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Enoch calendar
The Enoch calendar (or Enochian calendar) is an ancient calendar described in the pseudepigraphal Book of Enoch. It divided the year into four seasons of exactly 13 weeks. Each season consisted of two 30-day months followed by one 31-day month, with the 31st day ending the season, so that Enoch's year consisted of exactly 364 days.
The Enoch calendar was purportedly given to Enoch by the angel Uriel. Four named days, inserted as the 31st day of every third month, were named instead of numbered, which "placed them outside the numbering". The Book of Enoch gives the count of 2,912 days for 8 years, which divides out to exactly 364 days per year. This specifically excludes any periodic intercalations.
Calendar expert John Pratt wrote that
Pratt pointed out that by adding an extra week at the end of every seventh year (or Sabbatical year), and then adding an additional extra week to every fourth Sabbatical year (or every 28 years), the calendar could be as accurate as the Julian calendar:
However, Pratt also added that there is a way to use a pattern of intercalation that would make the Enoch calendar more accurate than the Gregorian and Mayan calendars:
The final long-term correction is that in every set of five Great Years [a Great Year is defined as a 364-year cycle], two of the extra weeks ending the 28-year cycle would be skipped, one in the third and another in the fifth Great Year. In those two years there would be only one extra week of years rather than two. That correction results in an average year length of 365.2423 days, which better approximates the current year length of 365.2422 days than does the Gregorian year of 365.2425 days.
Pratt thus awarded the calendar of Enoch 5 stars, using his objective rating system that uses the following criteria: 1) predictability (which allows for easy scheduling of future events); 2) long-term accuracy (in relation to the celestial bodies the calendar is tracking); 3) simplicity (of which short-term accuracy; common understandability; easily remembered patterned repetitions; and ease of use are key); 4)degree of alignment with an uninterrupted day count; and 5) nested patterns called "wheels within wheels". By comparison, the Gregorian calendar earned 3.5 stars using Pratt's rating system.
P. J. Oh has calculated the total amount of solar drift that would occur over the quintet of Great Years is 0.196 days’ worth of solar misalignment if Pratt's proposed intercalation pattern is used, assuming that NASA's measurement of the average length of the solar year, 365.2422 days, is highly accurate.
Enoch calendar
The Enoch calendar (or Enochian calendar) is an ancient calendar described in the pseudepigraphal Book of Enoch. It divided the year into four seasons of exactly 13 weeks. Each season consisted of two 30-day months followed by one 31-day month, with the 31st day ending the season, so that Enoch's year consisted of exactly 364 days.
The Enoch calendar was purportedly given to Enoch by the angel Uriel. Four named days, inserted as the 31st day of every third month, were named instead of numbered, which "placed them outside the numbering". The Book of Enoch gives the count of 2,912 days for 8 years, which divides out to exactly 364 days per year. This specifically excludes any periodic intercalations.
Calendar expert John Pratt wrote that
Pratt pointed out that by adding an extra week at the end of every seventh year (or Sabbatical year), and then adding an additional extra week to every fourth Sabbatical year (or every 28 years), the calendar could be as accurate as the Julian calendar:
However, Pratt also added that there is a way to use a pattern of intercalation that would make the Enoch calendar more accurate than the Gregorian and Mayan calendars:
The final long-term correction is that in every set of five Great Years [a Great Year is defined as a 364-year cycle], two of the extra weeks ending the 28-year cycle would be skipped, one in the third and another in the fifth Great Year. In those two years there would be only one extra week of years rather than two. That correction results in an average year length of 365.2423 days, which better approximates the current year length of 365.2422 days than does the Gregorian year of 365.2425 days.
Pratt thus awarded the calendar of Enoch 5 stars, using his objective rating system that uses the following criteria: 1) predictability (which allows for easy scheduling of future events); 2) long-term accuracy (in relation to the celestial bodies the calendar is tracking); 3) simplicity (of which short-term accuracy; common understandability; easily remembered patterned repetitions; and ease of use are key); 4)degree of alignment with an uninterrupted day count; and 5) nested patterns called "wheels within wheels". By comparison, the Gregorian calendar earned 3.5 stars using Pratt's rating system.
P. J. Oh has calculated the total amount of solar drift that would occur over the quintet of Great Years is 0.196 days’ worth of solar misalignment if Pratt's proposed intercalation pattern is used, assuming that NASA's measurement of the average length of the solar year, 365.2422 days, is highly accurate.