How Long is a Year?

According to some, the Earth takes exactly 360 days to make one revolution around the sun and not the 365.25 days that is known as the sidereal year. The reason for the difference lies in the fact that, according to the same some, the Sun has it's own parent star that it revolves around. This revolution, according to John Gordon (Egypt, Child of Atlantis) is 25,920 Earth years long (called the Great Year, or Platonic Year, and known about since antiquity). The shifting of the Sun into a different sign of the zodiac every 2160 years (25,920/12) is explained by modern science by a wobble of the Earth's axis similar to the phenomenon of precession of a spinning top. This extremely complex and highly contrived thesis is unprovable, and no other planet or object in the heavens has been reported to experience the same effect.

The Earth moves around the Sun in an eastward direction (counter-clockwise), the Sun is conjectured to move around its parent star in a westward direction (clockwise). This conflict in the directions forces the Earth to move more than one complete revolution around the sun in order to complete the apparent or sidereal year in which the sun returns to an identical position in the sky relative to the fixed stars in the background. The following corroborating correspondence is striking to say the least: 1/25,920 is the fraction of the Great Circle (the Great Year) that the Earth passes through in one of its years. This is equal to 1/72 of 1 degree -- in Earth time that equates to just over 5 days! Thus we see that it takes exactly 360 days for the Earth to circle the Sun and arrive at exactly the same point in space with respect to the Sun -- however, because the Earth, and Sun, are also moving around a greater star (in a clock wise direction), the Earth is forced to move 5 more days (in a counter-clockwise direction) in order for the Sun to occupy the same position relative to the fixed stars in the background.

John Gordon goes into other aspects involved in the relative movements and positions of the heavenly spheres. Example, the Earth's seasons are claimed by modern science to be solely the result of the Earth's axis being at an angle to the Sun's equator. This "fact" however need not necessarily be so. The Earth may, as Gordon claims, simply orbit at an angle to the Sun's equator, spending half the year above and half the year below its equator. As the Earth reaches it's solstices, it may extend partially beyond the Sun's Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) and this would account for another alleged "wobble" of the Earth's axis -- called nutation -- occuring precisely every 183 days.