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. Tools are developed 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 Mesoamerican Calendars.
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. Genesis
5 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 Americas exhibit observed practices
according to the 104-year Venus Round. Two 52-year Calendar
Rounds are equal to one 104-year Venus Round.
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
Sun Kingdom’s Calendars meticulously track five Venus cycles of
584-days each over 8-Haab-solar-year multiples of 365 days.
The true orbit of Venus around the sun is 225-days and should not be
confused with Venus’ heliacal rising and observable behavior.
The Mayans watched Venus progress in this manner 13 times, which
culminated with one 104-year Venus Round.
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 Mesoamerica, Venus was a powerful male deity.
Kukulatin or Quetzalcoatl dominated the Mayan pantheon.
Mesopotamian religion, through all stages and phases, usually
worshipped planet Venus in the feminine gender. Lunar
relationships between 19-year or 20-year lunar/solar cycles likely
shifted patronage of the archetypal figure from masculine to
feminine. Transference to the female goddess occurs for
couples supplanting the godhead or vise versa. Ishtar/Inanna
shared the Baal time control over 105-days of solar-side time split
for any 20-year lunar/solar cycle. Hence, 105-years of
solar-side time split followed suit for any
400-year-Baktun-cycle. The 104-year Venus Cycle naturally
substantiates 105-years of solar-side time split when we engage the
resurrection story. Ishtar/Baal, Isis/Seth and the other
examples are contingent upon the heliacal risings of Venus.
The Antediluvian Calendar, an artifact initiated from naked-eye
human observation, stretches onward for hundreds and thousands of
years.
We must remember those preserving the precious knowledge down
through history. Intrepid copyists traversed desert and
mountain alongside brethren in the clan. Librarians at Nineveh
compiled and saved many cuneiform tablets. Artists at
ceremonial centers painstakingly carved the legacy into stone for
all to see. Tireless monks working in dimly lit medieval rooms
spent their entire lives translating and revising their
interpretations of sacred scripture. Everyone agreed that to
permit any errors would profane the sacred message they sought to
protect. Modern printing presses and computers are the medium
of exchange today.
Most attempts at past world chronology backtrack in order to date
the ancient past. Since advances by the Roman Empire, the
secular western world and most of Christendom uses a solar
calendar. Only in the last 50-years or so, have archeologists
in South and Central America been able to decipher relevant calendar
inscriptions.
A calendar system that arose in Mesopotamia at least 5000 years ago
transfers to the new world by seafaring travelers. The moon,
sun, Sirius, Venus and even Jupiter were all key celestial players
in this Antediluvian Calendar system. The calendar was
lunar/solar based and specific time cycles included 210-days of
lunar/solar separation time during every 19-year or 20-year
cycle. They graduated lunar/solar reckoning to reach 400-years
by squaring 20-years. The Mayan calendar asserts a
400-year-Baktun-cycle today. Early astronomers found that the
planet Venus adhered to a visible 104-year cycle.
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
Mesopotamia. Seth’s 105-year age begets Enos to answer a
105-year solar-side time split and the Venus issue
simultaneously. Going further, two 400-year-Baktun-cycles add
together to produce a repeating 800-year Generation Cycle.
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 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 braided 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 chronology from the earliest time.
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
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 timeemits.
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