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- From: jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy)
- Subject: Re: Yet Another Saturn Myth Variant
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.002453.7377@trl.oz.au>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:24:53 GMT
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- isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak) writes:
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- >Is there other evidence of the Earth's rotation rate changing? Yes.
- >The Mayans, in addition to their 365-day astonomical calendar, had a
- >260-day civil and ceremonial calendar. Why else would they have a
- >calendar of such a length if not as a holdover from days when the year
- >really was 260 days long? The Mayans also have a rich heritage of
- >legends about an underground civilization in the earliest days of
- >humanity. It is no coincidence that their 260-day calendar is tied
- >in with events from those legends.
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- The Balinese still use a 210-day year. Two hundred and ten, yes.
- And the Chinese used to divide the day into 12 hours, not 24.
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- My Church of the Earlier Saints Days of Eight Hours is looking
- better and better... every day and in every way too!
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