Reform Calendar – 2012 – 2013 by daylight

Calendar Reform: what a year looks like.

A look at the year at 49 degrees North and South, in terms of the amount of relative daylight it receives throughout the year. The day with the least daylight and longest night, the Winter Solstice, is represented by a small circle 100% black. The Summer Solstice, the most daylight and shortest night, is represented by a small circle 100% white. So the intervening days are as dark as the nights are long.

The circle of 365 Days, with the darkness at bottom, the Winter Solstice, the days of the year by daylight give us an idea of the nature of the changes to which we are subjected every year. There are seasonal changes of climate, but these apply to more specific regions than the change in daylight.

Different Calendars have developed down the generations, dividing and organizing the days of the year to accommodate popular taste in hundreds of variations. The three principle elements of time across cultures, are the day, the lunar month, the seasons and the year. Although the change in daylight here doesn’t represent the entirety of the earth, it approximates the case for a good many of us to at least serve as a visual model.

The Lunar Month, sometimes Lunation, sees the Moon going through its phases of brilliance, from the invisible, or dark phase at the New Moon, to the First Quarter, to the  Full Moon, waning back to the Last Quarter and  the New Moon again. Darkness to Light to Darkness.

The Day, a revolution of the Earth about its axis, follows the same pattern from Midnight to Dawn to High Noon through Dusk to Midnight again. Darkness to Light.

theAbysmal Calendar has acquired that name in order to align this notion of creation out of the abyss, the day born of night, the Moon’s face slips from behind its veil and back. The Darkness of Winter Nights in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Brightness of the Summer Days in the Southern, and the relative position of the Sun overhead in the Equatorial, proves an immediate starting point for building a global calendar.

How does it align with the Seasons?

theAbysmal Calendar’s 13 Months by Daylight

the Gregorian Calendar’s 12 Months (in the Northern Hemisphere) by Daylight

the 12 Signs of Western Astrology by Daylight (in the Northern Hemisphere)

the 13 Constellations of the Zodiac, according the International Astronomical Union, by Daylight (in the Northern Hemisphere.

here’s theAbysmal Calendar

New Synaptic Month

Calendar Reform: Remapping the Year

The 1st day of the 11th month = 0.10.-7 (d/m/y) of the Synaptic Calendar (2276 days before inception).

Gregorian – September 28th [Synaptic - Gregorian]

Have a lovely 28 days.

Calendar Reform Summary

Reform Calendar: the Synaptic Calendar to date

The Autumnal Equinox signifies the passing of the days into darkness, and the three-quarter mark of the Synaptic Year.

a brief summary of work to date:

Structures:

365-day Calendar
13 months of 28 days, subdivided into 4 weeks of 7 days.
plus 1 day, falling on the Winter Solstice (December 21st)
This calendar is perpetual, its New Year always fixed at the Winter Solstice.

Here’s the annual Synaptic 13-month calendar mapped to the Gregorian.

360-day Calendar
72 periods of 5 days
plus 5 days, currently April 15-19. The first day coincides with the Sun passing into the astronomical constellation of Aries, currently April 20.
This means a shift of 1 day every 72 years to account for the shift in 1 degree due to the Precession of the Equinoxes.
The 5-day periods can further be organised as 12 months of 30 days, or 18 months of 20 days, or 72 periods of 5-days.
A Precession of 25, 920 years = 360 x 72 years

260-day Calendar
13 periods of I to XX (roman numerals in lieu of traditional glyphs)
measures the gestation period of a human being
used to synchronize various measures of time, and introduces a harmonizing numerology.
divided into:
13-day periods, 4 of which form a 52-day period, or 5 of which form a 65 day period.
XX-day periods, subdivided into shorter patterns of 4- and 5-days
a Precession of 26, 000 years = 260 Centuries

Lunar Calendar
12 or 13 months of 29 or 30 days
Metonic cycle of 235 lunations to 19 years begins on Winter Solstice.
binary I-Ching 64-day cycle synchronises lunations, sunspots and the Precession
A Precession of 25, 838 years = 64 x 6 x 64 x 6 x 64 days

Chronological Counter
counts -1 0 +1 from the zero date

Leap Year
for the moment, the periodicity of the Leap Year remains the same as that of the Gregorian Calendar, acknowledge the day before the Winter Solstice.

Longer Periods of Time
the measure of the years shall be measured by factors of 20x
such that
20x 400x 8, 000x years would be the most common notation after day and month, however, continuing on to larger time periods of
160, 000x
3, 200, 000x
64, 000, 000x and so on

Clarification regarding Tropical Year and Calendar Year
The Tropical Year = 365.24218967 days
Gregorian = 365.2425 days

the Tropical Year is the measure of the ratio of rotations of the Earth to its orbit around the Sun as measured at the Vernal Equinox.
The Calendar Year is the measure of days according to one’s calendar system.
Thus, the above Synaptic Calendar components reflect 365- 360- and 260- calendar day years.
The lunation cycle is all wobbly, so who knows.

Calendar Interaction
This relationship depends on the Leap Year day falling outside of the 3 principle calendars (ie 365- 360- 260- days). Thus, the Leap year day falls between the last month and the first month of the 365-day calendar, with the 5 null days of the 36-day calendar and between any two given days on the 260-day calendar (observed with the 365-day calendar on the Winter Solstice as per Gregorian frequency).

this is a particular feature of the 260-day calendar: a quick overview
1-13 numbers and I-XX symbols
begins with 1-I and ends with 13-XX for 260 distinct days
Looking at the roman numerals arranged in a 5×4 square, note the shared features of the horizontal numbers.

I	VI	XI	XVI
II	VII	XII	XVII
III	VIII	XIII	XVIII
IV	IX	XIV	XVIX
V	X	XV	XX

On any given day, say December 20, 2012, the day has a number and numeral, specifically 10-IX. The following year will be 11-XIV, the following 12-XVIX then 13-IV then 1-IX, 2-XIV etc…

this creates a 13×4 pattern between the 260-day calendar date and any annual solar calendar – provided the leap year day is acknowledged as a null day off of the calendar.

GREGORIAN DATES
Noteworthy dates for the sake of conversion to the Synaptic Calendar

August 23, 2006
New Moon
First Day of Sunspot Cycle 24
First Day of 64-day counter
2313 days before Inception of Synaptic Calendar
2-XX on the 260-day calendar
day 3/5 of 26/72 (360-day)
day 1/30 (lunation)
day1/64 (binary)
(Julian Date 2453970)

December 21, 2012- the Abysmal Inception Day 0
First Day of the Synaptic Calendar (365-Day) Day
11-X on the 260-day calendar
day 3/5 of period 50/72 (360-day calendar)
day 9/29 (lunation)
day 9/64 (binary counter)
(Julian Date 2456282)

January 11, 2013
First New Moon since inception
Day 21 of the Synaptic Calendar
6-XI on the 260-day calendar
day 4/5 of 54/72 (360-day)
day 1/30 (lunation)
day 30/64 (binary)

April 20, 2013
First Day of the 360-day calendar since Inception
Day 120 of the Synaptic Calendar
1-X on the 260-day calendar
day 1/5 of 1/72 (360-day calendar)
day 11/30 (lunation)
day 1/64 (binary counter)

July 20, 2013
First Day of 260-Calendar since Inception
Day 211 of the Synaptic Calendar
1-I on the 260-day calendar
day 4/5 of 19/72 (360-day)
day 13/29 (lunation)
day 28/64 (binary)

December 22, 2014
Day 731 of the Synaptic Calendar
New Moon – beginning of New Metonic Cycle
First Day of the 260-day calendar
day 4/5 of 50/72 (360-day calendar)
day 1/29 of 1/235 (lunation)
day 36/64 (binary)

December 22, 2033
Day 7671 of the Synaptic Calendar
New Moon – beginning of new Metonic Cycle
7-XVI (260-day)
day 4/5 of 50/72 (360-day)
day 1/30 of 1/235 (lunation)
day 63/64 (binary)

Measuring the year with the Constellations.

Calendar Reform: fixed and drifting calendars.

So the theory goes that with a fixed 365-day calendar (13 month) and a floating 360 (+5 days) calendar that the Precession of the Equinoxes can be measured. If the first day of the 360 Calendar coincides with the day defining the beginning of the period where the Sun passes through the backdrop of the astronomical constellation of Aries,   then after a full Precession, it will return to its point of origin.

Below, two images depicting measures of the year.
The first is the 13-Month Synaptic Calendar, beginning on the Winter Solstice.
The second is a 12-Month model (12 months of 30 days + 5 days) beginning with April 19th.

Compare the Synaptic Calendar with the Gregorian, new year January 1st.

Compare the 360 + 5 calendar to the days attributed to each astronomical constellation

Provided that the 360 + 5 day calendar begins at the same time as Aries, then it can change by 1 degree, equivalent to 1 day (on the 360 count) per 72 years.
(see Mesopotamian Numerology).
With the intention to create a means of synchronising the annual measure of the calendar with the constellations observable in the sky, in such a way as to indicate the relative progression of the Precession.

The 365-day calendar (13 moon model in this case) is fixed, such that the New remains on the Winter Solstice.
The 360-day calendar drifts with the constellations, by 1 day or 1 degree every 72 years.
The 260-day calendar synchronizes the two with the gestation period
The Lunar Calendar is paired with the Solar calendar for numerical dates.

Mayan calendrical numerology

Every 25, 838 – 25, 920 or 26, 000 years, the 365-day and the 360-day, thus the constellations, will be realigned – approximately 17, 640 years from now.

four functions of myth

Calendar Reform: myth and symbolic reconstructure.

from Creative Mythology by Joseph Campbell

first function:
to reconcile waking conscousness to the mysterium tremedum et fascinans of this universe as it is.

second function:
render an interpretive total image of the same as known to contemporary consciousness revelation to waking consciousness of the power of its own sustaining source.

third function:
enforcement of moral order

fourth function:
foster the centering and unfolding of the individual integrity, in accord with
d) himself (microcosm)
c) his culture (mesocosm)
b) the universe (macrocosm)
a) awesome, ultimate mystery which is beyond and within himself and all things

Shakespeare’s definition of the function of his art
“to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature.”

referring to ancient traditions of symbolic cannibalism (christ = fish eaten friday)
“context of considerable antiquity, referring to a plunge into abyssal waters, to emerge as though reborn.”

Darkness and Light as Mythological Motif

Calendar Reform: rebirthing the symbolism of the calendar

From Oriental Mythology by Joseph Cambpell

now the Light and Darkness motif, the reader recalls, appeared in Iran c. 500 BC, in the cosmic war of the Lord of Truth and the Master of the Lie.* In the Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls of c. 175 BC – 66 AD, it reappears in the war of the Sons of Light with the Sons of Darkness. And in the various Gnostic literatures of the first centuries AD other developments of the motif are to be found. in all of these Levantine applications the argument is at once ethical and ontological. The principle of truth and light represents both virtue and true being. it has both a social reference and an absolute validity, and in the end will triumph on a cosmic scale. no essential distinction is made in these systems between social and metaphysical orders of judgment.

And in the buddhist mythology of Amida, likewise, the principle of light and true knowledge is at once ethical and substantial in its reference. The ultimate victory of the light is not represented, here, in cosmic terms; for in the Buddhist cosmos of unending cycles there is no place for a time beyond time when the cycling will have ceased: the Buddhist cessation is psychological, in the way of a disengagement from the unimprovable round. Nevertheless, the principle of light is of an order truer and more substantial than that of darkness of the round. the latter is mere function of ignorance and desire – and of action under their binding, blinding spell. Consequently, just as in the Western systems the social and metaphysical orders are equated, so in that of Amida, the psychological and metaphysical.

*see zoroastrian cosmology

Jicarila Apache (of New Mexico) legend

Calendar Reform: the role of mythology.

From Primitive Mythology by Joseph Cambpell

In the beginning nothing was here where the world now sands: no earth – nothing but Darkness, Water, and Cyclone. There were no people living. Only the Hactcin* existed. It was a lonely place. There were no fishes, no living things. But all the Hactcin were here from the beginning. They had the material out of which everything was created. They made the world first, the earth, the underworld, and then they made the sky. They made Earth in the form of a living woman and called her Mother. they made Sky in the form of a man and called him Father. He faces downward, and the woman faces up. he is our father and the woman is our mother.

*Hactcin are the Apache masked gods: personifications of the powers that support the spectacle of nature.

Vedic Indian Brhadaranyaka Upanisad

Calendar Reform: the role of mythology.

From Primitive Mythology by Joseph Cambpell

…in the beginning this universe was but the Self in the form of a man. He looked around and saw nothing but himself. Thereupon, his first shout was, “It is I!”; whence the concept “I” arose. – And that is why, even today, when addressed, one answers first, “It is I!” then give the other name that one bears…

Then he was afraid – And that is why anyone alone is afraid. – He considered: “Since there is nothing here but myself, what is there to fear?” Whereupon the fear departed; for what should have been feared? it is only to a second that fear refers.

however, he still lacked delight. -therefore, one lacks delight when alone. – He desired a second. He was just as large as a man and woman embracing. This Self then divided himself in two parts; and with that, there were a master and mistress. -Therefore this body, by itself, as e sage Yajnavalkya declares, is like half of a split pea. And that is why, indeed, this space is filled by a woman. -He united with her, and from that mankind arose.

She, however, reflected: “How can he unite with me, who am produced from himself? Well then, let me hide!” She became a cow, he a bull and united with her; and from that cattle arose. She became a mare, he a stallion; she an ass, he a donkey and united with her; and from that solid-hoofed animals arose. She became a goat, he a buck; she a sheep, he a ram and united with her; and from that goats and sheep arose. -Thus be poured forth all pairing things, down to the ants.

Then he realized: “I, actually, am creation; for I have poured forth all this.” Whence arose the concept “Creation” [srstih: literally, "what is poured forth, projected, sent forth, emanated, generated, let go, or given away"]. -One who thus understands becomes, himself, truly a creator in this creation.

Zoroastrian Cosmology

Calendar Reform – Symbolism and Mythology

from Oriental Mythology by Joseph Campbell

“The earliest prophet of this mythology of cosmic restoration was, apparently, the Persian Zoroaster, whose dates, however, have not been securely established. They have been variously placed between 1200 and 550 BC, so that, like Homer, he should perhaps be regarded rather as symbolic of a tradition than as specifically, or solely, one man. The system associated with his name is based on the idea of a conflict between the wise lord, Ahura Mazda, “first father of the Righteous Order, who gave to the sun and stars their path,” and an independent evil principle, Angra Mainyu, the Deceiver, principle of the lie, who, when all had been excellently made, entered into it in every particle. The world, consequently, is a compound wherein good and evil, light and dark, wisdom and violence, are contending for a victory. And the privilege and duty of each man – who, himself, as a part of creation, is a compound of good and evil – is to elect, voluntarily, to engage in the battle in the interest of the light. It is supposed that with the birth of Zoroaster, twelve thousand years following the creation of the world, a decisive turn was given the conflict in favor of the good, and that when he returns, after another twelve millenia, in the person of the messiah Saoshyant, there will take place a final battle and cosmic conflagration, through which the lie will be undone. Whereafter, all will be light, there will be no further history, and the Kingdom of God (Ahura Mazda) will have been established in its pristine form forever.”

“The ultimate background of both the oriental and the occidental storied heavens and pits of hell, with the world mountain between, is the Mesopotamian concept of the architecture of the universe, where, as we have found, there is an axial cosmic mountain symbolized by the ziggurat oriented with its sides to the quarters, above which, in the highest heaven, sits a supreme god, An, amidst a brilliant company of deities. The Plant of Birth and the Bread and Water of Immortality are in that lofty sphere, below which, in the middle sky, is the divine archetype and lord of royal rule, whose role, in the long course of Mesopotamian history with its fluctuation of empire, was played by a number of incumbents: first, apparently, Enlil (the patron deity of Sumerian Nippur), then Bel Marduk (of Hammurabi’s Babylon), Assur (of Assyria), and, among numerous others, Yahweh (of the early Hebrews). In his court of many shining gods (or angels) the Tablets of Fate were annually indited. And the seen heavens of the planets revolved below, in stages, which in the period of Assyria (c. 1100 – 630 bc) were represented by seven terraced stories on the mountainside of the ziggurat, while beneath the earth, in the abyss, the terrible goddess Ereshkigal, of the Land of No Return, was approached through seven gates. In her domain of darkness, called Arallu, a horde of monsters and of unfortunate souls deprived at death of the last rites of burial wandered horribly in the forms of unsightly birds.”

Popol Vuh

Quiche Maya Creation Tale

Popol Vuh – Part I: Chapter 1

THIS IS THE ACCOUNT OF HOW ALL WAS in suspense, all calm, in silence; all motionless, still, and the expanse of the sky was empty.

This is the first account, the first narrative. There was neither man, nor animal, birds, fishes, crabs, trees, stones, caves, ravines, grasses, nor forests; there was only the sky.

The surface of the earth had not appeared. There was only the calm sea and the great expanse of the sky.

There was nothing brought together, nothing which could make a noise, nor anything which might move, or tremble, or could make noise in the sky.

There was nothing standing; only the calm water, the placid sea, alone and tranquil. Nothing existed.

There was only immobility and silence in the darkness,

in the night. Only the creator, the Maker, Tepeu, Gucumatz, the Forefathers, were in the water surrounded with light.  They were hidden under green and blue feathers, and were therefore called Gucumatz.  By nature they were great sages and great thinkers.  In this manner the sky existed and also the Heart of Heaven, which is the name of God and thus He is called.

Then came the word. Tepeu and Gucumatz came together in the darkness, in the night, and Tepeu and Gucumatz talked together.  They talked then, discussing and deliberating; they agreed, they united their words and their thoughts.

Then while they meditated, it became clear to them that when dawn would break, man must appear. Then they planned the creation, and the growth of the trees and the thickets and the birth of life and the creation of man. Thus it was arranged in the darkness and in the night by the Heart of Heaven who is called Huracán.

The first is called Caculhá Huracán. The second is Chipi-Caculhá. The third is Raxa-Caculhá. And these three are the Heart of Heaven.

Then Tepeu and Gucumatz came together; then they conferred about life and light, what they would do so that there would be light and dawn, who it would be who would provide food and sustenance.

Thus let it be done! Let the emptiness be filled! Let the water recede and make a void, let the earth appear and become solid; let it be done. Thus they spoke. Let there be light, let there be dawn in the sky and on the earth! There shall be neither glory nor grandeur in our creation and formation until the human being is made, man is formed. So they spoke.

Then the earth was created by them. So it was, in truth, that they created the earth. Earth! they said, and instantly it was made.

Like the mist, like a cloud, and like a cloud of dust was the creation, when the mountains appeared from the water; and instantly the mountains grew.

Only by a miracle, only by magic art were the mountains and valleys formed; and instantly the groves of cypresses and pines put forth shoots together on the surface of the earth.

And thus Gucumatz was filled with joy, and exclaimed: “Your coming has been fruitful, Heart of Heaven; and you, Huracán, and you, Chipi-Caculhá, Raxa-Caculhá!”

“Our work, our creation shall be finished,” they answered.

First the earth was formed, the mountains and the valleys; the currents of water were divided, the rivulets were running freely between the hills, and the water was separated when the high mountains appeared.

Thus was the earth created, when it was formed by the Heart of Heaven, the Heart of Earth, as they are called who first made it fruitful, when the sky was in suspense, and the earth was submerged in the water.

So it was that they made perfect the work, when they did it after thinking and meditating upon it.

Part I: Chapter 4

IT WAS CLOUDY AND TWILIGHT THEN ON the face of the earth. There was no sun yet. Nevertheless, there was a being called Vucub-Caquix [Seven Macaw], who was very proud of himself.

The sky and the earth existed, but the faces of the sun and the moon were covered.

And he [Vucub-Caquix] said: “Truly, they are clear examples of those people who were drowned, and their nature is that of supernatural beings.

“I shall now be great above all the beings created and formed. I am the sun, the light, the moon,” he exclaimed. “Great is my splendor. Because of me men shall walk and conquer. For my eyes are of silver, bright, resplendent as precious stones, as emeralds; my teeth shine like perfect stones, like the face of the sky. My nose shines afar like the moon, my throne is of silver, and the face of the earth is lighted when I pass before my throne.

“So, then, I am the sun, I am the moon, for all mankind. So shall it be, because I can see very far.”

So Vucub-Caquix spoke. But he was not really the sun; he was only vainglorious of his feathers and his riches. And he could see only as far as the horizon, and he could not see over all the world.

The face of the sun had not yet appeared, nor that of the moon, nor the stars, and it had not dawned. Therefore, Vucub-Caquix became as vain as though he were the sun and the moon, because the light of the sun and the moon had not yet shown itself His only ambition was to exalt himself and to dominate. And all this happened when the flood came because of the wooden-people.

Now we shall tell how Vucub-Caquix was overthrown and died, and how man was made by the Creator and the Maker.