Time & Earth Calendar
Gnostic Teachings of Miryai Mt.
In the Living Gods, Let the hallowed Light of Transcendent Truth be praised. Let the Sweet Mystery of Miryai awaken in the heart of hearts.


In ancient times the 5 Great Mountain Civilizations kept time by sun and moon and fortnight. There is some benefit in returning to these methods and de-emphasizing the modern mode of reckoning. Much of this teaching is structured on various phases and divisions of the moon and its two fortnight divisions of the lunar "moonth". Rather than the usual four seasons of the year, the Teaching is structured on a five season yearly pattern. These seasons are further broken down into lunar fortnights and half fortnights, and even further into 3, 5, 7 and 10 days divisions. In ancient times many of these same number of days were grouped together. 

Evidence of a "three-day week" has been derived from the names of the days of the week in Guipuscoan Basque, a five day week was observed in Korea and in the old Asssyrian calendar where it was named "Hamuštum". Evidence of a five day week in the Indus Valley culture also exists. In modern times five day periods appear in the Tibetan and Bon calendars, and are preserved in the 72 microseason calendar of Japan and China. Dividing the lunar month into two fortnight halves is still a common practice in India. 

In this Teaching the lunar fortnight is divided up in various ways, for various purposes. Single day, three day for Degrees of Ascent, 5 days for food and fasting, as well as 7 and 10 day periods. Of course an individual or couple have the freedom to observe any manner of calendar or time they choose, but it is helpful to have a workable well thought out pattern for something as instinctual and oft unconscious as eating. This time system becomes more useful when groups of people need to coordinate their schedules, when an individual finds themselves in need of a system of reckoning that  reminds them to focus on deeper truths, or when  help is needed in observing food rotation, variety of diet, and necessary periods of water fasting. (On future Mars colonies liturgical time might best be observed by cycles of  the two Moons of that planet rather than this Earth moon system. See Mars Lunar Calendar) 

73 DAY SEASON
There are five 73 day Seasons per year, similar to the the 5 seasons of the old Chinese Calendar. Each Season is assigned a spiritual Element, and each season is further divided into five Fortnights. These seasons begin at the start of the Fortnight immediated on or after the spring equinox which occurs on or near March 20. This fortnight beginning might be either a full or a new moon, whichever occurs first. (Since a fortnight can never be longer than 15 days, all seasons begin during the first new or full moon on or during the two week period from March 20 to April 3 on the common calendar date. (The following seasons are determined by the end of the previous season and not by the listed dates below which are given in only a suggestive sense.) Season (73 days) -  made up of 5 Fortnights or 2-1/2 Moonths or lunar months of 29.5 days. Each fortnight is further divided into five 3 day periods or two 7 day periods, depending on the tradition. 
 
• Mar 20 (+0-15 days depending on lunar phase) Firestar - Mt Kailash, Lake Manasarovar, and the Indus/Ganges rivers - Bon/Vajrayana/Shavaite
• Jun 1+ - Windstar - Mt of the Moon, the Nile river - Gnostic/Jung
• Aug 13+ - Zephyrstar - Taurus Mts, Tigris-Euphrates rivers  -  Manichaean/Sufi
• Oct 25+ - Earthstar - Kunlun Mt and the Yellow river - Zen/Shinto/Shingon
• Jan 6+ - Waterstar - Mt Hermon, the Jordan River - Mandaean/Qabbalah 




FORTNIGHT

Lunar Fortnights are 14 or 15 days each. There are two per lunar month. Five fortnights make up one of the five 73 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. 




PROGRAMS




• Fortnight Tree Pattern
• Traditional Rites and Ceremonis of the 5 Mts
• 7 Fold Year Long Study Program  for Valley Dwellers (Internet users) - Calendar of  suggested study topics. Alternative 7 Stream System to the 5 Mts. (secondary system)
• 7 Streams - 7 Traditions associated with the 7 fold program.(secondary system)

 

Circular diagrams showing the division of the day and of the week, from a Carolingian ms. (Clm 
14456 fol.71r)of St. Emmeram Abbey. The week is divided into seven days, and each day into 24 hours, 
96 puncta (quarter-hours), 240 minuta (tenths of an hour) and 960 momenta (40th parts of an hour).

3 & 7 DAY  FORTNIGHT TREE

* In Manichaeanism the paradise of light is surrounded by an ether of light (Ar. jaww) constituting the five powers of the mind: reason (Gr. nous, Syr. haunâ, Parth. bâm), mind (Gr. e‚nnoia, Syr. madde´â, Parth. manohmêd), intelligence (Gr. phro‚nêsis, Syr. re´yânâ, Parth. uš),  thought (Gr. enthu‚mêsis, Syr. mahšabtâ, Parth. andêšišn), cognition (Gr. logismo‚s, Syr. tar´îtâ, Parth. parmânag). These powers also constitute the very being of the Father of Greatness, the substance of the soul, and the limbs of the divinity Great Nous

Fortnight Calendar of  India

Peace to all....