More Evidence Of The Enoch-Priestly Calendar

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   Jay Mallari 8 years ago

   Hello. The start of the scriptural year varies from each location? I am from the Philippines.

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     Eyd & YahnEl 8 years ago

     Shalom Philippines, You shall have the same day as March 21st as Aviv 1, March 20th Equinox is a Enoch Time frame 24 hours one day event worldwide ( hence the countries in the South hemisphere below depends on their actual location may get on the 21st as they have to wait for the sunrise for them to observe their solar noon… ) to me It starts from Israel Jerusalem as that is the covenant place YHWH set HIS eyes on: but every location shall be able to observe from their own solar noon finding on the 24 hours Enoch Time Frame …hence the equinox will overlapping/cross 2 dates in Gregorian calendar.. as the Solar Noon observation cannot be in both North and South hemispheres at the same time

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   Eyd & YahnEl 8 years ago

   AVIV~ LOOKING FOR BARLEY by Aron Ryan
   At the time of the approaching Vernal equinox, the constellation of Virgo/Bethulah is beginning to rise in the east at sunset. Spica is a Latin word which means ‘ear of grain’ and corresponds to the Greek word stakhys. This is the origin of the English word ‘spike’ which is related to the English word ‘ear’.
   Spica the star in the hand of Bethulah corresponds to the Hebrew word ‘Tsemach’ which has the meaning of a sprouting plant.
   Where’s the barley? Look up…up into the heavens where you’ll find your answer!
   When Spica was rising in the evening sky after sunset, night after night, until that night when it was at the appropriate location to announce the Vernal equinox, one can say “the barley has ripened”.
   While the ancients knew the stars and how to tell time by them, the rising of Spica – i.e., the rising of the stalk of grain in the hand of the woman announced the new year and that star sign, over the many centuries became the “ripening of the barley” thus becoming confused with an earthly sign of the ripening of the barley crops!
   Genesis 1:14 And Jahuwah said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to divide between the day and the night. And let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years.
   Lest you think the announcement of the Vernal Equinox by the rising of Spica and the setting of the Pleiades could not possibly be twisted into the “ripening of the barley” in the fields, take a look at this passage from Philo, from his writings “On the Creation”:
   “And besides the stars above mentioned” {Philo was describing Ursa Major} “the band of the Pleiades is also made up of seven stars, the rising and occultation of which are the causes of great benefits to all men. For when they set, the furrows are ploughed up for the purpose of sowing; and when they are about to rise, they bring glad tidings of harvest; and after they have arisen, they awaken the rejoicing husbandman to the collection of their necessary food. And they with joy store up their food for their daily use.”

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   JesseandCassandra 8 years ago

   An ainteresting article on the Qumran sundial:

   http://www.academia.edu/1213348/The_Qumran_Dial_Artifact_Text_and_Context

   so far it backs up the method we are learning…although the author is not aware of what we know.

   “In 1997 Glessmer and Albani first published the dial, noting that it had been recognized as such by Stephen Pfann
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   They suggested that, like anyshadow-casting object, the instrument may have been used to ascertain thecompass points by tracking the shadow at noontime, or calibrating the ris-ing point of the sun on the horizon along the year. This function, however,does not require the entire apparatus of circles and lines, as in fact it couldalso be done without a gnomon at all, by observing the rising points of thesun on the horizon (cp. e.g. the Babylonian Talmud
   ‘Erubin 56a). Noting this point, and giving primary attention to the deep circles engraved around the socket, GA explain the circles as marking the different shadow lengths in each of the seasons. Thus the dial would mark the cardinal days of the year: the shortest shadow in the summer, longer at the equinoxes and the longest in the winter.
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   However, if one wanted to determine the cardinal days using a shadow-casting device, one would more readily make use of a longer rod for shadow casting, and would have little use of the minute gra-dual lines preserved on the Qumran dial. A much simpler device would suffice for this purpose. Moreover, the small scale of the device would harm the accuracy of the measurements.

   “According to Thiering , the Qumran dial was initially used to determine the date of the equinoxes and solstices,using the concentric rings, as suggested by GA. Since at that stage there were no gradual marks on the dial, it was not used to measure hours at all.At a later stage the dial was used without a gnomon, and served as a kind of portable odometer (modern term) to measure the distances traversed by Essene community members in their travels. The gradual lines we remarked for this purpose rather than for time-measuring. The idea of dis-tance measurements is based on Josephus’ report ( B.J.2.124–125) that the Essenes traveled much within Judea, and for that purpose they were keen to host each other in their respective communities. Further reasoning leads Thiering to the assumption that all hours of the day (equinoctial! not sea-sonal) were announced at Qumran, and that “It would be surprising… if each announcement was not received with a prayer.”
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   “3.4 Hollenback Hollenback raised the possibility that the dial from Qumran was not meantfor measuring seasonal hours, but rather for measuring equinoctial hours(i.e., fixed-length hours as in present-day clocks).
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   For that purpose he assumes that the dial was not placed horizontally but rather in an angle of app. 58o (=90–32; 32o
   being the latitude of Qumran), with the gnomon oriented towards North. Since in this specific placement the receiving plane is parallel to the earth’s equatorial plane, and the gnomon is aligned with the earth’s rotational axis, the shadow will move uniformly on the entire receiving circle. If the circle is divided into 24, then each hour is marked by 15o
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   Hollenback suggests that this use of the instrument ac-counts quite well for the various numbers of gradual lines in each of the three rings. The inner ring containing 48 lines would measure half-hours,
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   the middle ring measured 1/3 of an hour, and the outer ring 1/4 of the hour.
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   In a 2004 addendum Hollenback pointed to a similar mode of gra-
   duation in a Chinese (!) dial dating to the 17th–18th centuries
   C .E. (!).
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   It is often maintained, contra Hollenback
   , that equinoctial sundials were not known in Classical Antiquity. Thus Evans
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   : “… all surviving Greek and Roman dials are marked in seasonal hours. There is not a single exam- ple of a dial that indicated equinoctial hours throughout the year
   ” (myitalics, Jonathan B.). A possible exception to this rule was adduced by Hol-lenback
   as proof for his theory. It is a sundial catalogued by Gibbs
   as item no. 5023G.
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   However,Gibbs explicitly states that “it is practically im- possible to determine its date. No other equinoctial plane dials are known from antiquity”.