Croatian paganism

Says Dr. Hales:- ASC ASC The form of year employed therein is the movable year of days, consisting of 12 equal months of 30 days, and five supernumerary days; which was the year in common use, as we have seen, among the Chaldeans, Egyptians, Armenians, Persians, and the principal Oriental nations, from the earliest times. As the year of this era is a fraction of a day less than a solar year, it would fall back of the true year one day in every four years, so that in the course of years its commencement would be 25 days earlier in the solar year than at the commencement of that period; and after years it would fall back through all the seasons, and anticipate the solar time by an entire year.

To reduce these to common years, it is therefore necessary to take into consideration this difference in their commencement. Chronological tables give their adjustment. Thucydides, b.

Magura goddess

Nothus,] etc. Censorinus, in the valuable synchronisms mentioned before, states that the th Nabonassarean year began the 7th of the Calends of July, or June 25th, in the year a. Therefore that Nabonassarean year did not end till June 25 of the next Julian year, a. According to Ptolemy, Hipparchus selected three ancient eclipses of the moon, out of those observed at Babylon, and brought from thence; of which the first happened in the first year, and the two others in the second year of Mardok Empadus, the fifth king in succession from Nabonassar.

Berstuk god

This proves, decisively, that the era of Nabonassar was in established use before the time of Hipparchus, though he did not give the collected years from the beginning of the era. These, probably, were not reckoned up in the original Chaldean Era, which only marked the succession of kings, and the number of years which each reigned. The collected years might have been added afterwards by the Egyptian astronomers.

Ptolemy himself mentions a lunar eclipse of 7 digits, in the 7th year of Ptolemy Philometor, and th year from Nabonassar, which happened on the 27th of the Egyptian month Phamenoth, and lasted from the eighth to the tenth hour.