Talk:Assyrian calendar/Archive 1

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I think this article is a Stub until someone explains what this modern Assyrian calendar is for.

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—Yamara ✉ 16:56, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Usage?

The article states: "The modern Assyrian calendar was introduced in the 1950s, loosely based on..." Question: Who introduced this calendar and for which region? Joachim Krueger. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.254.154.30 (talk • contribs) 18:45, 29 July 2007

What context is this used for? when did they switch to the Gregorian calendar (as stated in the Assyrian New Year Article? Arthurian Legend (talk) 17:16, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Assyrian calendar (stub)

This article is but a stub, indeed.

Most important, it contains an evident but pivotal mistake. I know of no civilization with 364 (sic!) days per year - certainly, June has 31 days. I infer this from all the neighbouring calendars.

No mention of the intercalary "Ve-Adar". In case of a 364-day calendar, intercalation would occur every 24 years.

It is in NO way "loosely based on the historical lunisolar Babylonian calendar", but on the Persian Jalâlî calendar of 1079 AD.

The start of the year at the vernal equinox: This is still correct for a majority of the Assyrian Christians - sustained, of course, by their neighbours. Yazidîs have their New Year on Wednesday following vernal equinox, which is followed by Nisan 1st; this is the Islâmic Republic's New Year as well.

Most people not familiar with the matter ignore that the term "Assyrian" is historizing and XIXth century - thus artificial and restricted to the intellectuals.

Any article on modern Assyrians needs clarification about WHOM we talk, as they are torn in contending factions as most groups in ´Irâq. Followers of the Chaldaean Catholic Church (Patriarch: Babylon/Baghdâd) and of the ASSYRIAN Church of the East(this being the Chicago [sic!]-based Mar DINKHA IV-Patriarchate) follow Pope Gregory XIII's Gregorian calendar. Their New Year on Jan. 1st has no tradition whatsoever. For the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church, since 1938 US-based and far from the flock, the switch to Western calendar was more important than the Church's unity. [Let me note he was the first Patriarch since 1000 years to contract marriage while in office.]

The OLD Church of the East (Patriach Mar Addai II, Baghdâd) sticks to the JULIAN calendar - New Year on Jan. 1st [JU], i.e. Jan. 14th [GR]. Calendar, and sticking to US provoked the schism of the Church in 1968.

This "modern Assyrian calendar" is but an artifact of the newspapers editors ALKHAS. In Kurdistân at least, no one knows or heeds it. None of my friends ever heard of a "Ve-Adar" every 24 years.

Ángel García 212.34.171.43 (talk) 16:27, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Article doesn not make any sense

This is so weird. It is called "Assyrian calendar" but it is actually talking about an Aramaic calendar or something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.178.224.167 (talk • contribs) 12:18, 12 January 2009