From ptg_thug@yahoo.com Mon Jun 30 17:01:40 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:02:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web13003.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.13]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 19X8aZ-0003c7-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:01:39 -0700 Message-ID: <20030701000139.33040.qmail@web13003.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [151.199.153.139] by web13003.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:01:39 PDT Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:01:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Travis Garris Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Dates To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org In-Reply-To: <0HH800AM6Z91EA@mxout3.netvision.net.il> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 398 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: ptg_thug@yahoo.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners I did some research. I thought there were 13 sun signs. Turns out, there are actually only 12. I thought there were 13 because there are 13 lunar months in a solar year. A lunar month is roughly 28 days. A solar year is roughly 365. This gives you 13 lunar months (roughly). I thought that was the basis for building the Zodiac. That was the basis for building the Tarot, and thus our poker deck. I did some more research. Seems the 12 sun signs were made by dividing the sky into 30 degree houses for the signs. Sorry for the confusion, I was wrong. In which case, feel free to name the months after the signs of the Zodiac. Now I must warn you that the calendar has not been corrected for "drift" in a very long time. That's why the solar new year, Yule (a new year's celebration), and January 1, do not coincide. I never got an answer as to how I should put the weekday in the same statment as the date. Travis Garris Norfolk, Va. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com