Moon as the Earliest Calendar gives readers of the Holy Bible
information about four lunar phases recorded in ancient times.
Lunar/solar calendars were common throughout the ancient world.
Three calendar systems that help our study of Bible times are the
Jewish, Mesoamerican and the Egyptian calendars. Changes in the
appearance of the moon at night provide the seven-day week. Time
steps in the lunar/solar calendar accumulate for longer time cycles.
Moon
as the Earliest Calendar
I AM speaks to people
through His Word, the Holy Bible. Historical,
inspirational and supernatural, the Bible has been with us since calendar recording
began. Readers of the Holy
Bible can understand the records of ancient times. We
discern what the numbered ages in the Old Testament actually mean by using three oldest
calendars. Three calendar systems that help our study of Bible times are the Jewish,
Mesoamerican and the Egyptian calendars. These three calendars
allow us to trace back into remote prehistory. The word
prehistory includes the “before time”, and the compound of “His” and
“story.” Scientists who have worked with these very early
cultures can provide the basic calendar methods that were once used
to measure time. We need to review the Lord's units of main time
keeping to see the way ancient humanity dealt with time observation.
Early parts of the Old Testament
mention days and years together. Time and the Biblical Creation include major
fundamental concepts known to the ancient Jewish people. The Old Testament provides our first
realistic ideas about time reckoning and recording. The Lord defines the day and night
in the book of Genesis.
The very first calendar of one day had begun. Description of
the seven-day Creative Week further defines basic operation of the
calendar. The sacred seven-day week is a fundamental religious
idea. Four phases of the moon marked four weekly intervals
during the month. Approximate lunar phases are attached to the
origins of the calendar Sabbath week. Seven-day weeks and
lunar months create the lunar-side of the lunar/solar calendars.
We are discovering ancient days when timekeepers watched the sun,
moon and stars. The Jewish Calendar is simple when you
understand the numbers used. The Jewish Calendar is based on
the sun and moon together and measures chronology in numbered years
from the Creation year 1. Modern recorded dates denote this
era as B.C.E. for “Before Common Era”. Christianity dates
according to the birth of Christ.
The same B.C.E. initials mean “Before Christian Era” or simply B.C.
for “Before Christ.” Time reckoning after Christ applies the A.D. marking
of Anno Domini, which stems from the Latin meaning: “After Divinity”
in the year of our Lord.
Calendar systems map world chronology according to different
beginnings. Some follow Jewish tradition and put the Creation
date at 5,767 years ago or about 3,761 years B.C.E. Others
credit Archbishop Ussher with calculating in 1,701 A.D. that
Creation took place in 4,004 B.C. The Egyptian Calendar begins
between 4,236 B.C.E. and 4,241 B.C.E., along with Egyptian mythology
explaining the world's creation. Starting dates depend on star
observation in Egypt, since that is the only way primal society had
to mark calendar years. Another plan estimates the starting
Mayan Calendar date to be 3,113 B.C.E. Shared calendar
characteristics enable deeper inspection of prehistoric time
reckoning. Sacred texts and current science provide clues
needed to reconstruct the oldest Biblical history. Important
traits gathered from past calendar time streams become woven
together to obtain hybrid insight. Three ancient calendar
systems form the world's oldest trunk line of calendar
science. God used a
lunar/solar calendar to write listed ages for the Antediluvian
Patriarchs. The family of Adam heralds new discovery from the
earliest time.
Ages_of_Adam will aid you
through better understanding of the Old Testament and significant calendar
information. The work at timeemits.com stresses time reckoning
and recording. We return to the origins of day and night that
lead up to the sacred seven-day week to explore this affinity
between God above and
calendar times.
Genesis
1:4
"And
God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light
from the darkness."
God was "between" the light,
and the darkness in the literal Hebrew definition. This basic
interlinear Bible
definition establishes a slightly different thought of God being between or separating,
daylight on the one hand, and darkness on the other. This
meaning sets the precedence for identifying day and night.
Genesis
1:5
"And
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called
Night. And the evening and the morning were the first
day."
The Lord put two great
lights in heaven, one to rule the day and one to rule the
night. The light of the sun measured the day and the light of
the moon measured time greater than a day. The greater light
is, of course, the sun. Everything we call solar deals with
the sun. The lesser light, or luminary, is the moon. The
word lunar relates to the moon or the month. The sun and moon
identify as luminaries.
This work of God, of
dividing, separating or coming between daylight and darkness to
measure time is the basic premise of the original Jewish
calendar. Calendars, time, and the sacred seven-day week have
inspired the purest of time references to the Holy Bible. We must
examine formative religions and ideas about time. In chapter 5 of Genesis, a
correlation exists between the “begat” genealogy following Adam and
numerical ties to ancient calendars. Adam and his descendants
through Noah are the Antediluvian Patriarchs. Antediluvian
tells us they were before the great flood of Noah and all were
Patriarchs or fore fathers of humanity. The Holy Bible provides our greatest
treasure of calendar history and early theology. The Master of
the Universe, He who sits upon the throne of glory and grace,
stretches forth His right hand to give us time.
We become one human race when you put man and woman together.
There are two literal Hebrew definitions involved here. Adam
meant “the man,” in the literal Hebrew sense of the word.
Adam, the word, differs from a personal pronoun name like Bob or
John. Adam is the human being, the generic man or a breathing
creature. Adam in this work refers to the universal, generic
meaning for man. The man is a derivative form of the root word
that describes reddish clay, soil or dust. Literal word
searches furnish meanings that aid our calendar study. A
synthesis of faiths and mythology sharpen initial views regarding
civilization. People have always marked birth and death by the
calendar. Calendars unite with the spiritual afterlife in
memorials. Early religions recognized conceptions of the
spirit and soul after death by burial and by saying “from dust unto
dust.” The lifetime of Adam is given precise lunar/solar years
in chapter 5 of Genesis.
Eve is the woman in literal Hebrew. She is the life-giver,
mother to the living, or child-bearer. The feminine fertility
issue has always been associated with lunar observation. The
lunar month forever etches upon humanity the moon -- mother
perceptions of ancient times. Cycles of new moons were basic
time reckoning ingredients for lunar/solar calendars. Where
Eve represented the feminine side of human order according to lunar
observation, Adam represented the masculine, solar side, according
to solar positioning on the horizon. In other words, Adam's
male image also implied meaning toward the rising and setting
positions of the sun through all four seasons during the year.
Adam and Eve have embedded connections with primitive cosmology.
Clarification of God
resting on the seventh day defines a separation between successive
time frames. God
again divides, separates or is between the light and darkness of the
moon. Repeated instances in a theme show a holy relationship
is present between specific divisions of calendar times.
Transition from one lunar phase ending to commencement of the next
lunar phase is the most revered unit of time measurement
known. God set aside
the Sabbath Day as holy. God
consecrated the Jewish Shabbat for all time to come. The
sacred Jewish significance of the seven-day week and the number
seven elsewhere support religious observance of the moon as an early
calendar.
The lunar/solar calendar begins to emerge with a variety of ultimate
connotations. Day unto night, between the weeks as Sabbath,
new moon crescents and finally intercalary days all continue divine
providence upon Earth. Time steps in the lunar/solar calendar
accumulate for longer time cycles. Years and then multiple of
years exhibit the same religious notions to vast proportions.
Changes in the appearance of the moon at night provide the seven-day
week. Divisions of seven-days separate the four basic lunar
phases noted in figure 1. Starting with a new moon crescent,
the moon gradually comes into view on following nights. The
first half of the moon is visible in about seven-days. The
moon waxes until full moon at the end of two weeks. Lunar
light reverses progression in the third week, waning to half
visibility. A fourth week completes the month and visibility
diminishes toward a new moon. Completion of four lunar phases
comprises the month. The true lunar month measures
29.53-days. Ancient calendar makers recorded approximations
according to actual observation. Whole lunar months of 29-days
or 30-days were the common practice in lunar/solar calendar
systems. The average lunar month of 29.5-days repeats upon
sighting the new moon crescent. Light and darkness classify
lunar phases in the lunar-side of lunar/solar calendars.
Original interpretations of lunar time place God between the weeks on Sabbath
Days.
Four
Phases of the Moon Figure 1
New
Moon First Quarter Full Moon
Fourth Quarter Waxing
Moon
Waning Moon 29.5 Days Average Lunar
Month
Four
Phases of the Moon Figure 1
Lunar/solar calendar foundations of the Jewish calendar extend from
the earliest verses of scripture. Natural, uniform motions of
the heavenly spheres are the pivotal markers of time
reckoning. The list of ancient characters mentioned in the Old
Testament used this lunar/solar calendar system of time
recording. Observation of lunar phases coupled with solar
positioning graduated the lifetime ages of Adam and his
descendants. Well over ten thousand years ago,
proto-historical calendar makers had developed advanced sciences
such as mathematics and astronomy. Intercalary days add to the
lunar year of twelve-moon-months in order to complete our modern
solar year of 365-days. Necessary intercalations best describe
lunar/solar separation time by "coming between" lunar and solar
times.
Time Equations
There are 12 finished lunar months during the current
365-day-solar-year. Since day one, that has never
changed. An average lunar month is about 29.5-days long
measured against a starry nighttime background. There are four
quarters during one-lunar-month. From new moon, which shows no
moonlight, to the first phase of the moon, or half the lighted moon,
about one week has passed. Moonlight waxes to full-moon stage
after two weeks. Reversing the pattern, the third week of the
month wanes visibility to diminish the moon's light back to halfway
again. The fourth weekly period continues the waning retreat
of moonlight until again repeating the new moon. Twelve mature
lunar months multiply by 29.5-days per lunar month for 354-days to
approximate the lunar year (Eqn. 1).
Time differences between lunar and solar calendar years provide
lunar/solar calendar adjustments or intercalations.
Subtraction yields 11 days of lunar/solar separation time between
the lunar year of 12-moon-months and the 365-day-solar-year (Eqn.
2). Eleven days of difference every year were the staple for
lunar/solar calendars. During 19-years, 11-days of lunar/solar
separation time every year multiply this division between lunar
years and solar years (Eqn. 3). Lunar/solar separation time
measures 209-days of difference after 19-years have passed.
Therefore, any 19-year lunar/solar calendar cycle had to incorporate
these remaining 209-days of separation as intercalary days in order
to catch up the lunar-side of the calendar, with the solar-side of
the calendar. Intercalary systems varied between cultures to
compensate calendar recording. The Mayan Calendar escalates
the same intercalations to distribute 210-days over a 20-year
lunar/solar calendar cycle (Eqn. 3).
Throughout this text, 'lunar/solar' denotes calendar terminology
that pertains to lunar and solar time. Variations include
'lunar/solar separation time' to indicate time between lunar years
and solar years. Occasionally the phrase is abbreviated
'l/s'. Lunar-side specifically addresses time measured
according to lunar or moon reckoning. Solar-side time splits
address time that depends upon solar or sun reckoning.
Lunar/solar calendar time is the most important approach to survey
ancient calendars.
Equations
1-3
1. 12-Month-Lunar-Year
29.5 day-lunar-month
x 12 lunar-months in lunar-year
= 354 day-lunar-year
2. 11-Days of Lunar/Solar Separation Time
365 day-solar-year
- 354 day-lunar-year
= 11 days of l/s separation time per l/s calendar year
3. Lunar/Solar Separation Time for
20-year-L/S-Cycle
11-days of Separation per l/s calendar year
x 19-year-l/s-calendar cycle
= 209 days of separation per 19-year-l/s-cycle
Approximates to 210 Days of Separation per 20-year l/s-cycle
The lunar/solar calendar begins to emerge with a variety of ultimate
connotations. Day unto night, between the weeks as Sabbath,
new moon crescents and finally intercalary days all continue divine
providence upon Earth. Time steps in the lunar/solar calendar
accumulate for longer time cycles. Years and then multiple of
years exhibit the same religious notions to vast proportions.
Lunar/solar calendars were common throughout the ancient
world. Different calendar systems employed the 19-year cycle
with slight variations. Study of the Jewish Calendar provides
the necessary understanding that is fundamental to lunar/solar
calendar cycles. Equally important, the Jewish Calendar was
the mainstay time recording plan found throughout the Old Testament.
Moon_as_the_Earliest_Calendar gives
readers of the Holy Bible information recorded in ancient
times. Lunar/solar calendars were common throughout the
ancient world. Three calendar systems that help our study of
Bible times are the Jewish, Mesoamerican and the Egyptian
calendars. Changes in the appearance of the moon at night
provide the seven-day week. Time steps in the lunar/solar
calendar accumulate for longer time cycles. 130 kb
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celebrations is available from the timeemits.com website. The
scope of this work is primarily the treatment of l/s
intercalations. Ancient and modern versions of the calendar
vary slightly. A true comparison is possible only through
supplementary reading in Judaism.
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Ancient lunar/solar calendars like the Jewish and Mayan calendars
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calendars of the Holy Bible
use differences between the moon and sun, numerical matching and a
364-day calendar year to describe X-number of days that match with
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