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ETHIOPIC IS NOT JULIAN
 

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In a message dated 2/20/2007 4:02:35 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, admin@aigaforum.com writes:

Did we really have an Ethiopic calendar dating to pre Christianity? How can one get the Ethiopic Book of Enoch?

This is interesting. Do you mind if you email us an article about the millennium being celebrated in the wrong year, if you still feel Strong about it. We would like to see that. I am sure many people will find it interesting...

Thanks,

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The following links on the pre Christian calendar were there in my papers too.

http://www.vorsoft.com/faith/calendar/enoch.htm

http://tcoe364.tripod.com/Book1.htm#main

http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2004/10/15-10-04/Assault.htm

Here is an example article that tells on how Exiguus copied the Alexandrian (Coptic) calendar Easter to Julian calendar Easter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_Exiguus 

Here is the link to my article on the Third Ethiopic millennium. I am the only one making the argument.

http://www.ethiopic.com/calendar/millennium.htm

According to the Bible God created earth, then Adam and Eve and rested on day 6. That was in year zero or just days into it. Jesus was born after 5,500 years. The beginning of year 2000 is the end of 1999 years; not 2000 years. You do not celebrate your first year marriage anniversary on the wedding day. After you have completed 2 years you welcome the third. Similarly, after you have completed 2000 years you welcome the third millennium on Meskerem 1, 2001 (not Meskerem 1, 2000).

Don't try to follow the Gregorian calendar millennium celebration as that calculation method had a couple of serious flaws.    

In a message dated 2/16/2007 8:29:43 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, admin@aigaforum.com writes:

Thanks,

But one question to you. Are there any written records than folktales that would help a reader how Ethiopian calendar evolved. I read Dr Solomon saying Ethiopian Calendar is more or less the same as Julian and you are saying no it is not but what are you saying it is? Our own Invention? or another Egyptian calendar?   

Thanks, it is posted by the way.
 

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I have published about the history of the Ethiopic calendar and given references. It is the responsibility of Dr .Solomon and others interested to read and present other facts and references since we need more of these. Egyptians and Ethiopians have been calculating the days of Easter and other holidays using their own calendars when Exiguus in 525 A.D copied it and retroactively came up with the Julian calendar that started with 1 AD on January 1. He then copied the dates of Easter and other holidays to the Julian calendar dates. That does not make the Ethiopian calendar Julian. They are similar because the Julian is a copy. The start of the Ethiopian calendar goes back to Meskerem 1, thousands of years ago. The Egyptians dropped it and started all over at a later date.

The ancient Egyptians added a day every 157 years to take care of year errors while the year had 364 days according to the Ethiopic Book of Enoch.

I am more worried because the current generation of Ethiopians is more interested in copying the errors of the followers of the Gregorian calendar and is about to celebrate the new millennium in the wrong year. The third Ethiopian millennium starts on September 11, 2008; not September 12, 2007 Gregorian. I have also published about this.

Thanks! Aberra

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In a message dated 2/15/2007 9:44:32 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, Ethiopian writes:

Dear Administrator of AIGAforum.com:

Thanks for bringing my concern to the attention of Dr. Solomon. I also respect and like his response.

However, I have decided to present that the Ethiopian calendar is not Julian and I would appreciate it if you publish my explanation below on your forum.

Thanks! Aberra 

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The Ethiopian Calendar is not Julian

Interest in the third Ethiopian millennium has created confusion

as to why Ethiopians are behind the Gregorian by many years

in celebrating the millennium. Explanation for the difference has

continued to vary. One of the unrealistic reasons is because the

Ethiopian calendar is Julian or a variation of the Julian calendar.

Some of those who present this story also claim that

Pope Gregory modified the Julian calendar to Gregorian in

1582 and Ethiopians continued with the Julian Calendar and are

behind by seven to eight years.  In realty, the difference between

the Julian and the Gregorian calendars was 10 days in 1582 and

this has increased to 13 days in 2007. Today, Thursday, Yekatit

8, 1999 Ethiopian is February 2, 2007 Julian or February 15,

2007 Gregorian. It is obvious that the Ethiopian calendar

is not Julian. An example of a date according to

the various calendars is available here: http://isotropic.org/date/

As for the reasons for the differences between the Julian and

the Ethiopian calendars, I have tried to describe one in my

paper on the Ethiopic calendar here: 

http://www.ethiopic.com/calendar/ethiopic.htm

When the Roman papal chancellor, Bonifacius, asked a

monk by the name of Dionysius Exiguus to implement

the rules from the Nicaean Council for general use and

to prepare calculations of the dates of Easter, Dionysius

fixed Jesus' birth in such a manner that it falls on 25

December 753 A.U.C., thus making the current era start

with A.D. 1 on 1 January 754 A.U.C. It was about 525 A.D.

that Dionysius Exiguus, started his count (instead of the

Diocletian of 284 A.D.) with the year 1 A.D.,

considered to be the year of the birth of Christ.

Ethiopian authors imply that Exiguus used 532

in the wrong year without mentioning the A.D. year,

though he was working on his Easter calculations

in (the proleptic) A.D. 525. Thus, if the implication that

Exiguus used the 532-year cycle table in the Ethiopian

525 A.D. is true, he has arbitrarily pushed the Julian

calendar ahead of the Ethiopian calendar by about

seven years.

Dr. Aberra Molla

Ethiopian@aol.com

http://www.ethiopic.com

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