Since the lunar calendar was 10 or 11 days shorter than the solar year, a 13th month (called Thoth) was intercalated every several years to keep the lunar calendar in rough correspondence with the agricultural seasons and their feasts. Each lunar month began with the new moon-reckoned from the first morning after the waning crescent had become invisible-and was named after the major festival celebrated within it.
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The Egyptian lunar calendar, the older of the two systems, consisted of twelve months whose duration differed according to the length of a full lunar cycle (normally 29 or 30 days).
In addition to this civil calendar, the ancient Egyptians simultaneously maintained a second calendar based upon the phases of the moon.
It has religious and also practical significance as a calendar for ancient Egyptians.Įgyptian calendar, dating system established several thousand years before the common era, the first calendar known to use a year of 365 days, approximately equal to the solar year. This particular heliacal rising is referred to in many temple inscriptions, wherein the star is known as the Divine Sepat, identified as the soul of Isis. Its annual appearance just before dawn at the June 21 solstice, heralded the coming rise of the Nile, upon which Egyptian agriculture depended. By the ancient Egyptians, Sirius was revered as the Nile Star, or Star of Isis. Sirius is more visible on the easterly sky of the winter solstice rising after sunset. Sirius known as sothis among the Egyptian, Al Shaira as indicated in the Koran, Surya in Sanskrit T’an Lang or heavenly wolf of the Chinese Purple Star group, is the brightest star in the sky twenty times brighter than our present sun and is located in the constellation Canis Major.Ĭanis Major is the larger of two dogs which follow Orion, the Hunter, at exact alignment on the belt of its 3 stars faces the 5 stars of Taurus, Hyades, the Bull and the 7 stars of the Pleiades.
From the ancient concept of “as above so below”, they built the structures aligned to heavenly bodies and star maps particularly the heliacal rising of star Sirius at a certain time of the year. The July 4th Declaration of Independence Day of the United States of America was established by Freemasons notably George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and other astrologers-masons who planned and designed the national capital region area. Did you know that the July 4th Declaration of Independence of the United States of America comes from the mystery tradition of Ancient Egypt, the same as the first Independence Day of the Philippines before it was changed and made June 12?
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