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46 Adam (the specific the to 1,656 years from Deluge: Age of Adam when he begot Seth Age of Seth when he begot Enosh Age of Enosh when he begot Kenan Age of Kenan when he begot Mahalalel Age of Mahalalel when he begot Jared Age of Jared when he begot Enoch Age of Enoch when he begot Metushelah Age of Metushelah when he begot Lamech Age of Lamech when he begot Noah Age of Noah when the Deluge occurred Total time from birth of Adam to Deluge 130 years 105 years 90 years 70 years 65 years 162 years 65 years 187 years 182 years 600 years 1,656 years There has been no shortage of attempts to reconcile these 1,656 years with the Sumerian 432,000, especially so since the Bible lists ten pre-Diluvial patriarchs from Adam to Noah, and the Sumerian King Lists also name ten pre-Diluvial rulers the last of whom, Ziusudra, was also the hero of the Deluge. More than a century ago, for example, Julius Oppert (in a study titled Die Daten der Genesis) showed that the two numbers share a factor of 72 (432,000 : 72 = 6,000 and 1656 : 72 = 23) and then engaged in mathematical acrobatics to arrive at a common source for the two. About a century later the "mythologist" Joseph Campbell (The Masks of God) noted with fascination that 72 represented the number of years Earth, in its orbit around the Sun, retards by 1° (the phenomenon called Precession) and thus saw a connection to the zodiacal houses of 2,160 years each (72 x 30° = 2,160). These and other ingenious solutions fail to recognize the error in comparing 432,000 with 1,656 because of treatment of all the ancient texts as just "myth." If the ancient records would be treated as reliable data, it should be noted that the Primi- tive Worker (still only THE Adam) was brought forth not 120 Sars before the Deluge but only 80 Sars before the wa- tery ordeal, ie. only 288,000 Earth-years before the Deluge. Moreover, as we have shown earlier in this chapter, THE Adam and the person Adam were not one and the same. First there was the interlude in the Garden of Eden, then the DIVINE ENCOUNTERS individual)