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75 pages of results. 61. On Number as Artifact (Part 3: Conclusion) [Journals] [Horus]
... , in Western culture generally. But try to find the numbers 13 and l& This corroborates what is already known of Western calendar-making, which since Mesopotamia and Egypt has always favored the 12month year. Interestingly, the pre-Columbian cultures in Mexico and Central America have shown a no less demonstrable affinity for 13 and 18, suggesting quite a different calendar orientation. This indicates the role of number as artifact and underscores the need for prehistorians to become aware of its significance. Literally all pre-Columbian lore celebrates the number 13 - a number clearly not thought to be unlucky in early Central America. It was combined with the vigesimal 20 (the Mayans counted toes as well as fingers) to ...
62. A Re-examination of the Sothic Chronology of Egypt [Journals] [Kronos]
... the seven astronomical benchmarks listed in Table I. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the records and comment on their contribution to absolute dating. [* See I. Velikovsky, "The PitfaUs of Radiocarbon Dating", Pensee IV (Spring-Summer, 1973 pp. 12ff.- The Ed ] Egypt possessed a 365 day civil calendar:** 3 seasons, each containing 4 months or 12 months of 30 days with 5 epagomenal days at the beginning of the year. Being 1/4 day short every year or an entire day every 4 years the calendar corrected itself in accordance with the seasons only once in approximately 1460 revolutions of the earth around the sun ...
63. Precession and the Hebrew Calendar [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... From: Catastrophism and Ancient History XI:2 (July 1989) Home | Issue Contents INTERACTION Precession and the Hebrew Calendar Daniel Trifiletti Were the ancient Hebrews aware of the precession? Stecchini described the problem: [1 ] In their book Hamlet's Mill de Santillana and Dechend have used mythological and iconographic evidence in order to prove that all ancient cultures of the world were deeply preoccupied with the phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes. They intended to prove that the movement by which the celestial pole in about 25,920 years (Platonic year) makes a full circle around a point called the pole of the ecliptic was conceived as the basic movement in the life of the ...
64. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... deserves in scientific annals? Congratulations again. Keep up the good work. J. JOSEPHINE LEAMER Denver, Colorado New Year Resolution Sir, In SISR III:4 , p. 91, an excerpt was reprinted from Everyday Life of the Maya by Ralph Whitlock, which tells us the following about the Mayan sacred year: "The second calendar was concerned with the Tzolkin and was regarded as sacred. It consists of 20 months' of 13 days. The total of days was thus 260, a figure which bears no relationship to any natural calendar. How or why it originated is a mystery." Although the possibility that in very ancient times (before the Venus catastrophes ...
65. Ring Counters and Calendrical Cycles [Journals] [Horus]
... keep track of repeating cycles, such as those that occur in astronomy and calendrics. A prime example is the Stonehenge, where marker stones in the Aubrey, X, and Y holes could be advanced each day to keep track of the days of the year and the month. [See "Setting and Using the Stonehenge Nineteen Year Sun-Moon Calendar" by Alban Wall in HORUS II:3 .] Much more ancient is the Mallia disk which was found in the Minoan remains on Crete. It has been dated as belonging to the Middle Minoan period, which corresponds to the Egyptian Middle Kingdom. Diagram of Mallia Disk The Mallia Disk. [From a photo by J. ...
66. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Workshop Vol 5 No 2 (Apr 1983) Home | Issue Contents Letters Calendars and Time Dear Sir, Recently I decided to dig out the back numbers of Workshop and browse through them. I found a very interesting correspondence on Calendars and Time carried on by Michael Reade, Mike Rowland and George Hollaseter. After all this time may I put in my spoke? In Workshop No. 2 Michael Reade says: ". .. in a purely lunar system, one can also identify the days within a month by the shape and size of the moon .. . a very practical substitute for the modern printed calendar. One thus only has to consult ...
67. The Ninsianna tablets, a preliminary reconstruction [Journals] [SIS Review]
... been necessary to repeat the whole process for different epochs until ultimately a self-consistent pattern of variations has again emerged. It has also been necessary to apply two types of retro-calculation to find the longitudes - orthodox Julian retro-calculation and special Babylonian or Assyrian retro-calculation - as it has become apparent in the course of the analysis that a minimum of three different calendars is involved (further discussed below under Results'). Figure 1. Observed spin rate of Earth (Babylonian days per Babylonian year, merging into Assyrian days per Assyrian year). Each point on the graph marks the average spin rate between two neighbouring Events; it only represents a stabilised spin rate when three or more Events share ...
68. Astronomical Computation [Books]
... a year, and determine the shortest day (winter solstice) and the longest day (summer solstice). Shorter periods could be determined by using the regular return of the full moon (lunar month) or the phases of the moon (weeks). We may thus suppose that very early in his history man devised some kind of calendar, which, although lacking the precision of modern computation, gave him the correct number of days in the year. Any discrepancy could easily have been detected during an adult's lifetime. For example, an error of a quarter of a day per year would have given a difference of ten days in forty years, and this would doubtless ...
69. Stonehenge: What Was It? [Journals] [Horus]
... today, the waxing and waning of the Moon has been the astronomical basis of the month. The Moon circles the Earth once in a fraction over 29.5 days. During that time it completes one set of phases. It was quite obvious to ancient observers that coordination of lunar months with solar years could provide a natural, ready-made calendar cycle. There are many examples in ancient history of luni-solar calendar systems based on the fact that there are 235 lunar months in 19 solar years. I will state at the outset that this was the purpose, or at least the end result, of the mysterious megalithic structure called Stonehenge. Stonehenge Since the solar year contains 365 ¼ ...
70. Hans Schindler Bellamy info wanted [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Myths and Man, etc. Harper & Bros.: New York & London; printed in Great Britain, 1938. 8o., [9 ] Moons, Myths and Man, etc. (Second revised and augmented edition.), pp. 312. Faber & Faber: London, 1949. 8o. [10] The Calendar of Tiahuanco. A disquisition on the time measuring system of the oldest civilization in the world. [With plates.] Bellamy. Hans Schindler, and Allan Peter, pp. 440. Faber & Faber: London, 1956. 8o. [11] The Great Idol of Tiahuanco. An interpretation in the light of the Hoerbiger ...
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