Table 3:
The
phases of the moon
The
dates given in this so-called KNIN -table below make for
the signal days of the above mentioned revision to the
ancient lunar roman calendar.
K:
Kalends, the day of the new
moon
N:
Nones the day of the first (and last )
quarter
I:
Ides the day of full moon.
This
calendar-naming of the lunar reality originally did not
have such a neat division in lunar 'weeks' marked by
signal days of Kalends,
Ides
and Nones
, as given in this astronomical table. The second quarter
nones were added by this revision to match with the
weekorder we know from the gregorian calendar and to be
in accord with the actual astronomical data of the lunar
phases. The original naming of this calendar as
'fasti'
was concerned with making days where it was not
'fas'
or 'nefasti
'
to conduct as said legal and commercial business. They
were the early roman precursor of our present sundays
when usually we do not have office hours or commercial
businesses opened (it is still under legal control).
Therefore setting these moonphases on ones calendar can
be done for
the sake of having an alternative for the christian
sundays
that is more loyal to the original (uncorrupted
scientific and natural) roman concept of social - and
religious - order.
Japanese print
called the Moonsick Monk or the Stupid Starings at the
Moon.
Kitagawa Oetamaro woodcarving 1798
As
said:
originally
the roman order was far more complex than that. The days
that were legal were not the same as the days suggested
by the severely rationalized revision below. Because of
its arbitrariness in the political/religious manipulation
of unscientific intercalation
the
roman empire fell
of its original lunar order with the julian reform 45
B.C. which fixed the lunar order to the solar year: Ides
and Nones meant no longer any loyalty to the lunar month.
They had no other scientific ground in astronomical
observation any longer than some likeness of rhythm and
the factual solar year. In the old as well as later days
of Rome the politicians were the priests of order and
priests became emperors.
The separation between religion and politics is in
fact an illusory one when
one is bent to setting a calendar or clock to 'the order
of God' that in fact then consists of discrete natural
rhythms that defy a uniform-reductionist system as we had
in the 20th century. Modern politics of time make as such
just another religion of reductionist legal morality
setting the time (a television-religion). Not naming the
timesystem a reality of respecting God (and His natural
time) does not make people respect the time purely
political as if that would be the standard of
rationality. In fact it makes a psychology of it that is
in constant doubt about the reference which with some
derange seriously in private selfmade religions
recognized as forms of neurosis and worse.
(Psychoanalysis speaks of modern compulsory neuroses as a
" private religion"). It is interesting to wonder about
what
actually heresy would be
in setting the time. One could speculate that any
division of time deviating from
natural
points of measurement
(like these moonphases) and natural
numbers
(like having at least and at most 12 lunar months in a
solar year) can be called heresies of gauging and
division. At the other hand we are inspired to respect
each odd setting of the clock and calendar as a way of
respecting God, thus leading to a more enlightened new
duality of timerespect (see a new duality at
The
Order of time:
Politics
)
Therefore
The Order of Time here proposes the earlier mentioned
full
Calendar of Order
that offers these natural numbers (in operations on
the number of twelve fixed on astronomical data) and
their division relative to a possibly heretic 'gregorian
division' of (in fact) commercial weeks on the gregorian
calendar (which unless corrected to its present
'centurion'-rule still deviates 1day in a 2.500 year
period).
One
of the regular appearances of the
harvest-celebrations
in Japan are the images of the hare with its pounder in
the moon.
The old
Idea of lunar irregular
weeks
on lunar signal days ( a lunar month is about 29.5 days
long) was in fact abolished by the same early roman rule
which protected the christians against further roman and
pagan persecution: the constantinian reform of the
calendar in the fourth century (325) A.D. abolished
definitely the old roman - to its lunar order - perverted
system and replaced it with the commercial market rhythm
of 7 days (formerly 8 and also 10-days) in succession
making time-management and calendars more of a mystical
experience on the number of seven than a proper respect
of any natural order (in monasteries still the old
'reformed'fasti-order from before Constantine was
respected throughout the entire Middle Ages though). The
linear concept of time took it over from the cyclic at
that time and in fact we have ever since a balance of
religious and commercial respect on unnatural weeks
through weekdays of working and weekends of praying and
ritual ceremony. To the spiritual interest of individual
and collective well-being though nor formalized rituals
of religion nor commercial activity on itself is the
purpose. What commerce or religion can unify the world?
That duality should not be considered necessary any
longer. Therefore we offer here, contrasting the
religious/commercial timeconsciousness of unnatural
weeks, the authentic classical authority of the natural
division of the moon by its phases which so clearly sets
the timeconsciousness relative to the basic
Order
of the Sun
known from the reformed Romans from 45 B.C - A.D.321 and
the old vedic culture as we know it from the
scriptures.
