Solar Sillies and Moony Loonies

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Solar Sillies and Moony Loonies

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Louis Hissink
Q:Why would tribal religions adopt a lunar calculator in preference to a solar one?
A: Because the moon was the only persistent celestial feature that could be counted?
Q: Would not a lunar calendar make it difficult for a culture based on agriculture to survive?
A: Not if the climate were uniformly warm and the growing season continuous; effectively there were no winters.
Q: Ever seen Romans or Etruscans wearing winter clothes?
A: Uhm, no……
And from stage left……

Gunnar Heinsohn seems to have solved the Ashkenazi problem in Europe – if and only if we accept GH’s radical revisionism; In this revision the Ashkenazi Jews are the direct descendants of the roman era jews, so the “sudden appearance” of these peoples in the High Middle Ages is not an issue. The intervening period between Antiquity and Middle High Ages is actually fake history that never happened. It was the roman termination event and my latest guess is that Venus was the celestial cause of that event.
Our era’s adoption of a solar calendar seems applicable from the roman termination event, or 910 CE as per the GH revision. Retro Calculation using existing observations of celestial objects can go back only to 910 CE. Before that the heavens were different in makeup and the roman gods or pantheon applicable.
The crucial assumption is that earth had a more vertical inclination of its rotational axis, and the sun then, was not the sun today. In this sense Saturn may have been the sun corresponding to the Age of Chronos, a warm brown dwarf that did not have any seasons, hence the lack of winter clothing for the past civilisations.
Biblical chronology could make more sense if time was based on a lunar calendar. and it strikes one that it may not have been the present moon either.
But it’s early days and the scenario(s) proposed here are initial back of envelope attempts to set the stage.
And if history is that muddled up from the ignorant muddling by the medievalists, then the biblical Exodus and other narratives might have a more recent place in the chronology.
Incidentally there seems to be a persistent acceptance of the last ice age being some 12,000 years, or the standard mainstream dating, ago. Try instead placing it as the Roman Termination Event. After all we do have the anachronism of roman aqueduct buried under Pleistocene sediments.

 

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The lunar calculation is easier than solar calculation or calendar.
Simple people can observe the moon phases, but it is difficult for them to calculate according to the sun.

Some oriented people in the past, might have predicted the coming of winter or summer and other seasons by some stars appearing near the horizon when Winter comes, which is the star Suhail in Arabic (I find it in the dictionary: Canopus) .
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Canopus-star

When I was child, I heard common people say: "It has become cold, the star Suhail has appeared like the coming of a spear!" So they linked the approach of winter with this bright star which appears when winter comes; it appears following dawn and stay near the horizon; maximally it rises a spear height above the horizon, not more, then will disappear when winter goes away.

Such event heralding the coming of winter and the change of weather, which farmers and others prepare their affairs of winter agriculture and animal care ..etc.

While for the moon, it is evidently easier for all people.
So God made it to all people the simple and the oriented to calculate according to the lunar calendar.

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So in the Torah, "The moon is made for calculations" or so it is said.

In the Quran 10: 5, which means:
(It is He [: God] Who made the sun: [light-] emitting and the moon: light [-reflecting] and decreed for her phases [of the moon];

that you [people] may know the counting of years and the calculation [of months and days.]
)

More explanation is in the link:
http://quran-ayat.com/pret/10.htm#a10_5
quran-ayat.com/pret/10.htm#a10_5

And in the Quran 17: 12, which means:
(We have made the night and the day [as] two signs [of God], then We have diminished the sign of the night, and made the sign of the day luminous;
that you [people] may seek bounty from your Lord, and to know [by means of the succession of the day and night] the numbering of years and the counting;
and everything [of the religion and the life of the World] We have explained [in the Quran] in details.
)

More explanation is in the link:
http://quran-ayat.com/pret/17.htm#a17_12
quran-ayat.com/pret/17.htm#a17_12
 
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