The Winter Solstice..the Shortest Day of the year..Dec 21

mapoui · 12-21-2013, 01:37 PM · 1 person reading this discussion

#11
I never stated that the dates are consistent  as it varies but it can be calculated up to the second when these events happen .
It is easier to understand by speaking in generalities and if you are interested knowing the precise time that the winter solstice happened yesterday you can go and google it . Dec 21 was good enough for me

#12
I is old school and I speak from memory and I can be wrong most of the time
I also google stuff  that I am ignorant about  but you can note that  what I stated about solstices and the equinoxes are from high school geography.

#13
Well let me explain .  Because of the earth rotation and it's tilting on its Axis we have this effect .
The sun moves between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn passing the equator .
This happens twice per year. As the sun moves from North to south winter is experience in the Northern Hemisphere and summer  is experience d in the southern hemisphere .' When  it reaches the tropic of Capricorn it starts to move northward to the tropic of cancer and winter is felt in the South and summer in the North ,
This is just generalizations  but of course you know that the Sun only moves between the Tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn.

#14
Quote:The above shows Greek History and dates BCE ..you claim 2000 years ...

I may have to take that back but before I do we must answer what is Greek History proper..and who compromised it from day one to now?

#15
Quote:Ancient Greece was a Greek civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period[citation needed] of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (ca. 600 AD). Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era.[1] Included in ancient Greece is the period of Classical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Classical Greece began with the repelling of a Persian invasion by Athenian leadership. Because of conquests by Alexander the Great, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea.
Classical Greek culture, especially philosophy, had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of the Mediterranean region and Europe, for which reason Classical Greece is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of modern Western culture.[2][3][4][5]

#16
Quote:Ancient Greece was a Greek civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period[citation needed] of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (ca. 600 AD)

#17
Well let me make a detour from this here Solstice thing
There is no  question that the Egyptians civilized the  Greeks and the Greeks civilized the Romans . The Romans civilized the British and the  British claim  to come to  Africa to civilize  them
Last I checked Egypt was in Africa and indirectly Africa civilized the British

#18
well there you go Kwami.  that is what I was slowly building up to establishing some basis

Quote:Pelasgians
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name Pelasgians (Greek: Πελασγοί, Pelasgoí; singular: Πελασγός, Pelasgós) was used by some ancient Greek writers to refer to populations that either were the ancestors of the Greeks or preceded the Greeks in Greece, "a hold-all term for any ancient, primitive and presumably indigenous people in the Greek world".[1] In general, "Pelasgian" has come to mean more broadly all the indigenous inhabitants of the Aegean Sea region and their cultures before the advent of the Greek language.[2] This is not an exclusive meaning, but other senses require identification when meant. During the classical period, enclaves under that name survived in several locations of mainland Greece, Crete, and other regions of the Aegean. Populations identified as "Pelasgian" spoke a language or languages that at the time Greeks identified as "barbaric", even though some ancient writers described the Pelasgians as Greeks. A tradition also survived that large parts of Greece had once been Pelasgian before being Hellenized. These parts generally fell within the ethnic domain that by the 5th century BC was attributed to those speakers of ancient Greek who were identified as Ionians

#19
but you not making A DETOUR.

we will come to the ZOODIAC and the PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES and straight back to the subject matter

#20
I don't remember much bout precession but I believe it  had to do with the angle of tilting  of the earth's axis  as it rotates 

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