5 Mt. System of Individuated Gnosis

25 Lunar Fortnights
As Utilized by the Gnostic Manichaean Teachings of the Naz-Mani
In the Living Gods, Let the hallowed Light of Transcendant Truth be praised. Let the Sweet Mystery of Miryai awaken in the heart of hearts.

FORTNIGHT

Lunar Fortnights are 14 or 15 days each. There are two per lunar month. Five fortnights make up one of the five 72 day seasons of the year. Each Season and each Fortnite within a Season is assigned one of the five lights/elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Zephyr. Each fortnight begins on either the new or full moon. Each season begins on either the new or full moon, whichever comes first after the assigned dates. Fortnights are divided up in these ways:

Tridays (3 day) - there are five of these per fortnight, 25 per 73 day Season. (Tridays allow for the 33 degrees or levels of initiation to be dealt with in a systematic way. This is the division used in all Seasons.)
Pentads (5 day) - there are 3 of these per Fortnight, 15 per Season. (These are used to rotate food types and cuisine's on the menu: Japanese, Middle Eastern, Szechwan/Indian, Mexican, and Italian, and to designate 5 day fasting periods.)
Week (7 day) - These 7 day periods are used to divide up the Season into ten parts and into the traditional luner week. (This is the division once used in western expressions of the Gnosis, like the Watery Mandaean and Windy Gnostic.)

Fortnight (14/15 day) - these are used to divide up the lunar month into two parts and each season into five parts.

5 Fortnights

Fortnight: A Fortnight contains 3 Five Day Weeks (Pentads) & 25 Triblocks. Lasting 14/15 Days. The beginning day of each Fortnight is a Feast Day, the last days or days of a Fortnight are Fasting Times. Fortnights are half of the 29 d 12 h 44 min and 2.9 s true length of the lunar phases celebrated as 15 or 14 whole days, with remainder carried over to the next lunar month. All Waxing moons are 15 days, half of waning are 15 and half are 14 days.

5 Tridays

3 Pentads (5 day) - there are 3 of these per Fortnight, 15 per Season under the Earthly Moon, but 5 of them under the Mars Moon Nerio (Deimos) with its longer Lunar Seasons. (These Pentads are used to rotate food types and cuisine's on the menu: Japanese, Middle Eastern, Szechwan/Indian, Mexican, and Italian, and to designate 5 day fasting periods.) The use of Pentad "Weeks" on Earth is, in part, a move of solidarity with future Mars colonies that have five Pentad "weeks" per their longer 133 day seasons there.
"3 & 5 Methods": Body/Actions, Speech/Chants, and Study/Contemplation/Meditation/Zazen. Used to distinguish the three five day pentads each fortnight. (The 1st 5 days are the "body mystery", etc.)

25 Triblocks

~14 Hour Periods/15 Days

(Observed as 15 Days making up the Fortnight on Earth but as 25 Days making up the Fortnight on Mars)

Fortnight Almanac for Earth & Mars
Fortnight Tree Pattern
Fortnight Associations table
5 Mt Practices/Rituals - Rites of Passage - Brief overview of traditional rituals partially used in the 5 Mt. System. The value of ritual, spoken truths, and deep study and meditation on the Path to self transformation

5 Day Weeks

Pentad: Fortnights on earth are divided into three parts of aproximately 5 days. On Mars their equivelent consists of five 5 day periods. They can be referred to as Pentads. A Pentad contains 5 Days & 25 Tides. A 5 Day Week (the last 5 day week is only 4 days on a short fortnight, about 1/2 the time) 3 full five day "pentad"weeks occur ever bright fortnight and dark waning fortnights sometimes have a partial 4 day Pentad week at their end. (Parwanaya is a 5 Day Festival of the Mandaeans)

5 Days with 5 Tides each.

Hab (Habšaba*): Asian Cuisine/Cypress Incense
Trin (Trin Habšaba): Middle Eastern Cuisine/Juniper Incense
Tlata (Tlata Habšaba): Tibetan/Indian Cuisine/Fir Incense
Arba (Arba Habšaba): Mexican Cuisine/Pine Incense
Hamša (Hamša Habšaba): Italian Cuisine/Cedar Incense

25 Tides of aprox 4hrs and 48"

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