Talk:Zoroastrian calendar

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—Yamara ✉ 16:53, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

First paragraph

First paragraph: "... and was based systemically on the Babylonian calendar" is wrong. If any, its basis was Egypt's 12 x 30-days-calendar. Needs correction.

              García  angel.garcia2001@googlemail.com    217.226.8.17 (talk) 15:56, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

The Hyksos were ..Chaldean from Ur.. ?? There were no Chaldeans in Ur in the days of the Hyksos. They did not penetrate that far south until 500-600 years later... This whole story stinks. Jcwf (talk) 00:44, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Where did the Chaldeans come from originally? Chaldeans are Aramaic-speaking, they invented the base 60 Mathematics that we still use today to tell and keep track time, and is the very bases of the 360 day calendar used in Egypt , they also invented Astronomy, astrology and first Concepcion of the all powerful Supreme God above in control of all the universe and duality of opposite forces expressed today in quantum mechanics , that gave birth to the first monotheistic Astrotheology based Zoroastrian religion , that was latter appropriated and used by old testament authors to reinvent monotheism in their own image . The Chaldeans greatly influenced and advanced the Egyptian and Hebrew culture by teaching them written language, and using the alphabets , base 60 Mathematics for universal cycle measurement and time keeping as we know it today , Astrology ,and Astronomy, that is in fact intertwined into the Egyptian culture and made possible the building the Pyramids which is now a major part of the Egyptian culture , and history . The Chaldeans have a history that spans more than 5,500 years, dating back to Mesopotamia, and the deluge epic, and go back much farther as recorded in the Sumerian Antediluvian kings list illustrating the personification of the cosmic kings associated with cyclical cosmic events and their durations recorded in Astrological ages , as recorded from the cradle of civilization / the Garden of Eden , located on the 33ed Parallel in present-day Iraq

.However, the post-plagued culture of Egypt rebuilt itself until Ramses in 1290 BC gathered priests who claimed that Memphis existed before the Hyksos and so claimed Hyksos to be an invasion not a merge..

What on earth does this refer to?? Memphis did exist before the Hyksos.

Jcwf (talk) 00:51, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Regardless of whether it was correct or not, it was irrelevant to the subject at hand, and is now gone. Likewise the personal essay on intercalation by 90.184.12.226; this was either off-topic (i.e. belonged at intercalation, which is linked from the article), or already discussed. -- Fullstop (talk) 18:27, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Intercalcations

Intercalations did not always follow a regular pattern, but during the reign of Artaxerxes II (circa 380 BC) astronomers utilized a 19-year cycle which required the addition of a month called Addaru II month in years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14 and 19, and the month Ululu II in year 17 of the cycle.

Does anyone have access to the cited source? Because that sounds to me like someone's confusing a lunar calendar with this one. That cycle, adding months in seven of nineteen years, works well for lunisolar calendars, but would add way too many months for a calendar in which the months are all 30 days, which would require months being added every five or six years. In fact, following that cycle with 30 day months would make it *less* accurate than not adding months at all, averaging just over 371 days per year XinaNicole (talk) 23:23, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

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Epoch of Zoroastrian Religious era

There seems to be an error in the epoch of the Zoroastrian Religious era, given as "the northern vernal equinox of 1737 BCE". This is most probably a misunderstanding of the "astronomical year -1737", which is equal to 1738 BCE (and not "1737 BCE"). The example given, "Hence the year 3738 ZRE began in 2000 CE." is in correspondence with an epochal date of 6 April 1738 BCE (proleptic Julian) [= 22 March 1738 BCE (proleptic Gregorian) = 1 Farvardin 2359 BPE], but not at all with an epochal date of "5 April 1737 BCE". /Erik Ljungstrand (Sweden) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.241.158.201 (talk) 13:55, 16 March 2018 (UTC)