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	This suggests that occultation solves the numerical problem permanently: a succession that would otherwise continue thirteen, fourteen and beyond is frozen at twelve, turning twelve from the current number of Imams into the final and metaphysically complete number of Imams.		This suggests that occultation solves the numerical problem permanently: a succession that would otherwise continue thirteen, fourteen and beyond is frozen at twelve, turning twelve from the current number of Imams into the final and metaphysically complete number of Imams.




			These recurrences do not demonstrate an unbroken historical transmission from Mesolithic calendrics to Twelver Shiʿism; rather, they document the progressive availability and repeated reuse of twelve as a culturally intelligible number of completeness, especially in calendrical, cosmic, communal and leadership structures.