Re: Religion and Holidays, were Socialism (WAS: Re: Why Can't We Just Not Talk Politics?

On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 09:26  PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:47:25PM -0500, Isidora Zamora wrote:
>> I believe that it is.  Eastern Orthodox also begin the day at
>> sundown, as Jews do.
>
> And Muslims and many other traditional cultures with lunar calendars.
> When
> the onset of a new month depends on the sighting of the lunar crescent,
> it only makes sense to start the day at sundown, since you can't
> usually
> see the moon at dawn and it would be annoying to have to wait 12+
> hours into the new day to figure out what date it was. :)
> -Mark
Lucky for them the Rokbeigalm are so easy-going ;-) .
They also have elves with really good eyesight among them, so they can
tell exactly when the moon has just started waxing again, even though
they don't have the technology necessary to have telescopes.


-Stephen (Steg)
  "prophets have visions; politicians have none."
      ~ yair zakovitch