(27-11-2016, 03:02 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hi stellar,
At the moment we are puzzled by that the pipes are 28 in number (not 12 or 24, for the number of hours) and that their length is alternating. Do you have any idea why that's the case?
These seems to make sense. It says about 13 and seeing that half the pipes are shorter I wonder how close the short pipes were to the number 14.
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In the traditional You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., the moon was seen to move through 28 distinct manazil (singular: manzil = house) during the normal solar year, each manzil lasting, therefore, for about 13 days. One or more manazil were then grouped into a nawaa (pluaral anwaa) which were tied to a given weather pattern. In other words, the yearly pattern was divided in the following manner:You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. A year was divided into anwaa, each of which was made up of one more manazil, which were associated with a dominant star or constellation. These stars and constellations were sometimes, but not always, connected in some way to constellations in the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Moreover, as the anwaa' repeat on a regular, solar cycle, they can be correlated to fixed points on the Gregorian calendar.
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