Counted: the days of the solar year and the negative commandments, counted at 365 to pair with the 248 positive. Computed in Greek: Ἀβρασάξ = 1+2+100+1+200+1+60 = 365, and ΜΕΙΘΡΑΣ = 40+5+10+9+100+1+200 = 365.
Three hundred and sixty-five is the year and the count of prohibitions: the tradition pairs 248 positive commandments with 365 negative ones so that the 613 cover the body's members and the year's days at once, and the human being becomes a calendar as well as a body. In the Greek world the same number is the value of Abrasax and, in a spelling that supplies an epsilon, of Mithras — which is why 365 is the number where the two traditions meet most visibly.
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