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Berossus and the 432,000 years
A Babylonian priest who wrote a history of his country in Greek around 290 BCE. His ten kings before the Flood reign for 120 sars, 432,000 years in total.
Natritmeyer, “Tablet of Shamash”, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Babyloniaca survives only in quotations by later writers. The reign lengths are all multiples of the sar, 3,600 years: 36,000; 10,800; 46,800; 43,200; 64,800, and so on. Grant notes that every one of them has a digital root of 9. Sitchin read the sar as the orbit of a twelfth planet. The ground reading is simpler: a base-60 culture counting mythic time in round base-60 units. The number 432,000 recurs in the Hindu Kali Yuga, which is why it travels so well in later readings.