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Religious movements, sects and even festivals appear and disappear. Occasionally, one will endure and a significant segment of society will
recognize it as a legitimate spiritual path or celebration. Eventually, the larger society may lend its approval.
Of course, contemporary views of what are socially defined as religion, denomination, or sect may also change in the future. In these cases, future editions may well include religions, denominations and sects not presently included.
With regard to any particular festival, the guiding principle is how broadly the different
segments of that religion accept the festival. The festivals noted in Multi Faith Calendar are annual events that people celebrate once during the course of a solar or lunar year.
Other cycles of time are also important: the new or full moon, a season, a week day (for
example, the Jewish Shabbat or the Friday prayers in a mosque), or a daily cycle (such as
the Eucharist for traditional Christian communities). While these cycles are less obvious, they are as important to the faithful as annual festivals.
Coming at frequent intervals, they provide regular spiritual sustenance, while festivals are special
times of feasting. The preceding reasoning for causes of the seasons is idealized. In reality,
we know that the seasons "lag": for example, the hottest temperatures in the Summer usually
Occur a month or so after the time of maximum isolation.
Earth is closest to the Sun (this is called perihelion) around January 11 each year (91.4
Million miles = 147.1 million km); it is farthest away from the Sun (this is called aphelion)
Around July 12 each year (94.8 million miles = 152.6 million km).
The complexity of calendars arises because these cycles of revolution do not comprise an
Integral number of days, and because astronomical cycles are neither constant nor perfectly
Commensurable with each other, the tropical year is defined as the mean interval between
Vernal equinoxes; this corresponds to the cycle of seasons on average.
The ancient astronomy, affecting astrological beliefs, cannot be dismissed simply because many of them go against conventional beliefs and customs but, being in natural law merits serious study and debate.
The Modern Calendar makers are copying the eclipse timing and other Information from modern astronomical ephemeris thus concealing the fact that their calendar timing are inaccurate.
Difference in the Dates and timing shown in the different calendars is causing, at present a lot of confusion among the different faiths. Since the equinoxes are the two points on the ecliptic where the plane of the Equator intersects it, as the Earth's axis moves, they precess round the ecliptic at rate of 40 to 50.3 seconds per year.
First Point of Aries, the point of inter section of the celestial equator and ecliptic where Sun crosses the equator from south to north. The Sun reached the first point of Aries about 21 March, known as time of the Vernal (Spring) Equinox.
This was happening from 21/3/0320. Over the past 1,700 years the first point of Aries has moved west wards along the ecliptic from Aries to Pisces sign backwards shift.
Behind all schemes for quantifying that mysterious notion called 'time' are the major two lights in the sky: the Sun and the Moon.
Solar calendars measure time according to the sun, lunar calendars according to the moon, while lunisolar calendars measure time using a combination of sun and the moon.
The western world is most familiar with the Gregorian solar calendar, now used internationally for business.
As with other solar calendars, the time it takes the earth to make one revolution around the sun determines the length of the solar Gregorian year. (Mean Value)
We hope this Multifaith Calendar will broaden understanding and acceptance of alternate paths of spirituality consistent with what most people presently regard as an
Authentic religious festivals.
Read our Detailed explanation on the astronomy section. (link for this)
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