VMs: Why the year begins from Pisces

[steve ekwall <ekwall2@xxxxxxxx>]

hi all (quick question) :-)


The years (era) of 1000 - 1150 CE ~feels~ better for vms .. Can the
paper (vellum)?, and book/scribe/ binding technique possibly date back
to that age? .. the "crossbow" goes back to 1-3 BC's? in china!
(ref: f73v ) ref:www.flamingjesus.com f73v etc..
 
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ref:
 Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:06:14 +0200
 From: Vladimir Sazonov <vladimir@xxxxxxxx>
 
 Many calendars were in use in Iran, also lunar hijra and several solar 
 calendars.
 
 The solar zoroastrian calendea have 12x30 days and 5 additional days at 
 the end.
 
 http://www3.sympatico.ca/zoroastrian/cal.html
 
 In the year 1006 CE the roaming Noruz day again coincided with the day 
 of the Vernal Equinox. There was great rejoicing both in Iran and India. 
 It was resolved that Zoroastrians must add an extra month every 120 
 years. Between 1126 and 1129 CE, the Parsees in India remembered and 
 added a 13th month called the 2nd Spendamad but the Zoroastrian in Iran 
 forgot. The intercalation made by the Indian Zoroastrian Community, put 
 the Calendar of the Iranian Zoroastrians ahead by one month. This 
 difference between the two Calendars went unnoticed until a learned 
 Kermani priest, Dastur Jamasp Vilayat, visited India in 1720 and brought 
 it to the attention of the Parsi community. Long after the Dastur had 
 left, the Zoroastrians in India continued to debate the issue of the two 
 Calendars. In 1746, a group of Zoroastrians in India decided to adopt 
 the Iranian Calendar as that of the "old time". They separated and 
 formed a new group called Qadimi but the majority of Parsees continued 
 to follow their traditional Calendar and called themselves Shenshais 
 (Royalist). No intercalations have been made since 1130 CE.
 
 The Shenshai and Qadimi Calendars do not have any means of intercalation 
 built into them. Consequently, in both these Calendars, Noruz recedes 
 from the day of Vernal Equinox and the Gahambars, the seasonal 
 festivals, are celebrated at the wrong time of the year.
 
 Nick Pelling wrote:
 
 > Hi Vladimir,
 >
 > At 23:00 29/03/03 +0100, Vladimir Sazonov wrote:
 >
 >> f67r2 maybe is a key.
 >> You see a sequence of black and white moons, normally 
 >> black-white-black-white but one time is black-black-white-white.
 >
 >
 > Lunar Hijra is a very interesting possibility (I'm fascinated by all 
 > things calendrical), though for f67r2 I guess the smart money's 
 > probably on a dumb scribe (ie who painted them in wrongly). :-)
 >
 > Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
 >
 > ______________________________________________________________________

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