The vodou calendar should be based on the ancient intergalactic essence of time in Kemet. The date and time can find themselves entwined in some of the ancient Kemet culture, practices and celebrations. The Egyptian calendar is one of the first calendar known to mankind The calendar was a solar calendar developed by the ancient Egyptian to divide the year into 13 months. The division corresponds to the sun cycle . It is the most accurate in term of climate conditions and agriculture. In essence, the Egyptian farmer relied on it to determine the season of agriculture and crop yielding for thousands of years. In essence, its is the belief behind the phrase that Ancient Kemet was a gift of the river Nile. Vodou is an ancestral spiritual tradition based on the harmonization of the four elements of nature. It is appropriate that the celebration of the loas that embodies the realm of vodou are also celebrated according to their intergalactic, solar and planetarium relation to the universe.
According to research, the ancient Egyptian calendar was a solar calendar with 365 day a year. The year consisted of three seasons—Inundation (Akhet), Emergence (Peret), and Harvest (Shemu)—of four months each, with five epagomenal days of 120 day each, plus an intercalary month of five epaaagomenal days which were name after significant events related to their agrarian lifestyle. Each season was divided into 4 months of 30 days. These twelve months were initially numbered, each season adopted the name of their principal’s festival. Each month was divided into three 10-day periods known as decans or decades. Decans are groups of stars in ancient Egyptian astronomy that were used to tell time at night.
In Haitian vodou we celebrate and honor the loas during a specific time of the year. Currently the celebration of the loas and the spirit of vodou are associated with the celebration of the catholic saint. In order to rectify the syncretism created by colonization, it is important to understanding the correlation between the two secs, as it is important to understand the roots of the date. The reality behind syncretism is more relevant to the knowledge of our ancestors to overcome the oppression they faced while retaining they culture and spiritual practices. The celebrations were associated with the catholic Gregorian calendar which also was a copy of the ancient Egyptian calendar and feast celebration. According to ling the date is more associated to the cosmic relation between the stars and the planet from which these energies are related to. For example, examine the time when the petro loas are mostly celebrate it make since most of these energies are associated with the planet Jupiter which find itself in direct sunlight to earth during the month of June and July. And that relation can be rationally made.
Additionally, the Ancient Kemet calendar was strongly based on the manifestation of the Nile River which had a major impact on the calendar. According to historian, whose annual flooding organized the natural year into three broad natural seasons known to the Egyptian as the three-season corresponded to the cycle of Nile agriculture. New year day was in July 19 and marked the beginning of the first season akhet. This was the time of the flooding of the Nile. The Next season during which the crops began to emerge was called peret. and started on November 16, the last season shemu began on March 17 at harvest time. The last five days of the year corresponding to the birth of each deity, were July 14, 18 days which were considered unlucky and dangerous.
In retrospective to the loas and spirit of vodou, most of the date of celebration follow a similar the pattern intergalactic, solar and planetarium relation to the universe . In Haitian vodou the loas are grouped in to 21 rite and also thy are associated with specific element in nature. Examining their energetic correspondence and cosmical interrelations their celebration can also fall into the same rubric.
