be more or less identical with the Aryan. The occult values attached to certain numbers by the Sumerians, through ideas associated with particular numbers, was the origin of the mystical use of numbers in the ancient religions of the East and Greece referred to by Herodotus and other writers, as current amongst the adepts in the mysteries of the Magians, Pythagoras, Eleusis, and later amongst the Gnostics, and surviving in some measure in religion to the present day. Thus “‘ One” as “ Unity’ and “ First,’’ was secondarily defined by the Sumerians as “‘ complete’ and “ perfect,’ and thus also represented ‘‘ God, heaven and earth.’’ When formed by a circle or “cup-mark,” it especially represented the Sun and Sun-god, who are also represented by a circle with a central dot in Egyptian hieroglyphs. Different sizes of circles, and concentric circles, and semicircles or curved wedges had different numerical and mystical values attached to them as shown in the accompanying Figure?; and all of these forms and groups of C) =t1or to (4, Ana, U, Un, Buru), Earth, Heaven, God YY Sun, Sun-god.* Dic =1 (Ana, As), One, God, sixty (as a cycle).
C) = 3,600 (Sar), great cycle,* perfection, totality.
©) = 36,000 (Saru), all-in-all (well of totality, * Infinity ?).
Fic. 34.—Circle Numerical Notation in Early Sumerian with values.
'G.D.B., 197.
* This is based on researches of Thureau-Dangin. T.R.C., pp. 78, etc.
1 Br., 8631, ete.; as Earth, Br., 8689: as ‘‘ That One,” Br., 8765.
* — 60 » 60.
5 Cp. B.B.W., p. 192, 364. Sava in Sanskrit also =a pool and sea, and well,