Why is 12 such a common number in history?

>>1522222
Great digits, great question.
All in all, great post

>>1522222
11 is too little and 13 is too many.
12 is just right.

>>1522222
i dunno lol

12 get

Because once the Gregorian calendar was made, all other mythology was changed to fit the 12-structure.

>>1522222
Base 12

>>1522222
12 is a magic number

>>1522222
Because 12 months

>>1522222
You have twelve knuckles on each hand, not counting the thumbs. There's also about twelve lunar cycles a year.

>>1522222
I should also point out that were FAR more than twelve gods in both the Roman and Greek pantheon. Hell, the triad was more important to Romans.

>>1522222
Divisible by 2, 3, and 4, and 6.

So nice.

>>1522222
Indo-european universal I would guess

>>1522222
the earth, sun, and moon complete 12 cycles (resulting in 12 months and 4 seasons) before they repeat

also chek'd

also
>12 posts in this thread before me

>>1522222
The European gods are essentially the same twelve gods with different names.

Though there are more than twelve gods, there's just twelve rulers.

Nice get by the way.

>>1522455
Which triad.

Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto?

I thought the goddess Juno was arguably the most important deity.

>>1522785
(You)

>>1523115
Juno Jupiter and Minerva

>>1523091
>the earth, sun, and moon complete 12 cycles (resulting in 12 months and 4 seasons) before they repeat

There are more than 12 "moon cycles" per year, either ~12.3 or 13 depending on how you define it. And seasons are just arbitrary divisions, there isn't actually 4 of anything.

>>1523131
Oh right.

>>1523135
I think the seasons are based on crops life cycles.

>>1523135
oh shit bro oh shit
i think you just unlocked the secrets of life.

>>1523162 again
what if we die for six months and then come back to life in the spring? or maybe less out there and more seriously, our observation of patterns (in nature) creates divisions that are literal divisions of time. "time" only exists because we notice it.

>>1522222

Because twelve is actually 1100 and the higher cosmic forces like to get doubles.

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>>1522222
>Why is 12 such a common number in history?
While you could have (probably) provided more examples you only gave 6 examples all pertaining to ideas of ideology, hardly common.

Anyway, to answer your question it's all thanks to the earliest records we have of myth and religion.

All of our western religions are based on this """"""probably"""""".

>>1524936
>ideology
blegh
Theology.

>>1522765

This. Much better than 10 tbqh.

>>1522222
All ancient religions draw heavily from astrology and there are 12 sectors (Aries, Taurus, etc.) of the ecliptic.

>>1522222
newer religions had to have some traits of the older in order to recruit believers from the older order. you can see this pattern in christianity and its copy of judaism, judaism and its copy or zoroastrianism. 12 was a number that got passer around. or perhaps just like shamanism developing the same ideas in total isolation this number might be hardwired into us

>>1522222
I heard that 12 people are the amount of close friends humans tend to have when living in a more tribal society, like the theory that humans are only capable of knowing about 500 people by name and remembering different character traits for them

>>1522222
Because of Egyptians and their obsession with base 12.

>>1522298
No

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>>1524940
>Theology
Mein Gott, you know it is pure theology, right?

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>>1522222
12 has so many dividers it's silly. 6, 4, 3, 2, plus the usual self and 1. This means that stacking things into dozens just made sense, you could easily grab a half, a third or a quarter. No other number before has this property, and the first number after it is 24, which is too much

>>1522222
Because babylonian mathamatics counted in units of 12

>>1522222
Fucking obvious.

12, 360, and 60 all come from the Babylonians.

> 12 months in a year
> 360 days in a year (roughly), so 360 degrees in a circle

>>1522765
>4
>Not just 2^2
>6
>Not just 2x3
Only prime numbers matter.

>>1523135
>>1523147
What the fuck? Do you guys not know what seasons are? You think their arbitrarily? What kind of uneducated Neanderthal are you?

>What is the solstice
>What is the equinox

>>1523131
Jupiter, Quirinus, Mars was the actual original triad, Juno and Minerva only came after the etruscan influence.

>>1523135
>seasons are just arbitrary divisions

The dawn of New Man approaches, we shall sever our ties to nature and to reality!