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Ads by Google Gregorian calendar Chinese calendar Hebrew calendar Islamic calendar lunar calendar lunisolar calendar Hindu calendar lunar deity lunar calendar      Islamic calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The first surviving attested use of the Hijri calendar is on a papyrus from Egypt in 22 AH, PERF 558. In 638 (AH 17), the second Caliph Umar began numbering the years of the Islamic calendar from the year of the Hijra, which was postdated AH 1. On the other hand, Muhammad forbade the intercalary month (released the calendar from the seasons) near the end of his life, which implies a pre-Islamic year beginning near the vernal equinox because that is when the modern lunar year began during his last year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar   (1915 words)      Calendars and their History This calendar is the official calendar of Israel and is the liturgical calendar of the Jewish faith. The ecclesiastical calendars of Christian churches are based on cycles of movable and immovable feasts. The form of the Islamic calendar, as a lunar calendar without intercalation, was laid down by the Prophet in the Qur'an (Sura IX, verse 36-37) and in his sermon at the Farewell Pilgrimage. http://astro.nmsu.edu/%7Elhuber/leaphist.html   (8496 words)      History & info - the Islamic calendar The calendar is based on the Qur'an (Sura IX, 36-37) and its proper observance is a sacred duty for Muslims. The 1st day of the 5th month of C.E. 20874 in the Gregorian calendar will also be (approximately) the 1st day of the 5th month of AH 20874 of the Islamic calendar. As the year in the Islamic calendar is about 11 days shorter than the year in the Christian calendar, the Islamic years are slowly gaining in on the Christian years. http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-islamic.html   (755 words)      Encyclopedia: Thai lunar calendar The Thai lunar calendar or Patitin Chantarakati (Thai: ปฏิทินจันทรคติ) was replaced by the Patitin Suriyakati (ปฎิทินสุริยคติ) Thai solar calendar in AD 1888 2431 BE for most purposes, but the Chantarakati still determines most Buddhist feast or holy days, as well as a day for the famous Loy Krathong festival. The Thai lunar calendar or Chantarakati calendar (ปฏิทินจันทรคติ) was used in Thailand until 1888, when it was replaced by the Thai solar calendar which is used today. In practice, many Thais reckon their ages from this sequence of Animals, though the solar calendar determines age at law. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Thai-lunar-calendar   (474 words)      The Goddess Lunar Calendar Since the average length of the month in the Goddess Calendar is the same as the value of the current synodic month, to seven decimal places, it is reasonable to expect that the Goddess Calendar will stay in sync with the Moon over a period of at least several millennia. To reckon time according to this calendar it is necessary only to know the Goddess date for a particular day and to be able to calculate the date which follows any given date. If we consider the vernal equinox year (the mean interval between vernal equinoxes) of 365.24237 days then the Goddess Calendar year differs from this by 0.00021 days, leading to a discrepancy with respect to the seasons of one day in about 4762 years. http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/lunarcal/lunarcal.htm   (3228 words)      Home Page for Calendar Reform Emperor Constantine then reformed the calendar in the 4th century, by introducing the seven-day week, probably modeled on the Christian sabbatical cycle. The Eastern Orthodox Churches continued observing the Julian Calendar until 1923, at which time some, but not all, skipped the first 13 days in October, and introduced a "Revised Julian Calendar" with a unique variation on the leap-year rule. At that time, 11 days had to be excised in order to bring the British calendar into sync with the rest of Europe. http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/calendar-reform.html   (845 words)      Judaism 101: Jewish Calendar Holidays are celebrated on the same day of the Jewish calendar every year, but the Jewish year is not the same length as a solar year on the Gregorian calendar used by most of the western world, so the date shifts on the Gregorian calendar. Of course, the earlier Gregorian dates are artificial, since the Gregorian calendar did not exist until the 16th century and was not accepted in many parts of the world until much later. A few years ago, I was in a synagogue, and I overheard one man ask another, "When is Chanukkah this year?" The other man smiled slyly and replied, "Same as always: the 25th of Kislev." This humorous comment makes an important point: the date of Jewish holidays does not change from year to year. http://www.jewfaq.org/calendar.htm   (1587 words)      Paula Burch's Lunisolar Calendar (Lunar Calendar) 2006 Each lunation is named according to Northeastern US traditions, and equivalents to the Hebrew, Islamic, and Chinese lunar calendars are also noted for each month, along with the exact North American start dates of the Hebrew and Islamic calendar months, which vary slightly from the astronomical new moon. The old claim that the Chinese lunar calendar can be used to predict whether you will have a boy or a girl is entirely fictitious. Major Christian, Pagan, Jewish, Chinese, and Islamic holidays are included, as well as those Hindu holidays whose dates I could ascertain. http://www.pburch.net/lunarcal.html   (1099 words)      Religious Calendars -- The Calendar Zone American Nameday Calendar of First Names -- a nameday calendar in which most of our namedays are based on both religion and American history. Shap Calendar of Religious Festivals -- Religious Calendar, (Bahai, Buddhist, Chinese, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Japanese, Jewish, Muslim, Rastafarian, Sikh, Zoroastrian (Parsee)- organised by month or religion. Interfaith Calendar -- Primary sacred times for world religions. http://www.calendarzone.com/Religious   (799 words)      The Theory of the Chinese Calendar Center Point, then it is the first month of the lunar calendar, as known as the Tiger month. The current Chinese calendar uses the first day of the first month of Tiger month as the first day of a year, which was initially adopted by the Anyway, the principles of the Chinese Calendar use the following four rules which the ancient Chinese made them thousand years ago. http://www.chineseastrologyonline.com/clc/LunarCalendar.htm   (846 words)      Lunar Calendar in Japan This reform was the work primarily of the "calendar scholars" Harumi Shibukawa and Anbu Yasutomi with their student and later colleague, Jinzan Tani. In 806, the Buddhist monk and scholar Koubou Daishi wrote that Japanese calendar scholars had trouble determining good and bad days because they did not know "Mitsubi" (the secret day). Before this year, as in China, Sunday had no special significance (workers did not get any days "off"), and the most important aspect of each day was determining whether it was "good" or "bad" (a practice that continues in "unofficial" lunar calendar use to this day). http://www2.gol.com/users/stever/calendar.htm   (1859 words)      Western-Chinese Calendar Converter Hence, the last day of the Julian calendar, October 4, 1582 AD, was followed the next day by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, October 15, to rectify this error. The page also includes a converter between the day in the Julian Period and the Gregorian and Julian Calendars. If you came to this page directly, you might also want to take a look at some of my other http://www.mandarintools.com/calendar.html   (1364 words)      Biorhythm Calendar - Synchronizing Biorhythms - Astrology - Lunar Cycles BIORHYTHM CALENDAR is laid out in such a way that on any given day you can look at your calendar and SEE what your cyclic influences will be for that day. Jackie, The calendars came and are beautiful as always. I have been studying metaphysics and spirituality for all of my adult life. http://www.biorhythmcalendar.com   (1355 words)      Jordan: The Chinese Calendar That is not a very felicitous number if you want to make a calendar that fits the movement of both celestial bodies. However Chinese around the world continue to celebrate traditional holidays on the lunar calendar. The insertion of intercalary months is the reason why Chinese New Year, like other traditional Chinese festivals, does not correspond with the same Gregorian date each year. http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/hbcalendar-u.html   (1398 words)      Page Two, Inc. -- The Mystic's Wheel of the Year Calendar 2002 calendar photos included: Meditating Christ (Christian), Lunar Madonna (Christian), Zazen Buddha (Zen Buddhist), Kuan Yin (Zen Buddhist), Krishna (Hindu God) and Radha (Hindu Goddess), Devi (Hindu Goddess), Chacmool/Mayan Rain God, Ixchel/Mayan Moon Goddess, Mayan Fertility God, Mayan Fertility Goddess, Mayan Animal Deities, Mayan Mushroom Goddess, African Fertility God, and African Fertility Goddess. 2001 calendar photos included: El Cristo (Christian), Nuestra Senora (Christian), Buddha Siddhartha (Buddhist), Bodhisattva Kuan Yin (Buddhist), Maha Deva Shiva (Hindu God), Maha Devi Shakti (Hindu Goddess), The Green Man (Celtic God), The Triple Goddess (Celtic Goddesses), Cernunnos (Celtic God), The Matronae (Celtic Goddesses), Taranis (Celtic God), and Brigantia (Celtic Goddess). This calendar also includes non-patriarchal, Nature-based holy days from the ancient Goddess-God religions of: http://www.wheeloftheyear.com   (627 words)      moon calendar The arrival of the new moon and its completion at the full moon are greeted in many parts of the world as a festive occasion and therefore many festivals are linked to these occasions. The Muslims are instructed by the Qur'an to begin a month from the time a new moon could be seen by the naked eye. Our lunar calendars also follow an ancient tradition, since the earliest calendars of most civilisations were based on the phases of the moon and many cultures still use the moon calendar to establish dates of religious holidays. http://www.riverocean.org.uk/lunarcalendar/calendar.htm   (1173 words)      Chinese Calendar The Chinese Lunar New Year is the longest chronological record in history, dating from 2600BC, when the Emperor Huang Ti introduced the first cycle of the zodiac. Legend has it that the Lord Buddha summoned all the animals to come to him before he departed from earth. The Chinese believe the animal ruling the year in which a person is born has a profound influence on personality, saying: "This is the animal that hides in your heart." http://www.new-year.co.uk/chinese/calendar.htm   (179 words)      Celestial Calendars -- The Calendar Zone Each month is arranged in a wheel-shape (and the standard Western calendar is conveniently shown side-by-side), so that you can appreciate the cycle of Na LunarCal - Perpetual Chinese Calendar -- LunarCal is a 160 years perpetual Chinese Calendar program. The Astronomical Pocket Diary -- A Pocket Almanac and Diary-Planner for everyday use. 292167 Visitors to Celestial Calendars Page since January 19, 1999 http://www.calendarzone.com/Celestial   (775 words)      Moonwise: Date Conversions Converting then from the Julian Calendar meant omitting ten days. The days begin in the morning, and the months end on the day of Dark Moon. This represents the calendar according to the current rules. http://www.moonwise.co.uk/dateconv.html   (497 words)      Lunar calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia As a result of this, it is mostly used for religious purposes, alongside a secular solar calendar, and Islamic feasts perform a full circle with respect to the seasons every 33 years. Most lunar calendars are also lunisolar, such as the Hebrew, Chinese and Hindu calendar, and most calendar systems used in antiquity. The tabular Islamic calendar's 360-month cycle is equivalent to 24×15 months minus a correction of one day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_calendar   (496 words)      Japanese calendar Another aspect of the lunar calendar that survives into modern Japan as a kind of superstition, is the subdivision of the calendar into six days (rokuyo), similar to the subdivision of the modern calendar into seven weekdays. The lunar calendars were based on the cycle of the moon, resulting in years of twelve months of 29 or 30 days (the moon takes about 29 1/2 days to circle the earth), and an occasional 13th month to even out the discrepancy to the solar cycle of 365 1/4 days, i.e. Before 1873, lunar calendars, which were originally imported from China, were used in Japan for many centuries. http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2272.html   (305 words)      Moon phases garden calendar 2006,lunar planting,moon calendar,moon phase gardening calendar,best days to plant Moon phases garden calendar 2006,lunar planting,moon calendar,moon phase gardening calendar,best days to plant The Moon through the Signs of the Zodiac This method has been practiced by many for hundreds of years, and is a perfect compliment to organic gardening because it is more effective in non-chemically treated soil. http://www.gardeningbythemoon.com   (549 words)      The Lunar Calendar Though today people in China use the western calendar for most practical matters of daily life, the old system still serves as the basis for determining numerous seasonal holidays. This coexistence of two calendar systems has long been accepted by the people of China. This difference is made up every 19 years by the addition of seven lunar months. http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/html_e/moon.htm   (157 words)      USATODAY.com - Chinese rush to wed before 'widow's year' For many here, that means the Chinese year 4702 will be cursed and, thus, a bad one in which to marry. That tradition is gone and unlamented, but others remain. But it's a bad day to move into a new house or travel north. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-02-06-china-weddings_x.htm   (1039 words)      The Solar Terms and the Chinese 60 Year Calendar Cycle The terms given "P" numbers are called "principal terms," zhongqi, correspond to the beginning of Zodiacal periods and are used to determine the numbering of the lunar months. The Chinese New Year is often called the "lunar" new year, but it is no more "lunar" than the Babylonian, Jewish, or Islamic new years, which are also based on lunar months. The Chinese calendar was similarly used in Korea, Japan, and Mongolia, though I have had one Mongolian correspondent claiming that Chinese astronomy, attested from antiquity, was derived from the Mongols. http://www.friesian.com/chinacal.htm   (1234 words)      Hermetic Systems: Calendar Studies John Dee and the English Calendar: Science, Religion and Empire A calendar whose months accord with the lunar cycles and are named after thirteen goddesses. The nature and origin of the Julian day number system. http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud.htm   (317 words)      Keera's void-of-course lunar calendar That said, I want you to know that it's definitely mind over matter. For that reason, there will be no lunar calendar in 2006. It is, however, no longer an influence in my life, so I will no longer make void-of-course calendars. http://home.online.no/~kafox/VOC_E.html   (251 words)      Calendar Add a number of days to a given date The year 2006 is a normal year, with 365 days in total (Gregorian calendar) List of years that use the same calendar as 2006 http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar   (235 words)      EQUINOX Lunar Calendar Exact Times for Lunar Phases & Zodiac Sign changes Over 10 Calendars to the same address and the postage is free. Post and Packing for Moon Phase Calendars per address: £1 within UK or £1.50/US$3.50/Aus$4.50 world-wide. http://www.equinoxastrology.com/LunarCal.htm   (124 words)      Lunar Sabbath From Sabbath to Saturday: The Story of the Jewish Rest Day The Scriptural Lunar Sabbath Calendar - common law copyright 2001- 2005 Messianic Internet Radio Station - (Come and Worship) http://www.lunarsabbath.com   (360 words)      The Korea Times : [The Dawn of Modern Korea] (266) Lunar Calendar Lunar New Year, or ``Sollal,’’ is one of the ``sliding’’ holidays, which go back and forth between different dates of the Western calendar. When a Korean fills out a form, he or she is required to indicate not only his or her birthday, but also which calendar is used to calculate the date. In some regards, it was simply impossible, since many popular traditional holidays were held according to the lunar calendar. http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200502/kt2005020616470454130.htm   (879 words)      12 Animals Twelve in Lunar Calendar The 12 animals of the Chinese calendar are widely adopted and used in Chinese, Japanese and Korean Zodiacs. The Vietnamese adopts the 12 animals of the Chinese calendar, with the exception of the 4-th animal. A calendar system needs, first of all, a way to count the years. http://www.chinapage.com/12animals.html   (242 words)      Chinese New Year - 2006 is the Year of the Dog. 2005 is the Year of Yiyou, popularly known as the Year of the Rooster. ... Chinese calendar has been in continuous use for centuries, which predates the International Calendar (based on the Gregorian Calendar) we use at the present day which goes back only some 425 years. There is a 160-year calendar which gives all the dates from 1900-2060 written by H. Liang. Each year is also designated by one of the 12 Animals For instance, 2003 is the Year of the Ram and 2004 is the Year of the Monkey. http://www.chinapage.com/newyear.html   (912 words)      Chinese Calendrics Software for converting Chinese Calendar dates Helmer Aslaksen's The Mathematics of the Chinese Calendar and to a lesser extent on L. Doggett's Calendars and Claus Tøndering's The Chinese Calendar. To find days for which the element-animal is the same for day, month and year. The Chinese Lunar Calendar is not only a lunar calendar but also a solilunar calendar (what some call a 'lunisolar' calendar), consisting of months corresponding exactly to lunar cycles and years which stay more-or-less in sync with seasonal years. http://www.hermetic.ch/chcal/chcal.htm   (955 words)      FluffyKittens Lunar Wheel Calendar Gardening by the Moon (not a circle calendar, but a great starting point for lunar gardening) Before last years calendar I hadn't seen any other Circle based calendars, now I've had a few pointed out to me. I can't vouch for the quality, usefulness (or even sanity) of these. If you do this let me know and I'll add them to the links section. http://www.fluffykittens.com   (857 words)      Celebration of the Chinese New Year The Chinese New year is celebrated on the first day of the First Moon of the lunar calendar. The Chinese calendar will often show the dates of both the Gregorian (Western) calendar and the Chinese Lunar Calendar. Family Associations: organized according to family surnames, such as the Wong Family Association, etc., are social clubs or lodges which were first set up in Chinatown to serve the social and personal needs of Chinese workers. http://www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/festival/newyear/newyear.html   (2104 words)      Paul Carlisle's Home Page Moon Calendar, a Java applet which shows the phases of the Moon for any month or day from 3999 BC to 3999 AD. This site began simply enough - I needed a place for my Moon Calendar applet to live. My kids are also interested in this stuff, since they have no choice, and a lot of the projects I have pulled together for this site were done with them in mind. http://paulcarlisle.net/old   (878 words)      Chinese Lunar Calendar Chinese Calendar Reform - The major events in the Chinese Calendar Reform History Actually, there is no formula for the Chinese Lunar Calendar Conversion to satisfy me during my research from 1988 to 1992. Many people are looking for the formula to convert from the Gregorian Calendar to Chinese Lunar Calendar. http://www.chineseastrologyonline.com/clc   (246 words)      lunar calendar The calendar has a larger postcard format and the layout is a full view of the moons of the year beginning each line with the new moon. Just color the moons on the calendar when you menstruate, and not only do you have a visual graphic of your cycle, you also read your cycle in relation to the phases of the moon. The solar month, day and dates names clearly mark each moon/day. http://www.reddyspads.com/shop/lunar_calendar   (162 words)      Lunar Calendar Software Paraben's Calendar Creator is designed with simplicity in mind as the most important factor. It's perfect for family use, however, many church groups, businesses, and other organizations use Paraben's Calendar Creator for basic scheduling needs. Use Paraben's Calendar Creator, to create personalized calendars. http://www.cutedownloads.com/two/lunar-calendar.htm   (328 words)      Chinese Lunar Calendar - Gender Predictions The Chinese Gender Calendar was supposedly discovered by a Chinese Scientist who drew this chart which was buried in a Royal tomb about 700 years ago. If there is a bit of truth to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, we would expect for the first tool to have a higher percentage of correct predictions. It gives no way to convert your age into your chinese lunar age, on which this tool was based, so we would expect that the results would be correct about 50% of the time, basically as scientific as flipping a coin. http://www.thelaboroflove.com/chart   (246 words)      Astrology Shop On-Line - astrology.co.uk Lunar Calendar (beautiful silk-screen finish) is ideal for wall mounting. Why on earth does the Equinox Moon Calendar now come in a northern and southern hemisphere calendar version? Choose between Northern and Southern hemisphere moon calendars. http://www.astrology.co.uk   (678 words)      Lunar Calendars and Eclipse Finder Software To convert between dates in various calendars: Three solar calendars (the Gregorian Calendar, the Julian Calendar and the Solar Liberalia Triday Calendar) and three lunar calendars (the Goddess Lunar Calendar, the Meyer-Palmen Solilunar Calendar and the Lunar Liberalia Triday Calendar). Initially this runs as a trial version, with all functions enabled (except that output cannot be copied to the clipboard), for ten days or twenty runs, whichever comes first. To move forward or backward from a given date (and time) either by a period such as one month (in any of the lunar calendars) or by any number of days. http://www.hermetic.ch/lcef/lcef.htm   (473 words)      Chinese Zodiac Page The Chinese have adopted the Western calendar since 1911, but the lunar calendar is still used for festive occasions such as the Chinese New Year. Many Chinese calendars will print both the solar dates and the Chinese lunar dates. The Chinese Lunar Calendar is based on the cycles of the moon, and is constructed in a different fashion than the Western solar calendar. http://www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/zodiac/zodiac.html   (567 words)      Today Date and Time Holidays and Other Dates in the US Secular Calendar (Searchable by year) This Day in History from the History Channel Boynton's Calendar of African-American History -- This month http://www.ecben.net/calendar.shtml   (275 words)      AsiaYeah.com -- Palm Software Lookup any day in both Western and Chinese Lunar Calendar format Calendarical information verified according to the calendarical information published by the Purple Mountain Obervatory in China However, a small donation will ensure that Lunar Calendar and other applications/services from us are updated and maintained. http://palm.asiayeah.com/lunarcalendar   (206 words)      Welcome to We'Moon We'Moon '06 Note Cards are only $5.95 with purchase of a We'Moon date book or wall calendar. In We'Moon '05 there is a misprint on page 223 that shows the 2006 Year at a Glance calendar. You can download a to-scale corrected copy of the page here! http://www.wemoon.ws   (918 words)      BBC News SCI/TECH Oldest lunar calendar identified What could be the oldest lunar calendar ever created has been identified on the walls of the famous, prehistoric caves at Lascaux in France. A dappled, brown horse and a lunar calendar http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/975360.stm   (693 words)      PPCSG -> Lunar Calendar What I mean is to have lunar date on the default PPC calendar. Can the calendar in the pocket pc display lunar date in chinese just like what we did in the PC outlook calendar by enabling alternate calendar. been taping on the calendar and found no clues. http://www.ppcsg.com/index.php?s=459eb529077427f684a9904e3ec71079&showtopic=56626   (298 words)      Chinese Fortune Telling Calendar for Chinese Astrology, Horoscope, Baby Gender Predictor, Dating, Marriage, Wedding, ... Our Chinese Fortune Calendar for Chinese horoscope can tell your Ying-Yang Five Elements (Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, Earth) which are the key to find your lucky times and places. To know your Five Elements is the way to live luckier, wealthier, healthier, happier and longer. All Chinese horoscope and astrology systems come from Chinese Fortune-Telling Calendar. http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com   (177 words)

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