From bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM Thu Nov 02 06:25:43 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: bob@rattlesnake.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 2 Nov 2000 14:25:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 30383 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2000 14:25:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 2 Nov 2000 14:25:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO megalith.rattlesnake.com) (140.186.114.245) by mta3 with SMTP; 2 Nov 2000 14:25:42 -0000 Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for lojban@egroups.com; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:25:40 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:25:40 -0500 (EST) To: lojban@egroups.com In-reply-to: <3A013D2A.75A7@math.bas.bg> (message from Ivan A Derzhanski on Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:08:42 +0200) Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Re: month names Reply-to: bob@rattlesnake.com References: <97315033101@out.newmail.net> <3A013D2A.75A7@math.bas.bg> From: "Robert J. Chassell" Adam Raizen wrote: > We could still use the western zodiac signs. It doesn't have to be > animals. The western zodiac signs are already pretty well fixed to > the months. The signs of the Zodiac are different from the constellations in which the sun moves. The signs are fixed to locations that are 2,000 years out of date. Because of the precession of the equinoxes, the constellations have moved. Right now, for example, the sun is in Libra; that is not its sign. At the beginning of December, the sun will be in Ophiuchus, which is not even a traditional sign. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com