The BN Village - View Single Post - Should the African New Year Be In June-July and the Day Begin At Sunset?

Shemsi en Tehuti · (#1 (**permalink**))

Without getting into too many terse details, the only reason the New Year is celebrated at its present time is due to Indo-European cultural association with the Winter Solstice and Lunar Cycles, where as traditional African civilizations such as Absynnia, Kush, Nubia, Egypt, Kuba (Congo/Central Africa), Yoruba, and other Africans celebrated their New Year around the summer solstice occurring about the end of June.

As you can see, the African was diametrically opposite to the Indo-European/Semite with respect to their calendar. Some Semites still hold onto their African practices of starting the day when the sun sets. The origin of this is in my avatar, called the Tuat representing the "12 Hours of Night" and is inscribed on the pyramid attributed to Khufu at Giza. Without tearing down anyone's religion, it should be known that the Egyptian word Tuat transliterates to "Dawood" or "David" in Hebrew; hence not surprisingly we have the "Star of David [Tuat]". If you count, there are 12 pieces inside the outer-most circle that represent each hour that Ra (in the form of the Sun) was "under the Earth" between sunset (evening) and sunrise (morning).

I think it can be argued that the time of our festivals/celebrations surrounding holidays and so forth certainly effects our consciousness. Should we count the days starting after sunset and our years beginning at the end of June?