Platonic month

noun

One twelfth of a Great Year, corresponding to one of the zodiacal ages (roughly 2000 years).

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nounPlatonic month (plural Platonic months)

plural Platonic months

  1. astrologyOne twelfth of a Great Year, corresponding to one of the zodiacal ages (roughly 2000 years).

    Sumerian civilization lasted for an entire Platonic month from 4000 to 2000 B.C.

    1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 207
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