The first Olmec center, San Lorenzo, was abandoned at around 900 BC. Although the Yuga Cycle is mentioned in the mythic accounts of around thirty ancient cultures, as described by Giorgio de Santillana, professor of the history of science at MIT, in the book In the few accounts where the durations of the Yuga are specified, we find that each age in the Yuga Cycle is of the same duration. Why was it suddenly necessary for two ancient civilizations to re-calculate dates that should have been an integral part of their calendric systems?
The Greek poet Hesiod (c. 750 BC – 650 BC) had given an account of the World Ages in the This is highly interesting. A Saptarsi Calendar, still in use in India, counted time in the Kali Yuga starting from 3976 BC, which coincides with the beginning of the transitional period. He writes that he wrote the book in the "ye There seems to be no indication that Aryabhatta had computed this date himself. We can surmise, in this context, that the “Age of Heroes”, which immediately followed the Bronze Age in Hesiod’s account, must be the name ascribed by Hesiod to the The evidence from different sources supports the notion of a complete Yuga Cycle of 24,000 years, comprised of an ascending and descending cycle of 12,000 years each.
He finished his book Aryabhattiyam in 499 CE, in which he gives the exact year of the beginning of Kali Yuga. A Mexican source known as the Therefore, the durations of the four Yugas mentioned in the Sanskrit texts (i.e. All mankind could attain to supreme blessedness. Archaeologist Bruce Masse of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico had examined a sample of 175 flood myths from different cultures around the world and concluded that the environmental aspects described in these events, which is also consistent with the archaeological and geophysical data, could have only been precipitated by a destructive, deep-water, oceanic comet impact.The 300 year transitional period between the Treta Yuga (Silver Age) and the Dwapara Yuga (Bronze Age) from 6976 BC – 6676 BC also coincides with a significant environmental event – the Similar major flooding events were taking place in many parts of the world, as massive glacial lakes, swelled by the waters of the melting ice, breached their ice barriers, and rushed into the surrounding areas. “He, however, who knows these things thoroughly, stands opposed to Aryabhatta, Srishena, and Vishnucandra like the lion against gazelles. But when did the Kali Yuga begin? And in India, sometime around 500 CE, a major review of the Indian calendric systems had taken place. A neat formula was devised in which the total duration of the Yugas added up to 12,000 years. The Mayans had recomputed their ancient calendars sometime between 400 BC to 50 CE, at the ceremonial center of Izapa in Mexico, and fixed the starting date of the current Great Cycle of their Long Count Calendar. This is an Here is the most startling fact: Two of the most famous astronomers of ancient India, Aryabhatta and Paulisa, both believed that “Further, Brahmagupta says that “Aryabhatta considers the four yugas as the four equal parts of the Surprisingly, it was not only Aryabhatta, who held this point of view. For instance, the original Vedas were comprised of 1,180 sakhas (i.e. The Veda was divided into four parts, and although some had knowledge of the four Vedas, others knew but three or one. Not really. According to Al-Beruni, however, “it is possible that Paulisa simply mentions this method as one among others, and that it is not that one in particular which he himself adopted.”This clearly indicates that two of the most respected astronomers of ancient India, Aryabhatta and Paulisa, believed in a Yuga Cycle that comprised of 4 Yugas of equal duration of 3,000 divine-years each. According to the astronomer and mathematician Aryabhata the Kali Yuga started in 3102 BCE. In the book The transitional period between the Dwapara Yuga and Kali Yuga, from 3976 BC – 3676 BC was again marked by a series of environmental cataclysms, whose exact nature remains a mystery. Al-Beruni says about Brahmagupta:“He is rude enough to compare Aryabhatta to a worm which, eating the wood, by chance describes certain characters in it without understanding them and without intending to draw them. Yuga duration of 2,700 years, with transitional periods of 300 years), then the entire timeline of the Yuga Cycle gets unraveled:This Yuga Cycle timeline takes the beginning of the Golden Age to 12676 BC, more than 14,500 years before present, when the Great Bear was in the “Shravana” nakshatra (the Great Bear will advance by 3 nakshtras in every Yuga because of the 300 year transitional period). We can follow that degenerative process physically in Egypt; it is written into the stones and it is unmistakable. And a few centuries later Aryabhatta and others attempted to fix the beginnings of the Kali Yuga. The four key transitional periods, since the end of the Golden Age, have been summarized here:This recurrent pattern of devastation is clearly discernible in the archaeological records. ... the start and end dates of the Kali Yuga remain shrouded in mystery. Historians speculate about a combination of catastrophic climatic events. It is generally believed that Aryabhatta had calculated the start date of the Kali Yuga on the basis of the information in the Sanskrit astronomical treatise, the Does this mean Aryabhatta made an error in his back calculations? Do not listen to the people who state that kali yuga is over and we are in the dwapara yuga.
Jean-Pierre Vernant, who is a highly acclaimed specialist in ancient Greek culture, clearly believes that the Cycle of the Ages reverses itself as per Hesiod’s account. A similar understanding is reflected by virtually all other ancient accounts. The cavalry was replaced by foot soldiersPeople were so perturbed by the calamities of the previous centuries that they began a vigorous attempt to finally document the ancient scriptures, which were till then being transmitted in a purely oral fashion.