Re: "par coeur" origin

Killrater: you can't read more than a couple of lines?
just like Richard Herring? So I make it short for you.
Why did Julius Caesar allow wrong names in his
reformed calendar?

Neeraj Mathur wrote:

Hi Franz, was this your question?

The explanation is simple and historical. Our calendar is Roman in origin.
The first month of the Roman calendar was March, which marked the beginning
of the military campaign season. Caesar's calendar reforms included starting
the year in January; the Gregorian calendar also used January 1 as New
Year's Day. Many countries only changed to starting with January relatively
recently (France in 1564, Great Britain in 1752).

Obviously, if you count from March, then September is indeed the seventh
month, and all of the numbers work properly.

There's no reason to pretend that there's anything stone-age happening here!

Neeraj Mathur


Yes, that was my question. Contrary to the others you
give an answer, which I appreciate. However, your answer
immediately raises a second question. Why did Julius
Caesar, whose intelligence quotient was slightly higher than
the one of the average Usenet poster, stick to the wrong
numbers implied in September October November December?
The names of his calendar make sense in the frame of my
late Magdalenian calendar. PhON has been replaced by March
in honor of the war god Mars. PhON is my period of early spring,
when the winter camp was bustling with life, when hunting
activities were planned, when young men fought over women,
when rivalities broke out (which is indicated by the two meanings
of phonae with omega and omikron). Julius Caesar gave his name
to the month that covers a part of my PAS and of SAI, pas for
everywhere, here, south and north of me, east and west of me,
suiting to Caesar, and sai for life, existence, the sixth period
of time, Italian sei for six, Latin sex for six, testifying to sexual
activities in that hot and happy time. The link to Casear is that
his family lineage goes back to Venus. Augustus of the same
family claimed part of ancient SAI and of SEP for himself, sai
with the meaning of life and existence, sap with the meaning of
wise, experienced, knowing the world in all dimensions. If they
(Caesar and Augustus) had no meaning to give to the subsequent
months, they could have chosen the correct numbers. But no, they
kept the wrong numbers, which, in my opinion, testifies to an ancient
meaning of those names.

To formulate a short question for those who can only read two lines:
why did Caesar allow wrong numbers in his calendar?

Regards to you, Neeraj, and to those who can read more than
two lines

Franz Gnaedinger

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