Astronomy of the Solar-Year

Complex mathematics and astronomy were employed many thousands of years ago to accomplish tasks of calendar recording. The best tool for tying the ancient calendar system to the current year is a common denominator known as the tropical year. The mean tropical year is the astronomical measurement that describes the modern solar year with a high degree of precision. The tropical year is the 365.2422-day interval between two successive passages of the sun through the vernal equinox. The tropical year stems from two parallels that include the Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer. Five major Circles of Latitude provide background material to understanding calendar systems.

Every modern Gregorian Calendar year begins with the Earth's position in orbit around the sun. Our year is based on the time the Earth takes to complete one full revolution along the ecliptic plane. An imaginary axis passes through the Earth to extend beyond the North Pole and South Pole. The 24-hour day marks one complete spin around this axis. The same axis tilts with respect to the sun while the year progresses. The spring, vernal equinox marks the beginning of spring for people in the Northern Hemisphere. The vernal equinox happens between March 21 and March 23 annually. Autumn begins with the fall, occipital equinox for the same Northern half of the world. The fall equinox takes place around September 22. At the solstices, the tilt of the Earth's axis reaches a maximum inclination of 23.5 degrees. The winter solstice occurs around December 21, and the summer solstice occurs around June 21 every year. The two equinoxes and two solstices are the four cardinal points during the year. By religious observations and in myth and legend the equinoxes and solstices have always been celebrated events.

The tropical year is the natural heavenly timekeeper to mark one astronomical year. Huge telescopes and lengthy calculations have verified the tropical year. A mean tropical year is the principle ingredient to any calendar structure. We have the marvelous technology of today. Ancient people came to similar conclusions by watching shadows cast from their standing stones. Like the sundial gnomon, the pillar's shadow grew and retracted according to the sun.

At first glance ancient technology pales in comparison to modern time keeping methods. The mind exploding irony -- is the tropical year proves ancient ones observed and documented time with meticulous precision. The ancestry of the Patriarchs records solar-side time splits with accuracy that rivals modern engineering standards. Solar-side time splits of Seth and Cainan show impressive calendar math by introducing the current tropical year. The astronomical 365.2422-day length of tropical year is an accepted factual reference.

The primary 105-year age of Seth is the second time split of the primary age category. Seth's 105-year primary age is also the first solar-side only time split. A mean tropical year of 364.2422-days calculates the solar-side 105-years in terms of days. The primary 105-year age of Seth is multiplied by the tropical year in order to find the precise day computations for Seth. Equation 24 multiplies the first solar-side only time split by the length in days of the tropical year. The primary 105-year age of Seth answers exactly 38350.431-days by applying the current mean astronomical tropical year.

105 Year Primary Age of Seth

x 365.2422 Days per Tropical Year

= 38350.431 Days Primary Age of Seth

The conversion pattern to 260-day sacred years works for both lunar/solar separations and solar-side time splits. Adam's primary 130-year age was converted to 180 sacred years to find the primary 90-sacred-year age of Enos. Using the same method, we now divide the day result solar-side time split of Seth by 260-days per sacred year. Equation 25 divides the 38350.431-days in the primary age of Seth by 260-days. The primary 105-year solar-side time split age of Seth converts to approximate 147.5-sacred-years. Seth's primary 105-year age converts from the given age to the same 147.5-sacred-years upon referencing the tropical year.

38350.431 Days Primary Age of Seth

Divided by 260 Days per Sacred Year

147.5016576 Primary Sacred Year Age of Seth

Approximates to 147.5 Sacred Year Primary Age of Seth

The primary age category supports a 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle for Adam and Enos. Solar-side time splits for Seth and Cainan depend upon a 364-year-Ethiopic-cycle, or 364-Tzolken-sacred-years, that mirror treatment in the primary age category. Seth's converted 147-Tzolken-sacred-year age doubles and then subtracts from 364-Tzolken-sacred-years in a cycle. Seth's primary 147 is doubled for 294-Tzolken-sacred-years in equation 26.

147 Tzolken-Sacred-Year Primary Age of Seth

x 2 Doubles Primary Tzolken-Sacred-Year Age of Seth

= 294 Tzolken-Sacred-Years

The fourth lunar/solar layer and the second solar-side time split age of Cainan is 70-Tzolken-sacred-years. Subtraction of Seth's doubled 294-Tzolken-sacred-years from a 364-Tzolken-sacred-year-cycle reveals the primary 70-Tzolken-sacred-year age of Cainan (eqn. 27). The mean tropical year is the powerful tool for evaluating first and second solar-side time splits by Seth and Cainan, respectively.

364 Tzolken-Sacred-Years

- 294 Tzolken-Sacred-Years

= 70 Tzolken-Sacred-Year Primary Age of Cainan

Genesis 5:9 gives the primary 90-Tzolken-sacred-year age of Enos. Ideas of halving and doubling specific times for the genealogy is applied to each character. Enos is assigned the third quarter of a 360-Tzolken-sacred-year-cycle. Where Adam halves the 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle, Enos further halves or quarters an equivalent 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle. The next layer of lunar/solar time reckoning divides 180-Tzolken-sacred-years into two portions of 90-Tzolken-sacred-years each. The right hand green half diagram of figure 2 is divided for Enos. Equation 15 and equation 16 extend computations using 360-Tzolken-sacred-years in the primary age category. Enos quarters a 360-Tzolken-sacred-year-cycle or the 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle with 23,400-days in the primary age. The upper right green quadrant of figure 3 represents a given primary 90-Tzolken-sacred-year age for Enos. From equation 12 below figure 2, equation 17 results in 23,400-days for the primary age of Enos. Equation 18 clarifies the 90-Tzolken-sacred-year age of Enos by multiplying by 260-days per -Tzolken-sacred-year. Equation 18 concludes with the 23,400-day primary age of Enos.

Adam and Seth pair together, where Seth's primary 105-Tun-year age remains after twice Adam's primary age. Both Adam and Seth employ 360-day-Tun-years. The 800-year Generation Cycle keyed for Adam holds secondary age place value for Seth, and repeats for Enos. Enos and Cainan are the next two characters to be paired. The practice of this calendar doubles the primary 105-Tun-year age of Seth to accomplish the primary 90-Tzolken-sacred-year age of Enos. The primary 90-Tzolken-sacred-year age of Enos then doubles to reach the end of Cainan's primary age. Enos and Cainan again pair by given attachment to Tzolken-sacred years in their primary ages. Since the 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year and the 105-day portion are isolated values, factoring of the 365-day-solar-year allows individual treatment (Eqn. 24). Factoring the 400-year-Baktun-cycle allows 400-Tzolken-sacred years of 260-days each to be separated from the remaining 400 periods of 105-days each.

400 Year-Baktun-cycle x 365-day-solar-year

= 400 Years (260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year) + 400-Years (105-Days)

An episode of 400-years is the midpoint during 800-years of a Generation Cycle. Secondary ages may be viewed in terms of 400-sacred-year periods that were factored from 400-year Long Counts. Twice the Long Count 400-year period produces two 400-sacred-year portions. From the factored Long Count 400-years, 400-sacred-years encompass the time frame for each level of primary age span. The first half and midpoint of the character's secondary 800-sacred-year cycle is finished to begin the next character's era.

The first Generation Cycle of 800-years, or the factored secondary 800-sacred-year value of Adam, relates to the daytime 130-year half of a 260-year sacred cycle. Seth's second Generation Cycle of 800-years is again factored for 800-sacred-years to be included as part of the secondary 807 sacred year age of Seth. Seth's ages separate the daytime half of a 260-year-sacred-cycle from the night time half of 130-years. An converted 180-sacred-year interval identifies the equivalent daylight period in figure 2. Lunar/solar separation time of Seth divides two halves of a 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle having 360-days per year. The converted primary 90-Tzolken-sacred-year age of Enos reveals two halves of an equivalent 360-Tzolken-sacred-year period. The primary 90-Tzolken-sacred-year age of Enos uses 260-days per sacred year (fig. 2 and fig. 4).

The use of a 360-day-Tun-year (or 360-day-midpoint-year) in early civilizations is proven by the order of calendar computations involving Enos. Enos is the next generation to be included for one quarter of 360-Tzolken-sacred-years. The primary age of Enos deals with the one half of the feminine, evening side of the 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle. Seth's solar-side daylight time divided 360-Tzolken-sacred-years in half to measure the evening side of 180-Tzolken-sacred-years opposite to Adam. Enos then subdivides 180-Tzolken-sacred years into light and dark halves to quarter an equivalent 260-year-Tzolken-sacred-cycle. Enos assigns the third quarter of the 360-Tzolken-sacred-year-cycle in figure 3 to be the green, daytime 90-Tzolken-sacred-years. Again, 360-Tzolken-sacred-years were numerically matched with 360-years to explain ages recorded for the second generation following Adam. Primary ages for Adam, Enos and Mahalaleel all involved one 260-year-Tzolken-sacred cycle that was tracked independently to the solar-side separations of Seth and later, Cainan and Jared.

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