{
  "name": "Codex Numerica — number correspondences",
  "description": "Evidence-graded attestations of numbers across world sacred traditions. Each row states what a tradition claims, where the claim can be checked, and how strongly it is supported.",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "dateModified": "2026-07-27",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
  "url": "https://codexnumerica.com/data/",
  "grades": {
    "verified": "Independently confirmable; reproducible arithmetic or documented fact.",
    "remarkable": "Calls for explanation; coincidence not excluded.",
    "disputed": "Contested in print, or a competing explanation is at least as good.",
    "exploratory": "Speculative, or dependent on a choice the tradition does not itself make."
  },
  "fields": [
    "value",
    "tradition",
    "attestation",
    "grade",
    "source",
    "page",
    "anchor"
  ],
  "count": 150,
  "correspondences": [
    {
      "value": 2,
      "tradition": "Sefer Yetzirah",
      "attestation": "SY 4:16 — \"two stones build two houses\" (2!)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Kaplan ed., Hayman 2004",
      "page": "sefer-yetzirah.html",
      "anchor": "factorials"
    },
    {
      "value": 3,
      "tradition": "Ancient Egypt",
      "attestation": "Divine triads organise local theology — Osiris/Isis/Horus, Amun/Mut/Khonsu",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "New Kingdom temple theology",
      "page": "ancient-egypt.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 3,
      "tradition": "Buddhism",
      "attestation": "Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, Sangha); three marks of existence (anicca, dukkha, anattā)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Pali Canon, passim",
      "page": "buddhism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 3,
      "tradition": "Christian",
      "attestation": "Trinitarian formula — Father, Son, Holy Spirit",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Matthew 28:19; creedal formulation 4th c.",
      "page": "christian-bible.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 3,
      "tradition": "Cross-cultural",
      "attestation": "Three is the smallest count that yields beginning–middle–end, which is why it recurs in narrative and ritual structure; this is a claim about narrative economy, not about transmission between traditions",
      "grade": "exploratory",
      "source": "structural argument — see methodology",
      "page": "methodology-statistics.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 3,
      "tradition": "Daoism",
      "attestation": "\"Dao gives birth to one, one to two, two to three, three to the ten thousand things\"",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Daodejing 42",
      "page": "i-ching-daoism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 3,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "Three patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob — the fixed formula \"the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob\"",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Exodus 3:6",
      "page": "biblical-cryptography.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 3,
      "tradition": "Hinduism",
      "attestation": "Trimurti: Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva; also the three guṇas (sattva, rajas, tamas)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Puranic corpus; Bhagavad Gita 14",
      "page": "vedas-hinduism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 3,
      "tradition": "Norse & Germanic",
      "attestation": "Odin, Vili and Vé; three roots of Yggdrasil; three norns",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Gylfaginning 6, 15–16",
      "page": "norse-germanic.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 3,
      "tradition": "Shinto",
      "attestation": "Three primeval kami appear first in the Kojiki cosmogony",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Kojiki I.1",
      "page": "shinto.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 4,
      "tradition": "Buddhism",
      "attestation": "Four Noble Truths",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta",
      "page": "buddhism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 4,
      "tradition": "Cross-cultural",
      "attestation": "Four cardinal directions underlie four-fold schemes in most sedentary cultures — an observational constant, not a shared inheritance",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "see the four-number profile",
      "page": "sacred-numbers-lab.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 4,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "Four rivers of Eden; the four-letter divine name (Tetragrammaton)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Genesis 2:10–14",
      "page": "biblical-cryptography.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 4,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "Four world-directions with associated colours and bearers",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Dresden and Madrid codices",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 5,
      "tradition": "Greek",
      "attestation": "Five Platonic solids",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Euclid XIII",
      "page": "greek-pythagorean.html",
      "anchor": "solids"
    },
    {
      "value": 5,
      "tradition": "Greek",
      "attestation": "Marriage number: 5 = 2 (female) + 3 (male)",
      "grade": "exploratory",
      "source": "Aristotle, Met. A5",
      "page": "greek-pythagorean.html",
      "anchor": "doctrine"
    },
    {
      "value": 6,
      "tradition": "Sefer Yetzirah",
      "attestation": "3! — \"three [stones] build six houses\"",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "SY 4:16",
      "page": "sefer-yetzirah.html",
      "anchor": "factorials"
    },
    {
      "value": 7,
      "tradition": "African — Ethiopia",
      "attestation": "Seven is prominent in Ethiopian Orthodox liturgical structure",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Ethiopian Orthodox liturgical usage",
      "page": "african-ethiopia.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 7,
      "tradition": "Ancient Egypt",
      "attestation": "Seven Hathors appear as a group of fate-determining goddesses",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "New Kingdom literary papyri",
      "page": "ancient-egypt.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 7,
      "tradition": "Ancient Mesopotamia",
      "attestation": "Enuma Elish is composed on seven tablets; the Sibitti are a group of seven deities",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Enuma Elish, tablet colophons",
      "page": "ancient-mesopotamia.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 7,
      "tradition": "Astronomy",
      "attestation": "Seven classical planets are visible to the naked eye: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. This is the strongest naturalistic explanation for the number's spread and it requires no diffusion",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "observational fact",
      "page": "sacred-numbers.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 7,
      "tradition": "Christian",
      "attestation": "Revelation is structured on sevens: seven churches, seals, trumpets and bowls",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Revelation 2–3, 6, 8–9, 16",
      "page": "christian-bible.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 7,
      "tradition": "Cross-cultural",
      "attestation": "The seven-day week spread from Mesopotamian and Jewish practice into the Roman planetary week and from there worldwide — a documented transmission, not independent invention",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "see the ritual-calendar comparison",
      "page": "ritual-calendars.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 7,
      "tradition": "Greek",
      "attestation": "Seven classical planets / days of the week",
      "grade": "exploratory",
      "source": "Aristotle, Met. A5",
      "page": "greek-pythagorean.html",
      "anchor": "doctrine"
    },
    {
      "value": 7,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "Claims that heptadic density across whole books exceeds chance depend on which features are counted, and the feature set is chosen after inspection",
      "grade": "disputed",
      "source": "see the methodology page on post-hoc feature selection",
      "page": "methodology-statistics.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 7,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "Genesis 1:1 has 7 words and 28 letters (28 = 4×7); the heptadic features of the verse are arithmetically reproducible",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Masoretic Text, BHS",
      "page": "biblical-cryptography.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 7,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "Seven days of creation; seven-branched menorah; sabbatical year; Jubilee after 7×7 years",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Genesis 1; Exodus 25:31–40; Leviticus 25",
      "page": "biblical-cryptography.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 7,
      "tradition": "Hinduism",
      "attestation": "Seven ṛṣis (saptarṣi), identified with the stars of Ursa Major",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Rigveda; Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 2.1.2",
      "page": "vedas-hinduism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 7,
      "tradition": "Hinduism",
      "attestation": "The seven-chakra scheme is standard in modern presentations but is a late tantric systematisation; earlier texts give different numbers",
      "grade": "disputed",
      "source": "Kubjikāmata and later tantras; cf. earlier variant schemes",
      "page": "vedas-hinduism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 7,
      "tradition": "Mathematics",
      "attestation": "7 is prime; 1/7 = 0.142857… with a six-digit repeating period whose cyclic permutations are the multiples of 142857",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "elementary number theory",
      "page": "sacred-numbers.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 7,
      "tradition": "Quran",
      "attestation": "Seven heavens (sabʿa samāwāt); seven circuits of the Kaʿba in ṭawāf; \"the seven oft-repeated\" (al-sabʿ al-mathānī)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Quran 2:29, 67:3, 15:87",
      "page": "quran.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 7,
      "tradition": "Zoroastrianism",
      "attestation": "Seven Amesha Spentas",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Avesta, Yasna",
      "page": "zoroastrianism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 9,
      "tradition": "Bahá’í",
      "attestation": "Nine is the numerical value of \"Bahá\" in abjad and is used deliberately in Bahá’í architecture",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "abjad computation; House of Worship design",
      "page": "bahai.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 9,
      "tradition": "Confucianism",
      "attestation": "Nine as the maximal yang number, associated with imperial prerogative",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Chinese classical usage",
      "page": "confucianism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 9,
      "tradition": "Mathematics",
      "attestation": "Digital roots are invariant mod 9, which is why \"casting out nines\" works and why 9-based numerology produces apparent patterns in any base-10 corpus",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "elementary number theory",
      "page": "sacred-numbers-lab.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 9,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "Mictlan / Xibalba — nine underworld levels",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Popol Vuh; central Mexican cosmology",
      "page": "mesoamerica-aztec.html",
      "anchor": "binding"
    },
    {
      "value": 9,
      "tradition": "Norse & Germanic",
      "attestation": "Nine nights of Odin on the tree; nine worlds; nine daughters of Ægir",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Hávamál 138; Gylfaginning",
      "page": "norse-germanic.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 9,
      "tradition": "Norse & Germanic",
      "attestation": "No surviving source enumerates the nine worlds as a canonical list; the familiar list is a modern reconstruction",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "absence in Poetic and Prose Edda",
      "page": "norse-germanic.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 10,
      "tradition": "Greek",
      "attestation": "Tetraktys decad: T₄ = 1+2+3+4; perfect number (doctrinally)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Aristotle, Met. A5; Sextus Emp.",
      "page": "greek-pythagorean.html",
      "anchor": "tetraktys"
    },
    {
      "value": 10,
      "tradition": "Greek",
      "attestation": "The tetraktys: 1+2+3+4 = 10, the Pythagorean perfect number",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Pythagorean tradition",
      "page": "greek-pythagorean.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 10,
      "tradition": "Sefer Yetzirah",
      "attestation": "10 sefirot (divine emanations)",
      "grade": "exploratory",
      "source": "SY 1:1",
      "page": "sefer-yetzirah.html",
      "anchor": "paths"
    },
    {
      "value": 12,
      "tradition": "Ancient Egypt",
      "attestation": "Twelve hours of the night in the Duat books",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Amduat",
      "page": "ancient-egypt.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 12,
      "tradition": "Ancient Mesopotamia",
      "attestation": "The twelve-sign zodiac is a Babylonian construction of the later first millennium BC",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "MUL.APIN and successor texts",
      "page": "ancient-mesopotamia.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 12,
      "tradition": "Astronomy",
      "attestation": "A solar year contains about 12.37 lunations, so twelve is the natural count of months — the arithmetical driver behind most twelve-fold calendar schemes",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "observational fact",
      "page": "ritual-calendars.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 12,
      "tradition": "Buddhism",
      "attestation": "Twelve links of dependent origination (nidānas)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Pali Canon, Paṭiccasamuppāda",
      "page": "buddhism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 12,
      "tradition": "Christian",
      "attestation": "Twelve apostles; the New Jerusalem is described with twelve gates and twelve foundations",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Mark 3:14–19; Revelation 21:12–14",
      "page": "christian-bible.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 12,
      "tradition": "Cross-cultural",
      "attestation": "Cosmic order; 12 lunations/year; zodiac",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Mesopotamia → Greco-Roman",
      "page": "sacred-numbers.html",
      "anchor": "s3"
    },
    {
      "value": 12,
      "tradition": "Greek",
      "attestation": "Twelve Olympians, though the membership of the list varies between sources",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Hesiod and later canon lists",
      "page": "greek-pythagorean.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 12,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "Twelve tribes of Israel; twelve stones on the high priest’s breastpiece",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Genesis 49; Exodus 28:21",
      "page": "biblical-cryptography.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 12,
      "tradition": "Mathematics",
      "attestation": "12 is the smallest abundant number (1+2+3+4+6 = 16 > 12) and is highly composite, which is why duodecimal division is practically convenient",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "elementary number theory",
      "page": "sacred-numbers.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 13,
      "tradition": "Aztec",
      "attestation": "13 heavens (Topan) above the earth; trecena length",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Florentine Codex",
      "page": "mesoamerica-aztec.html",
      "anchor": "binding"
    },
    {
      "value": 13,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "Echad (\"One\") = Ahava (\"Love\") = 13 (gematria)",
      "grade": "remarkable",
      "source": "Standard gematria",
      "page": "biblical-cryptography.html",
      "anchor": "s8"
    },
    {
      "value": 13,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "13 numbers of the Tzolk’in (× 20 day signs = 260)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Bricker & Bricker 2011",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": "calendarround"
    },
    {
      "value": 13,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "Thirteen day-numbers combine with twenty day-signs to give the 260-day count",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Tzolkin/tonalpohualli structure",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 16,
      "tradition": "Ifa (Yoruba)",
      "attestation": "Principal Odù (Ojù Odù) = 2⁴",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Bascom 1969",
      "page": "numeral-systems.html",
      "anchor": "ifa"
    },
    {
      "value": 17,
      "tradition": "Zoroastrianism",
      "attestation": "17 Gathas, comprising 238 stanzas",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Avesta, Old Avestan core",
      "page": "zoroastrianism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 18,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "חי (Chai) = \"life\" = 8 + 10",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Standard gematria",
      "page": "biblical-cryptography.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 18,
      "tradition": "Hinduism",
      "attestation": "The Mahabharata has 18 parvas; the Bhagavad Gita has 18 chapters; the war lasts 18 days",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Critical Edition, BORI",
      "page": "vedas-hinduism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 19,
      "tradition": "Astronomy",
      "attestation": "The Metonic cycle: 19 tropical years ≈ 235 synodic months, the two differing by roughly two hours",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "computation from modern values",
      "page": "ritual-calendars.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 19,
      "tradition": "Bahá’í",
      "attestation": "The Badíʿ calendar has 19 months of 19 days, plus intercalary days",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Kitáb-i-Aqdas; Badíʿ calendar",
      "page": "bahai.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 19,
      "tradition": "Cross-cultural",
      "attestation": "Metonic cycle: 235 lunations ≈ 19 tropical years",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Standard astronomy",
      "page": "sacred-numbers.html",
      "anchor": "s4"
    },
    {
      "value": 19,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "The fixed Hebrew calendar intercalates 7 leap months in each 19-year cycle",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "fixed calendar rules, post-Hillel II",
      "page": "ritual-calendars.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 19,
      "tradition": "Quran",
      "attestation": "\"Over it are nineteen\" (74:30) is a textual fact about the verse",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Quran 74:30",
      "page": "quran.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 19,
      "tradition": "Quran",
      "attestation": "The \"Code 19\" system requires excluding 9:128–129 and making specific counting choices; mainstream scholarship rejects it and the required textual surgery is itself the objection",
      "grade": "disputed",
      "source": "see the Code 19 analysis",
      "page": "quran.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 20,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "Vigesimal positional notation with a true zero, independently invented",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Dresden Codex; Long Count inscriptions",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 22,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet; Psalm 119 is an acrostic of 22 stanzas of 8 verses",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Masoretic Text",
      "page": "numerical-architecture.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 22,
      "tradition": "Sefer Yetzirah",
      "attestation": "Hebrew foundation letters (3 mothers + 7 doubles + 12 simples)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "SY 1:2 (Kaplan ed.)",
      "page": "sefer-yetzirah.html",
      "anchor": "paths"
    },
    {
      "value": 24,
      "tradition": "Jainism",
      "attestation": "24 Tirthankaras",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Jain Agamas",
      "page": "jainism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 24,
      "tradition": "Norse & Germanic",
      "attestation": "Elder Futhark: 24 runes in three ættir of eight",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Kylver stone; Düwel 2008",
      "page": "norse-germanic.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 24,
      "tradition": "Sefer Yetzirah",
      "attestation": "4! — \"four [stones] build twenty-four houses\"",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "SY 4:16",
      "page": "sefer-yetzirah.html",
      "anchor": "factorials"
    },
    {
      "value": 31,
      "tradition": "Buddhism",
      "attestation": "31 planes of existence in Theravada cosmology",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Theravada Abhidhamma",
      "page": "buddhism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 31,
      "tradition": "Sikhism",
      "attestation": "31 ragas organise the Guru Granth Sahib",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Guru Granth Sahib structure",
      "page": "sikhism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 32,
      "tradition": "Sefer Yetzirah",
      "attestation": "32 paths of wisdom = 10 sefirot + 22 letters",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Sefer Yetzirah 1:1",
      "page": "sefer-yetzirah.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 37,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "The gematria of Genesis 1:1 is 2701 = 37 × 73, and 2701 is itself the 73rd triangular number",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Masoretic Text; arithmetic",
      "page": "biblical-cryptography.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 40,
      "tradition": "Ancient Mesopotamia",
      "attestation": "Forty is the sacred number of Ea/Enki in the divine numerical hierarchy",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Mesopotamian god-number lists",
      "page": "ancient-mesopotamia.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 40,
      "tradition": "Christian",
      "attestation": "Forty days of temptation in the wilderness; forty days between resurrection and ascension",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Mark 1:13; Acts 1:3",
      "page": "christian-bible.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 40,
      "tradition": "Cross-cultural",
      "attestation": "Across Semitic literature forty functions as a conventional idiom for \"a long but bounded period\" rather than as a count; this is the explanation that fits the distribution best",
      "grade": "remarkable",
      "source": "comparative Semitic usage",
      "page": "sacred-numbers-lab.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 40,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "Forty days and nights of rain; forty years in the wilderness; Moses forty days on Sinai",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Genesis 7:12; Numbers 14:33–34; Exodus 24:18",
      "page": "biblical-cryptography.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 40,
      "tradition": "Quran",
      "attestation": "Moses’ appointed forty nights; forty years given as the age of full maturity",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Quran 7:142; 46:15",
      "page": "quran.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 42,
      "tradition": "Ancient Egypt",
      "attestation": "42 Assessors of Maat in the negative confession",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Book of the Dead, Spell 125",
      "page": "ancient-egypt.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 49,
      "tradition": "Confucianism",
      "attestation": "The Liji as received has 49 chapters, 7²",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "received recension",
      "page": "confucianism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 49,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "7²; Jubilee preparation",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Leviticus 25",
      "page": "biblical-cryptography.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 50,
      "tradition": "Ancient Mesopotamia",
      "attestation": "Enlil is assigned the number 50 in the divine hierarchy",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Mesopotamian god-number lists",
      "page": "ancient-mesopotamia.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 50,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "Jubilee year (7² + 1)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Leviticus 25:8-13",
      "page": "biblical-cryptography.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 52,
      "tradition": "Aztec",
      "attestation": "The 52-year Binding of the Years, the least common multiple of 260 and 365 in years",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "xiuhmolpilli",
      "page": "mesoamerica-aztec.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 52,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "Calendar Round / xiuhmolpilli (Binding of the Years) in Haab’ years",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "LCM(260, 365) = 18,980 days = 52 yr",
      "page": "mesoamerica-aztec.html",
      "anchor": "binding"
    },
    {
      "value": 60,
      "tradition": "Ancient Mesopotamia",
      "attestation": "Sexagesimal place-value notation; Anu is assigned the number 60 at the head of the divine hierarchy",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Old Babylonian mathematical texts; god-number lists",
      "page": "ancient-mesopotamia.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 60,
      "tradition": "Confucianism",
      "attestation": "The sexagenary cycle pairs 10 heavenly stems with 12 earthly branches; 60 is their least common multiple, and the system is independent of Mesopotamia",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Chinese calendrical practice",
      "page": "ritual-calendars.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 60,
      "tradition": "Mathematics",
      "attestation": "60 is the smallest number divisible by every integer from 1 to 6, which is the practical reason for its use in division-heavy arithmetic",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "elementary number theory",
      "page": "ancient-mesopotamia.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 60,
      "tradition": "Modern",
      "attestation": "Sixty seconds, sixty minutes and the 360-degree circle descend directly from Mesopotamian sexagesimal practice via Greek astronomy",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "documented transmission through Ptolemaic astronomy",
      "page": "numeral-systems.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 64,
      "tradition": "Daoism",
      "attestation": "64 hexagrams form the complete 6-bit combinatorial space, 2⁶",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Yijing",
      "page": "i-ching-daoism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 72,
      "tradition": "Zoroastrianism",
      "attestation": "The Yasna has 72 chapters, mirrored by the 72 threads of the kusti",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Avesta",
      "page": "zoroastrianism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 73,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "Prime factor of Genesis 1:1 gematria; T₇₃ = 2701",
      "grade": "remarkable",
      "source": "Direct factoring",
      "page": "biblical-cryptography.html",
      "anchor": "s3"
    },
    {
      "value": 81,
      "tradition": "Daoism",
      "attestation": "The received Daodejing has 81 chapters, 9²",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Wang Bi recension",
      "page": "i-ching-daoism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 108,
      "tradition": "Buddhism",
      "attestation": "108 beads on a mala; 108 defilements in Abhidhamma-style enumeration",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Abhidhamma enumerations; ritual practice",
      "page": "buddhism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 108,
      "tradition": "Cross-cultural",
      "attestation": "The claim that 108 encodes Sun–Earth and Moon–Earth distance-to-diameter ratios is approximately true but the ratios vary with orbital position, and no source in either tradition states the ratio as the reason",
      "grade": "disputed",
      "source": "orbital mechanics; absence of the claim in primary sources",
      "page": "sacred-numbers.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 108,
      "tradition": "Hinduism",
      "attestation": "108 beads on a japa mala",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "standard ritual practice",
      "page": "vedas-hinduism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 108,
      "tradition": "Hinduism",
      "attestation": "Mala bead count; sacred wholeness; Sun/Moon distance ratios",
      "grade": "remarkable",
      "source": "Standard Indic literature",
      "page": "sacred-numbers.html",
      "anchor": "s5"
    },
    {
      "value": 108,
      "tradition": "Hinduism",
      "attestation": "The Muktikā canon lists 108 Upanishads",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Muktikā Upanishad",
      "page": "vedas-hinduism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 108,
      "tradition": "Jainism",
      "attestation": "108 virtues attributed to the five supreme beings",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Jain devotional enumeration",
      "page": "jainism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 108,
      "tradition": "Mathematics",
      "attestation": "108 = 2²·3³, and 108 = 1¹·2²·3³ — a compact factorisation that makes it convenient for subdivision (108 = 4×27 = 12×9)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "elementary number theory",
      "page": "sacred-numbers.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 114,
      "tradition": "Quran",
      "attestation": "114 surahs in the standard ʿUthmānic arrangement",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Cairo edition",
      "page": "quran.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 117,
      "tradition": "African — Ethiopia",
      "attestation": "The Kebra Nagast is divided into 117 chapters",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Budge translation; Ge’ez manuscript tradition",
      "page": "african-ethiopia.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 120,
      "tradition": "Sefer Yetzirah",
      "attestation": "5! — \"five [stones] build one hundred twenty houses\"",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "SY 4:16",
      "page": "sefer-yetzirah.html",
      "anchor": "factorials"
    },
    {
      "value": 153,
      "tradition": "Christian",
      "attestation": "153 fish in the resurrection narrative; 153 is the 17th triangular number",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "John 21:11",
      "page": "christian-bible.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 153,
      "tradition": "Christian",
      "attestation": "Fish in John 21:11 (17th triangular number)",
      "grade": "remarkable",
      "source": "Gospel of John",
      "page": "christian-bible.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 231,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "\"Yisrael\" mnemonic: ר + ל + א = 200 + 30 + 1 = 231",
      "grade": "remarkable",
      "source": "Late kabbalistic tradition",
      "page": "sefer-yetzirah.html",
      "anchor": "gates"
    },
    {
      "value": 231,
      "tradition": "Sefer Yetzirah",
      "attestation": "231 gates = C(22,2), the number of unordered letter pairs in the Hebrew alphabet",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Sefer Yetzirah 2:4",
      "page": "sefer-yetzirah.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 256,
      "tradition": "Ifa (Yoruba)",
      "attestation": "256 Odù form a complete 8-bit space, 16×16",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Ifa divination corpus",
      "page": "african-west.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 260,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "Origin: solar zenith passage hypothesis (Malmström 1973) — disputed",
      "grade": "disputed",
      "source": "Malmström, Science 1973",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": "calendarround"
    },
    {
      "value": 260,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "The 260-day ritual count; no scholarly consensus exists on the origin of the figure",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Mesoamerican calendrical sources",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 305,
      "tradition": "Confucianism",
      "attestation": "The Shijing contains 305 poems",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "received Mao recension",
      "page": "confucianism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 360,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "Tun (18 winal) — Long Count \"computational year\"",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Thompson 1950",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": "longcount"
    },
    {
      "value": 365,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "Haab’ / xiuhpohualli (18 × 20 + 5)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Direct manuscript attestation",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": "calendarround"
    },
    {
      "value": 405,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "Lunations in the Eclipse Table (≈ 33 years)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Dresden Codex",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": "dresden"
    },
    {
      "value": 432,
      "tradition": "Ancient Mesopotamia",
      "attestation": "The Sumerian King List’s antediluvian reigns total 432,000 years in the standard reconstruction",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Weld-Blundell Prism WB-444",
      "page": "ancient-mesopotamia.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 432,
      "tradition": "Cross-cultural",
      "attestation": "The Indian and Mesopotamian 432,000 figures are a genuine and unexplained convergence; proposed transmission routes exist but none is established, and both figures are also natural products of sexagesimal round-number habits",
      "grade": "remarkable",
      "source": "see the cross-cultural discussion",
      "page": "sacred-numbers.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 432,
      "tradition": "Hinduism",
      "attestation": "The Kali Yuga is given as 432,000 years, with the four-yuga total at 4,320,000",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Puranic yuga scheme",
      "page": "vedas-hinduism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 432,
      "tradition": "Hinduism",
      "attestation": "Yuga base; Kali Yuga = 432,000 years; precessional 25,920 ÷ 60",
      "grade": "remarkable",
      "source": "Hindu cosmological texts",
      "page": "sacred-numbers.html",
      "anchor": "s6"
    },
    {
      "value": 432,
      "tradition": "Modern",
      "attestation": "\"432 Hz as the natural tuning\" has no basis in any ancient source; concert pitch was not standardised until the modern era",
      "grade": "disputed",
      "source": "history of concert pitch",
      "page": "methodology-statistics.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 584,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "Venus synodic period (days)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Dresden Codex Venus Table",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": "dresden"
    },
    {
      "value": 616,
      "tradition": "Christian",
      "attestation": "616 is the reading of Papyrus 115 and Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus — a genuine textual variant, not a modern invention",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "P115; Codex Ephraemi",
      "page": "christian-bible.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 666,
      "tradition": "Christian",
      "attestation": "\"Let him calculate the number of the beast… his number is 666\"",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Revelation 13:18",
      "page": "christian-bible.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 666,
      "tradition": "Christian",
      "attestation": "Hebrew gematria of \"Neron Caesar\" (נרון קסר) totals 666; the Latinised \"Nero Caesar\" without the final nun totals 616 — which explains both readings with one identification",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Hebrew gematria; standard commentary",
      "page": "christian-bible.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 666,
      "tradition": "Christian",
      "attestation": "Number of the beast (Revelation 13:18) = 6 × 111",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "NT canon",
      "page": "christian-bible.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 666,
      "tradition": "Mathematics",
      "attestation": "666 is the 36th triangular number, and 36 is itself the 8th triangular number",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "elementary number theory",
      "page": "christian-bible.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 666,
      "tradition": "Modern",
      "attestation": "Assignments of 666 to modern individuals or institutions work only by choosing a letter-value scheme after choosing the target; the method will produce a hit for almost any name",
      "grade": "disputed",
      "source": "see the methodology page on post-hoc selection",
      "page": "methodology-statistics.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 720,
      "tradition": "Sefer Yetzirah",
      "attestation": "6! — \"six [stones] build seven hundred twenty houses\" (variant 620)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "SY 4:16; Hayman 2004",
      "page": "sefer-yetzirah.html",
      "anchor": "factorials"
    },
    {
      "value": 780,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "Mars synodic period = 3 × 260 (Tzolk’in commensuration)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Dresden Codex Mars Table",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": "dresden"
    },
    {
      "value": 888,
      "tradition": "Christian",
      "attestation": "Greek isopsephy of ΙΗΣΟΥΣ totals 888",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Greek isopsephy",
      "page": "christian-bible.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 888,
      "tradition": "Christian",
      "attestation": "IESOUS (ΙΗΣΟΥΣ) under Greek isopsephy = 888 = 8 × 111",
      "grade": "remarkable",
      "source": "Bauckham 1990",
      "page": "numeral-systems.html",
      "anchor": "isopsephy"
    },
    {
      "value": 1430,
      "tradition": "Sikhism",
      "attestation": "The Guru Granth Sahib has a standardised 1,430 angs in the printed edition",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "standard 1706 CE arrangement, printed edition",
      "page": "sikhism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 2701,
      "tradition": "Hebrew Bible",
      "attestation": "Genesis 1:1 gematria total, factoring as 37 × 73 — a reproducible calculation whose interpretation, not whose arithmetic, is what is contested",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Masoretic Text",
      "page": "biblical-cryptography.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 2920,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "5 × 584 = 8 × 365 — Venus / solar commensuration",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Dresden Codex",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": "dresden"
    },
    {
      "value": 5040,
      "tradition": "Greek",
      "attestation": "Plato’s ideal citizen count, chosen for its divisibility: 5040 = 7! and is divisible by every integer from 1 to 12 except 11",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Laws 737e–738a",
      "page": "greek-pythagorean.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 5040,
      "tradition": "Greek",
      "attestation": "Plato’s ideal city size (Laws 737e)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Plato, Laws 737e",
      "page": "greek-pythagorean.html",
      "anchor": "nuptial"
    },
    {
      "value": 5040,
      "tradition": "Sefer Yetzirah",
      "attestation": "7! — \"five thousand and forty houses\"",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "SY 4:16",
      "page": "sefer-yetzirah.html",
      "anchor": "factorials"
    },
    {
      "value": 7200,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "K’atun = 20 tun ≈ 19.7 years",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Thompson 1950",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": "longcount"
    },
    {
      "value": 10800,
      "tradition": "Hinduism",
      "attestation": "The Rigveda is traditionally counted at 10,800 verses, though the figure depends on the counting convention used",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "traditional count; see edition note",
      "page": "numerical-architecture.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 11960,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "Eclipse Table days = 405 lunations = 46 × 260",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Dresden Codex Eclipse Table",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": "dresden"
    },
    {
      "value": 18980,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "Calendar Round in days = LCM(260, 365)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Coprime LCM identity",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": "calendarround"
    },
    {
      "value": 25920,
      "tradition": "Cross-cultural",
      "attestation": "Precession of the equinoxes (years)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Britannica; standard astronomy",
      "page": "sacred-numbers.html",
      "anchor": "s6"
    },
    {
      "value": 84000,
      "tradition": "Buddhism",
      "attestation": "84,000 dharma doors — a conventional expression of vastness rather than an enumeration",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Mahayana usage",
      "page": "buddhism.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 144000,
      "tradition": "Christian",
      "attestation": "144,000 sealed, given as 12 × 12 × 1000",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Revelation 7:4, 14:1",
      "page": "christian-bible.html",
      "anchor": ""
    },
    {
      "value": 144000,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "B’ak’tun = 20 k’atun ≈ 394.3 years",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Thompson 1950",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": "longcount"
    },
    {
      "value": 432000,
      "tradition": "Hinduism",
      "attestation": "Kali Yuga in years",
      "grade": "remarkable",
      "source": "Surya Siddhanta; Mahabharata",
      "page": "sacred-numbers.html",
      "anchor": "s6"
    },
    {
      "value": 584283,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "GMT (Goodman–Martínez–Thompson) correlation constant",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Standard Mayanist correlation",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": "longcount"
    },
    {
      "value": 1872000,
      "tradition": "Maya",
      "attestation": "13-b’ak’tun era in days (≈ 5,125 years)",
      "grade": "verified",
      "source": "Thompson 1950; Martin & Grube 2008",
      "page": "mesoamerica-maya.html",
      "anchor": "longcount"
    },
    {
      "value": 4320000,
      "tradition": "Hinduism",
      "attestation": "Maha Yuga in years",
      "grade": "remarkable",
      "source": "Hindu cosmology",
      "page": "sacred-numbers.html",
      "anchor": "s6"
    },
    {
      "value": 12960000,
      "tradition": "Greek",
      "attestation": "Plato’s nuptial number = 60⁴ (Adam 1902 reconstruction)",
      "grade": "exploratory",
      "source": "Plato, Republic 546b",
      "page": "greek-pythagorean.html",
      "anchor": "nuptial"
    }
  ]
}