Re: OT: the Monkey Year (wasRe: Religion and Holidays)

--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> screeved:
> Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
>
>
> > You might also want to see what you work out
> > to in Indian astrology.
> > It's similar to what is done in the West, but
> > with the actual astronomical
> > positions of the constellations, rather then
> > signposts based on where the
> > constellations used to be when the art was
> > founded.
> ...
> Hm, speaking of gods and stars, I should be
> nailing down the cosmology of the
> Meghean-Yargish coniverse in some more detail.
I'll only quote P Heron Odiosos, for the
understanding of this "predictive astrology" in
the Eastlands of the World: "They write many
books and their histories be full of this or that
astrologer who predicted a comet for a general,
saying it will be his doom, and he then sends all
his legions and armies into battle and they are
defeated because they know their general is
doomed. They [the Westerners] be also known to
study the more reliable science of reading
portents in the Earth herself or in the beasts
that roam her woods or fly the air or swim the
waters; the skills and intuitions of which our
[Eastern] Wise have also learned and honed
finely: for what better to enlighten the future
of earthlings than a thing of Earth and not a
thing of the heavens!"

For what it's worth, in the World, the Zodiacal
Era is 2100 years in length and are named for the
twelve signs of the zodiac [arias, pesqas,
apwarias, qafrencqurnur, sajitarias, iscorpion,
libras, wirjin, leon, qanqar, jininar, torras]
and twelve of them make up an Hipparchian Age,
which are 25200 years each. Forty of them
[pwerncas, lufur, sedura, camfur, pineton, lefur,
tontas, tumulas, menta, canas, grannon, montar,
caspas, wulpas, nicar, flumin, acarnon, perwas,
jephurullas, riwullas, qamellas, isqiurellas,
fluwias, wallas, fercas, murrullas, fulgur,
nemur, laricas, draccon, furican, fagas, leon,
furisniwas, balanellon, wermiqullon, paliqon,
aballon, musqajiftas, and nimbullas; which
Plodios renders into our tongue as: oak, wolf,
calm, plains, pine, hare, thunder, hills, mint,
hound, hail, mountains, grass, fox, snow, rivers,
maple, deer, breeze, streams, reed, squirrel,
rain, vales, birch, mouse, lightning, forests,
larch, dragon, whirlwind, beech, lion, blizzard,
corn, worm, dew, apple, dragonfly and cloud] make
up an Age of Stars, at 1008000 years. The current
Star Age is Calior; the previous eight named ages
are Xora, Staram, Pashto, Marakan, Azrael, Fanam,
Uzara, Marax. Generally discredited by
philosophers, there are some folk in the World
who claim it may have been created as many as
twenty such ages ago.

The commonly used calendar is not based on this
more sensible system (though some local and
regional calendars are). In the Great West, after
the death of archmage Agustas, the Senate
innaugurated the new count of years. So year 1 is
in fact the 87th year of the Pesqas zodiacal era.
The "Ages of Man" or "Ages of the Sun" spoken of
in this new system are arbitrarily set. The First
Age is set as 100000 to 40000BCE; the second
40000 to 12000BCE; the third from 12000 to
5000BCE the fourth from 5000 to 1BCE. Currently,
this is the 2003rd year of the fifth sun. The
intervals are not regular, but are based on
cultural/archaelogical rationale.

A curious system of philosophy holds that this
fifth age will soon come a bloody end with the
destruction of Man. As you can see, the Ages are
increasingly shorter. No one takes them
seriously, of course. What's funny, though, is
that these are the philosophers who are, in fact,
doomed to be right.

Today is the twentyfifth day of Dinzemril (Yule),
2003 (7 Jan 2004, Gr); the 2090th year of the
Pesqas zodiacal era in the Pwerncas Hipparchian
Age in the Calior Star Age. This ninth age began
4190 years ago, upon the passing of the Torras
zodaical era, the Nimbullas Hipparchian age and
the Xora Star Age.

So much for astrolgy!

Cosmologically: "The Heavens be a great bowl in
space that contain all the substance of the
universe and in which exist the Sun, the Earth,
the Moons of the Earth and the other heavenly
bodies: the moveable and fixed Stars, the Comets
and the meteors. At the center of this sphere of
the Heavens rests the Sun, which be a great fiery
ball that radiates light and warmth to the whole
of the cosmos. Around the Sun revolve the seven
planets and the sphere of the fixed Stars; and
also the Comets. The planets revolve around the
Sun at different rates or velocities; and each is
composed of different substances. The substance
of the Sun is that of pure Fire: for she burns
mercilessly, and no substance of Earth can
withstand her intense heat without burning away
into nothing. The substance of the planets is
mixt: being well proportioned in all the elements
and substances. Within each of the seven planets
there be a great heart of Fire, which causes it
to move and which generates a part of its warmth.
The middle parts of the Earth, that is, the
planet we inhabit, are made of Water and Earth,
which be the oceans and seas and also the lands
of the World. Above all be the bowl of the Sky,
which contains the vapours of the clouds and the
air all living things breathe. The Sun whose
light gives us our Day, is hidden from sight
during the night for the sphere of the Earth lies
between the Sun and our vision; and it be during
our Night that the lands upon the other side of
the Earth have their Day." &c - &c - &c

Padraic.


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