Good morning my cousins!! The Sumerians looked to the sky when they invented the time system we still use today.
We may find it funny that we divide hours into 60 minutes and days into 24 hours; why not a multiple of 10 or 12?. In short, the answer is that the inventors of time did not operate with a decimal (base 10) or duodecimal (base 12), but with a sexagesimal system (base 60). For ancient Sumerian innovators who first divided the motions of the skies into countable intervals, 60 was the perfect number. The number 60 can be divided into 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30 equal parts. In addition, ancient astronomers believed that a year had 360 days, a number that 60 fits perfectly into six times. The Sumerian Empire didnt last. Yet for over 5,000 years the world keeps measuring time as they dictated. And if time is an illusion in the spiritual sense is this invention a good or a bad thing? From my perspective looking at their tablets and what not they seem to have been a very patriarchal and submissive culture...
Note ( sumerians orjinali a Kurdish) Thank you all Kurdish history
Via Musa Türkmen
Good morning my cousin's!! The Sumerians looked to the sky when they invented the time system we still use today.
We may find it funny that we divide hours into 60 minutes and days into 24 hours; why not a multiple of 10 or 12?. In short, the answer is that the inventors of time did not operate with a decimal (base 10) or duodecimal (base 12), but with a sexagesimal system (base 60). For ancient Sumerian innovators who first divided the motions of the skies into countable intervals, 60 was the perfect number. The number 60 can be divided into 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30 equal parts. In addition, ancient astronomers believed that a year had 360 days, a number that 60 fits perfectly into six times. The Sumerian Empire didn't last. Yet for over 5,000 years the world keeps measuring time as they dictated. And if time is an illusion in the spiritual sense is this invention a good or a bad thing? From my perspective looking at their tablets and what not they seem to have been a very patriarchal and submissive culture...
Note ( sumerians orjinali a Kurdish) Thank you all Kurdish history
Via Musa Türkmen
