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> D.Leeper:
> Then we got smart and realized
> it took the sun 365 days to circle the earth. To explain this
> discrepancy,
> priests made the 359'th day the birthday of the Sun God. Through the
> power
> of his birth we got an extra five days.
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>
> I have never heard this.
>
> What culture are you speaking of? What years? Who are "we"? And I still
> don't get the connection to Lucifer.
Sounds Germanic to me.
A similar effect shows up in the Mayan calendar. 18 "months" of 20 days,
and the 5/6 extra days are "bad luck days"--don't do anything on them.
The Mayan calendar accumulates error more slowly than the current Gregorian
calendar.
> Do you have a source?
>
> I have heard of the changing of calendars in the Roman/Christian
> tradition-- that is why there are two christmases, two easters etc.
> between the Orthodox and Catholic churches. Does that relate?
I don't think so.
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