13 times 28 days = 364 days + 1 Day out of Time = 365 days.
This is the simple and clear mathematical elegance and perfection of Nature.
The 13-Month, 28-Day Calendar is a LUNAR~SOLAR calendar, not a lunar calendar.
Lunar calendars are based on lunations/phases of the moon, and are independent of the solar year.
A solar year is the time the Earth takes to orbit the Sun.
The 13-Moon/Month, 28 day is a lunar~solar~galactic calendar.
It is based on the number of orbits of the moon around Earth in one solar year.
The beginning of the year corresponds to the heliacal rising of Sirius ( July 26th on the gregorian calendar )
All Indigenous Peoples of the Earth know and respect the wisdom and power of the turtle. Within turtle’s shell is the knowledge of time and the wisdom of the thirteen moons. Turtle’s wisdom is the power of cosmic knowledge.
Thirteen scales make up the back of turtle’s shell. It takes thirteen moons for Earth to go around the sun just once. Among the Indigenous Peoples of North America, Earth is known as Turtle Island. To remember that Earth is Turtle Island is to remember the way of the Earth guided by the cosmic power of thirteen moons.
In the original time, turtle’s wisdom was known by every child of the Earth. Every child knew that thirteen moons is the path to walk. It is the path of life that needs no explaining.
After the original time came the seeds and the planting. Then came the sword, and the forgetting. During the last four hundred years the Indigenous Peoples of the planet retreated deeper into the forest, the wilderness, the jungle. Wherever they went, they were followed by the machine and the twelve-month calendar of colonialism. Deprived of their own time, the Indigenous Peoples were forced into the false time of the machine.
Now it is 1993, proclaimed by the United Nations as the Year of the Indigenous Peoples. Once again the memory of thirteen moons has been released from turtle’s back. One turtle scale for each moon, thirteen perfect moons of 28 days each. Four phases of the moon, four perfect weeks of seven days to every moon. Thirteen perfect moons, 52 perfect weeks, 364 days, plus a day out of time every year. This is the perfect wisdom of turtle’s thirteen scales.
The Thirteen Moons of Turtle Island
1.) Magnetic Bat brings the First Moon: July 26 – August 22
2.) Lunar Scorpion brings the Second Moon: August 23 – September 19
3.) Electric Deer brings the Third Moon: September 20 – October 17
4.) Self-existing Owl brings the Fourth Moon: October 18 – November 14
5.) Overtone Peacock brings the Fifth Moon: November 15 – Dec. 12
6.) Rhythmic Lizard brings the Sixth Moon: December 13 – January 9
7.) Resonant Monkey brings the Seventh Moon: January 10 – February 6
8.) Galactic Hawk brings the Eighth Moon: February 7 – March 6
9.) Solar Jaguar brings the Ninth Moon: March 7 – April 3
10.) Planetary Dog brings the Tenth Moon: April 4 – May 1
11.) Spectral Serpent brings the Eleventh Moon: May 2 – May 29
12.) Crystal Rabbit brings the Twelfth Moon: May 30 – June 26
13.) Cosmic Turtle brings the Thirteenth Moon: June 27 – July 24
Turtle says: thirteen moons make one year. For Turtle Island, time is measured in wavespells. Thirteen moons, or one year, is one complete wavespell of time. A wavespell is the galactic measure of time. A wave is motion in time, and a spell is what is known during that motion of time. This is what turtle knows swimming in the ocean of galactic time.
The wavespell is the name of the path made by the thirteen moons. To know one wavespell is to know all wavespells. The thirteen moons is not only a calendar but a path to be followed by every child of the Earth.
Thirteen moons, one wavespell, a common path to be walked by the 20 tribes of time. Each wavespell is a movement of thirteen steps. It takes thirteen steps to complete and know one spell of time. Child of the morning, child of the sun, follow the Earth wisdom path of the thirteen moons. Be in truth and rhythm with all that is. Become a sovereign human in your time.