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.
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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.
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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.
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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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understanding early time. Ancient calendars of the
Holy Bible use
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a 364-day calendar year to describe X-number of days that
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