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Did the Egyptians live by the days of the week and by the months of the year .Was there a 24hour period of time .Most of ours is actually made of Gods was this the same please . Just before posting im seen a little clip they was on a 10 day week [names ]
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24 hours in a day is a given since that's how long it takes the planet to rotate. But actually, Egyptians are the ones who created the 365 day and 12 month lunar calendar that we use today. We have them to thank for that.. The only thing they missed was leap year.
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You really need to use the search engine and look into the archives yourself, since this topic was discussed several times including here.
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quote:Originally posted by Djehuti: You really need to use the search engine and look into the archives yourself, since this topic was discussed several times including here.
Why dont you actually do a post for new members USE THE SEARCH ENGINE maybe i want new fresh answers to see how or maybe one who answered it before to answers it now ok is this a problem for you ,if so you could pm me again and we can talk this through "yes"
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Doesn’t cease to be relevant - from the link Djehuti posted…
As I made a note of earlier, the Nile Valley calendar system has been instrumental in "dating" other cultures to its east:
...the Egyptian Solar, lunar and Sothic calendar,...contrasts with the Mesopotamian calendar and lunar cycles. (Sothic calendars and dating comprises works of Egyptologists like Alan Gardiner, Theodore Oppolzer, Edward Meyer, Edward Wente and Charles Van Siclen, W.G. Waddell, and others)...
Egyptian dating system has been used (as reference points) in assisting scholars to determine chronologies in other cultures within the "Mediterranean" regions and so-called "near East"...
Ancient Egyptians had an innovative calendar system, the 365-day solar calendar, which was different from its contemporaries (Mesopotamia used a lunar calendar of 354 days, and 360-day calendar) and setting the example that modern calendars follow. The Egyptians had a lunar calendar too, which made use of a 25 year cycle.
As noted earlier here, Egyptologists have used the various kings lists, but they've also taken into account some discrepancies between them, in terms of the chronologies provided. So the additional tool of approximating the chronologies, comes from the Egyptian sothic year, using Sothic cycles as reference points.
The shortcoming of the Egyptian 365-day civil calendar was that, it didn't have the extra-quarter day, that is exemplified by the quadrennial leap year of the modern solar calendar. As a result, the Egyptian civilian calendar fell short of another quarter day of the true solar year, which meant that it couldn't tell farmers when seasons began and when the annual inundation of Nile flood would begin. But of course, the Egyptians had a way around this: they figured out the correlation between the heliacal rising of Sothis and the beginning of the Nile flood. To make sure that the New year on the civilian calendar, which fell short of one quarter of day ever year, coincides with the rise of Sothis, the Egyptians came to the realization that it should take 1,460 solar years for the civil calendar to lose 365 days. Thus, with 1,460 solar years equaling 1,461 Egyptian civil years, the Nile flood and the solar cycle were harmonized. As such, the 1,460 year Sothic cycle, known as the Sothic year, had a full day every four years and a full month every 120 years, imitated the civil calendar. This Sothic year proved instrumental in guiding Egyptologists in reconstructing the chronology with respect to the true solar year, as is used today. Indeed, the Egyptian calendar system has also been useful in constructing chronology of other contemporaneous cultures, like those of Mesopotamia.
"Cyclic" calendar has no bearings on the the specifics of the "Solar-based calendar" system, taken into consideration with the Egyptian lunar calendar... The Egyptian solar calendar remedied the shortcomings of the civil calendar, to the point that it resembles modern day solar-based calendar system that we use, which is not surprising considering that the modern one ultimately derives from the ancient Egyptian version, largely with little more than superficial modifications; in the one area where one can add relative more depth to the significance of these modifications, is one whereby the modern calendar takes the 'leap year' into account via a different mode of determination from that used by the Egyptians to remedy the shortcoming of the Egyptian civil calendar, but all 'converge' in this aspect in terms of the effect on the calendar system...
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^ Mystery Solver is correct. By the way, Sticky I didn't mean to come off rude. I find it just a tiny bit annoying when the same topic comes up over and over again. Although at least in the case of topics like this which have to do with ancient Egyptian culture (and NOT 'race'), then again I don't mind it coming up.
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