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Much of the Christfag's calendar is twisted to follow the Pagan holidays (Christmas was moved from the summer to Yule to be more appealing to converts), so there is no major shift to measuring the year; we were doing it right all along.

Also the Jews measure the year differently than everyone else; go figure

You can find the holidays with a 2-second Jewgle search. Do the legwork.

I won't say much on the subject of torques; you are correct in their usage, so I'd assume they could be used in a blot, so long as they had some kind of significance (maybe on Yule to tie in with the Wild Hunt ushering in the new Year).

You didn't mention the AD, BC part…

Some groups use a "Runic Era" calendar, but it's kind of wacky because since they fixed year zero equal to 250 BC, which is about 400 years older than the oldest dateable Elder Fuþark inscription, the Vimose comb. But… then the Negau helmet is probably a proto-runic inscription, and it's a couple of hundred years older than the Runic Era year zero.

The best solution would just be for ancestral polytheists to establish sociopolitical hegemony and establish a new year zero and reckon from that. We might as well dispense with the moronic 28-day February and 31-day August while we're at it.

>>5533

>We might as well dispense with the moronic 28-day February and 31-day August while we're at it.

I've heard there was supposed to be 13 months but one was dropped for christian superstition about the number 13 being satanic especially on Friday the 13th.

>The 13 Moon, 28-day calendar is a new standard of time for all people everywhere who desire a genuinely new world. If the calendar and time we follow is irregular, artificial and mechanized, so becomes our mind. As is our mind, so our world becomes, as is our world today: Irregular, artificial and mechanized. But if the calendar we follow is harmonic and in tune with natural cycles, so also will our mind become, and so we may return to a way of life more spiritual and in harmony with nature.

http://www.lawoftime.org/thirteenmoon.html

>>5535

I just noticed the relation between moon and month.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=month&searchmode=none

Old English monað, from Proto-Germanic *menoth- (cognates: Old Saxon manoth, Old Frisian monath, Middle Dutch manet, Dutch maand, Old High German manod, German Monat, Old Norse manaðr, Gothic menoþs "month"), related to *menon- "moon" (see moon (n.); the month was calculated from lunar phases). Its cognates mean only "month" in the Romance languages, but in Germanic generally continue to do double duty. Phrase a month of Sundays "a very long time" is from 1832 (roughly 7 and a half months, but never used literally).

>>5535

>I've heard there was supposed to be 13 months but one was dropped for christian superstition about the number 13 being satanic especially on Friday the 13th.

>>5538

>>5535

shit, didn't mean to sage or reply without actually replying

>I've heard there was supposed to be 13 months but one was dropped for christian superstition about the number 13 being satanic especially on Friday the 13th.

the modern month calendar was based on the Julian roman calendar which existed long before the Templars were disbanded/wrecked by the Pope and French king on a Friday 13th, where the superstition comes from, so I dont know about that.

the Julian Calendar had 12 months.

>>5535

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar#History

Advantages

The several advantages of The International Fixed Calendar are mainly related to its organization.

- Every year has exactly 52 weeks divided in 13 months.

- Each month has exactly 28 days divided in 4 weeks.

- The calendar is the same every year (perennial), unlike the annual Gregorian calendar, which differs from year to year. Hence, scheduling is easier for institutions and industries with extended production cycles.

- Every day of the month falls on the same weekday in each month—the 17th always falls on a Tuesday, for example.

- Moveable holidays celebrated on the nth weekday of a month, such as Labor Day, would be able to have a fixed date while keeping their traditional weekday.

- Statistical comparisons by months are more accurate, since all months contain exactly the same number of business days and weekends; likewise for comparisons by 13-week quarters.

- Thirteen equal divisions of the year are superior to twelve unequal divisions in terms of monthly cash flow in the economy, or so supporters of the IFC argued.[10]

Disadvantages

- For the superstitious, a disadvantage to this format is that every month includes a Friday the 13th, and this date occurs thirteen times every year. This is readily solved by making the 1st a Monday.

- Thirteen, being prime, is not evenly divisible, putting all activities currently done on a quarterly basis out of alignment with the months; each quarter would be 13 weeks instead.

- Some Jewish, Christian, and Islamic groups have been historically opposed to the calendar because their tradition of worshiping every seventh day would result in either the day of the week of worship changing from year to year or eight days passing when Year Day or Leap Day occurs.[11] Others have contended that Year Day and Leap Day could be counted as additional days of worship.

- Birthdays and other significant anniversaries may be recalculated as a result of a calendar reform and would always be on the same day of the week, meaning that some would be more difficult to celebrate if not on a weekend or other non-workday.

>>5535

idk about this honestly, many pre Christian cultures in Europe held 12 as a sacred number. 12 Olympians in Greek myth for example and it was superstition among the Germanic people that having 13 people sitting at one table was bad luck

The Lunar calendar has the problem of is that you miss 1 day each (Sidereal) year. You have to offset it every 7 years with an extra week. Which obviously messes with dates of big solar festivities like Yule. The Tropical calendar is the more practical in that regard, and specifically based on the migration of the Sun, and only needs to be offset by one day every four years. Using Sidereal years is although the most correct and ancient form, the messiest in practical use.

The use of 12 or 13 months is because of the different way of dividing the year. 13 months corresponds with the number of full moons we have in a year. 12 months is the because of the division of the year into seasons and dividing this again in houses of ascent/descend in relation to the heavens/horizon. The 12 month year has been ascribed by Herodotus as an Egyptian invention. Christfags have nothing to do with this, other than AD/BC

>>5536

I thought that was common knowledge.