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Year 8-XIV Month 1

theAbysmal Countdown to 2012: 4 weeks down, 256 to go

Noteworthy Days & Nights:

NEW 13-Day period begins
Monday 1-VI
Month 1 Day 2
Lunation 1 Day 13

FULL MOON
Tuesday 2-VII
Month 1 Day 3
Lunation 1 Day 14

NEW 13-Day period begins
Sunday 1-XIX
Month 1 Day 15
Lunation 1 Day 26

MIDDAY of Quarter 0
NEW XX-Glyph period begins
Tuesday 3-I
Month 1 Day 17
Lunation 1 Day 28

NEW MOON - Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese Lunar New Year
Thursday 5-III
Month 1 Day 19
Lunation 2 Day 0

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.

Remogrifying the Calendar

from theAbyss to theAbysmal

The simplest way to approach the division of the Days of the Year lies in leaving the Leap Year question until later. Consider the 365 complete Days that occur for every Year.

In considering the Year, the Days can be further divided into 364 Weekdays plus 1 Day. In this case, the 364 Weekdays exclude the Norther Winter Solstice and Southern Summer Solstice. A 364 Weekday Year contains exactly 52 Weeks.

The Circle of 365 Days

Each individual circle represents 1 Day, whereas the large circle created by them represents 1 Year of 365 Days. The 100% Black Day represents the Winter Solstice, as the longest Night of the Year, and finds its place at the bottom of the circle. The 100% White Day represents the Summer Solstice, as the longest Day of the Year, and finds its place at the top of the circle.

The Circle of 364 Days

The 364 Days of the Year (excluding the Winter Solstice), divided into 4 Quarters of 91 Days.

91 = 13 + 12 + 11 + 10 + 9 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1

Northern Hemisphere - The Circle of 360 + 5 Days

The 364 Weekdays plus the Northern Winter/Southern Summer Solstice, divided into 4 Quarters, marking the Day that falls midway between the Equinox and Solstice. This image represents the Year in the Northern Hemisphere.

Southern Hemisphere - The Circle of 360 plus 5 Days.

The Circle of 52 Weeks

364 Weekdays divided into 4 Quarters of 91 Days or 13 Weeks.

Northern Hemisphere - Quarter 0, Weeks 0 to 12

Northern Hemisphere - Quarter 1, Weeks 0 to 12

Northern Hemisphere - Quarter 2, Weeks 0 to 12

Northern Hemisphere - Quarter 3, Weeks 0 to 12

Southern Hemisphere - Quarter 0, Weeks 0 to 12

Southern Hemisphere - Quarter 1, Weeks 0 to 12

Southern Hemisphere - Quarter 2, Weeks 0 to 12

Southern Hemisphere - Quarter 3, Weeks 0 to 12

The Circle of 13 Months

364 Weekdays of the Year equal 13 Months of 4 Weeks or 28 Days each.

Northern Hemisphere - 13 Month Calendar

Southern Hemisphere - 13 Month Calendar

The Circle of 7 Weekdays

The 7 Days of the Week evolved from the Hebrew and Hellenic traditions. Their Weeks began with Saturday. The Circles below indicate order of the weekdays.

The sequence around the circumference represents the order of the furthest Planet from the Sun to the nearest, where the Sun, stands in for Earth, and the Moon comes last, as it orbits the Earth.

Northern Hemisphere - The Weekday Circle

Southern Hemisphere - The Weekday Circle

Symbol Key

24-Hours by 7-Weekdays

h	Sat	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
0	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus
1	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury
2	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon
3	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn
4	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter
5	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars
6	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun
7	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus
8	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury
9	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon
10	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn
11	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter
12	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars
13	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun
14	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus
15	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury
16	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon
17	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn
18	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter
19	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars
20	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun
21	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus
22	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury
23	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon

The sequence, if read vertically, corresponds to the sequence around the circumference of the 7 Weekday circles above. The top square of each column represents the first Hour of the Day, and if read horizontally from left to right, corresponds to the sequence of Weekdays.

The Perpetual Month

This perpetual Calendar has 13 perpetual Months or 52 perpetual Weeks, or 4 perpetual Quarters, or 26 perpetual Fortnights for that matter.

Northern Hemisphere - Perpetual Calendar Month

Southern Hemisphere - Perpetual Calendar Month

What with the Weekdays?

Friday? Saturday? Sunday? Monday? when does the week really begin?

Abysmal Days, Weeks and Months
Seven Days of the Week

In the Seven Day Circle, the Hebrew 7-Day Week began with the Sabbath, a Day of rest, our modern Saturday.

The Christians, having divorced themselves ideologically from the Hebrews, needed to identify the Week in a manner unique to them, thus they made their first Day Sunday.

The Muslims chose Friday as their own.

interesting to note that currently, the Hebrew Calendar is Solilunar, the Christian Calendar is Solar and the Muslim Calendar is Lunar.

The astrological week, attributing planets to the days, as almost all languages have adopted in one form or another, if at the very least to have a reference to the rest of the world.

In the circle below, the order of the planets begins with the bottom left, the symbol for Saturn, and Saturday. If you follow the lines of the star, from Saturn upward to the Sun, you follow the order of the planets, and weekdays.

Thus,
Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus
for
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

If, beginning again at Saturn on the bottom left, we follow the circle clockwise, we get the order
Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon
This order follows the length of days from longest to shortest for the planetary orbital periods (sidereal), the annual cycle of the sun (our year), and the Moon’s lunation period (synodic).

This relationship between the order of the weekdays, and this planetary order was taken to one further level of elaboration in the Hellenistic system. If one follows the order around the circle, from Saturn to Moon, and attributes each of them to one of the hours of the day, beginning with the first hour after midnight, we get the following pattern.

h	Sat	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
0	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus
1	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury
2	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon
3	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn
4	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter
5	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars
6	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun
7	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus
8	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury
9	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon
10	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn
11	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter
12	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars
13	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun
14	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus
15	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury
16	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon
17	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn
18	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter
19	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars
20	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun
21	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus
22	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury
23	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon

note that the first hour of each day coincides with the day of the week.

This also brings us back to the Myth of Ouranos, Gaia, and Kronos, or, Uranus the Sky, Gaia the Earth, and Saturn the Dark Trickster.

Ouranos, a creature of generation, had penetrated deep into Gaia, conceiving monstrous children, down to Kronos, the youngest. As Ouranos lay atop Gaia, and remained within her, the children she generated remained trapped within her, causing her great agony.

She charged Saturn with the task of relieving her, and she provided him with a cycle to do so. Saturn used it to castrate his father, thereby separating the Sky (Heavens) from the Earth. This, in some sense, represents the birth of Time.

Ouranos’ emasculated generative organs fell down into the ocean, where the surface foamed up, and from it emerged Venus… our representation of divine love, and Friday, the last day of the week.

Uranus, incidentally, can be seen from Earth with the naked eye, although it is a challenge to find him. Might we consider an 8-day week?In light of this particular order of Days, it would be most prudent for theAbysmal Calendar to revise its Weekday Sequence. For, if theAbysmal Calendar’s Weeks begin with Saturday, then the seamless passing of the Weeks will first take place on Saturday, December 22nd, 2012 CE.

A full update pends.