by Digger Barr
https://gaiasgardens.guru/
I will be the first to tell you I am ignorant and I don’t know much of anything.
As time goes on I find this to be more and more true. The more I find out and the more I realize how little I truly know.
Most of what I think I know is based on what others have told me. Continued research has revealed that most people don’t know anything either.
The scenario we have here is that facts are based on our best guess.
I like operating under my best guess.
I have a lot of faith and my best guess is actually pretty good.
I am going to go out on a limb now and put my trust into other peoples best guesses too.
This gives me a great deal of comfort and can say with confidence that somewhere someone knows something.
Let me backup a second and give some meat to this chewbone.
I want to back up to the beginning of time.
Yes, the beginning of timekeeping that is.
You see it appears that we base our existence on a calendar designating the birth of Jesus Christ as our reference point.
I don’t know, I kinda feel like dropping the mic right there but I suppose I should explain myself a bit further.
It would appear that most people on the planet agree that Jesus was born. I don’t want to be sacrilegious here so please bear with me.
It would appear that there is a bit of uncertainty.
Some schools of thought beg to differ on when and where this defining event actually occurred.
Again let me remind anyone still reading this, I am ignorant.
It would seem that we should know this information exactly and that there would not be options to choose from.
Apparently we feel confident enough to set our entire system of timekeeping based upon someone’s best guess.
My father always told me that Christmas was not Jesus’ birthday.
He was a devoted reader of the Bible and so I figured he knew something.
My take on it was that it didn’t really matter. We just need to agree on a time to celebrate and Dec 25th was as good as any.
But why then is that not the first day of the year as well?
It matters to many people and the debate, if allowed, can get quite heated.
I for one am easy to get along with and welcome any conversation and don’t see the need to get upset about these things.
Others are prepared to go to war if their ideas are put into question.
That kinda takes the fun out of exploring our world.
I enjoy exploring my world and asking questions so I welcome different perspectives from everyone.
No need to fight about it.
Since my wanderings have taken me into a subject I claim to know nothing about, I have a lot of questions.
As a starting point I need a tool in order to keep things straight.
Chronological timelines seemed like a logic tool to use and help me stay organised.
I could then figure out when pyramids were built, when cities emerged and who was the ruling party of the day.
If you know anything about what I am talking about, you see the dilemma already. But I will continue because I am not sure what exactly my dilemma is.
When I google the oldest known city in the world I get a hit on a place in Turkey called Catalhoyuk.
It dates back to 7400 B.C. Or that can be read as 7400 BCE as the more inclusive way of dating things.
You can’t see me, but I am shaking my head about the ever changing acronyms.
Moving on.
While I was in Petra, a city in its heyday around 300 BC, I kept getting a vision about Jericho.
I do not know Jericho from a hole in the canyon wall, so I had to look it up.
What I found was another ancient, ancient city dating back to 9000 BC.
Is it just me or did this just become a math problem.
Since I am on a roll of making random statements I want to ask another insane question?
Did the people of these ancient cities have a reference point for when their time was?
The Mayan civilization dates back to between 7000 to 2000 BC. That’s quite the gap for us to place upon them.
It is an estimate of time given by the National Geographic website. Have a look for yourself.
Let me just mention it here. Jericho, Petra and Catalhoyuk may not have had a reference point for where they were in relation to a timeline on Earth.
Maybe they did. I don’t really know.
But the Mayans did.
They had a sophisticated calendar and we still can only give our best guess to when they existed.
The Hebrew calendar uses the book of Genesis as the basis for creation of the world as the beginning place for tracking time.
The Hebrew year is 5784 in 2024 but started on Sept 15 2023 and will end Oct 02 2024.
Then we have the Julian calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BC considered as a solar calendar.
The mathematicians and astronomers of the day tried to pinpoint the exact cycle of a year. They also shifted the beginning of the year from March to January.
This sustained the Roman Empire until a revision by Pope Gregory XIII in the year 1582 AD. Denoted by the OS and NS as old style and new style they were used simultaneously as the transition occurred. This revision adjusted for leap years but also threw off the astrological alignment for the Equinox by ten days back in 1582.
We use this calendar today known as the Gregorian calendar accepted worldwide as the common denominator.
I believe it still has some issues.
Chinese culture also has a traditional calendar but is based on Lunar cycles.
This calendar was developed in the 14th century by Emperor Huangdi. The Gregorian calendar year 2024 would be the year 4720 in China.
Although the Chinese have calendars for other uses, like most countries, they also have adopted the Gregorian calendar for everyday modern use.
I have not found what event the Emperor based the beginning of his calendar on.
There will be people out there that are very sure about themselves and about the information they have.
It is this place and it is this date. There are no questions about it.
I like to challenge absolutes.
I don’t think we always know.
And we often create random reference points in order to base other elements of discovery.
Unlike my Dad and his disgruntlement with the timing of Christmas I think the estimated time of the birth of Christ can be a perfectly fine way to base all of our known existence.
Unless we come up with a birth certificate for Jesus I guess this method will continue to be our best guess.
I found something in all of this pondering.
The wise men followed a star.
There is comfort in using the stars.
The star of Bethlehem may have been Venus. Or a spaceship.
None the less we continue to look to the heavens.
Now this is something I can finally sink my teeth into.
Astronomy is an exact science. You cannot make up where the stars are.
They are where they are when they are there and there is no guessing about it.
Give me a screenshot of the sky from a specific point and it will be an exact timestamp.
Astrology nails this. You need two reference points. Not just one.
It’s possible in the future we may need three.
Astronomy seems to have been the guide of choice of most ancient civilizations.
The Mayan calendar is based upon astronomy so I think we can reach across the millennia and find an accord.
We are only just now figuring some of that out. Well, since 3760 BC with more current deciphering in 2023 AD.
Calendars attempt to use the cosmos as a guide for tracking time, albeit with varying degrees of success and even less congruence.
We have been trying for 5000 years and still don’t have it pinned down.
Then there is the Adams calendar. And many other megalithic formations like Stonehenge
Have a deep dive into that if you want. It is very fascinating.
It’s not really practical for most homeowners to set up a bunch of megalithic rocks around their yard in order to tell time.
But on the broader scope of things it seems like it would be pretty accurate.
Further study may reveal the necessary reference points within these ancient sites.
Star date was the tool of choice by Jean luc Picard. I can get on board the Enterprise with that.
I don’t know if there is a system in place already with the Galactic civilizations.
I am always game to find out more about these things.
Maybe star dates could be used to figure out the Giza Pyramids, Egypt’s Old Kingdom information and age of the Sphinx.
Just me…?
It is difficult to determine the age of mankind when we don’t have the ability to track time itself.
Try as we might, it could be better.
I wonder what the Wingmakers have to say about this?
Hmmm… However, that is a question for another time.
Digger2023 CE?