Mago Almanac: 13 Month 28 Day Calendar (Book A) at Mago Bookstore.
YEARLY LEAP DAY AND EVERY FOURTH YEAR LEAP DAY
Each Sa includes a Dan of the big Sa. A Dan is equal to one day. That adds to 365 days. At the half point of the third Sa, there is a Pan of the big Sak (the year of the great dark moon). A Pan comes at a half point of Sa. This is of Beopsu (Lawful Number) 2, 5, 8. A Pan is equal to a day. Therefore, the fourth Sa has 366 days.
Each year has a leap day (Dan), which makes a total of 365 days. Every fourth year is a leap year that has a leap day (Pan), which makes a total of 366 days. The Dan day comes before the New Year in the winter solstice month. And the Pan day comes before the first day of the summer solstice month in the fourth year. The above, however, does not indicate when the New Year comes.
Logographic characters of Dan and Pan each suggest their meanings. While each year includes the Dan day (the morning), every fourth year has the Pan day. A unit of four years makes the Big Calendar.
Dan (旦 Morning) Leap day for every first three years
Pan (昄 Big) Leap day for every fourth year
I have postulated that the year begins on the Dan day (one leap day), a day before New Year that comes in the month of Winter Solstice in the Norther Hemisphere. And the Pan day comes on the day before the first day of the 7th month that has Summer Solstice in the fourth year in the Norther Hemisphere.
| Years | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 |
|
Months |
Dan | Dan | Dan | Dan |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | |
| Pan | ||||
| 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | |
| 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | |
| 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | |
| 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | |
| 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | |
| 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | |
| Days | 365 | 365 | 365 | 366 |
The Magoist Calendar’s intercalation involves one leap day every year and one leap day every four years. That is, each year has one extra day to make it 365 days. Every fourth year has an extra day to make it 366 days. Four years has a total of 1461 days (365×3+366), which makes the mean of 365.25 days. Considering that the month is following the sidereal period rather than the synodic period, it is inferred that the year also follows the sidereal year rather than the solar year. In fact, Magoist Calendar’s one year is very close to today’s 365.25636 days of the sidereal year compared to 365.24217 days of the solar year or the tropical year. Given that, as seen below, the Budoji mentions the tiniest discrepancy of one leap day for 31,788,900 years, the discrepancy between 365.25 and 365.25636 (0.00636 day) can be explained that the year was actually 365.25 days at the time of Budo circa 2333 BCE, 4440 years ago. In other words, there is a discrepancy of 0.12375936 seconds between 2017 CE and 2333 BCE.
Regarding Lawful Numbers 2, 5, 8, it is involved as follows:
365 days (3+6+5=14, 1+4=5)
Lawful Numbers 2, 5, 8 refers the unit of 365 days (364 days with one intercalary day). Further dynamics are unknown.
The sidereal year refers to the time taken by the Earth to orbit the sun once with respect to the distant stars. In contrast, the solar or tropical year means the time taken by the Earth to orbit the sun once with respect to the sun. The sidereal year, 365.25636 days, is about 20 minutes and 24 seconds longer than the mean tropical year (365.24217 days) and about 19 minutes and 57 seconds longer than the average Gregorian year of 365.2425 days. The difference occurs primarily because the solar system spins on its own axis and around the Milky Way galactic center making the solar year’s observed position relative.
Time is no independent concept apart from space and the agent. The very concept of time is preceded by the agent bound in a space. It is always contextualized. In Magoism, both calendar and time are born out of the cosmogonic universe, the universe that is in self-creation. Like calendar, time is to be discovered or measured. It is a numinous concept. The very concept of time testifies to the reality of the Creatrix. Time proves the orderly movement of the universe into which we are born. Calendar patterns time, whereas time undergirds calendar. How can we measure time? We are given the time of the Earth that comes from its rotation, revolution, and precession in sync with the moon and the sun (and its planets). One type of time is the solar time. The solar time is a calculation of time based on the position of the sun. Traditionally, the solar time is measured by the sundial. The solar time is, however, specific to the Earth only. It is valid only for the-same-observed-location. It is not made to be used for the time of another celestial body. For example, Mars’ solar time has to be measured independently based on its own rotation and revolution rates. The solar time is an isolated time. It is static and exclusive, not made for the time of other celestial bodies. By nature, it is unfit for connection and communication across celestial bodies.
The second type is the sidereal time. The sidereal time is a time scale based on the rate of Earth’s rotations measured relative to the distant stars.[29] Because the observed position is in the far distant stars beyond the solar system, the sidereal time may as well be called an extrasolar stellar time. We can think of the observer’s position of an imaginary cosmic bird far out there, infinitely far beyond not only the solar system and but also the Milky Way. In science, the sidereal time is used to locate astronomical objects by astronomers. It is the standard intergalactic time, the real time.
The difference between the solar time and the sidereal time elicits a thealogical insight. The two time modes are substantively different in quality and property. Unlike the solar time, the sidereal time opens up the horizon for all celestial bodies. It is the unified cosmic time that enables the observer to see all celestial bodies by the same standard. It is an undifferentiated, inclusive, and interdependent time. In contrast, the solar time is solipsistic, exclusive, and static. The sidereal time allows us to see all being in harmony with the singing/dancing of all other beings. It is an ecstatic time issued from the Realm of the Cosmic Mother. It is the Cosmic Mother’s Time, the Mago Time. What does the Mago Time do? It summons all inter-cosmic beings as kindred. The Mago Time makes possible to chart the birth order of celestial bodies in HER lineage. The Mago Time shows that order and harmony are compatible. In the Mago Time, everyone is re-membered in her/his/its cosmogonic position. It is the inter-cosmic time of bliss wherein everyone sings/dances in one’s own rhythm that contributes to the harmony of the whole. And that is the Mago Way, being the text and the context simultaneously.
The Magoist Calendar of 13 months and 28 days is starkly contrasted with today’s (read patriarchal) lunisolar calendar that has 12 months per year and the average 29.53 days per month in terms of accuracy and regularity. The latter, using the synodic month and the solar year, adds to 354.36 days for a year, which requires an intercalation of about 11 leap days per year. Different cultures and religions, which use the 12-month and 29.53-day lunisolar calendar, have adopted various ways of adding leap days, months, and years. The Gregorian calendar and the Chinese traditional calendar are among them. The Magoist Calendar employs intercalation of only 5 leap days for four years, whereas the latter’s intercalation adds to 44 leap days for four years.
UNITS OF TIME MEASURE
At the half point of tenth Sa, there is a Gu of the big Hoe (Eve of the first day of the month). Gu is the root of time. Three hundred Gu makes one Myo. With Myo, we can sense Gu. A lapse of 9,633 Myo-Gak-Bun-Si makes one day. This is of Chesu (Physical Number), 3, 6, 9. By and by, the encircling time charts Medium Calendar and Large Calendar to evince the principle of numerology.
The Magoist Calendar requires final and minute tuning. It reads that there occurs discrepancy of 1 Gu or 1/300 Myo (approximately 0.03 second) every eleventh year. This final intercalation involves one leap day (9,633 Myo) in every 31,788,900 years! While proving the accuracy of the Magoist Calendar, such intercalation is deemed a result of the numerological calculation based on the principle of Nine Numerology, rather than an observation. 1 Gu is a very tiny point of time that can only be felt as 1 Myo, equivalent to 300 Gu (about 9 seconds). And 9,633 Myo-Gak-Bun-Si is equivalent to one day. That is, the Magoist Calendar has one leap day in every 31,788,900 years (11 x 300 x 9,633).
Regarding Physical Numbers 3, 6, 9, it means:
300 Gu (3+0+0=3)
9,633 Myo-Gak-Bun-Si (9+6+3+3=21, 2+1=3)
31,788,900 years (3+1+7+8+8+9+0+0=36, 3+6=9)
Physical Numbers 3, 6, 9 concern the units of time.
The units of a minute time are derived from the calculation of discrepancy in the Magoist Calendar: 1 Gu (about 0.03 second), the finest time segment, formed in every eleven years is the root of time. Its logographic meaning (sun’s shadow) indicates the use of sundial.
Gu (晷 sun’s shadow) Time measure, 1/300 Myo, time discrepancy that occurs every eleven years
Myo (眇 minuscule) Time measure, a total of 300 Gu
Myo-Gak-Bun-Si (眇刻分時 minuscule, possibly 15-minutes, minute, hour) Time measure, 9,633 Myo-Gak-Bun-Si is equal to a day
Seen above, the Magoist Calendar does not use the modern measure of time. Its time unites include Gu (about 0.03 second), Myo (about 9 seconds), Gak (equivalent to today’s 15 minutes), Bun (equivalent to the concept of today’s minute), Si (equivalent to the concept of today’s hour). Compared to today’s 24 hours, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute, the Magoist time measure proves to be far finer, designed to fit 365.25 days of the sidereal year. This also suggests the arbitrary nature of today’s time measure system, 24 hours in a day, given that one day is 23 hours, 59 minutes and 4.0916 seconds.
We can imagine a spiral progression of years from Little Calendar (one year) to Medium Calendar (two years) and to Large Calendar (four years). Every year has one leap day, New Year, whereas every fourth year has another leap day in the middle of the year. Cyclic time, as it progresses, creates rhythm and harmony in the human world.[30]
| Little Calendar (1 year) | 13×1=13 months | 364 days+1 leap day=365 days |
| Medium Calendar (2 years) | 13×2=26 months | 2x(364 days+1 leap day)=730 days |
| Large Calendar (4 years) | 13×4=52 months | 4x(364 days+1 leap day)+1 leap day=1,461 days |
End of the sequel.
(Meet Mago Contributor, Helen Hye-Sook Hwang)
Notes
[29] Since the distant stars are also in motion, sidereal time is in no way fixated without discrepancy.
[30] It is indeed regretful that the sequence book of the Budoji, Yeoksiji (Book of Calendar and Time), that concerns calendar and time has been lost. We have only the Budoji available, the first book of 15 books of the Jingsimnok (Record of Cleansing Mind/Heart), a compendium of 3 volumes that have 5 books in each. Doubtless that the Yeoksiji (Book of Calendar and Time), the third book of Volume 1, would detail the rest of sub-calendars and time measures. See Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, “Seeking Mago, the Great Goddess, a mytho-historic-thealogical reconstruction of Magoism, an archaically originated gynocentric tradition of East Asia” (Ph.D. dissertation: Claremont Graduate University, 2005), 116-129.