Properties of the number 60

Symbolism

Represent the global Karma of the Universe and the general providential action exerted on the whole of the world, according to R. Allendy.
J. Boehme calls this number "the Earth".
This number corresponds to the Hebraic letter "samekh", figuring the astral snake tempter of Eve - Karma cosmic. It corresponds also to the 15th Arcane of the Tarot: the Devil, which figures in a certain manner to the cosmic fate.

Bible

Saint Paul prescribes that a woman can be registered to the group of widows only if she is at least 60 years old. (1 Ti 5,9)
The width and the height of the Temple of Jerusalem is 60 cubits. (Ezr 6,3)
The gold statue which the king Nebuchadnezzar made build was high of 60 cubits. (Dn 3,1)
The Song of Songs mentions that 60 valiant knights surround Solomon. (Sg 3,7)
In one of the poems of Solomon it is written "There are 60 queens and 80 concubines, (and countless girls). My dove is my only one". (Sg 6,8)

General

The Rosary (Catholic rosary) of the Virgin Mary is composed of 60 grains.
The 60 disciples of Buddha, which he dispersed to evangelize the world.
It is attributed to Fo-Hi the invention of the 60 years cycles by means of the ten "Kan" (trunks) and the twelve "Tche" (branches). Three cycles of 60 years formed a "San-Yuen", and 60 "San Yuen" formed a new period.
The base 60 (mathematical notation system) was the universal base for Mesopotamians. Anu, Father of gods, would have used it to structure the world. Sumerians and Babylonians used also the sexagesimal system.
According to the ancient tradition of Dogons, the world has been created by the voice of Ama, exactly as the Bible which tells that it has been created by the Word of Jehovah. The time and the space have been created by the bad angel Ogo by walking 8000 times 60 steps during 60 periods, that is to say 28800000 steps.
This is number is said "very abundant" since the sum of its many dividers (aliquot parts) gives a result higher than 60: 1+2+3+4+6+10+12+15+2 = 103.
Product of 3 x 4 x 5, which reminder the Pythagoras' theorem: 3² + 4² = 5².
Some peoples measured the year by the moons, the coincidence with the solar year occurs by a cycle of 60 years.
A period of 60 days was used as measurement of the time for some peoples, like Indians, Chinese and Egyptians.
Number of years that lasts a complete cycle in the Chinese lunar calendar.
The Chaldean Targoum speaks about the 60 letters of the blessing transmitted to Moses.
The Company of the Sixty is the most ancient of literary companies. It is certified in 4th century before our era and held its bases in the temple of Herakles, in Diomee, townships of the Attic. Its reputation spread in the distance and Philip of Macedonia sent to his members a contribution of a talent of gold in order to be held aware of their works.
From the beginning of the 2nd millennial before J.- C., explains the historian of numbers Georges Ifrah, the magi attributed a particular number to each god of their Pantheon, following a decreasing order which translated the hierarchy of the celebrities. Thus 60 was associated to Anu, god of the Sky, 50 to Enlil, god of the Earth, 40 to Ea, etc.
The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 60 times the terrestrial ray.
In the ancient measurements of weight, the talent was worth 60 mines.

The magic square A, whose the sum is 60, is little special. By permuting the two numbers making up each numbers of this magic square, we obtain a new magic square, B, of summation 204.

                       00 13 21 09 17     00 31 12 90 71
                       06 19 02 10 23     60 91 20 01 32
                       12 20 08 16 04     21 02 80 61 40
                       18 01 14 22 05     81 10 41 22 50
                       24 07 15 03 11     42 70 51 30 11

                             A                  B

Anniversary of marriage: diamond wedding.

Occurrence

The number 60 is used 32 times in the Bible - 26 times in the OT and 6 times in the NT.
The NT uses on the whole 60 different numbers, of which 53 are found both in the OT and the NT, and the 7 others only in the NT.
By 60 times in the New Testament it is referred in the Virgin Mary: 26 times by the word mother, 10 times by the word woman, 3 times by the word Virgin, 2 times by the word servant and 19 times by the name of Mary.
The number 60 is used only once in the Koran. (Koran LVIII,5)
The word Sabbath is used 60 times in the NT.