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Where to begin? First off brother thanks for sharing more of your input: it helps to have various perspectives on the same subject. There are issues with the turtle subject, while it'd be cool to live on a living turtles back: we do not see this in reality. And according to the Bible, we simply live on the earth...not on top of an animal. Furthermore Genesis 1:14-19 clearly states that God created the Sun, Moon and stars to tell time and help us track time...not the back of a turtle shell. The story of the Lakotah and that if the Bible are two completely different narratives: therefore they will never align with one another unless you destroy in part or as a whole the other narrative.What's the possibility that before the Deluge the earth's axis was such that the rotation of the earth was slightly faster with 28 days in a 12 month year = 336 days ~ the numerology of 336 is intriguing
Then there's the 13 month calendar used by George Eastman from 1924 to 1989 with 28 days in a 13 month year = 364 days ... https://www.inverse.com/article/41737-28-day-calendar .... From a Biblical perspective it makes some sense that every month would have 4 Sabbaths occurring on the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th.
Legend has it that all Indigenous Peoples of the Earth believed there were 13 moons in a year. Many nations referred to the earth as Turtle Island. From the turtle shell came the accounting of time with 13 sections on the top of the turtle shell and 28 sections around its base. The early French explorers said that the Nadouessioux believed in One Supreme Being that they referred to as the Great Spirit.
Facts About The Lakotah Moon Calendar
Each year has 13 moons
Each moon duration is 28 days long
Nearly all tribal calendars begin in spring
Each day is a sacred part of Native American culture
Every three years, an additional moon is added to the calendar
Native American Turtle Calendar ~13 sections on top times 28 sections around its base
The earth and it's axis since this thread is not about the earth I will limit my response to the immediate context of what you wrote. A thorough search of scripture will show you that the Bible describes the earth as dry land, immovable, and having four corners: therefore as far as the Word of God is concerned the axis is something made up and added to the Word of God..and because scripture states that no one but God will be able to measure the earth: therefore no one has witnessed the "rotation of the earth" beyond a cartoon or cgi.
Numbers and Arithmetic any magician can bamboozle you with numbers if you don't know your history and arithmetic. You said:
13 Months × 28 Days = 364 Days
...but a examination of weeks shows us...
52 Weeks × 7 Days = 364 Days
...an examination of seasons shows us...
91 Days × 4 Seasons = 364 Days
...an examination of solar months shows us...
12 Months × 30 Days = 360 Days
The four extra days are intercalated between the end of each season to divide one season from the other: and at the end of the year they are reckoned...
360 Days + 4 Intercalary Days = 364 Days
In conclusion while there are some interesting connections and things other cultures say: choose one story to base your life off of and stick with that one story. If you believe in the Bible stick with it and seek to understand it and take the advice of scripture by not adding or taking away from it: otherwise you end up confusing yourself and others because you have a foundation of sand and not a foundation of stone. And lastly, make sure what you read matches with reality: the Babylonians afterall claim in the Gilgamesh epic that the heavens were created out of the torn flesh of a murdered goddess. Even Aristotle believed nonsense that the earth was supported by elephants who were on top of a turtle:and all this without witnessing such a site..sigh...Aristotle even claimed that the Babylonians were uneducated barbarians without having been there himself: yet his student Alexander the Great proved his teacher wrong many times by backing up his theories with experience, and showed that the Babylonians were far more advanced than the Greeks ever were.
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