What If Our Units of Measurement Were Inherited From Before the Flood?

The ten Sumerian kings who reigned before the Great Flood are recorded as having ruled for a combined total of 432,000 years. Randall is clear that he doesn't take that figure literally - no individual king reigned for 43,200 years. However, the number itself is where the real argument begins. That same numerical sequence is embedded throughout the way modern civilization measures time and space. The moon's diameter is 2,160 miles - precisely half of 4,320, and double 1,080. The recurrence of that figure across Sumerian kingship lists and contemporary astronomical measurement is not coincidental.

What Randall draws attention to next is the origin of the mile itself. It is not an arbitrary unit. It derives ultimately from human anatomy and the geometric proportions of the human body - which connects it to the same tradition of sacred geometry and human-cosmic correspondence that Randall traces across multiple ancient cultures. The implication is significant. If the numbers embedded in Sumerian myth are the same numbers encoded in our most basic units of measurement, and if those units trace back to human geometry, then the knowledge system that produced the Sumerian king lists and the one that produced our measurement conventions may share a common and much older source.