Decamillennium

A Millennium consists of one thousand years. / A Decamillennium is ten thousand years. / […] / A Centimillennium embraces a period of one hundred thousand years.

There is most assuredly an occult “chronological system in Hebrew Scripture”—the Kabala being its warrant; there is in it “a system of weeks”—which is based on the archaic Indian system, which may still be found in the old Jyotisha.* And there are in it cycles of “the week of days,” of the “week of months,” of years, of centuries, and even of millenniums, decamillenniums, and more, or “the week of years of years.”†

That this bare room, in spite of its barrenness, was a Catholic church, was attested by the high altar which had preserved its form unchanged through the decamillennia and was crowned by a tall, gold, gleaming monstrance.

These suns are selected by the Creator Sun and are commissioned by Gabriel as the most high of the constellations for service during one decamillennium, which is 10,000 of our standard years. / In their time it is 10,000 years precisely. But because we are placed farther out of the infinite light, and our vibrations are much slower here, there is a time-drag factor of about 5. […] And each of the most high rulers, in accordance with the present policy, has a period of service on the headquarters of a constellation for 3 decamillenniums, which in our time is 150,000 years.

A fundamental question in any analysis of volcanic activity is the absence or presence of memory effects, and if present, their kind and extent. The time scales involved are also basic: some volcanic phenomena take place within hours or even shorter intervals, others need millennia or even decamillennia to produce observable effects.

It is this present time, the twelve thousand or so years since the ice age and the twelve thousand or so years yet to come, that is our little territory. We will be judged or judge ourselves by how we have lived with each other and the world during these two decamillennia.

Before he could get into the main body of the article, however, the house computer informed him that someone was at the door of the apartment. It was a message that crawled along the bottom of the lector display. Leyel pressed the key that brought the message to the front, in letters large enough to read. For the thousandth time he wished that sometime in the decamillennia of human history, somebody had invented a computer capable of speech.

“The faith responded in kind; a prophet had a vision and decided that the Messiah couldn’t be born until the faithful had their treasure back, or the female line of the family had died out; whichever came first. And however it worked, it had to happen by the time of the decamillennium.” […] “This is a terrible thing, isn’t it? Here we are, about to start the second decamillennium, and your faith wants to hunt down and kill—preferably put to death ceremonially, in fact—a woman who has never been convicted of anything and whose only crime appears to be having been born, and being born female.”