We might be talking about different things? I agree that the Jewish calendar matches the full moons, etc.
I'm saying the picture and inscription on the jar from 800 BCE mean that the Israelites (northern tribes) celebrated the birth of the Yahweh at the spring equinox in the month of Nisan (first month of ecclesiastical year) when the sun rose under the constellation Taurus. Yahweh of Samaria was a golden calf and also the sun god. The pictures are constellations. The sun rising was like the golden calf being born and suckling from its mother (Taurus).
Jeroboam.
Should say it all, he introduced what could be called an "iron curtain",
an idol in the North and an idol in the South.
The people were not allowed to journey to Jerusalem for the festivals.
1 Kings 12:32,
And Jeroboam made a festival in the 8th day of the month like the festival which was in Judah,
and he brought up offerings on the altar,
so he did in Beth El to slaughter the calves which he had made.
And he placed in Beth El the priests of the high places which he had made.
And much more bad did he do, he misled the people,
the people were led off in slavery,
the land was filled with Another peoples, since the head Town was called Samaria the land was then called Samaria.
From memory except 1 Kings 12:32.
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