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Religions > Bible |
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"Bear" |
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29 Oct 2006 01:11:14 AM |
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Week Lengths |
"During the Babylonian time period the moon was considered a God. Gods were
considered the power of life and experiences, therefore, should be
worshiped. The creation of the week length is much less scientific as the
length of a month. Every full moon represented a new month and this was
reason for a celebration. The celebration consisted of worship, eating,
drinking and dancing, and everyone was off work that day. The celebration
of the first of the month which was called Sappatu and soon translated into
English as the Sabbath.
"Every time the full moon would appear a celebration would begin and the
economy would flourish and the productivity expanded. The Babylonian people
thought the Gods were working miracles. In order to satisfy the Gods, the
Babylonian's took the new moon off as well in order to worship. The work
production continued to rise so the Babylonians celebrated the quarter moons
as well. Now the Babylonians had four days off a month and they usually
fell seven days apart. Once in a while the phases would be on the eighth
day. In order to ease the confusion the Babylonian's stopped having the
"Sabbath" according to the moon phases. Instead, the Babylonian people
decided to worship every seventh day. The number seven became magic to the
Babylonian people, hence, the seven days of the week. Therefore, the days
of the week were named after the seven planets (that they knew), which were
considered Gods by the Babylonian's.
"When the Roman empire converted to Christianity, the seven days a week
became official,and the seventh day was a day of worship and rest."
(http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/amber/students/simpler/index.htm#Moon)
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| User: "Ha SATAN [Sin Tet Nun]" |
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| Title: Re: Week Lengths |
03 Nov 2006 06:53:52 AM |
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Bear wrote:
"During the Babylonian time period the moon was
considered a God.
or perhaps Godess / Female "God"
which makes the following more interesting:
length of a month. Every full moon represented a new month and this was
reason for a celebration. The celebration consisted of worship, eating,
drinking and dancing, and everyone was off work that day. The celebration
of the first of the month which was called Sappatu and soon translated into
English as the Sabbath.
woman is also associated with the earth's moon in Chinese cult-ure.
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| User: "Samuel W. Heywood" |
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| Title: Re: Week Lengths |
03 Nov 2006 12:54:15 PM |
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On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Ha SATAN [Sin Tet Nun] wrote:
<snip>
All you folks contributing to this thread, please see
subject as above, and explain to me when I jerk your
chains how the discussion is relevant to the parts upon
your chains where they will break.
Sam Heywood
-- Message handled by Pine, Version 4.62
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