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Help make this calendar a global success ~ it will only take a moment, and give back all the time in the world.

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This Calendar has been designed to suit the breadth of the world’s peoples and their cultures. It was developed to align us once again with the cycles of the Moon, the Seasons, and our physical selves accordingly.

Your assistance and support is greatly appreciated.

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May you never thirst ~ and may there always be room for one more at your table.

Year 8-XIV Month 2

theAbysmal Countdown to 2012: 8 weeks down, 252 to go

Noteworthy Days & Nights:

NEW 13-Day period begins
Saturday 1-XII
Month 2 Day 0
Lunation 2 Day 9

FULL MOON
Thursday 6-XVII
Month 2 Day 5
Lunation 2 Day 14

NEW XX-Glyph period begins
Monday 10-I
Month 2 Day 9
Lunation 2 Day 18

LEAP YEAR DAY between Thursday & Friday
Lunation 2 Day 22

NEW 13-Day period begins
Friday 1-XIX
Month 2 Day 13
Lunation 2 Day 23

NEW MOON -
Thursday 7-XI
Month 2 Day 19
Lunation 3 Day 0

NEW 13-Day period begins
Thursday 1-XVIII
Month 2 Day 26
Lunation 3 Day7

Note: the Leap Year Day coincident with February 29th does not have a weekday assigned to it in theAbysmal Calendar. As of February 29th, the weekdays no longer align between theAbysmal and Gregorian Calendar. They realign with the first Saturday of Year 0 (coincident with December 22nd 2012 CE).

Have an Abysmal New Year

the 260-Week Countdown to 21 12 2012

Greetings cousins. This New Year, Dec 21st 2007, marks the official countdown to theAbysmal+1 Calendar’s launch on 21 12 2012.

The next 5 Years
= 20 Quarters
= 65 Months
= 62 Lunations
= 260 Weeks
= 1825 Days + 2 Leap Year Days

Although theAbysmal+1 Calendar has many components, not any one person need necessarily follow all of them. The most common would likely continue as the 7-day market week, the 28-day month. The cycles of 13 days and XX, the glyphs which have sub-cycles of IV and V, also create daily progressions of days that one might use in their scheduling of the Year.

Some notes on the functionality of theAbysmal+1 Calendar:

The last day of one year bears the number & glyphs (13-XX) which become assigned to the following year, which for this year falls on 8-XIV.

Herein lies the notion that the New Year germinates from a seed from the Old Year. This gives the last Friday of the Year stands for the entire year to come. This might prove the best time to consider one’s plans for the Year to come.

New Year’s Day, which falls on 9-XV, stands in the space in between.

First Calendar Day of the Year, Saturday, Day 0, Month 0

Year 8-XIV

This assignment to the years increases by 1 and V from year-to-year. If we consider the Gregorian Calendar Year in comparison to the 13-XX, they do align somewhat. The Abysmal+1 Calendar begins with Dec 21st, such that 10 days fall on one Gregorian Calendar Year, and the next 355 on another. This Abysmal+1 Year 8-XIV loosely corresponds with the year 2008. Note the 8s in common. And so this continues until Zero Year.

8-XIV 2008
9-XIX 2009
10-IV 2010
11-IX 2011
12-XIV 2012
13-XIX 2013 - Year 0
1-IV Year 1
2-IX Year 2
3-XIV Year 3
4-XIX Year 4

Year 0 13-XIX begins on
Saturday Day 0 Month 0 2-I

Year 1 1-IV begins with the first number & glyph of the 52-year cycle (1-13 by IV, IX, XIV, XIX)

Year 2 2-IX begins on
Saturday Day 0 Month 0 3-XI
New Moon
this marks the beginning of associating lunations with years over longer peroids

Year 12 12-XIX begins on
Saturday Day 0 Month 0 1-I
the first day of the 13-XX calendar

~Year 17,640 12-IV begins on
Saturday Day 0 Month 0 1-VI
The Sun enters Aries

theAbysmal+1 Calendar Pages Year 8-XIV

12 Lunations & 13 Months

Calendar Pages for Year 8-XIV

Year 15 8-XIV Month 0

Countdown to 2012 - 260 Weeks over 5 Years

The Calendar of 52 Weeks, divided into 13 Months of 4 Weeeks, or 4 Quarters of 13 Weeks. In the outer ring, each circle represents a Day, with the relative amount of light and black standing for the relative number of hours of daylight for 49 degrees North.

The Winter Solstice, December 21st, at the bottom, then clockwise through the rest of the Days, arranged in four weeks. Days marked with white text on a black background indicate the beginning, middle and end days of each quarter.

The Countdown to the Countdown Begins

to Dec 21st, 2012

4 Weeks until the New Year - 16 Days until Lunation 0 begins our countdown to 2012 and the implementation of this here Calendar worldwide.

theAbysmal Calendar Site (still under construction)

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The End of theAbysmal

365 Days of theAbysmal weblog.

TheAbysmal Calendar has taken a final form at this end. It’s up to everyone else, and their kids to decide what portion or portions to adopt or transmogrify.

The research into and development of theAbysmal Calendar (nee Synaptic Calendar) has lead to the creation of a concentration of information regarding our perception, understanding and marking of time, the days,  months, years and aeons.

The Summer Solstice burns a mere fortnight away.

Something to Plan For:

the- upcoming -Abysmal New Year’s Day - December 21st 2007 CE - has particular significance. It marks the point 260 Weeks prior to theAbysmal Calendar’s official Inception date, December 21st 2012 CE.

260 has significance in calendrical systems, as it represents the number of Days it takes a human being to form in the womb.

The self-similar structure of theAbysmal Calendar thus reflects this periodicity as follows:

260 Weeks = 5 Years
260 Months = 20 Years
260 Centuries = the Precession of the Equinoxes

This brings us yet further into unfamiliar territory. What can one do with this? If 260 Days makes a person, what do 260 Weeks make?

7 humans? or something an order of magnitude greater?

Ultimately, the advantage in such self-similarity lies in relating the various orders of magnitude to one another through a common image-system. To rely exclusively on numbers would prove efficient from the perspective of the Internet, yet less easy for human memory.

Calendars appear to incorporate a particular culture’s creation story, particularly the emergence of light from within the darkness or abyss or void, and the separation of the Heavens and the Earth. The Zodiacs of the world bear striking similarities across cultures, and have rich mythologies attached.

Replacing the Gregorian in one capacity only

theAbysmal Calendar replaces the Gregorian in its capacity as Global default Calendar. TheAbysmal remains, ultimately, numerical, with allowance for expression of all of the world’s cultures  to adorn it with the richness of our imagery, symbolism, stories and imagination.

Friday October 15th 1982 - Does this date have any significance? Did anyone throw a huge celebration?

It marks the beginning of the 401st Year, which represents the conclusion of one full 400-Year Cycle of the Gregorian Calendar. It repeats itself exactly once every 400 Years.

Yet, no celebration.

January 1st, 2000 CE - this represents the date of the largest disappointment shared by such a large number of people, when we may have had a celebration to fill the streets of the world’s cities.

January 1st 2001 CE - the beginning of the new millennium - again, a disappointment, perhaps a foreshadowing of the year, and indeed beginning of the millennium to come.

December 21st 2012 CE - this date represents the last Day of the Gregorian Calendar as a global standard, and the first Day we should truly celebrate. together.

which requires some planning…

260 Weeks… we have half a year to think about it.

The- revised & final -Abysmal Calendar pends…

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December Solstice 2012

Links to do with the Mayan End Date

Ask an Astronomer: re - 2012

NASA - 2004 and 2012 transits of Venus

Countdown to and Background on 2012

John Major Jenkins, 1994 Why 2012?

Jonathan McGregor Bethel 2012 Eschaton

London UK Olympics 2012

All About 2012

December 21 2012

Apocalypse 2012

Library of H Alexandria

The Year 2012 Blog

Wilson’s Almanac on 2012
and 2012 links

Diagnosis 2012
incl
star-map-to-ground correlation at Giza in 2012
Great Pyramid of Giza as 2012 indicator
astronomical phenomena in 2012

2012 Web Ring