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Exactly one-twelfth of a Great Year. The length of a [[Platonic Month]] equals 2160.4 years. | Exactly one-twelfth of a Great Year. The length of a [[Platonic Month]] equals 2160.4 years. | ||
These figures may be represented as adjusted to the estimated years used to calculate the [[Precession of Equinoxes]], i.e. 26,000 years or 25,729 years, etc. | These figures may be represented as adjusted to the estimated years used to calculate the [[Precession of the Equinoxes]], i.e. 26,000 years or 25,729 years, etc. | ||
The term appears to have first been coined by Carl Gustav Jung in Aion where, in footnote 84, he gives us its calculated length: 2 143 years. Two centuries earlier Voltaire had proposed the concept, but not given it this name. | The term appears to have first been coined by Carl Gustav Jung in Aion where, in footnote 84, he gives us its calculated length: 2 143 years. Two centuries earlier Voltaire had proposed the concept, but not given it this name. | ||