When the big hand says Thirteen Moon Calendar

Canada Free Press ^ | 8-27-04 | Judi McLeod

[Salvation]

Front Page Story

When the big hand says Thirteen Moon Calendar

by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com

August 27, 2004

The United Nations, which has a finger in every global pie, and ambitions to take over the World Internet, is inching its way towards calendar reform.

Long on lofty words and windy clauses, the official UN description for calendar reform is, "Calendar Reform and the Future of Civilization" (CRFC).

Ostensibly, the UN rejected considering calendar reform in 1995 as part of its 50^th anniversary. Within four years, UN officials were passing calendar duty over to lifetime activist for peace, Dr. José Argüelles, an originator of Earth Day.

Dr. Arguelles’ World Summit on Peace and Time was convened on June 22-27, 1999 at the UN-owned University for Peace, in Costa Rica.

Why is the UN itching to change the method by which the world tells time?

It’s the Gregorian Calendar. Having replaced the Julian Calendar, the Gregorian was instituted by papal decree in the year AD 1582 and adopted by virtually all nations as the common world standard.

Accepted by virtually all nations notwithstanding, the Gregorian Calendar is irksome to New Agers because the whole world marks time based on the Birth of Jesus Christ. And as far as the occultist UN is concerned, that will never do.

So why not break and fix it?

If the concept of throwing the Gregorian Calendar out to replace it with the World Thirteen Moon 28-day Calendar of Peace isn’t ludicrous enough, calendar challengers say they are basing their reform on "common sense".

"By rational discourse and common sense, it has been determined that the Gregorian Calendar does not represent a true or accurate standard of measure or belong to any systematic science of time, and hence, is worthy of reform," states a CRFC resolution from the World Summit on Peace and Time.

The usual suspects were on hand when more than one hundred "followers of the World Thirteen Calendar Change Peace Movement" convened at the Costa Rican summit.

Letters of acknowledgement were sent to the summit on behalf of UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan; Secretary-General of UNESCO, Federico Mayor Zaragoza; His Holiness, the Dalai Lama; and by Jonathan Granoff of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security.

Dr. Rodrigo Carazo, former President of Costa Rica and founder of the University gave the opening address for Peace. In attendance with Dr. Carazo was Gerardo Bidowski, acting Rector and representative of the then newly appointed President of the University for Peace, Maurice Strong.

Seven commissions were set up during a four-day period and participating was former UN assistant Secretary-General Robert Muller, now UP chancellor, who gave a guided tour of the archeology and history o f the site of the University of Peace which was concluded by a walk to his nearby residence.

The Thirteen Moon "Natural Time" Calendar is touted as "a universal application of the mathematics and cosmology of the Mayan calendar as deciphered by Dr. Jose Arguelles. Ph.D., and presents a simple yet so profound opportunity to shift our everyday consciousness."

Described on his Internet home page as "both a visionary and a prophet", Dr. Arguelles bestowed upon himself the pagan name of, "Valum Votan". In a New Age magazine interview, he said it was "not until after he experimented with LSD that he realized he was a visionary."

The final goal is to change the calendar from its present "artificial" 12-month year to a more "natural" 13-month year that more closely parallels the lunar and biological cycles.

The results and declarations from the World Summit on Peace and Time have been submitted to the General Assembly of the UN.

Wild and weird as it may sound, the Thirteen Moon Natural Time Peace Calendar could replace the Gregorian Calendar, courtesy of future UN resolution.

It is, after all, Canadian Maurice Strong and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev who, under the auspices of the UN, are working on an agenda to replace the Ten Commandments with the Earth Charter.

Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the media. A former Toronto Sun and Kingston Whig Standard columnist, she has also appeared on Newsmax.com, the Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, and World Net Daily. Judi can be reached at: cfp@canadafreepress.com.

[patricktschetter]

I've seen 1" = exactly 25.4mm some places (I use that one at work since it's easy to guesstimate and we design in inches anyway.) I think it's one of the official versions of the inch.

[kanawa]

I think a 13-month calendar is a non-starter... a 13-month year cannot be divided into any smaller units without splitting months.

The prime reason.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

According to the NIST cite, http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/appenB.html (Scroll down to section B.6):

"The U. S. Metric Law of 1866 gave the relationship 1 m = 39.37 in (in is the unit symbol for the inch). From 1893 until 1959, the yard was defined as being exactly equal to (3600/3937) m, and thus the foot was defined as being exactly equal to (1200/3937) m.


"In 1959 the definition of the yard was changed to bring the U.S. yard and the yard used in other countries into agreement. Since then the yard has been defined as exactly equal to 0.9144 m, and thus the foot has been defined as exactly equal to 0.3048 m. At the same time it was decided that any data expressed in feet derived from geodetic surveys within the United States would continue to bear the relationship as defined in 1893, namely, 1 ft = (1200/ 3937) m (ft is the unit symbol for the foot). The name of this foot is "U.S. survey foot," while the name of the new foot defined in 1959 is "international foot." The two are related to each other through the expression 1 international foot = 0.999 998 U.S. survey foot exactly. "

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

BTW, 0.3048/12 x 1000 = 25.4 (eggzactly), so yer right!

[WestVirginiaRebel]

The UN apparently think they are the Q Continnum. Next thing you know, they'll be trying to change the gravitational constant of the Universe.

Besides, a thirteen-month year would really screw up my Druid ceremonies.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

How do you calculate the Chinese New Year? Twentieth day of the Twelveth Moon? What about intercalary years? How do you determine when an intercalary year occurs? Are moon dates (lunations) counted from New Moon (almost the Judeo-Islamic style) or Full Moon? Who decides the age of the moon? Is any particular meridan preferred? In any strict solar/lunar calendar assignment of dates to events (lunations, solstices or equinox) is dependent on the choice of meridan and defintion of the start of a day. Who decides these things for the Chinese calendar and how?

Thanks!

[Junior]

Okay. So? The Jewish calendar is lunar.

[Junior]

And how did the ancients miss this. I mean the only thing they had to tell the passage of days,weeks and months was the moon. How come they didn't realize that 13 months of four weeks each made a year? How could they miss that??

They didn't miss it. There are a number of Lunar calendars in existence, including that used by the Jews.

[Salvation]

I wasn't aware of that.

[Verginius Rufus]

The problem is that neither 12 nor 13 lunar months equal one solar year exactly...12 lunar months comes out to 354 or 355 days, so there are about 11 days left over.

Ancient lunar calendars would add an extra ("intercalary") month every second or third year, but it was hard to discover a formula to know in advance when to add the extra months, so it was a bit haphazard. There were typically harvest festivals which needed to be celebrated at the right time, so they wanted to keep the lunar calendar approximately in line with the solar year.

Muslims still use a lunar calendar, but do not insert intercalary months, so their festivals rotate through our year (the start of Ramadan is about 11 days earlier every year).

[tnlibertarian]

So will they change how they count the years? And if so, how would they number them? Would it be retroactive? If it were, what would happen to "I Love the '80's"?

[boris]

That's what I said.

[LexBaird]

All the months which refer to numbers refer to the wrong numbers ..

That's because Julius and Augustus insisted on having their own months, complete with 31 days. That's also why February is short.

[Homo_homini_lupus]

Here's your ping!

[NZerFromHK]

I apologize that I'm no scholar in this field (my area is more electrical engineering and history), but my personal observations run like this:

1) Each month starts with the new moon: full moon is always 15th of the month.

2) The most important special day is the winter solstice: it always falls on either 21 or 22 December on the Western (Gregorian) calendar. It is very important that it is often marked with a special dinner, and there is a saying in traditional Chinese culture that "Winter solstice is more important than the New Year". From the period between 1850 and 1945 when Christianity was regarded as purely Western culture, Christmas was often called "Western winter solstice" by the Chinese people.

I have found the following pages that discuss chinese calendar to more detail and fluently in English:

http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-chinese.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar

http://www.friesian.com/chinacal.htm

[Buggman]

Actually, until the seventeenth century or so, the new year started with March, not January, so the naming system made sense up until then.

[Mitzi676]

Further thoughts. Mitzi676

Thirteen Moon Natural Time Peace Calendar

"a more "natural" 13-month year that more closely parallels the lunar and biological cycles."

It must be out of step with either the moon or the year.

But spring, birthdays etc, will shift around meaninglessly. If your birthday is on the 28th of the 13th month, where will it be next year, will you wait for 13 months and 1 day, the 1st of the 1st month which is 365 days?

When it comes to your legal age, will you be 20 on the 28th of the 13th month, or do you have to calculate the error in the year you were born and the error in the present year, and perhaps wait several more days to become 20?

Who really cares about the moon cycles, apart from tidal effects, which are well documented already?

How does this help peace, will evil people stop their murdering? Reminding them that there is a God to account to is much more effective.