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06 Dec 99 - 10:20 AM (#145411) Subject: Y2K/2K+1 new year checkoff: lunar 2000 From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird) Another new year coming up: Tuesday night, December 7 at sunset begins the first lunar month of the lunar year 2000 by the Gregorian Easter cycle, beginning the lunar calendar millenium of the 2000s (not to be confused with the 3rd millenium AD which doesn't start for another year) and the lunar calendar century of the 2000s (not to be confused with the 21st century AD which doesn't start for another year.) Party on! T. |
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06 Dec 99 - 12:28 PM (#145483) Subject: RE: BS: Y2K/2K+1 new year checkoff: lunar 2000 From: sophocleese I'm confused....when were the dinosaurs? |
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06 Dec 99 - 04:01 PM (#145600) Subject: RE: BS: Y2K/2K+1 new year checkoff: lunar 2000 From: Blackcat2 This is all becoming far too confusing. What is scary is that you actually seem to understand what you're saying! By the way, I learned (in Paganism) that the lunations are full moon to full moon, not new to new. An interesting difference! pax & happy whatever to you! |
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07 Dec 99 - 11:32 AM (#146004) Subject: RE: BS: Y2K/2K+1 new year checkoff: lunar 2000 From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird) Blackcat2, thanks for the good wishes. Happy whatever to you, too. So far as I'm aware, the new-moon style of lunation is, or was, used among the heathen at least as much as the full-moon style. The ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, and probably Romans all used a new-moon lunation. (The Egyptians reckoned from the disappearance of the waning moon, the Babylonains from the appearance of the new crescent.) Some of the Chinese also seem to use the new-moon style. I'm not sure about the lunar calendars of India, but I wouldn't be surprised, in such a large diverse area, to find both styles of lunation, if not also some systems that use the sidereal instead of or in addition to the synodic month (i.e., a system which paid attention to the moon's position in the zodiac, rather than its phase.) So, there's all kinds of ways. T. |
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07 Dec 99 - 12:02 PM (#146018) Subject: RE: BS: Y2K/2K+1 new year checkoff: lunar 2000 From: catspaw49 After a rather heated disagreement over a ruling by the sponsoring yacht club, my sailing partner and I spent the rest of the year displaying full moons to the committee boat prior to race thereafter as well as mooning the club's building during pleasure sailing. I think that year went full to full...in either case, it was quite a year. Spaw |
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07 Dec 99 - 12:14 PM (#146026) Subject: RE: BS: Y2K/2K+1 new year checkoff: lunar 2000 From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird) T. |
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07 Dec 99 - 12:15 PM (#146029) Subject: RE: BS: Y2K/2K+1 new year checkoff: lunar 2000 From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird) //laughter// T. |
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07 Dec 99 - 02:33 PM (#146081) Subject: RE: BS: Y2K/2K+1 new year checkoff: lunar 2000 From: Blackcat2 Well, I gotta admit when were talking THOSE kinds of moons - full is definately better. Though new moons (my interpretation being babie's bottoms) are cute and AWWWWWWWWWW inspiring, but I rather see the full . . . Blackcat2 |
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08 Dec 99 - 01:56 AM (#146420) Subject: RE: BS: Y2K/2K+1 new year checkoff: lunar 2000 From: MudGuard It seems we are all lunatics here ;-) MudGuard |