When the big hand says Thirteen Moon Calendar

Canada Free Press ^ | 8-27-04 | Judi McLeod

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When the big hand says Thirteen Moon Calendar

by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com

August 27, 2004

The United Nations, which has a finger in every global pie, and ambitions to take over the World Internet, is inching its way towards calendar reform.

Long on lofty words and windy clauses, the official UN description for calendar reform is, "Calendar Reform and the Future of Civilization" (CRFC).

Ostensibly, the UN rejected considering calendar reform in 1995 as part of its 50^th anniversary. Within four years, UN officials were passing calendar duty over to lifetime activist for peace, Dr. José Argüelles, an originator of Earth Day.

Dr. Arguelles’ World Summit on Peace and Time was convened on June 22-27, 1999 at the UN-owned University for Peace, in Costa Rica.

Why is the UN itching to change the method by which the world tells time?

It’s the Gregorian Calendar. Having replaced the Julian Calendar, the Gregorian was instituted by papal decree in the year AD 1582 and adopted by virtually all nations as the common world standard.

Accepted by virtually all nations notwithstanding, the Gregorian Calendar is irksome to New Agers because the whole world marks time based on the Birth of Jesus Christ. And as far as the occultist UN is concerned, that will never do.

So why not break and fix it?

If the concept of throwing the Gregorian Calendar out to replace it with the World Thirteen Moon 28-day Calendar of Peace isn’t ludicrous enough, calendar challengers say they are basing their reform on "common sense".

"By rational discourse and common sense, it has been determined that the Gregorian Calendar does not represent a true or accurate standard of measure or belong to any systematic science of time, and hence, is worthy of reform," states a CRFC resolution from the World Summit on Peace and Time.

The usual suspects were on hand when more than one hundred "followers of the World Thirteen Calendar Change Peace Movement" convened at the Costa Rican summit.

Letters of acknowledgement were sent to the summit on behalf of UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan; Secretary-General of UNESCO, Federico Mayor Zaragoza; His Holiness, the Dalai Lama; and by Jonathan Granoff of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security.

Dr. Rodrigo Carazo, former President of Costa Rica and founder of the University gave the opening address for Peace. In attendance with Dr. Carazo was Gerardo Bidowski, acting Rector and representative of the then newly appointed President of the University for Peace, Maurice Strong.

Seven commissions were set up during a four-day period and participating was former UN assistant Secretary-General Robert Muller, now UP chancellor, who gave a guided tour of the archeology and history o f the site of the University of Peace which was concluded by a walk to his nearby residence.

The Thirteen Moon "Natural Time" Calendar is touted as "a universal application of the mathematics and cosmology of the Mayan calendar as deciphered by Dr. Jose Arguelles. Ph.D., and presents a simple yet so profound opportunity to shift our everyday consciousness."

Described on his Internet home page as "both a visionary and a prophet", Dr. Arguelles bestowed upon himself the pagan name of, "Valum Votan". In a New Age magazine interview, he said it was "not until after he experimented with LSD that he realized he was a visionary."

The final goal is to change the calendar from its present "artificial" 12-month year to a more "natural" 13-month year that more closely parallels the lunar and biological cycles.

The results and declarations from the World Summit on Peace and Time have been submitted to the General Assembly of the UN.

Wild and weird as it may sound, the Thirteen Moon Natural Time Peace Calendar could replace the Gregorian Calendar, courtesy of future UN resolution.

It is, after all, Canadian Maurice Strong and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev who, under the auspices of the UN, are working on an agenda to replace the Ten Commandments with the Earth Charter.

Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the media. A former Toronto Sun and Kingston Whig Standard columnist, she has also appeared on Newsmax.com, the Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, and World Net Daily. Judi can be reached at: cfp@canadafreepress.com.

[LNewman]

Been following Jose Arguelles links. An amazon.com reviewer of "The Mayan Factor" had this to say in part:

Unfortunately Mr Arguelles became convinced of his identity as a reincarnated Pacal Votan (Lord of Time) and created another system of Mayan glyphs called the Dreamspell. Dreamspell is not based on the pure interpretation of the Mayan Tzolkin. It is an invention that detracts from the original Mayan teachings.

Another calls his "research" incoherent and unsupported:

I wanted to give this book a chance, and wish I hadn't bothered. It reads like an acid ramble -- cosmic assertions tumble over startling insights, with no notion sustained beyond two sentences, properly connected to others, or backed by evidence. I kept waiting for him to settle down and present out some facts and build his case, but he just keeps laying bricks on air. I researched some of the more checkable facts, and found him generally wrong: for example, Isamu Noguchi's "The Sculpture to be Seen From Mars" looks nothing like the "face on Mars" (which was an illusion anyway), which he says shocked him into realizing the transmission of universal information. The irony is that despite savaging Western science as unable to understand the Maya, he is so absorbed in his own insights and revelations and discoveries that he never tries to see the Maya through their own eyes, as any good scientist would, and so fails to truly respect the subject he supposedly exalts.

There are positive reviews, of course, but quite possibly from "woo-woo" readership.

[ItsForTheChildren]

I'm disappointed. You guys are missing the upside here.

An extra page in every cheerleader calendar!

[NicknamedBob]

"...what would a half year, a quarterly tax file date, bimonthly, etc."

Who cares? If you go Metric, the phrase "A miss is as good as a mile" loses its meaning. Some things would have to be adapted.

Easy conversions among most calendars is to find the Julian date. Some desk calendars have them written as days since year began, or days remaining in year.

More complicated is converting to a decimal form, but that would be much like converting from Celcius to Fahrenheit (and for God's sake, don't get me started on Fahrenheit!!!)

We'll need to do conversions long before we travel between the stars. NASA is already dealing with the problem as it communicates and navigates the robots on Mars. The fourth planet has a different day length, different seasons, et cetera.

When we have settlements on Mars, and someone has a birthday, break out the calculator first!!

[NicknamedBob]

"It also means 13 mortgage payment per year!"

That's an easy adjustment. More payments, but lower payments.

A similar instance is choosing to make your payments, for mortgage or car, on a two-week cycle. Makes a lot of sense if you get paid every other week! That gives you twenty-six mortgage payments a year!! But they are less than half the size.

Pity the people in Pope Gregory's time. They had paid their rent, and then they lost eleven days! They wanted them back, too!!

[Natural Law]

It means 8% more administrative costs per year. With today's low interest rates the increased administrative costs will put a greater burden on the economy.

Are they also proposing changing the 7 day week since it too is of Biblical origins?

[Old Professer]

It is always summer in Springfield...

[Nam Vet]

Don't even start the cr*p about Masons.

Nam Vet

[NicknamedBob]

I don't think administrative costs would be sufficient reason to prevent a change. After all, we now buy toiletries and cosmetics, even hamburgers, with debit cards, and everything's done electronically.

The seven day week also comes from ancient Babylonia. Said to be in honor of the seven heavenly bodies of which they knew in the solar system.

I don't know whether seven days is best for us or not, but we're probably stuck with it, like all the rest.

In my book, I used a six-day week. But that was just an arbitrary choice. In Science Fiction, you can do that crap.

[jennyp]

This will never work. Besides, there already is a much better system out there: The Time Cube.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

No doubt part of this garbage is trying to institute the C.E. (Common Era) for A.D. and the B.C.E. (Before Common Era) for B.C.

Not only is this Christian-bashing, occultist swill, but it's stupidly inefficient by virtue of its length. Modernization usually entails making things shorter, smaller simpler. This rewrite ADDS a letter and a word to the syntax. Which just shows how determined they are to obliterate all evidence of Christ from society.

I've told our children if they ever write C.E. or B.C.E. on a school paper I will burn it. I've told their teachers the same thing.

So far, so good.

[Chemist_Geek]

In fact, I would go one step farther and institute "global time" - whereby it's 10:10:10 everywhere in the world at the same time.

We've already got Coordinated Universal Time, used by the military and amateur radio operators and other people. It's one time, wherever one is on the Earth.

[PatrickHenry]

Thanks for telling everyone about the TIME CUBE .

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I've thought there should be a 13 month calendar ever since grade school when I realized it was a much better and more uniform system. You could have 13 completely uniform lunar months with 1 extra day in the year. Perfect.

Not quite. Not even close. Lunar-solar calendars are unworkable. The average synodic month is approximately 29.5806 days, the average solar year is about 365.2422 days. They are in a ratio of about 12.368280 to one. They require very long cycles (like the Mayan calendar) to represent even approximate integer ratios. Regardless to of the length of the cycle, they require occasional intercalary days to come back into step with the sun, like the Mayan calendar.

One enormous advantage of the Gregorian Calendar is that dates fall very nearly on the same point in the solar cycle year to year. We don't need to consult an almanac to decide whether to plant our gardens in April or December. We don't need to look up the date of the Solstice to decide how to adjust hotel rates at seasonal resorts, for instance. (The Islamic calendar, being a purely lunar calendar, the name of the month gives no clue to solar cycle, months drift by about 11 days per year, so if Muharram was in the middle of winter one year, it'll be in the middle of summer in 16 years.)

A second advantage is simplicity. While "30 days hath..." and "Once every four years unless divisible by 100, except when divisible by 400..." is daunting to some, it is relatively simple to make up a Gregorian calendar for any date in the foreseeable future and as far back as one wants up to the date of it's adoption. (Maybe not that simple, Excel thinks that 1900 is a leap year.)

I believe that hostility to the Gregorian Calendar stems from its origin in the Christian Church. More precisely the Roman Church. The Catholic world adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1588, the anti-papist English resisted until 1754. Most of the Orthodox world did not accept the Gregorian Calendar as a civil standard until the early twentieth century. (Hence "Red October", the November Revolution took place in October on the old Russian civil calendar.) The revolutionary French and Soviets both had "rational" calendars, but in truth the hostility to the Gregorian Calendar is cultural, not scientific.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

How to you convert form UTC to ZULU?

[Chemist_Geek]

How to you convert form UTC to ZULU?

Unless you're a surveyor or doing astronomical observations, for all practical purposes UTC, Greenwich Mean Time, and Zulu Time are the same.

[Major_Risktaker]

I agree with you!

Only the powerful can change a calendar. The UN believes it is all powerful.

The so called new world order is about power and it comes from the UN not Rome today. The UN is saying the Christian Era is OVER.

The question is who is using the UN for their own powerful agenda?

What Is This C.E. / B.C.E. B u s i n e s s ?

The "Common Era" (i.e. nowadays)

Well, an awfull lot of people don't realize what AD stands for or means. "Anno Domini" is Latin for "in the year of Our Lord", referring to Our Lord Jesus Christ.

That is, "AD 1996" literally means "in the 1996'th year since the birth of the Christ."

Now not all the world is Christian, so it makes no sense for a Jew, a Moslem, a Hindu, a Witch, a Druid, or an atheist to refer to the date as being in the year of "their Lord" when they don't follow him.

Calendars and Calendrical Systems

[boris]

I have a more urgent situation needing immediate fixing:

The speed of light is 2.9979x10⁸ meters per second.

We need to change either the meter or the second to make it come out to 3.000000x10⁸ m/s. Nobody (much) would notice and it would stop irritating me.

--Boris

[boris]

"This will never work. Besides, there already is a much better system out there: The Time Cube."

I prefer The Clock of the Long Now. It has a cool design and the cam that embodies "The Equation of Time" is extra-cool. Check the gallery.

--Boris

[Veloxherc]

This sounds like a smart idea. But, it's the UN idea then I am against it.

[Zack Attack]

If the concept of throwing the Gregorian Calendar out to replace it with the World Thirteen Moon 28-day Calendar of Peace isn’t ludicrous enough, calendar challengers say they are basing their reform on "common sense".

I'm not quite clear. Is this talking about a lunar calendar or a 28-day month calendar? The word month comes from moon and was originally based on the cycle of the moon. I already keep the biblical lunar calendar, which can be either 12 or 13 months to a year, but this sounds like they are talking about fixed 28-day months.