Re: "par coeur" origin


me wrote:

"One year old" seems about right. At any rate, it seems more right than
"15,000 years old". Happy birthday, Magdalenian. May you be 15,000 years
old in 14,999 years!


Wow, someone who can count, not bad for a member
of the Usenet. So let me tell you about my calendars.
The lunisolar calendar in the Lascaux cave made me
go for Magdalenian, and my experimental reconstruction
of Magdalenian led me to a second lunisolar calendar:
IAS 36, CED 37, PhON 36, DKO 37, PAS 36, SAI 37,
SAP 36, OKD 37, NOPh 36, DEC 37 days, all in all 365
days. You can run this calendar for eight years, then add
two leap days. Or you can run it for 25 years, thus you get
9125 days, which correspond to 309 lunations (yielding
a fabulous value for a lunation, not even fourteen seconds
too long), then add 6 leap days and you obtain 25 solar
years. 17 36 53 89 125 double periods of 73 days each
correspond to 42 89 131 220 309 lunations.

I date his calendar to the late Magdalenium, perhaps
13 000 BP. It was followed by the Azilian lunisolar calendar
of Goebekli Tepe, 11 600 BP: a year had 12 months of 30
days each, plus 5 and sometimes 6 additional days, yielding
365 and occasionally 366 days. Count continuous periods
of 30 days. 63 such periods equal 1,890 days and correspond
to 64 lunations.

The Egyptian variant of this calendar is especially pretty.
An Egyptian month counted 30 days. Horus was the
Celestial Falcon, the sun was his one eye, the moon was
his other eye. Seth destroyed the lunar eye, Thoth healed
it. The healed eye was called The Whole One. It consisted
of six parts, which had been given numerical values,
1/2 1/4 1/8 1/16 1/32 1/64, or simply '2 '4 '8 '16 '32 '64.
Add them, and you obtain 63/64, a little less than one.
Why, then, the whole one? The answer is found when we
multiply a month by the Horus eye series: 30 days times
'2 '4 '8 '16 '32 '64 yield 29 '2 '32 days, or 29 days 12 hours
45 minutes, not even one minute longer than a lunation of
29 days 12 hours 44 minutes 2.9 seconds (modern value
from 1989 AD). So the name "the whole one" does not refer
to the moon itself, but to a lunar duration, namely a tropical
month or one lunation.

Our modern calendar combines the late Magdalenian
and the Azilian calendar. Magdalenian elements are
alternating numbers, here 31 30 31 ..., and the names
September October November December; the Azilian
element are the twelve months. In a calendar of 12 months,
however, the numbers indicated by the names of September,
October November December, 7 8 9 10, are wrong, these
are the months number 9 10 11 12, while the words in their
Magdalenian sense are still holding, especially in the case
of November: NOPh for snow, snow fall, snow storm, ancient
Greek neiphos for snow storm, Latin neves (plural) for plenty
of snow, novus for new --- snow falling overnight in November,
giving the world a completely new appearance.

Now I wait for your explanation of the wrong numbers implied
by the names of September October November December
in our calendar (guess I'll have to wait for 14,999 years).

Franz Gnaedinger

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