Newton's Cat

Genesis 6,15-16 says:

The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above.

The author could have left out the bit about the window and said:

The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it forty-eight and one third cubits, and the height of it twenty-nine cubits.

.... but that would have given the game away.

The numerical data in the Noah's Ark story is data for a map.

(The fact that the window is not simply said to be a cubit high but is "finished within a cubit" is significant. This allows an extended area to be identified (an island) rather than a precise geographical co-ordinates location, which would actually not be on the island if the window was "a cubit high".)

The flood began on the 17th day of the 2nd month - numerical data, which when combined with other data in the story locates the start of the voyage.

Furthermore, the story of Noah getting drunk and exposing himself and Shem and Japheth covering his nakedness with a cloak (whilst they had their backs to him) is also a map. Noah (naked), the Cloak, Shem, Ham, and Japheth are all locations on a map.

Ham is Crete. The reason why Noah is depicted as naked is because of the shape of the geographical area he represents.

The word "flood" also has a metaphorical meaning and should be understood to mean "a complete breakdown of society" - as happened at the end of the Egyptian Old Kingdom.

The Noah's Ark story is all about a voyage from Egypt to the Aegean sometime around 2,200 bc.

Have you ever wondered why Revelations takes place on Patmos?

... and ... next to Patmos is an island called Arkoi?

I wonder what the fare was from Heliopolis (the ancient capital of Egypt) to Patmos?

The actual Noah's Ark story in the Bible is a combination of two stories - both of which have numbers in them - but in the Mount Ararat one the numbers, "after 40 days", etc., have no mathematical significance.

If you think this is far-fetched, well, these people built the pyramids a couple of centuries or so earlier. They needed to be pretty smart mathematicians to accomplish that.

As an aside - the "Golden Fleece" in the Jason and the Argonauts story represents planet Earth's "clothing" of longitude/latitude lines. I wonder what the significance of Colchis (the modern Georgian Republic) is? Maybe that's where the people lived who first worked out how to plot the geographical co-ordinates of locations?

Finally, something really weird:

NOAHSHEMHAMJAPHETH

Patmos Aejean MHHHHH

If your thinking that I've made my calculations fit this anagram - I identified Patmos as the destination of the Ark long before I discovered the anagram.

Rhaedas

Dispatch the black helicopters. He's on to us.

Hey, I found my driver's license number, birth date, and 9/11/2001 in Pi. http://www.angio.net/pi/piquery

Could it mean something?

There's a double meaning to the phrase "seek, and ye shall find". Look hard enough, you can convince yourself of all sorts of junk if you're not careful.