Beliefs Hidden in our Calendar.

[Debi]

Thanks, Astronomer!

I'm moving this thread to the Random Forum so it doesn't get covered up by some of the new Science stuff headed this way. It 's truly a good history you're laying out there.

 

[Astronomer]

Hi Debi,
I can go on a bit about history and explaining why the intended astronomy took place, so fully understand!

 

[Astronomer]

As i have said the Julian Calendar took effect on 1st January 0045BC and seems to be aligned to Thebes with sunset with Sirius rising.
Julian calendar - Wikipedia
Pliny, the ancient Roman historian wrote something curious about these times that is interesting regarding the research in this thread, "There were three main schools, the Chaldaean's, the Egyptian's, and the Greek's, and to these a fourth was added in our country by Caesar (Mystery School?) who with the assistance of the learned astronomer Sosigenes brought the separate years back into conformity with the course of the Sun. You may wonder if Caesar set up one of the ancient mystery schools, that the western tradition is made up from, being a gnosis of secret esoteric religious information including the Hermetic secrets from Egypt to the Eleusian mysteries that originated in Greece.

The Hopeless Roman calendar was sick in Julius Caesar's time, partly due to political tinkering being truly out of synch with the seasons, so before starting the Julian Calendar, 0046 BC was 445 days long, which was called "The year of Confusion".

HOWEVER WE WOULDN'T EXPECT SIRIUS TO BE ALIGNED TO THE GREGORIAN REFORM OF THE CALENDAR IN ROME BY POPE GREGORY XIII, why use an Egyptian Goddess to head the new calendar?

 

[Astronomer]

By 4th October 1582 in Rome when the Gregorian reform of the Julian Calendar took place ten days were taken out of the calendar as it had been too long so after 4th October it become the 15th October.
Countries` Calendar Reform | Calendars
Because of the Clock Face and the minute hand being invented in 1577, it was "Midnight" that was chosen to be the start of the day.
History of Clocks
On astronomy graph below you will see that it is timed for 23:59pm on 4th October 1582, being the last minute of the Julian Calendar in Rome, Sirius is rising in the East!

 

[Astronomer]

The Gregorian Calendar Reform......Why Not Earlier?
In 325 AD at The Council of Nicaea, they knew that the Julian Calendar was too long, as in Julius Caesar's era the Vernal Equinox was happening on 25th March and the Winter Solstice was happening on 25th December, and by 325 AD this was happening on 21st March and 21st December, regardless of this slip they fixed the churches date of the Vernal Equinox on 21st March, even though the calendar was gaining a day every 128 years......so why didn't they rectify the problem?
The Venerable Bede, the English scholar, who lived from 673-735, noted that the Vernal Equinox had slipped a further 3 days since 325 AD and the traditional 21st March, he complained to the Vatican, as many monks did, but the Julian Calendar stayed in place.....why didn't they adapt it?
Roger Bacon believed that the calendar was out of synch, he complained to Rome but nothing was done for nearly 300 years....why?
Indeed at a time that religion was everything, it was a terrible thing to happen, imagine going to Sunday service when it really was a Wednesday!
Roger Bacon worried, and rightly so, that religious functions were being celebrated on the wrong day, like Easter and Christmas. It wasn't a diffiult thing to put right, as they knew that the true Vernal Equinox was slipping 3 days in every four hundred years, however the Julian Calendar remained for over 1600 years with the error in place....perhaps the Vatican was waiting for a special alignment to 1st January....precession takes centuries before the right alignment appears, below i'm leaving a astrology chart for 1st January 1583, please note that ten days had been extracted from the calendar the previous year, i will explain the chart on the next thread section:-

 

[Astronomer]

Before the 15th century, astronomy and astrology were joined, the paran is the same as astronomy, for if a star or planet is rising with the Sun this is visually calculated on the horizon, however Claudius Ptolemy used an inaccurate measure called projected, and many astrologers still use this measure to this day. What he did was tie all the stars to the ecliptic, being the imaginary path of the Sun across the sky, which appears to move approx. one degree per day.
Ecliptic traces the sun’s path | EarthSky.org
Fixed stars move slightly, so can slowly become out of synch with any intended alignment after a few centuries, which is called Axial Precession, link below:-
Axial precession - Wikipedia
Yet what Claudius Ptolemy proposed by tying the fixed stars to the ecliptic means, to be accurate, then all the stars would be in a line following the Sun across the sky. Obviously this doesn't happen, the sky is full of stars, most are no where near the ecliptic, so this method is totally inaccurate!
Almagest - Wikipedia
The above info is directly connected to the last astrology chart i posted, it would seem that the builders of the Gregorian Calendar had switched methods for 1st January 1583 when ten days had been taken out of the calendar in 1582.
On previous picture, the thick line upwards is called the M.C. which is 09 degrees 08 minutes Cancer, by looking at the bottom section of the chart, you will see that Sirius was 08 degrees 21 minutes Cancer, so within one degree, which is the margin for fixed stars that astrologers use with inaccurate projected measure, so Sirius was conjunct the M.C. for two centuries from 1st January 1583 at midnight!

 

[jadamz]

Oh....Astronomer....fabulous stuff! Thank you!