On the Borana Calendrical System: A Preliminary Field Report

The Slavic and East European Journal, 1999

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Currents in Biblical Research, 2008

Catholic Historical Review, 2021

The introduction of the Christian calendar into Spanish-American missionary zones often led to novel forms of calendrical record-keeping as pre-Christian methods of time-keeping were adapted to the Christian festival cycle. Yet while indigenous Christian calendars for Mesoamerica have been well studied, their Andean counterparts remain little known. This article examines a set of khipus (Andean cord texts) from the village of Rapaz in highland Peru that, according to local ritual specialists, served as annual festival calendars. Research in diocesan archives and the Sixth Lima Council's unpublished reports (1772) reveals the episodic and intermittent nature of the liturgical worship recorded on these khipu calendars.

East-West Encounter in the Science of Heaven and Earth, 2019

The article presents the way in which al-Bīrūnī described the Indian calendrical system through three of his works, Al-ātār al-bāqiya, Tafhīm, and Taḥqīq mā li-l-Hind and how his knowledge evolved depending upon his sources of information. The interest of al-Bīrūnī in the Indian calendrical system led him to enumerate more than thirty Indian religious festivals fixed by the movements of the moon and the sun. The objective of this article is to offer an overview of these festivals as listed and described by him in his Taḥqīq mā li-l-Hind. This overview leads to some observations with regard to al-Bīrūnīʼs sources of information for his description of these religious celebrations. It appears that he chiefly based his depiction on oral reports. This orality is seen by the way in which Indic terms have been transliterated by al-Bīrūnī into Arabic. This article also highlights the connection between some categories of festivals celebrated by his Indian informants and the society he encountered in South Asia. A large variety of festivals were practiced as rituals, ranging from Dīpāvali and Śivarātri, to Tīj festivals, via celebrations dedicated to Brahmins and ancestors.

Calendars in the Making: The Origins of Calendars from the Roman Empire to the Later Middle Ages, 2021

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The journal of Latin American and Caribbean anthropology, 2012

Los turistas que asisten al sitio arqueológico de Tiwanaku son presentados con calendarios precolombinos, de los cuales la Puerta del Sol es el más importante, famosa y hermosa. A principios de del siglo 20 Arturo Posnansky y otros arqueólogos creyeron que las inscripciones de la Puerta correspondían a un calendario escrito. Estas teorías se sustentan en las narrativas que consideran Tiwanaku como un fuente de sabiduría tanto en laépoca precolombinos como en el mundo contemporáneo. Posnansky presentó sus interpretaciones de calendarios Tiwanakotas como respuesta a los debates del Movimiento del Calendario Global, el trataba de racionalizar el calendario gregoriano en la década de 1930. En la Puerta, Posnansky encontró una respuesta boliviana alternativa a la que dominaba en la comunidad internacional científica, la cual buscaba una forma racional de medir el tiempo para la economía mundial. Estos intelectuales bolivianos combinaron su interes por el pasado indígena con sus preocupaciones con el rol del estado boliviano moderno en el sistema global. [Bolivia, Pueblos Originarios, Turismo, Arqueologia, Antropologia social] A b s t r a c t Tourists to the archaeological site of Tiwanaku are presented with ancient calendars, of which the Gateway of the Sun is the most important, famous, and beautiful. Arthur Posnansky and other early 20th-century archaeologists claimed that its inscriptions constituted a written calendar. These claims were intimately connected to narratives of Tiwanaku as a central source of knowledge in both pre-Columbian times and the contemporary world. Posnansky presented his interpretation of Tiwanaku's calendars

BMCR, 2013

During the first century BC Cicero’s contemporary, the intellectual and sometime praetor, Nigidius Figulus, transcribed a brontoscopic calendar attributed to the legendary Etruscan prophet Tages. The text of the calendar owes its survival to its later transmission and translation into Greek by the Byzantine antiquarian John Lydus (de Ost. 27-38). The calendar is remarkable among Etrusco-Roman divination documents for its completeness. It covers a full 12-month lunar cycle of 30 days beginning in June. Each entry consists of the date followed by a protasis (ἐὰν or εἰ βροντήσῃ) and apodosis returning the meaning of thunder on that day. In this attractively presented volume Jean Macintosh Turfa sets out to contextualise, translate, and analyse the calendar. ......

Excelente lectura para comprender el 2012 y el fin del 13o. Katun