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The
Roman
Empire before the julian reform of 45 B.C. also
had a lunar calendar. Because it was subject to
political/religious manipulation it was at the
time abolished by Julius Caesar. But still our
present gregorian calendar shows the signs of
the old times: December is derived from the
roman word for ten, meaning the tenth month.
There were originally no more than ten lunar
month's on our calendar which began 753 years
B.C. at the Foundation of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita)
A.U.C. For today the roman calendar
indicates: At
present
our
culture has little or no respect for the
position of the moon and its phases. Still we
have a long history of fighting with cultures
who managed lunar calendars. Today we can no
longer say that they are primitive or only
religious. Half the world swears by them and
they are just as valid as our monthly divisions
to the sun. The fact that we corrupted as Romans
of the old days does not mean that other
cultures would be equally corrupt.
Scientifically one can say that the rhythm of
the moon itself is a valid reference for civil
time-management. It is the leaping or not with a
lunar month about which the lunar cultures
themselves do not agree that is the issue of
discussion. Such leaping according a fixed rule
stays a more or less arbitrary form of
timemanagement and is thus either politically or
religiously colored by dogma and valuing. This
we cannot consider here without taking sides and
betraying
a
possible world
order
that does not bear this kind of
dissent. Therefore
at these pages the lunar order is presented
as-it-is: naked moonphases with no delineation
of a yearcount. It is simply an alternative way
of dividing the days on the calendar. To the
full
concept of
order
(see
Full
Calendar of
Order)
which in its scientific foundation cannot
subscribe to political and religious
arbitrariness we have to disconsider yearcounts
to years that are not objectively defined and
weekorders that do not align with natural
phenomena, as one would with leaping with a day
in stead of a leaped month, Thus the endresult
is a lunar order running right through the
logical and historically, also on the moon
founded, cakra
division of 48
weeks
in a solar tropical year. That cakradivision (to
the vedic word cakra: disc) of a solar tropical
year is a division that can easily be obtained
from transposing the moonschedule of four phases
in a moon-lunation-,- see next page- to the
solar year. This second moondivision is in
accord with as well the vedic literature as with
the reformed roman order, the so-called julian
order, the way it was settled by Julius
Caesar. In
sum: we have
a
transposed lunar calendar and an
untransposed
one.
The first we call Cakra
to the oldest vedic concept of time-management
discussed at the Order
of The
Sun-pages
and the second we call
Fasti
to
the old roman indication of signal-days with
which the mooncalendar originally, that is to
say before Julius Caesar, had settled the
classical holidays of legal and commercial
arrest. The fact that the old roman calendar had
a lot of different calculations to different
types of management to that one calendar does
not keep us from using that same calendar for a
new 'reformed', that is rationalized and
counterbalanced ( by the cakra-solar order)
complete of a better scientific respect than we
ever had before:
simple
moonphases according astronomical data, that are
and are not transposed to the solar
year. See
for further background info the links at the
bottom of the next page.
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