Antediluvian First Calendar provides an overview that connects the Mayan calendar with the earliest Bible calendar -- the Antediluvian Patriarchs. Ancient calendars in the Holy Bible had lunar/solar calendar origins. The work at http://www.timeemits.com develops tools from the three oldest known lunar/solar calendars: Jewish, Mayan and Egyptian. Chapter 5 in Genesis lists the ages of the Antediluvian Patriarchs. The “begat” family of Adam measured time with a lunar/solar calendar similar to the Mayan calendar.
Antediluvian First Calendar
Clark Nelson
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Antediluvian First Calendar
Ancient calendars in the Holy Bible had lunar/solar calendar origins. The work at timeemits develops tools from the three oldest known lunar/solar calendars: Jewish, Mayan and Egyptian. My goal here is to provide an overview that connects the Mayan calendar with the earliest Bible calendar -- the Antediluvian Patriarchs. Chapter 5 in Genesis lists the ages of the Antediluvian Patriarchs. The “begat” family of Adam measured time with a lunar/solar calendar similar to the Mayan calendar.
The traditional Jewish lunar/solar calendar measures differences between the moon and sun to intercalate about 209-days over 19-years. Some 7-months add to catch up the lunar-side with the solar-side of the Jewish calendar. The Mayans adapted the same reasoning for a 20-year lunar/solar cycle and embedded the extra 210-days using a different method. I hope to dispel some of the mystery and confusion surrounding the Mayan calendar. Hyphens help to improve phrase clarity.
The Mayan 52-year Calendar Round accomplishes needed intercalary time with a dual year system. The Mayan 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year was part of a 365-day-solar-year. Alongside the 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year, a 360-day-Tun-year kept track of civil functions. The 360-day-Tun-year marked the approximate middle point between 12-lunar-months or 354-days, and the 365-day-Haab-solar-year. Following the 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year, 105-days more were included to finish the 365-day-Haab-solar-year. Sister cultures such as the Inca and Aztec used an identical system of counting. Inclusively, I call them the Sun Kingdoms’ Calendars, a name typically used to describe the Mesoamerican calendar style.
Mayan astronomer-priests were very good at calculating multiples of days and years. Mayans purposely addressed a 360-day-Tun-civil-year with prefixes in order to lengthen the calendar. Prefixes are the “Katun” that describes 20-Tun-years and the “Baktun”, meaning 400-Tun-years. They multiplied the 20-year lunar/solar cycle by 20-years again, thus squaring time. Multiples of lunar/solar 20-year cycles occur in the form of 20-year-Katun-cycles and 400-year-Baktun-cycles. Mesoamerican chronologists accept the 400-year-Baktun-cycle was an integral part of the Mayan calendar system.
The 365-day-Haab-year and
260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year combine to form the Sun Kingdoms' 52-year cycle or
Calendar Round. The 52-year
chronological summit was the cornerstone of the dual calendar system. A complete Calendar Round repeated after
18,980-days. The Calendar Round
52-Tun-civil-years multiply by 360-days to produce 18,720-days. Working like meshed gears, 72-Tzolken-sacred-years
of 260-days each multiply to equal the same 18,720-days. The last five special holidays are the Wayeb. The Wayeb separately accrues every year to add the final
260-days in the Calendar Round. One
extra 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year adds to 72-sacred-years for
73-Tzolken-sacred-years. Multiplying
73-Tzolken-sacred-years by 260-days per sacred-year gives the equivalent
18,980-days for a Calendar Round. The
52-year Calendar Round equals 73-Tzolken-sacred-years and both equal
18,980-days. The total 52-year Calendar
Round is 18,980-days. By this calendar
system, only once in 52-years would any day of the 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year
coincide with any day of the 360-day-Tun-civil-year. A complete 52-year Calendar Round would
restart again the next dual sequence.
Names for gods and their particular meanings often varied across the
cultures. Calendar math remained the
same.
We insert a fact from the Book of Enoch. Some ancient Jewish sects were using a 364-day calendar year. Information gained from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the three Book(s) of Enoch support the idea of numerical matching. This concept says X-number of days numerically match the same X number of years. A bridge forms between X-days and X-years, where X describes any number of days and years. The Mayan 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle and the 105-year portion develop what I call “cascaded time”.
All lunar/solar calendars are the product of prevailing culture. On the other side of the world, Mesopotamian scribes were recording Mayan calendar math in what we now call the Holy Bible. They were doubling and dividing calendar time with astonishing accuracy. The 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year numerically matches a 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle. A 365-day-Haab-solar-year numerically matches with 365-years in a Haab-solar-cycle. The 360-day-Tun-year likewise matches a 360-year-Tun-cycle.
Genesis 5:3
"And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and
begat a son in his own likeness,
after his image; and
called his name Seth:" (KJV)
Early Bible writers simply divided the 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle in half to get the 130-year age of Adam. A few verses later, we have the principle calendar instrument of the Mayans, the 105-year age of Seth. Lunar/solar calendars distinguish between lunar-side times and solar-side times. The lunar/solar calendar effectively “time-split” 210-years into equal halves, a 105-year lunar-side time split and the opposite 105-year solar-side time split. These lunar/solar calendar tools enable us to comprehend mentioned ages for the Antediluvian Patriarchs.
Genesis 5:6
"And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:" (KJV)
The 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year divides for two halves, each with 130-days. The 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle also divides for two identical 130-year portions. Regarding the 365-day-solar-year, 105-days remain and for the 365-year-solar-cycle, 105-years remain.
The calendar used to record ages for the Antediluvian Patriarchs includes two patterns of the 400-year-Baktun-cycle. The next age bracket advances the lunar/solar calendar to the 800-year era. Consider the time mentioned after the birth of Seth, until the death of Adam.
Genesis 5:4
"And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight
hundred years:
and he begat sons and daughters:" (KJV)
Twice through
the 400-year-Baktun-cycle is equal to 800-years. In this respect, I develop suitable
vocabulary, namely the 800-year Generation Cycle. Twice the 400-year-Baktun-cycle measures one
800-year Generation Cycle. Calendar
references for the "begat" genealogy following Adam affix 800-year
Generation Cycles in repeating succession to each named character. From Adam through Jared, all Patriarchs
include the 800-year Generation Cycle. The Antediluvian Calendar cultivated spirituality of the
planetary and star deities found woven into the oldest Mesopotamian cultures.
Lunar/solar
calendars use nightly observation and any complete discussion about the Mayan
calendar includes the 104-year Venus Round.
First accredited to appear in the Dresden Codex, Sun Kingdoms’ Calendars
of the
The
strongest pillar connecting the Mayan Calendar system to the aforementioned Antediluvian
Calendar is the transit pathway and surviving mythology surrounding the planet
Venus. Repetitive legends and astronomical principles were in place that
associate five heliacal risings of Venus every
8-years in the Sun Kingdoms’ religion with the Egyptian god-star, Sirius. The Dresden Codex Venus Table furnishes
critical planetary facts regarding Venus.
Five pages of the Dresden Codex record heliacal risings for the planet
Venus. The famous Aztec mythological
figurehead, Quetzalcoatl resurrects to assume his rightful place as the supreme
deity. He was the Feathered Serpent that
revived the dried bones of the old dead by sprinkling his blood on them. Quetzalcoatl
or Venus was the morning star-god of vegetation and fertility. Life, light and visibility
oppose death, darkness and invisibility below the horizon.
Ancients
observers noticed the relative positions of Earth, Venus and the Sun recur
according to a schedule. Venus orbits
the sun 13 times during the period in which the earth orbits the sun 8
times. Venus passes between the earth
and the sun every 584-days or 5 times in 8 years. Venus, in astronomical terms, completes five synodic periods in 8 years, or 5 evening and morning star
circuits. The synodic
interval is the time between two successive conjunctions of a planet (Venus)
with the sun. Each synodic
period lasts about 1.6 Earth years or 584-days.
The
Observations involving the planet Venus allow deeper
inspection of the records seen in chapter 5 of Genesis. Early Israelite history mixes with content
drawn from celestial deities. Our Holy
Bible draws a line connecting astronomy, astrology and calendar
systems. The sun, moon, planets and
stars are natural timekeepers of the cosmos.
The Mayan version of Seth establishes that a 104-year Venus Round multiplies by a 365-day-Haab-solar-year to attain 37,960-days in the Venus Round. Mesopotamian cultures altered these figures slightly. Seth in Egyptian mythology is a male god similar to the Old Testament Baals. The Biblical Astarte or Astaroth is the female fertility consort to the Babylonian Baal. Standing stones symbolized Baal or Bel, and his alias names: Baalat, Molech or Marduk. A bull frequently represents Baal/Seth. Ishtar is the proper Babylonian name for the Canaanite goddess Astarte, Asherah or Astaroth. Ishtar was associated with the planet Venus as the bright morning star. Her Sumerian name is Inanna. Later the Greeks would caller her Aphrodite and the Romans by the common name of today, Venus. She equates to the Greek Europa and Isis, the female fertility goddess and consort to Osirius in Egyptian mythology.
Planet Venus was the bright morning
star throughout the ancient world. In
We must remember those preserving
the precious knowledge down through history.
Intrepid copyists traversed desert and mountain alongside brethren in
the clan. Librarians at
Most attempts at past world
chronology backtrack in order to date the ancient past. Since advances by the
A calendar system that arose in
Numerical matching of X-days with
X-years stems from a 364-day calendar year.
A 364-day calendar year was easier to implement, leaving one day every
year open for numerically matching X-days with X-years. Lunar/solar separation time became 210-years
for every 400-year-Baktun-cycle. Time
splitting divides 210-years in two equal halves and attributes 105-years to the
lunar-side and 105-years to the solar-side.
The Mayan Venus Round is incremented by matching 1-day and 1-year. The Mayan 104-year Venus Round adapts from
105-years in
The ages of Adam and Seth reveal a
discovery that someday may change how archeologists address traditional
chronology. Calendar systems map world
chronology according to different beginnings.
Some follow Jewish tradition and put the Creation date at 5,766 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.E.
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
I feel
the need to recognize this material was the ancient religion. Ideas and fixations worshipped eons ago give
us broader historical appreciation.
Countless people lived to uphold paramount holidays prescribed by their
calendar. The Jewish calendar still
appoints feasts and festivals in modern times.
Mesoamerican celebrations carry heritage that teaches visitors the ancient
spirituality. Babylonian astrology and
astronomy give us an early view of scientific disciplines. Egyptology continues to amaze everyone with
spectacular finds. Finally, the impact
of the Holy Bible is far and ranging
upon modern society. Scholars and
theologians have scoured these scriptures and written volumes. I raise more questions than answers.
I look at the same Antediluvian ages in a different light. The perspective offered by lunar/solar calendars imparts new interpretations. Some help comes from published Sun Kingdoms’ calendar information. Other pieces come from alternative sacred texts such as the Book of Enoch and Book of Jubilees. I strive to maintain accepted terminology where applicable. Keeping geographical lore and religious principles in mind, we are able to employ lunar/solar calendars that penetrate to the past extreme. The Antediluvian Patriarchs provide historians with a calendar sequence lasting literally thousands of years. Our task is to understand the system they once used.
Are you a pastor, educator or a student of the Holy Bible? Timeemits.com seeks anointed people to review and contribute to the Ages of Adam ministry. Ancient lunar/solar calendars like the Jewish and Mayan calendars provide the background to understanding early time. Ancient 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 X-number of years. Ages of Adam is a free read at http://www.timeemits.com
Clark Nelson is webmaster for http://www.timeemits.com and author of Ages of Adam and sequel, Holy of Holies. Contact article@timeemits.com for more information. © Copyright 2006 Clark Nelson and timeemits.com All Rights Reserved.
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