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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

A. I saw two pots with red bamboo.

Q. Do you know how many plants there were?
A. In one pot were 36 and in the other 72 plants, together 108.

Q. Did you take home some of them for your use?
A. Yes, I took home 108 plants ...

Q. How can you prove that?
A. I can prove it by a verse.

Q. How does this verse run?
A. The red bamboo from Canton is rare in the world.
In the groves are 36 and 72.
Who in the world knows the meaning of this?
When we have set to work we will know the secret.

The atmosphere of intrigue that such passages generate is accentuated
by the reticent behaviour of the Hung League itself, an organization
resembling the medieval European Order of the Knights Templar (and the
higher degrees of modern Freemasonry) in many ways that are beyond
the remit of this book to describe. It is intriguing, too, that the Chinese
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character Hung, composed of water and many, signifies inundation, i.e.
the Flood.
Finally, returning to India, let us note the content of the sacred
scriptures known as the Puranas. These speak of four ‘ages of the earth’,
called Yugas, which together are said to extend to 12,000 ‘divine years’.
The respective durations of these epochs, in ‘divine years’, are Krita Yuga
= 4800; Treta Yuga = 3600; Davpara Yuga = 2400; Kali Yuga = 1200.
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The Puranas also tell us that ‘one year of the mortals is equal to one
day of the gods’. Furthermore, and exactly as in the Osiris myth, we
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discover that the number of days in the years of both gods and mortals
has been artificially set at 360, so one year of the gods is equivalent to
360 mortal years.
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The Kali Yuga, therefore, at 1200 years of the gods, turns out to have a
duration of 432,000 mortal years. One Mahayuga, or Great Age (made
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up of the 12,000 divine years contained in the four lesser Yugas) is
equivalent to 4,320,000 years of mortals. A thousand such Mahayugas
(which constitute a Kalpa, or Day of Brahma) extend over 4,320,000,000

24 For fuller details see The Hung League and J. S. M. Ward, The Hung Society, Baskerville
Press, London, 1925 (in three volumes).
25 W. J. Wilkins, Hindu Mythology: Vedic and Puranic, Heritage Publishers, New Delhi,
1991, p. 353.
Ibid.
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27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.

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