Show iMD F r j 4 EP tIMEPIECES 1 r L Is Is Theory of Some t J of Ancient Civilization j. j ij oJ t mil ON LENGTH t r f OF OF H HEBRAIC YEAR 1 I. I t ot Caen rf as a t-oI t j f t k Civilization t. t 1 s J. J HASKIN fey p 11 fett t. t i z t days lt when e o every err eri home thi 1 1 ro o to t t uit ITS ITS- Irs Irs-an t 15 iU i i t tiO o t t ou Qt Ji before beloro R a was wa f fina n tl thc r return of ot tJi i t s a t 4 d N t c can can- n it be iDe bed rt d serious were ti ji i ip la o of f t e Galen Galen- boe later times wn when n ho Tho f the r crts ts of th tho seasons populace pu ot f Of r course d r like cry o er other invention d d i is the r result s l o OL of a long on on qt ion I 1 existence n man nn cou could cl ended n a year and it t 1 m ft people Jo to bo l ro JJ i jb re 1 week as tho ne nearest Test a apI ap- ap h I q quarter moon moon time tm o was wail l ii e of f time tinia beyond t the he pra pr pd I o of a a day 3 y and ni night t. t f fj it t d J expanded ho hofs they J came came cam n next te Ct alf j and finally ilo t tn Include the thc t r t t duration o of that rea jJ iJ a 1 lut generations y ns h t fo th 1 jJ fix i ilow low how ow the thc nations atins fd Ed from the l' l remotest mot st a alt t d d A method of bf t hat hato o io would M Jd Keep the thc l il sallo tho c things c con con- jn- jn i titi story y in Ii book i 4 s f. f r mr y i n eK was the standard unit iD ig days we eon conS 1 It as a God Goil fixed unit lIni t tIMs Ji Ma IMs fr ft days dys of libor a bot l and ni ono or wo wt rC regard ard it if as s ster ter moon mOOD est established b by man mans man's f iou 1011 of f the tile luminary of the 11 Items to remain the fir firt time tunc Later oue o tre begins j to month which v. v v.-as v. as ori be mea measure ro of ot the thc time Irma from I to full moo moon u. u r a. a Month Long a t lend en ey with men ni r that the civil year ny f ys been the me i. i the length of the solar soar 3 year ear e e are arc rl many who do not nol haro lief Rather they believe belie that rb b n a 1 ar a unit and anti tnt it measured the time for lor pp e of the tho moon iu in in- of of tb bl time for a journey of ol the tho round around the sun Later MV tw those I thi this vim view it expand fl io o HS us i braco r o too the time tune between l equinox equinox 1 The They offer the Bible as aho ioa of their ther view They siy aj y J t. tI is not po possible t span of life could have been r ably shortened in the thirty thirty- Adam and aud as 8 the e Biblical story stor- would in in In oj arhl that if we e consider that r lengthened d than thun that nc we will ill be ou on safer ut nt word iii iu support 0 o of or on this it be bt beof may mar here of or its interest as for Of I it no ett novelty Presuming c eS iau J year ar was JiS mens Y one or- or orthe the moan it that Adam tinder our our of I time rc reckoning konin would have bavo rear 3 months oM ohi tt at the t death Methuselah b Ie Ij been c n only 78 years a and aud d 9 id Thc p. p Proponents of this th L the na matter cr ny Jy a- a that this thil coin Continued o on nO page Tage p. p e f 2 I PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT HUGE TIMEPIECES Continued from front page 1 ci rs with nth the psalmists psalmist's Sl span D of life ife score three years arl and ten Th They 3 ar argue e that hat there could not have o Rn a chan change e ein lit in n man mans man's 8 constitution in in thA tho thirty thirty- t two wo TiO generations which holy writ says ta there here were werl between u Adam and Davida Daida David David- a change that would barn havo served een-ed to shorten horten the span of life ife to twelfth ono it its 1 former proportions Theory That Year Year Grow Grew It also is claimed that after th the d dc- dc huge Ino ngo there thero came rame a a lengthening of oC tho Biblical year ear ear to days and ann that hip thi year continued from Noah to acob Tacob who made another revision revision of the be calendar This n again ain it it is said would make o the life span pan of or the pa- pa of that th Jay day 3 agree rec with that stated by David DIt It would make Isaac halle 7 1 1 1 and Abraham 72 J years yearn ar old oM at tho the time tim of their deaths When Jacob Tacob came to re j revise o the thc calendar it is behoved be be- that ho lie increased the length en th of tho year to ISO days dividing iii the thc seasons into into w winter and summer Tho The Biblo states that he hc took rods of green T cn poplar and of hazel and antI chestnut and put white strakes in them an and students students stu stu- dents of cit r time reckoning systems think he used the rods to fix the tho dates of the solstices c s and equinoxes Tending to confirm the thc id idea a that in inthe in inthe the time days of Jacob the tho year was wal days long on is tho the statement of or the Bible Biblo that his children dwelt in Egypt years jears cars l Egyptian chronology places tho the sojourn at 25 years ars Accepting tho the theory that the Biblical year car then was ISO lays days the the t two to wo chronologies ios would tally tanj The next calendar ar revisionist ls is said by many to h haAn hn n been Moses When the tEe exo exodus us out o of Egypt fIt came caine Moses Mones decided it is asserted to adopt th the I Egyptian year A number numb 1 of circumstances circum dream stances point to tho probable correct ne ness s of oC this theory the most striking bein being that thereafter Egyptian nm and Biblical chronology a senti coin coin- cide That tho the E Egyptians had a arc re re- re accurate system of reckon reckon- rag Lag time ime is re recognized by all aU I too The present Hebrew calendar is no not exactly the tho same as that of the ancient Hebrews although the changes have hav beon been very slight It is a calendar ba bascon based basc ed edon on a combination of the tho movements mo o otho of tho sun and moon Tho ordinary year yea is 54 ars long while tho the years cover days tIlI Tho years are scattered through a a. e cycle o of nineteen years The Jewish new yea year far falls on In or immediately immediate after the new moon after the autumnal equinox Pyramids Huge Clocks It has been urged strongly b by Tots h. h worth of En England an that tho explanation of time the mysteries of the pyramids pTa o of E Egypt is il that the they wore the tho great and enduring clocks 1 which tho the by Egyptians ti measured their years Cars and their ir Ifo UA finds that the great rat pyramid pr amid wa was built so o that it it- would con con- some Eume it its own shadow badoW on the da day 01 of tho equinox equinox- Mr Mi- Cotsworth has pur put sued his theory to all parts of the world and cites much macli strong evidence evidence- in tn support of l the i idea ca that thai wb whether ther the they be found in E Egypt pt in Mexico in China hini in En England in AlIs Assyria in the tho United States tes or in Peru Pem the pyramid pyra pyra- l mid id mounds obelisks or what hat not mint represent sont the efforts of tho the ancients to tc fix the length lh of tho the tropical al year car and master tho secret of tho seasons paE It i is said faid that tIme the ancient Egyptian rulers carefully guarded time the secret ecret of time recording recording- from the people the ex exclusive elusive knowledge of the tho comings i 8 and goings of tho the seasons season's b being int a valuable a asset set in their hands This was waa especially es es- es truo true in the valley vaHey of the Nile whore hero pl nty or famine was as largely dependent de do- pendent on a mastery of the calendar Furthermore just ag us man many a rude f savage ear sav a age o has in more modern times had his eyes opened in wonderment when a apale apale pale palo face successfully predicted an eclipse of tho s sun n or ortho moon so could tho the Egyptian ruler impress his people with his with the gods by oy by forecasting tho the next rise of the Nile I The e E Egyptian ca calendar calendar had hat twelve c months lt Tt bc began an with tb the autumnal equinox and had days lYl with live five in days at the tIme end ond of every cry year Counting nothing for tho the ono one I quarter day at the end o of ot tho the T Egyptians found that their curl year veir occurred upon each cach of ot I lb days Ys of tho the solar year ar during i a- a of 1461 years ears Tho The leap year r Jr w wed ed esi at the time of the tho Julian i In this wa way the tho civil chU year ear andar and andt andt ar year gradually drifted aday i a da day dav tho the modern modem coptic ealend seth as far fIT out of solar l r year ai BI is the tho c cal I ai d Russia sli and Greece Grer Tho Egypti seven planets in iu their astronomy included tho sun and anil tho the tn no was by this Ibis that they fixed t giving vin each planet planeta a da day Their het were 1 ty days long t Tomorrows Tomorrow t REVISING THE V v Other V-Other Other Time S Systems ste |