Science through the Ages: Calendar

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Topic: Calendar

Posted By: dublin
Subject: Calendar
Date Posted: 15-Aug-2014 at 11:48

In the mountains of the Balkans, up until the end of the 20th century, shepherds carried with them a calendar stick. It was a stick with a notch cut into it for every day of the year and a cross or some other symbol for major holy days, which in Serbia are all linked to major agricultural events and major solar cycle events. At the end of every day a piece of the stick up to the first notch, representing the previous day, was cut off from the stick. When the last piece was cut, the year was over.

Is it possible that this calendar is the remnant of the ancient European lunisolar calendar which was devised by the builders of the first Central European henges 7000 years ago?

http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2014/06/calendar.html

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Posted By: Trice
Date Posted: 05-Feb-2019 at 00:10

that article is super resourceful, I'm doing a minor paper on calendar years and timelines