Re: Is Jesus honored when people make a lie in His honor?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Raymond E. Griffith"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

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>Thanks, SSR. That is good to know. Did you mean 365 days?

Nope <g>. Pre-Julian calendar. Lunisolar - they added an intercalary *month*
after Feb (which had 23 or 24 days), But you're right, they would have been on
the Julian calendar by then.  (45 BC) [Julian added 10 days, as the lunisolar
calendar was *still* off, but not as much as the previous *lunar* calendar]

Michels, Agnes K. The Calendar of the Roman Republic. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
U. Press, 1976 LC: 67-12349 [No ISBN ;=(]


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>41%. Wow. Hmmm. That's almost three days out of every week. Of course,
>Freya's day and Saturn's day and Thor's day *are* three days out of the
>week! 

It was quite complicated <wg>. First you had to espy the first new crescent
moon, declare the Kalends - the first day of the month, then the Nones - 5th or
7th, then the Ides, 13 or 15, *then* you could announce when the first festival
of the month would take place, and February had 2 Festivals at teh *end* of teh
month (6 days apart) which complicated when *March* could begin <wg>. This is
the religious calendar, a full-time *job* for the Romans, but they also used a
more *solar* calendar for Civic duties <g>.

I will have to do more research on the Nones, but the Kalends and Ides were
sacrificial days. [You didn't have to *believe* in the gods, but you sure as
heck had to do the *proper* sacrifices - the charge against the Christians as
"atheists"]






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