Easter (apparently, because people and popular literature keep telling me so)

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Mar 23 2008 - 12:41am
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Ok, so... i have been told that a yearly, day long holiday called Easter exists, and is approaching nigh.

I clearly must believe it exists, because I believe people exist, and people are telling me Easter exists. You understanding my rationale here?

Evidence clearly demonstrates bunnies and eggs have definitively strong occurence in human rituals on the days which Easter occurs.

What is known, by many English language understanders, as Sunday, is the day which Easter, as I understand it, always occurs on. I need to do some background search on how long this has occurred to verify this statement.

Also known as, by some, the first day of the week, Sundays are days that occur within every single week of the year. Weeks are theorized to exist as a fixed seven-day period due to evenly dividing a lunar month into quarters.

However, In a Gregorian mean year there are exactly 365.2425 days, and thus exactly 52.1775 weeks (unlike the Julian year
of 365.25 days, which does not contain a number of weeks represented by
a finite decimal expansion). There are exactly 20871 weeks in 400
Gregorian years, so 10 April 1605 was a Sunday just like 10 April 2005.

I'm baffled by what this all means, but I've made a picture for you to enjoy, or not enjoy, based on precedented occurences throughout history around this time of year.

I've added a blank one to make yer own and share!

xo

mb

-----------------------Did you know?---------------------------

  • 1 week = 7 days = 168 hours = 10,080 minutes = 604,800 seconds (except at daylight saving time transitions or leap seconds)
  • 1 Gregorian calendar year = 52 weeks + 1 day (2 days in a leap year)
  • 1 week = 23.01% of an average month

 

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Trev McNaughton's picture

easter calculator

incase anyone cared how to calculate when easter is (if you dnt know how to look on the calendar).. heres how:

http://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2008/03/easters-early-this-year-deal-with-it.html 

(basically its the first sunday after the first full moon on or after march 21st) 

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Mike McGregor's picture

moveable feast

The date of easter in western christianity is tied to lunar and solar cycles. The first full moon on or after the ecclesiastical (northern) spring equinox is called the Paschal Full Moon. Easter occures on the first Sunday after this full moon.

I think...

Perhaps Computus is what you are looking for? 

I don't really know how it works in the eastern church. I'm sure Wikipedia can fill you in. 

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Rachel Ayres's picture

lunar cycles...

..and you call me a hippy...
-r.

Mike McGregor's picture

Indeed I do...


* "you girls and your orbs!"

...Hippy.

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Mike.
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Rachel Ayres's picture

uninformed

you don't know the context of that comment.

-r.

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