er 600. They then
had the following scheme:

A Cali Yug, or 600 (or a Neros) 432,000
A Dwapar, or Duo-par Age....864,000
A Treta, or tree-par Age... 1,296,000
A Satya, or Satis Age....1,728,000
---------
4,320,000

altogether 10 Ages, making a Maha Yug or Great Age. These were all
equimultiples of the Cycle of the Neros 600, and of 2160, the twelfth
part of the equinoctial precessional Cycle, and in all formed ten ages
of 432,000 years each."(62)

62) Anacalypsis, vol. i., p. 232.

The two great religious festivals of the ancients occurred the one in
the spring, at Easter, when all Nature was renewed, the other in the
autumn, after the earth had yielded her bounties and the fruits were
garnered in. It was at these gatherings that the Great Mother Earth
received the devout adoration of all her children.

It is supposed that the Neros, or cycle of 600, is closely connected
with this worship, and that it was invented to regulate the season for
these festivals. In process of time it was discovered that this cycle
no longer answered, that the festival which had originally fallen on the
first of May now occurred on the first of April. This, we are told,

"led ultimately to the discovery that the equinox preceded about 2160
years in each sign or 25,920 years in the 12 signs, and this induced
them to try if they could not form a cycle of the two. On examination,
they found that the 600 would not commensurate the 2160 years in a sign,
or any number of sums of 2160 less than ten, but that it would with
ten, or that in ten times 2160, or in 21,600 years, the two cycles would
agree; yet this artificial cycle would not be enough to include the
cycle of 25,920. They, therefore, took two of the periods of 21,600, or
43,200; and, multiplying both by ten--viz: 600 X 10 = 6000, and 43,200
X 10 = 432,000--they formed a period with which the 600-year period and
the 6000-year period would terminate and form a cycle. Every 432,000
years the three periods would commence anew; thus the three formed a
year or cycle, 72 times 6000 making 432,000, and 720 times 600 making
432,000."(63)

63) Higgins, Anacalypsis, p. 235.

To form a great year, which would include all the cyclical motions of
the sun and moon, and perhaps of the planets, they multiplied 432,000 by
ten; thus they had ten periods answering to ten signs. Co